All right.

We'll get some of the people, get some of the texts.

And again, the idea is, okay, let's say you give the Knicks a better series. I don't think anyone's arguing that. It's impossible to not give them a better series than whatever Cleveland did. But who cares? You showed your ass. You got a gift from God to get out of the first round. And then you blew a game 7 at home, you lost by 50.

So I'm good with the season ending that way, because now we'll go get better players.

And we can actually chase this thing versus false hope.

You want to know what false hope gets you?

You're 2026 Detroit Tigers.

You start buying your own BS.

All the lineup will be fine.

I stay up at nights wondering how this lineup ended up bottom five.

Well, because they're bottom five.

Still a hell of a quote.

It is, but my whole point is, let's say the Pistons had made it.

Let's say that they did give the Knicks a better series.

Now, all of a sudden, maybe the front office doesn't do what they need to do this summer.

Oh, we can develop it organically. This ain't lettuce.

Like, go get real players.

I would like to think that you're correct. I don't feel that that will happen.

But yes, it sets, it opens the door. If you don't feel like it's going to happen, then I understand the people who say, well, damn it, I rather

would have been playing. We'd give them a better series. If you don't believe it's going to happen,

then those people are more right than I am. I believe the Pistons were stunned in that game seven.

That was a taser to the sack.

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