richboy wrote:Thats a looser mentality. Its an automatic excuse machine. Winners acknowledge they failed and do the things necessary that they won't fail again. In the past the Pistons did that we think were the better team garbage. You can see where it got them. The only way to improve is to acknowledge failure. Figure out why you failed and improve on your weaknesses.
Didn't Otis say that he was going to make adjustments?
http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wireta...e_playing/
"I really believe we should still be playing now. It's disappointing that we're not," Smith said. "It's just not good enough if you don't win it all. That's the only thing we're here for."
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"I'm proud of some things, but there have been a lot of lows, too," he said. "There are a lot of things you're kicking yourself for, things you did, or didn't do. It's never good enough if you don't win a championship."
Im surprised this is not universally known.