Josh Robbins covers the Washington Wizards for the athletic. The NBA playoffs continue tonight with the last part of the play-in round, as I talked about last segment. And then it gets underway with four games Saturday and four games Sunday, one of my favorite weekends of the year. Love game ones on two consecutive days with four games each day.

And then the schedule kind of breaks down.

And sometimes you get in that first round a long stretch of days between games and certain

series.

We'll see how the whole thing schedules out.

But Josh is with us.

And before I get your

thoughts on the NBA playoffs coming up, yesterday Will Dawkins addressed the media and said that he

anticipates that Brian Keith will be back. Were you surprised by that? No, I wasn't.

No, I wasn't.

I think that, well, I know that Wizards officials think he did an excellent job with what he was asked to do.

And he did it all with a level of grace and a lack of complaining that was admirable.

So not surprised at all.

He also collaborates well with the front office, as was necessary in a season like this,

where it was so important for them to make sure they didn't convey that top eight protected pick to New York Knicks.

And it actually turned out very well in that sense because they're going to drafts in the top five coming up.

You and I, the last time we talked, we talked about the difference between a developmental coach

and a coach that's being asked to win games.

You know, and the in-game strategy part of it, the planning and coaching over a period of days in which you've got back-to-backs,

but the games are competitive games trying to win games.

And what I said the other day is, I have no idea what kind of coach Brian Keith will make

once they are trying to compete and trying to win as many games as possible beginning next year.

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