How the media can fall into lazy, uninspired tropes while attempting to be "hip". While fans of teams tend to buy the Kool-Aid of optimism before crashing to the earth. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.
The Denver Nuggets suffered from an agonizing season in 2014-15 in more ways than one. An assistant coaching staff that wasn't trusted (outside of Melvin Hunt) and a head coach who didn't seem to connect with his players or know what he wanted to do from night to night was one thing. A handful of malcontent players who poisoned the locker room was another.