What you said makes a lot of sense. Its not just losing.. its bout the way u lose. Furthermore, the way u pick urself after defeat n planning not to repeat the same mistakes.
Wat our team lacked is attitude on most of the occasions.
I believe lack of well defined performance criteria for players has led to this casual attitude.
I heard about BCCI is bout to announce their new compenstion plan where emphasis is on performance related bonus.
But for that they need to outline performance parameters for different positions/roles in the team rather than just Batsmen n bowlers.
Its got b more specific.
For instance, v have n opener who scores 50 off 89 balls (not taking singles, missing baad balls etc) n we have lower middle order batsman who scored 45 off just 20 deliveries.
The latter gets man of the match but...
Still, as per prevailing BCCI stupidity, the latter will not get the bonus.