It's not an excuse just fact I'm sure if there is a handful of teams that were most hurt by the stupid compressed lockout schedule, we were at the top of the list effected by it. I'm proud of the guys given the injury situation, no training camp, back to back to backs 8 games in 11 nights or whatever...we still were one game away from the Finals.
I hope we roll the dice next year with our core curious what could have been under a normal NBA schedule and if we had some of our young guys in Green/Bradley. Then next year you add in any of Ainges offseason pick ups I think we can still make a run and even come out the East but maybe that's just me being positive.