Winning the next 2 is absolutely key

It also would be nice to have some momentum going into the game against Utah.

They gotta win as many games as possible while completely healthy to give themselves that buffer. As much as I like this team, I could see even one injury drastically changing their ability to beat even average teams. You are talking about guys like Solo and Clark getting moved up from spot minutes to major minutes. And Okafor's story is nice and all, but going from having two elite bigs on the court all 48 minutes to now only having that for 30 minutes and having Okafor or Diallo with one for the other 18 will take a major strength and make it a minor strength.

Having a guy like Ian Clark, who went from DNP-CD, to 13 points in 17 minutes, is such a luxury that this team hasn’t had in seemingly forever. Previously, if a guy was decent, he was getting significant minutes. Having enough talent that Ian Clark might not get minutes is fantastic.

That said, having to play Okafor/Diallo or Tim Frazier 15 minutes against a reasonably decent team could be the difference between an easy win and a toss up.

It’s weird, I actually feel that as long as it is only a few games here and there, we have the depth, the firepower, the chemistry, and the offensive scheme to weather a few injury bugs for a short period of time this season.

But to the OP, yeah, we have to win the games we’re supposed to. This can’t be like past seasons where we get complacent against bad teams and play down to them, too many good teams this season to play that nonsense.