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Tron_fdc · 11-20-2019, 10:00 AM

I'm pretty firmly in the wait and see camp. This team is far too good to be this bad, and it's going to correct to the mean at some point this season (my thoughts).

You can't dominate all year and then cakewalk to the cup anymore, there's too much parody in the league. So expecting that is not realistic.

But if you peak at the right time, you CAN make it look easy (LA, Chicago, and to a lesser extent STL have done it the last 10 years). You see it all the time with low seed teams as well that sneak in, and then light it up in the playoffs, until a team with more talent dusts them in the finals.

I'm content to sit back and wait until at least the trade deadline before I do anything silly (if not the off season). Because with the talent on this team, if we peak late (as opposed to early like last year) our playoffs are going to be a lot more enjoyable than the crap kicking we took in the last 1/3 of our games in 2019.

11-20-2019, 10:00 AM	#12
Tron_fdc In Your MCP Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Watching Hot Dog Hans Exp:	I'm pretty firmly in the wait and see camp. This team is far too good to be this bad, and it's going to correct to the mean at some point this season (my thoughts). You can't dominate all year and then cakewalk to the cup anymore, there's too much parody in the league. So expecting that is not realistic. But if you peak at the right time, you CAN make it look easy (LA, Chicago, and to a lesser extent STL have done it the last 10 years). You see it all the time with low seed teams as well that sneak in, and then light it up in the playoffs, until a team with more talent dusts them in the finals. I'm content to sit back and wait until at least the trade deadline before I do anything silly (if not the off season). Because with the talent on this team, if we peak late (as opposed to early like last year) our playoffs are going to be a lot more enjoyable than the crap kicking we took in the last 1/3 of our games in 2019.