A lot of facetious responses here, I'm assuming mostly bred by disappointment, and I'm right on board with all of that, just massively disappointed with the sharp downward turn this season has taken. Losers of two in a row (while being entirely non-competitive in the process), losers of four our last five and eight our last eleven, all jokes aside, it fricken hurts terribly, given all the promise this season once represented. It pains me in a way it probably shouldn't, but such is the nature of being a fan, I suppose, and this one hurts badly.
And so far as to whom ultimate responsibility belongs, well as the credo that our beloved President Harry Truman lived by and exemplified and had posted atop his desk in the Oval Office (and which since so sadly seems to have disappeared), "The buck stops here", meaning right at the top, and how could it do anything but? When you assume that position at the head of the entire body, well of course it all belongs to you, the glory, the failure, the in-between, the lot and all of it, and when you're in that premier position both blessed and cursed, what takes place under your stewardship and watch absolutely does belong to you and you alone, and to claim anything less is to abdicate that which has been given you, and to be a bloody coward in doing so.
Whether you're the leader a nation or merely a team of boys playing basketball, the principle lies the same.
I think Tubby's a good man at heart, and was once one hell of a basketball coach, but I wonder anymore that he hasn't simply checked out, and at any rate, I find it shameful how he throws his boys under the bus while denying any personal responsibility his own. I'd love to tell him, "You are the head, my friend, and this all belongs to you."
