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I have the usual names on the list, but I will open it up to any coach who has mutiple instances of getting teams past the first round or further, in the past 3-5 years. Hartley had no playoff wins since 2002 when he got hired. Keenan similar. Playfair had no pedigree. Brent was the only one but he had his brother on the hit seat when he arrived and then a GM who undermined his brother.

This team shouldn’t have regressed this much this year, and they had multiple stretches where they dominated their opponents (whether results showed it or not) so the skill development of the individual players isn’t a question to me. It’s the organizer and motivator of that team that’s lost the control over that team.

To get the team next level, it needs to be a coach and staff that has a pedigree of recent, consistent success. That way, besides that coach able to face and change in game if there is adversity, and push buttons on players to get them that playoff success consistently, there can be no doubt that the coaches tactics and motivational techniques work, and don’t need be questioned.

Basically, I think this season has come down to the coaches preparing players the same as last year, but when the coaches cant adapt or motivate in game, and have to resort to stick throws to get points across and light fires, players are slowly losing confidence that those coaches know what they’re doing and things get worse..we saw it last year and it took the train ride rant, this year the stick throw...but after two season of not buying in fully, and then seeing what success the coach has had in the league before, the players are tuning him out....evidenced by the team folding under pressure, something this same roster didn’t do last year.