This.
The team, even if the crap the bed for the next 5 games and get blown out swept in the first round... will be completely humbled by that. They’ll be crushed. Demoralized. Put out to pasture. They’ll see the glaring missed opportunities and the holes in their game.
And they’ll sit on that for a few months.
The talent is there. They’ll experience more drive. They’ll get better. They’ll mature and grow.
Even if they lose out from here, I’ll still in the single way... be happy.