None of that changes the fact that the blue line still leaks chances in transition, and the club has spent two months insisting the fix is internal. It isn't. The names being floated in the room are the same three names that were floated in November.

So the deadline arrives with the same question it always does: pay now, or trust a group that has lost seven of eleven on the road. Riverton has the cap space. What it doesn't have is a second-line center who was going to be worth chasing in free agency this summer anyway.