When the season is fresh and new, and when your best player is on the shelf recovering some surgery, and when your team is young, it’s the small, little improvements you want to see. Like Scottie Barnes getting comfortable calling his own number, or Gary Trent Jr. improving his defense.
Or, like seeing your team rank slightly higher in the ever-important power rankings polls!
Because while in the micro-scale, an incremental improvement may not look like much, over time, those improvements compound, and become highly visible in the macro scale. It’s a long season. Every week-over-week improvement leads to a month-over-month improvement, which eventually means the team that’s playing basketball in April is much better than the team that was playing basketball in March.