I would like to be in the playoffs. I would hope that there is some opportunity to go and play in the playoffs. Those are the best games, the most fun for sure, and you have a chance to win.
That's a moment I will never forget in my life, never ever. It was the first time I made the playoffs. After we lost to the Celtics, I told myself, I never want to play a season without making the playoffs, because it was so much fun.
It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.
I went to Golden State and helped them get to the playoffs my first year there, and they haven't been to the playoffs in 13 years. I played in Charlotte... and I got them to the playoffs. So, every team I go to, I make them better.
But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it.
Well, of course you question it, especially when you get to this point. I always look at it would I rather not make the playoffs or lose in The Finals? I don't know. I don't know. I've missed the playoffs twice. I lost in The Finals four times. I'm almost starting to be like I'd rather not even make the playoffs than to lose in The Finals. It would hurt a lot easier if I just didn't make the playoffs and I didn't have a shot at it.
I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.
The playoffs are unpredictable. You never know what can happen and how these playoffs go.
It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.
I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.
It's the NHL playoffs, I'm 20 years old, I'm finding it out the hard way that playoffs aren't easy.
I think you should have a mindset of getting to the playoffs, because once you get in the playoffs, it is kind of a crapshoot.
There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.
I've been to playoffs before. That should be everybody's goal is the playoffs.
I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.
The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.