00:00Yeah, no, listen, it's a very valid place to be.
00:02You know, you're here, you're the second seed.
00:05Why not go for it?
00:06And of course they're going to go for it.
00:09This is, you know, the reason why I say it is that this team wasn't built to make the deep
00:16playoff run.
00:17And by that, I mean, you're going to still be relying a lot on, you know,
00:21Baylor Shireman and some Ugo Gonzalez and Namiya Shkata
00:25and guys who have overperformed this season and have been great.
00:29And I don't want to take anything away from them, but unproven playoff talents, right?
00:33So that's my one concern.
00:38Again, in a season that should have zero negative,
00:41there's nothing negative to say about this team at all.
00:45But looking forward, when you have days to plan how to handle the Celtics,
00:54they have for the first time in a little while, guys that you say,
00:57okay, I'm going to let this guy try to beat us.
01:00And that's, I'm just not sure how they're going to adjust.
01:03But also the way they've handled this season,
01:07I kind of have to trust that they will adjust and find a way.
01:11But if they don't, it's okay to me, right?
01:14The reason why I'm saying what I'm saying is,
01:16if they lose in the second round of the playoffs,
01:19I'm not going to say, oh my God, Brad Stevens botched it at the trade deadline
01:24or anything like that, because this season was never about this season.
01:28And the fact that they're making this run is amazing.
01:32But the plan was always to go through this season,
01:37whatever happened, happened.
01:38And then in the summer, you spend your money.
01:41They're under the tax now.
01:41So they have money to spend.
01:42They've shed restrictions.
01:46And it's about building on this for next year to actually make the run
01:50and actually build a team that has multiple options.
01:52And when you get into a playoffs, you can go one way or the other
01:55or have a third adjustment.
01:57But I will also acknowledge that Jason Tatum changes this dynamic as well.
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