I'm ok with playing whoever we have to play, we have to beat the best to be the best, and the expectations around the team are such that only a championship will do - if we lose in the 1st round, or the 2nd round, or the ECF, or the Finals, it's all going to be the same - the team will have failed, Jaylen and Jrue will be traded, and Joe will be sacked (they will be preparing the site of his crucifixion on Beacon Hill)
BUT if it lessens the pain a bit to get as far as we can, clearly playing a Heat team without Buckets gives us the best chance to progress to the next round. But that's pretty rotten news for the Heat...I want our team to be battle tested as we go along, instead of beating up on injured also-rans and running into a buzzsaw later in the playoffs