-A team that knows that it has the highest payroll in the NBA;
-A team that knows that its mental and physical toughness have been, rightly, questioned;
-A team that knows that a third straight second round playoff exit will, rightly, be doom for the core players; plausibly doom for head coach Kenny Atkinson; plausibly doom for Drunk Koby Altman, who together with Atkinson, made the boldly reckless decision to ignore results in November and December to be turbocharged for the playoffs.
-A team that knows that it was pushed to seven games in the first round; now at leadt six games in the second.
All of these are rational fears. Dead Dan Gilbert will not run this group of executive, head coach and core players back for a foutth year.
It is the ECF or bust, at least, for this group, and they have played like they know that too in the last three games vs Detroit.
