Just because a team made it to the playoffs one season doesn’t mean it is guaranteed to be back in the action a year later. For plenty of reasons teams see their performance dip from year to year and there will be teams that made the playoffs in 2020 that don’t make it in 2021.
Some teams didn’t do enough this offseason to get back into the playoffs. Other teams are in the middle of a mini-rebuild and need some time to get back on track. Some teams just flat out don’t project to be good anymore.
Here are four teams destined to miss out on the playoffs this year after makin a run last year. Don’t take it personally.
