Uh, no. That team was expected to do great things and eventually did. This team wasn't expected to do anything and isn't.
This team wasn't expected to make the playoffs.. but then they decide to tease everyone and play tough and win games... we all got fooled.. NEVER AGAIN..
I agree with ima_drummer...they're not really choking. This is a mediocre team. Mediocre teams win some games they probably shouldn't and lose some games they probably shouldn't. They typically finish somewhere in the vicinity of .500. In the NBA, they make the playoffs quite frequently. But we're getting pretty much what we should have been expecting. They've been damn consistent in their mediocrity for the last 3 years. That's their biggest problem.
c'mon, just breath... seriously? breath? i'm not typically a grammar nazi, but really? would have been a good year to tank, too. DM supposedly loved Cousins... he went 5th that year.