12-24-2016, 09:54 PM
(12-24-2016, 09:48 PM)McC Wrote: Now that nearly it's over, this season really feels the natural extension of the soul crushing way last season ended. Probably just hindsight, but it was probably an inevitability. They just couldn't get back what they lost in that game. It shook them to the core.
Add that to all the changes in personnel and coaches and the injuries...
There are coaches in the league who could have overcome all that. Marvin couldn't do it. He took us a long way from where he started. But he'll never get us ll the way to where we want to go.
It's an extension of more than that IMO. 5 straight seasons of getting bounced in round 1 has to wear on a group of players. I believe I even heard Dunlap say as much after last year's playoff loss. Something to the effect of not being able to believe it could happen again and again.
When they were young and having success at a time when people didn't expect much from them, they were playing with house money with a seemingly bright future on the horizon. At this point they've been beaten down so many times in the postseason that they may very well think that the chances of it working out are slim to none. They've seen how the story ends 5 times.
It has to be pretty deflating to experience as a player.
