“You’re one step away from being in the playoffs, so I don’t want to discredit that,” Lee said, “but this has got to hurt a little bit. And you’ve got to think about this offseason. When you’re in the weight room, when you’re on the court.

What am I going to do to go that extra mile to get even better, because we had a ton of growth this year. “I don’t want those guys to lose sight of the positives that they did do. I think that the resilience of the team, the competitiveness, the togetherness continue to grow.

And we earned an opportunity to be right there. So, ton of good, but that was not our best effort”Charlotte ObserverThis article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: “You’re one step away from being in the playoffs, so I …