Your game in 10:
1. I suppose I’ll say a quick word on the “controversy” that played out this week in the two days off between games before putting it to bed. To me, Sheldon Keefe handled it poorly from a media/public relations point of view, which is ironic because he attributed the entire thing to him managing the media.
By coming out and admitting he used the wrong words, it fed into the perception that the star players on the team couldn’t stomach a very mild and accurate criticism — fanning the “pampered stars are running the team” narrative that is always percolating in this market — when it seemed like the players either didn’t disagree, weren’t bothered, or weren’t even aware of Keefe’s post-game comments.