End-of-season press conferences are more or less about blowing smoke, promoting the front office’s agenda, and generally don’t include much of note. Flip Saunders continued that tradition on Monday afternoon.
Or maybe he didn’t. Maybe he said too much, and maybe he revealed too much about the misguided off-season that they’re about to embark upon.
Our own Drew Mahowald had all of the highlights and low-lights of the presser, but here are the items I’d like to unpack a bit more.
#1: “I’ll coach until I feel we need to move in a different direction”
Yeah, Saunders said that.