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Originally Posted by belsarius
Absolutely, but I think the spluttered start is because of the coaching/system change.
To me it looks like someone trying to learn to write with the wrong hand.
It's a slow process and takes a lot of relearning, too much thinking and not enough comfort and instinct. Hamilton had the same problem adapting to Hartley's system but finally caught on and had a decent year after he adapted. It looks like all of the "talent" is having the same problems, overthinking, over compensating and falling back into habit. This slows them down, causes bad passes, penalties and total system breakdowns. Except for Gio it is also all young guys having problems where guys who have been around the league and had to adapt to different systems are faring better.
When you have 2 guys falling back into Hartley's system and 3 guys trying to play the new system everything is going to look a mess. It has to be so frustrating for GG, but after reading about the normalcy of the problem it doesn't surprise me anymore. Game 20? Game 30? Who knows when but they will adapt. GG isn't getting fired anytime soon because he is the long term guy, no change by New Years might be different. Part of the stupid Oilers problem has been coach changes every year.
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You may indeed be right, or Bingo may indeed be right.
In the end, it is difficult to judge exactly what is going on just after 6 games. If this is continuing to happen after 20 games, I will start to agree more with you than with Bingo. Right now, we just have to give everyone that benefit of the doubt that this is just a 'transition', and though we all would have liked for it to happen much faster, it is just taking its' course.