Worst Week Ever?

Seriously, I can't the only one who is at a complete and absolute loss over what has happened to the squad over the last week. Leaving the World's Most Famous last Tuesday night, I couldn't have been any more excited about the squad. Zbo was giving us everything that Curry wasn't and needed to be giving us down low, Jamal was looking more lethal than ever (he looked like every bit like his new "closer" nickname was legit), and I was so excited about having Renaldo "The Shaolin Shackles" Balkman locking down one of the league's most prolific neophytes (Melo). The "ED-DY! ED-DY!" chants legitimately made me tingle and the crowd was juiced like it was the second game of the 1997 regular season. Me and Big Poppa Kuntz couldn't stop talking about how wrong everyone had been about this season's chances and how surprised and impressed we were about the squadron.

Fast forward one week:
-Big Z is on bereavement list (he got suspended and fined by Portland last time he was on bereavement leave)
-Stephon Marbury's somewhat wacky summer hijinx have now evolved/devolved to the point where he is now threatening the GM/coach and texting New York Post reporters about it. I am simply waiting for him to join the Church of Scientology before going off to play his next two years in Italy because "it's a Beckham kinda thing" and because he will in all likelihood be bought out within a week.
-The Shackles are broken, going down in what was obvious pain last night with an injury to the same ankle that kept him out all preseason.
-Curry still can't rebound and has not gotten seriously gotten outworked on the glass in three consecutive games (Dwight Howard is forgivable, Shaq is not, and there is no reason for him to get so manhandled by Amare) showing that he isn't ready to be a dominant big man.
-Isiah has completely lost control over the appearance of having control and his biggest ally/selling point/leader/acquisition ever literally just LEFT the team without any mention of coming back. Meanwhile, Zeke is on the hook for his Anucha shenanigans, is clearly one of the most reviled people in all of sports, and yet he can't stop smiling like a Catholic priest on the first Sunday of fall when all the little boys have come back from summer break.
AND
-Mardy Collins is hurt (not that I really care but at this point that just seems like piling on).

...all in one week