«First, you got to look and say, ‘Are we good enough? Do we have enough talent?’ Yeah, we do,» McLellan said. «We don’t get 13 wins 25 games in without having a team that can play well enough. Are we playing well enough? No, we’re not. Why aren’t we? There’s a little bit of disconnect between forwards and D right now. And then in a team game, you sometimes get punished as a team, score-wise, momentum-wise, win-loss wise, for individual mistakes. And that happens. Team breakdowns are much more repairable than just an individual faux pas.
«So, let’s take care of what we can take care of. If you’re an individual and you’re playing, clean it up. And if you can’t, then we got to start asking ourselves, ‘Do you belong?’ This is about all of us. If you can’t clean it up, we got to figure things out.»