Only two possible conclusions with a 'comeback' team like this

[Brooky03]

When a team constantly has late game comebacks like this, either:

a) The players have a magical unicorn 'clutch gene' that also makes opponents forget how to basketball

OR

b) The team is actually better than most of the teams they have comebacks against, but they just dgaf about playing hard until they absolutely have to. They sandbag practically the whole game probably because they're some combination of indifferent and tired.


The comebacks are exciting until you realize the team could have just been doing their late game stuff the whole damn time and avoided all the theatrics. Can we somehow Jedi mind trick the team into thinking there is only 2 minutes left in the game for the full 40 minutes? Because that's apparently what it takes for them to treat the game like something other than a pickup game in the park.

 

[jdubs30]

You're slighty onto it with B.

I think it's more when the game starts, this team feels pressure and it doesn't handle it well. When they get down 10+ in the 2nd half - all of a sudden there's no pressure it feels like house money. So they play more relaxed and it shows.

Usually you see that with younger teams - not a team with F4 experience and 2 5th YR Seniors