U have ice in your veins if that was not stressful. Almost lost my mind once they started taking the ball out of DF hands and Kings had no clue what to do
It's just a "big picture" thing for me. When we've lost a few in a row
every moment of the next game is stressful. In this case, if we divide the 25 post All-Star break games into 5 game chunks like Mike Brown suggested, we were already 4-0 in this chunk and going 4-1 is
damn good in any context. So I looked at this one basically as a freebie.
That 5 game chunk is in the books, now we move on the next chunk and pretend we're 0-0. Minnesota (playing .500 ball lately), New Orleans (floundering), and New York (on a massive 8 game win streak) are coming to our house then there's a short trip to Phoenix to face the KD version of the Suns with both teams looking to make a statement, then we return home to face the defending champs
(EDIT: Make that the 2021 Champs) (currently on an even more massive 16 game win streak). Another 5-0 stretch might propel us into the 2-seed, 4-1 would be great, 3-2 would be acceptable.