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00:00And I know a lot of people have a lot of different opinions of what we should or shouldn't do,
00:06you know, as it relates to the draft, re-agency, I get that.
00:10But there's something really, really powerful in players that are younger.
00:16At some point in their career, they've got to impact winning.
00:21And even though, you know, where we're at right now as a team, you know, we're in the
00:27play-in, but we're still kind of at the bottom, you know, of the Eastern Conference.
00:35But the reality is we have a chance to play meaningful games.
00:38And that's going to help Modis.
00:41It's not just like, hey, the regular season's over, we're not playing for anything, let's
00:45just roll him out there for 35 minutes and just see what the guy can do.
00:49And now what happens is the focus gets taken off the result of winning.
00:53Now, I think the results of winning are a byproduct of the things that you do for 48
00:59minutes.
01:00And you've got to understand every possession's important, paying attention to scouting reports
01:04are important, you know, the game plan discipline is important.
01:09So I think the one thing we've tried to do all season long is to make the point that
01:14all these games are important.
01:16And let's see what this group can do if we're fortunate enough after April 13th to be in
01:22a situation that we're playing after the regular season's over with.
01:25Those things are meaningful.
01:27That really, really plays a major factor, I think, in player development.
01:31And it also puts these guys in situations that they haven't been in before.
01:35And I think when you take the focus off of winning, you miss, I think, a big point of
01:40what's going to happen in the future.
01:42At some point, these guys are going to be put into a situation where now winning becomes
01:48important.
01:49You want to make a run.
01:52And if they don't play in these meaningful games, I think it hurts their development.
01:56So what we've tried to do as a team, to your point of whatever the perception is of what
02:01or how the season should go, we in the locker room have kept it on.
02:06Let's see how good we can be as a team.
02:08Let's go all in to become as good as we can be.
02:12And then whenever the season's finished up, hopefully it's something we can build upon
02:16going into the next season.