Zach Lowe

And they stress test your roster.

in a way that the regular season never, ever will.

If you have any weaknesses, if you have any chemistry issues, if you have any just weak links in the chain, the playoffs are going to lay them bare for everybody to see and give you a clearer idea after the season of like, what do we actually have here?

And that's what you're referring to.

If some of these teams get to the end of the playoffs, we're like, oh, we didn't think we had, we didn't have what we thought we had.

We have this lesser thing.

And said, by the way, on the Blazers,

I haven't verified this, but Sports Business Radio tweeted this.

I don't know if you saw this about the mascots and Tom Dundon.

No, I have not.

I know that's going to trigger you.

A source, this is directly from Sports Business Radio.

I have not seen it refuted anywhere.

A source told me, the person tweets, that Dundon doesn't think the Blazers should have two mascots, Blaze the Trail Cat-

And their secondary mascot, Douglas Fir.

Douglas Fir, a great name.

Douglas Fir is a flannel-wearing yeti of some kind, obviously named after the fir trees.

He was recently reintroduced, I think, introduced like three years ago.

Look, if you're coming for the mascots, just...

Maybe just don't buy the team.