‘”There’s no question you need a streak, and we need to put that together,” said Granato on Wednesday during his weekly appearance on the “Jeremy and Joe Show” on WGR. “There’s always the urgency. I think the challenge and benefit is if you think about the top perennial teams over the last seven, eight, nine years, they’re getting older, and they’re starting to come down. They’ve come down each year over the last three, and the bottom has come up over the last three years. So the margin is smaller percentage points between top and bottom, just on outright skill, talent, depth, and everything else. Every night is harder. We’re adjusting to that, but at the same time, that’s kept the whole pack very, very tight and very close.”‘