I love making excuses.
There’s something deeply satisfying about explaining why failure doesn’t matter. With the proper ingredients, I can chalk up even the most damning failures to nothing more than a procedural matter, all perfectly acceptable in the infinitely variable cosmos.
The Celtics lost their In-Season Tournament game against the Indiana Pacers, but it doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t matter. In fact, the In-Season Tournament only matters if you want it to, and—because I am hard-wired to shield myself from emotional distress—I have decided that it doesn’t matter.
The NBA developed the In-Season Tournament to hopefully drum-up some fan interest around a notoriously dead part of the season, also known as right now.