12-15-2022, 10:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-15-2022, 10:26 AM by dirkfansince1998.)
(12-15-2022, 10:00 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Cato made a comment related to this on his 77 Minutes podcast. He said the team had the mentality that they were a WC finalist. If that is your mindset, you do things a certain way to try to tweak your way a little further up the ladder. It is obvious, for whatever reason, that they aren't that. If you are an ~.500 team fighting for a play-in spot, you take a very different approach.
I guess this time they have a WCF to back up that approach even though I think they overperformed but can we honestly say that they ever had a different mentality when it comes to roster building?
Goes along with the tanking topic. They have missed the opportunity to build the necessary asset foundation that usually goes along with the rebuilding process. Did they enter a single season in the MC era with an approach that focused on assets and longterm building? Ever sold win now pieces or vets? Don´t think so. It was always about the best possible one year solution. More often than not in the form of veteran stopgap solutions.