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Another Craig solliloquy. Love it, bro. But, unfortunately, you are missing a few major points. Chemistry doesn't always change because of some interpersonal behind the scenes stuff. It can change because the players stop believing in the system.
I experienced this chemistry vs. system effect personally in business. We had a company where the chemistry was almost utopian - outsiders who came in couldn't believe how together everybody was. We had a hot new product and in the early days, everything was great. People worked massive overtime for no pay and hung around together - everybody loved everybody, genuinely. But then the market shifted, and management wasn't quick enough to change our product line to react to the competition; however, management kept pushing the old product which became a dead-end. Eventually the key sales and technical people stopped believing in management and stopped giving their best efforts, because they knew they were in vain.
Point being: it was the management strategy and lack of adjustment itself that killed the company chemistry. Losing, led to finger-pointing and blaming each other, and management never adapted in time to right the ship before permanent damage to the chemistry was done. Does this sound familiar?
Footnote: eventually we turfed the CEO, developed some new products and effective re-started the company, but not before having to let go about 80% of the staff. All of that could have been avoided if management had recognized the competitive shift earlier and adapted to the market by investing in new development.
You are posterior extracting theories big-time and always try to make it look like there's some behind-the-scenes NBA professional stuff that we message board warriors can never know, so STFU. I can pull stuff out of my butt, just as easily and so can everybody else on this board.. and please do, btw.
So another grand unified theory as to what went wrong with this team is simply that the players stopped believing in Casey's system both on offense and defense, and just stopped giving max effort. They understood that the league had figured them out. Casey wouldn't adjust (aka. Pound the Rock) and got called out by JJ, and possibly challenged by Lowry, and the players simply gave up knowing that the system was destined to fail.
Secondly, the idea that message board warriors can't comment on anything that experts do is ludicrous. It's like me not being able to challenge the principal of my kid's school because the school's provincial ranking has slipped for 3 straight years.
Casey is not being judged against us message-boarders, he's being super-judged against his peers. Professional sports is a different animal. At any one time, 1/3rd of the coaches are doing great, 1/3rd are mediocre and 1/3rd suck - depending on your criteria: (1) regular season wins, (3) playoff wins, (3) player development, etc...
So, it's fair game to say that Casey is a decent regular season coach in a weak division, but he sucks as a playoff coach. Them's just the facts, bro. But for some reason, message board warriors aren't allowed to say that? But you are allowed to say that he's a good coach? Double standard there and again, missing the bigger point that these coaches and GM's are failing all the time (relative to each other).
What the heck are message board warriors actually allowed to talk about and comment on, then?
I experienced this chemistry vs. system effect personally in business. We had a company where the chemistry was almost utopian - outsiders who came in couldn't believe how together everybody was. We had a hot new product and in the early days, everything was great. People worked massive overtime for no pay and hung around together - everybody loved everybody, genuinely. But then the market shifted, and management wasn't quick enough to change our product line to react to the competition; however, management kept pushing the old product which became a dead-end. Eventually the key sales and technical people stopped believing in management and stopped giving their best efforts, because they knew they were in vain.
Point being: it was the management strategy and lack of adjustment itself that killed the company chemistry. Losing, led to finger-pointing and blaming each other, and management never adapted in time to right the ship before permanent damage to the chemistry was done. Does this sound familiar?
Footnote: eventually we turfed the CEO, developed some new products and effective re-started the company, but not before having to let go about 80% of the staff. All of that could have been avoided if management had recognized the competitive shift earlier and adapted to the market by investing in new development.
You are posterior extracting theories big-time and always try to make it look like there's some behind-the-scenes NBA professional stuff that we message board warriors can never know, so STFU. I can pull stuff out of my butt, just as easily and so can everybody else on this board.. and please do, btw.
So another grand unified theory as to what went wrong with this team is simply that the players stopped believing in Casey's system both on offense and defense, and just stopped giving max effort. They understood that the league had figured them out. Casey wouldn't adjust (aka. Pound the Rock) and got called out by JJ, and possibly challenged by Lowry, and the players simply gave up knowing that the system was destined to fail.
Secondly, the idea that message board warriors can't comment on anything that experts do is ludicrous. It's like me not being able to challenge the principal of my kid's school because the school's provincial ranking has slipped for 3 straight years.
Casey is not being judged against us message-boarders, he's being super-judged against his peers. Professional sports is a different animal. At any one time, 1/3rd of the coaches are doing great, 1/3rd are mediocre and 1/3rd suck - depending on your criteria: (1) regular season wins, (3) playoff wins, (3) player development, etc...
So, it's fair game to say that Casey is a decent regular season coach in a weak division, but he sucks as a playoff coach. Them's just the facts, bro. But for some reason, message board warriors aren't allowed to say that? But you are allowed to say that he's a good coach? Double standard there and again, missing the bigger point that these coaches and GM's are failing all the time (relative to each other).
What the heck are message board warriors actually allowed to talk about and comment on, then?
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