Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host Andrew Schleck. We're part of the Athletic Podcast Network. It is exit interview day. So I have all the exit interviews here on the pods. You can listen to them. I've said this many times. This is mostly for me, so I can relisten to them myself at two times speed. Well, I'm out mowing my yard.

So hopefully you guys can enjoy it too.

We'll have a lot of content coming at you this week,

just kind of breaking down what could happen in the off season.

We'll be with you guys all summer.

So don't go anywhere.

Thankful for all of you guys.

And here are the exit interviews.

How's going?

Good.

Let's do it.

I know you haven't had a lot of time to, but think about the season and the arc of it overall.

Where do you feel like this team, despite the injuries, was actually able to get better and improve through the season?

And then, you know, any additional thoughts on, hey, here are some tangible things that we could work on as a group over the summer?

You know, like I said last night, I think you can be simultaneously disappointed and also proud of, you know,

the path that took us to the point where we could be disappointed. I think here's what happens.

If you get too focused on the way the season ends, you can dilute the importance of all the things that lead up to that,

from the summer work to training camp to the regular season,

the start of the regular season, the middle, the end, and then the playoff run.

I think in a weird way, if you get too focused on just the last game or the last series,

you can start to take those things for granted,

and those are the things that position you to be able to play in those games.

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