A team starts falling apart the moment the losses get assigned to names.

At some point after a defeat, the conversation shifts from what went wrong to who went wrong. Once losses have names attached, the incentive for everybody is to make sure the next name is not theirs, which means playing safely, saying less, and quietly building a case. Teams rarely recover the honesty they had before that started.

Watch for the first time it happens this season and do not join in. Talk about the play rather than the player, including when you are describing your own mistake. One person refusing to allocate blame slows the whole thing down more than you would expect.