04-08-2017, 12:19 PM
(04-08-2017, 01:58 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Yes the cream does rise, but it also helps to have momentum on your side and winning a few games can help get the team that winning mindset. It's especially important when you have a lot of new pieces trying to step into starting roles. Those guys need time to gel and get working together, makes it easier if the front part of your schedule is at home and against the "easier part" then starting off on the road against playoff team after playoff team and finishing with the bad teams when it doesn't matter.
That winning mindset should already be instilled in them.
If their confidence is so fragile that they need to build an early head of steam, then maybe that explains why we're not winning playoff games.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
