Before the beginning of the season, I’d imagine there was some level of acknowledgment internally that this team would struggle. But did you envision anything close to this? Rafael Stone: I don’t think we bothered to try and figure out what our struggles would look like — we just knew that it would be a struggle, and it has been. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is the development of our young guys. That’s what continues to give us hope, because we do think that we’ve seen improvement in almost all of them. And there’s a lot of time left in this year for them to really improve again — so that’s our focus. I think beyond just knowing the year was going to be hard, we probably didn’t spend a ton of time trying to figure out exactly how hard it would be.
by Hoops Hype