Considering this is the third year in a row this team has been dumped out of the playoffs by the same team, I have to say I am appalled at the seemingly resigned, shoulder-shrugging apathy on display in these interviews.
I'm sure the players are feeling jaded and dejected after their third consecutive unceremonious dismissal from the tournament at the hands of the same team and I do realise they can't wash dirty laundry in public, but I did at least expect to glean some sense of underlying anger and frustration from their demeanor and responses. No sense of gritted teeth in their responses at all. Maybe it's me, but all I got was a sense of weary, apathetic resignation in the acceptance of this year's repeated failure.
After all, it's pretty damned embarrasssing (isn't it?) when this organization, come playoff time, continues, yet again, to show zero progress for the third time of asking against the same opponent and, looking to the future, with that winner Dubois now taking a critical chunk out of the salary cap space, it's extremely demoralizing too.
To my mind, if all of this isn't the most damning indictment of Rob Blake's leadership record, then I don't what know else could be.
I'm sure the players are feeling jaded and dejected after their third consecutive unceremonious dismissal from the tournament at the hands of the same team and I do realise they can't wash dirty laundry in public, but I did at least expect to glean some sense of underlying anger and frustration from their demeanor and responses. No sense of gritted teeth in their responses at all. Maybe it's me, but all I got was a sense of weary, apathetic resignation in the acceptance of this year's repeated failure.
After all, it's pretty damned embarrasssing (isn't it?) when this organization, come playoff time, continues, yet again, to show zero progress for the third time of asking against the same opponent and, looking to the future, with that winner Dubois now taking a critical chunk out of the salary cap space, it's extremely demoralizing too.
To my mind, if all of this isn't the most damning indictment of Rob Blake's leadership record, then I don't what know else could be.