And early on, with Martz on board, it was possible that Nolan could get the team behind him and make it work.

In the last few weeks, though, it's become painfully obvious that the players won't play all out for him. They're unprepared, unfocused and dispassionate.

It looked to me that with each passing week the players were voting Nolan out with their flashes of excellence amid their overall uninspired play.