Not being able to do what you've routinely done-lead, cajole or drag your teams to deep playoff runs-naturally falls on you whether you had anything to do with it or not.
We always think the best players can go on forever because that's the mythology we enjoy... James and Curry are judged differently than most because their jobs are more rarefied. They are tasked with carrying their limited teams beyond their capacities.
James and Curry, though, are judged differently than most because their jobs are more rarefied. They are tasked with carrying their limited teams beyond their capacities-James more so than Curry-and their relatively pedestrian win-loss records become reflections on them rather than the rosters around them.
They just haven't been chronologically tested that way.
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