1000000% this.
Pop started the year saying βWinning is as important this year as learning was in the past. Weβve got to continue to learn, but adding more wins is appropriate and mandatory.β
Within a few weeks it became βwell weβre youngβ and βheh, well, we werenβt going to win a championship this year anywayβ and βgee, we gotta see what we haveβ and other ridiculous musings to make it seem like they had a fucking clue of what they were doing.
That Pop quote to me is telling because thereβs no way he says it if the front office doesnβt think theyβll be competitive. Something like 35 wins, maybe not exactly in the hunt for a play-in, but also not eliminated in early March.
in fact, weβre careening towards something like a franchise-worst 18-64.
Iβm not sure how they could have misjudged this team that badly, but itβs not terribly reassuring going forward.