At the start of training camp, he reiterated it yet again:
“We definitely want to be a north-south team, but there is some high-end skill here — more than we had in St. Louis. It is not that we didn’t have skilled players in St. Louis. I am not here to take the sticks out of these guys’ hands, but there has to be an identity of how we want to play, and we want to play a north-south game.”
With the caveat that preseason must always be taken with a grain of salt, we’re beginning to see subtle changes implemented.