All true, but the issue of beating up on the bums while struggling against better teams was with us all last season.
The team deserves a chance to see if it can make the Garland/Mitchell pairing a synergistic one rather than one that is less than the sum of its parts. However, the reality is that for more than a year, that pairing has not been synergistic, nor does the pairing of two ball-dominant guards have a good history in the NBA as a whole.
Garland/Mitchell have to become the exception, because the rule is not in their favor.