I think its the manner of the loss rather than the loss itself that has got people rattled. I think most of us were anticipating a loss or two on this road trip but not that way.
It’s a loss where all the teams previous pain points were brought to the surface again… team gets overconfident, stops playing in the last quarter, lets the other team come back by 20, Tatum last second execution fail, Joe doesn’t call a timeout because he’s trying to teach the team something they haven’t learned for the past five years, I can see why people are upset
But in truth, I doubt it’s going to have any bearing on how we perform in the playoffs. As JB and KP said it’s a mentality loss. It’s really one of the few ways this team can lose… In a way they kind of beat themselves by not playing the last 10 minutes and Dean Wade had a game for the ages. in fact, they can guarantee that we’re gonna have a few more losses like this where they get overconfident and how good they are, they stop playing the right way and a team is going to shock them. But I can see how it’s going to rip open a lot of wounds for people, and create doubts.