The key to winning in the postseason is keeping players fresh by playing a deep bench of 9 or 10 guys
I'm not going to shorten my bench at all. And the hardest game for a team like us to win will be the first game, because we're going to play nine or 10 guys, but in game two, we have an advantage because I'm not playing Jabari Smith 35 minutes in game one. I think that's one of the things that's made us a good program in March is that we're not exhausted at the end of the year.
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