Ryan Rishaug

That's the fire that they've been playing with.

And so I think in some ways you become who you are during the regular season.

And maybe this group as a leadership group and as a team and as a culture in that room, maybe there does need to be a little bit more focus about the importance of the regular season and what it means because you become who you're going to be.

They might get out of this one, Bob.

They might get out of this tight spot.

But it came about because the group did not have access to its high-end game.

And that was a result of their regular season.

It's on the players.

The players are the ones that have to go out there and play the game at a requisite.

The coaches would love for them all to play 100% as hard as they can every night, and that's what they tell them to go do.

Some of them do it, some of them don't.

so it's about a group that can these groups need to learn how to regulate themselves right how to step on the pedal how to push each other how to make sure what's acceptable what's not acceptable we saw the absolute crater at the start of the year right then they kind of got it together a little bit had one nice little run and you know then it was messy for a bunch then it was okay at the finish it was just like just like an engine revving up and down and all over the place it's on the group in there

to be able to regulate itself, to stay at a high enough level.

To me, Bob, this is what culture is about, right?

What is and is not acceptable day to day to day to day.

And I think that this group has the skill and the ability and the talent and the leadership in there to do it.

I just think that for whatever reason, they struggled this season to extract that from one another, quite frankly.

I don't like your quizzes, Bob.

Just give me the answers.

Here's the thing, though, Bob, about this series, though.