Raja Bell

So then you lean on your culture, you lean on the leaders of the locker room, the coaches, the brain trust, and the –

you know, the collective to try to ride that storm out as quickly as possible.

But you just can't predict it.

You can't predict the hangover from that and the deflation that comes with getting that news.

Yeah, I mean, that's the point, right?

So good call.

We had way more bullets in the

in terms of players that could do multiple things out there and contribute in multiple ways.

We had them stacked on the bench.

Like,

Mike was getting criticized at some points for not getting deep enough into his bench in the playoffs.

It wasn't the lack of people that we had that were capable.

Um, so we had more things that we could throw at the problem.

The timing was also way different.

Like this is midstream.

We were just getting in the canoe.

You know what I mean?

This was training camp when Amari goes down.

So you can say, all right, well, here was the plan.

Um, doesn't look like we can adhere exactly to that, but like, here's what we can do.