This win does raise a question in my mind, do we actually need Payne at his highly inflated price? He wasn't missed tonight, even more evidence that Patty carries this team.
I think the honeymoon period for Kev is now well and truly over and the group has just become too comfortable, he is one of their mates not their boss............I'm just not sure that Kev can turn that around without a major rejig of the roster and essentially starting over again.
I don't disagree with what you are saying about Kev, but ultimately the buck stops with the coach and it's his job to set the standard and hold players accountable, it doesn't appear or feel like Kev is doing that, in fact most of what we hear from Kev about the playing group seems to be excuses...
The system seems to have a rather large downside tho demonstrated this year, because we have so much reliance on individual brilliance, if we cop injuries to our star players/point scorers or their form is down then we seem to be royally screwed with no backup plan.
There is no next man up...