Jon Krawczynski

And some of the times they're able to do it.

And then some of the times, like against the Suns, you get burned.

And that's what happened in this game.

Yeah, I think, you know, when you look at where it lies, I do believe it is rooted in this part of it.

And that is that this team has been to the Western Conference finals for two straight years.

And it feels like a team that just wants to fast forward through the boring stuff and get to the exciting stuff.

And they have actually said it.

Anthony Edwards said it on the road in New Orleans, I believe it was.

And a couple of other players have talked about that as well.

It feels

feels like a team that is taking the regular season for granted.

And that can be problematic in a Western Conference, which you figure is going to be competitive all the way through.

And it may cost you going from a home court advantage to maybe a six seed, maybe going from a six seed into the play-in.

And it is literally playing with fire.

I mean, that's just what they are doing right now.

And we have seen them play their best.

Even in a loss to OKC, I thought they played really well.

Against the Spurs, against Boston, against some of the teams that are really good teams that are established, they bring it.

And against the teams that are not or do not have their big stars, these guys are just like, oh, we got to go to work again tonight.

And that just cannot be the mindset and the mentality of this team because you're just going to only create more problems for yourself doing it that way.