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I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.

That's everyone's motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.

The NBA playoffs have the highest ceiling in all of sports.