They spent like they’ve never spent before, and made decisions with urgency. For a franchise that has spent 80% of its time in the league missing the playoffs, these decisions were welcome ones.
But stop if you’ve heard this before: they talked a big game and failed to back it up with results. Even with their best October record in 23 years, they sit out of the playoffs in mid-December in their natural habitat as perpetual underachievers.
Their issues were preventable, their problems fixable, and yet they were too complacent to fix them. And when it became clear that those problems could be fatal, they reacted far too late to address them.