Well, you don't learn much in success. You just prove you have a rigid system, and you're happy about stuff. When you learn nothing from failure, that's true failure. That's truly what you can say is dysfunctional. I would agree they had stretches during the winning streak where they just kind of cruised or took their mind off playing. But, in those games, I was more yelling at MDA than the team. In the Clippers losses, I think one of them was being pissed off at MDA. The second one I was pissed off at the refs and how we were unable to guard them down the stretch. Clips were playing kind of dirty the whole game and we couldn't do anything about it.
Last comment on this: Learning from success doesn't mean you have a rigid system. Nor does it mean you are "happy about stuff". Not sure why you believe this. Also, I didn't say or imply "learn nothing from failure". Straw man. Sane people learn from both success and failure. People that learn more from failure than success (if they actually exist) probably do so because (1) they are not very successful and (2) aren't really learning from their failures.
Nice commercial, but if you take it too far as a serious life lesson, I feel sorry for you. I'll say this much: Some failures sting a lot more than successes feel good. This seems to be especially true in competitive sports.
I would like to see an analysis of games that were called like playoffs, where the opposing team was allowed to foul Harden and CP at will. The last Clippers game comes to mind. How did we fare in those games? We need to develop reliable ways to win when our ball handler doesn't get a good look at the floor for the first 10 seconds, and when Harden can't get to the line. Maybe we could sort the games by box scores, focusing on the ones with the fewest Harden FTAs.
