And we can sit here and debate whether Kenny was right to do that, whether he should have trusted Tai a little bit more, whether Tai earned a longer leash. But there were people inside the organization that saw the defensive numbers of Ty Jerome in that series against Indiana, and they were terrified. They were terrified about what that could look like moving into the future. And I think there was some hesitancy to make that kind of financial commitment to somebody when you’re legitimately wondering, ‘How much can we trust him in a playoff series or in a playoff run?
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