This. And there’s a popular tweet I’m paraphrasing that the playoffs are about who’s, ahem, mentally tough and who isn’t. Get those guys and filter out the ones who might not be.
If there's a lesson to take from these NBA Finals, it's that you don't build a team that looks like the Spurs, the Thunder or the Knicks. You can't do it. You can build the best possible team around your best players and hope that you create something good enough.