I have to check myself whenever I start questioning thing around the time like roster deployment or lines or why the GM isn't aggresively trying to address the center position.
The team as it's built is designed to have have some serious holes. The team is designed to win by outowkring the other team nightly. It's just not going to happen. The level of talent that tips the scales in close games just isn't on this roster....or they're not mature enough in their young career to be that over the top talent.
Just have to remember this is year 1 of a plan. And expectations shouldn't really be applied. Just want some steady, positive progression from the 24 and younger players. That's it.
The vets are doing their own thing and the coaching staff and management haven't given them the filler they'd ideally want to be a contending team.
This is all by design. The draft is Connie's baby and he's right rope walking the rebuild by trying to let the veterans roster (that's what it is) play their way to wherever they end up in the standings.
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