11-15-2019, 10:53 AM
(11-15-2019, 10:43 AM)SportPsychMav Wrote: Everything can be deemed a "work in progress" issue. That's an empty message.
Not at all. Three years ago the roster was old. Not much "work in progress" there. Two years ago the roster stunk. Not much room for work to progress there.
Last year I suggested patience was needed so that the established players could figure out how to play together and so that DSJ and Luka could figure out how to play together. From a third to half way through the season it became clear that established vets were playing for themselves, DSJ was unhappy, the team was going to struggle without JJB, and that HB was going to disappear in big games. We'd had time to see how the thing was going to come together, and we saw that it didn't come together.
This year the team is both new and young. Patience is needed. If the roster hasn't come together and exhibited growth in a couple of months then there will be more reason to worry. A situation where a new and young team is learning new things and how to do them with new people is exactly the time to say "work in progress".