I like to think that one of the things I’ve grown better at over the years when talking about sports is keeping things in perspective. Not necessarily in a broader sense — insofar as we spend all of this time obsessing over a particular group of 23 adults trying to put a little chunk of rubber into a net better than other groups of 23 adults — but in the sense that I try not to let what happens on a game-to-game, even week-to-week basis get to me and shake the beliefs I already hold about a player or team too much.