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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
I know he did, and personally don’t think that’s the answer. In fact, I think you want your guys to be as healthy as possible anticipating a long run. So would in fact expect the same.
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I'm sure there's a lot more to mental preparation than just how much intensity you want from the players in the last regular season games. It's hard to know what exactly Peters means. Did they turn the playoffs into a too big of a deal mentally? Did they focus on the wrong things? Did building confidence lead to a bubble of overconfidence, which flattened the team once the bubble burst?
Mental preparation can be very tricky and there's a lot of nuance to what you can do. It's also something we as fans don't really know much anything about. We don't know what the atmosphere was like before the series started in the dressing room and how much of that was what the coaches intended. All we really know is that it went bad.
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If Peters is going to be looking at his coaching, he needs to fix what happened in playoff games 2-5, not regular season games 78-82.
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I believe the vast majority of preparing for the playoffs happens during the regular season, especially if you have your playoff spot secured early. For that reason I think the biggest mistakes were originally made during the regular season.
I definitely agree that not being able to fix what had already gone wrong once the series started going downhill is also something to look at, and clearly Peters's coaching was disappointing there. Fixing his playoff coaching and fixing what they did during the regular season aren't mutually exclusive though.
I'm sure Peters himself isn't happy about his playoff coaching, and isn't going to ignore that part. I think it showed that this was the first time for him as a head coach in that situation.
Let's hope he had a good learning experience.