Usually when a team finds themselves in a hole during a playoff series, we wonder if it’s time to panic. A team goes down 0-2 in a series, or maybe they even lose a Game 3 to fall down 1-2 in the series, and the conversation becomes about whether or not they should panic. Ultimately, teams lose and they head into the offseason. They’re either looking to blow things up, or tinker with the current situation with minor adjustments, or stay the course believing in what they have going.
Perhaps they just ran into some bad luck this time around and it’ll be different next time. That usually means they felt they were playing with house money a little bit, or maybe they know they learned enough this time around to make next time around more in their favor. But that’s not how all teams operate. Some teams look at what happened, look at how things fell apart, and believe there is an issue in need of fixing. Maybe it’s coaching. Maybe it’s personnel.
