Mark Daigneault What I would say is like we are in the process of becoming a great team and we've checked a lot of boxes in that process and one thing that it takes to be a great team is you get taken to the limit in the playoffs

Lauri Markkanen follows up his career high 15-18 FG 38 pt game yesterday with a 7-13 FG 23 pt outing in a win against the Blazers

Coach Malone with some motivation for his squad: "We have tasted what it's like to win in the playoffs, we have tasted how close we were to the Western conference finals"

Bill Simmons makes an impassioned plea that Jayson Tatum be given the car keys over LeBron for the Olympics basketball team LeBron was the point forward on an 8 seed that won one playoff game Tatum was basically the point forward on a team that went 81 and 20 and easily won the playoffs