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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This is probably unpopular but dating back to Gulutzan's first season I have found the entertainment value of watching this team poor. Say what you want about the Hartley years but that team worked hard every night and there's something redeeming about watching a team that's busting their humps even if the results aren't there. Under Gulutzan it felt like watching a neutered product where the team lacked emotion and belief that if they played hard they could win. Last season was entertaining because they won a lot of games and winning masks issues. For a good portion of last season they were not the hard luck Flames of the Gulutzan era where the effort was just good enough to provide the illusion that the results would come and a lot of their losses were just bad luck. The effort level was higher and it led to the bounces going their way. Now they have reverted to playing that style where the effort is just enough to make it look like they could have won some of these games they are losing but not good enough to actually win. I hope that Peters can get them out of this rut but we have seen this before under another coach and it's not pretty to watch this team go through the motions.
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I too have noticed this watching the team this season. The games are very hard to watch because it just doesn't seem like the players care. I think a major issue is not making a major move in the offseason to inject something. I think a big move needs to happen in the very near future to give these guys some signs of life.