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Collin Gillespie is giving Phoenix a useful shooting pulse, but one live guard option is not the same thing as the Suns having solved their support-piece math.
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The lazy take is that a clean Miami win would mean the Heat are back on track. No. Washington has been collapsing badly enough that a routine win should lower panic, not create fresh belief.
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Orlando's four-game streak is nice. The colder test is whether the Magic still make Chicago play uphill instead of letting the Bulls run into their preferred pace.
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Indiana's balance talk is fine as marketing. The harder question is whether the Pacers have any secondary creation worth trusting once easy offense disappears.
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Toronto’s hot recent stretch deserves attention. It does not deserve the flattering leap to trust yet, especially with a stronger test waiting in New York.
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Collin Gillespie's big night against the Lakers gave Phoenix a useful signal, not a solved backup-guard rotation.
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Alex Sarr's toe injury removes Washington's easiest late-season development storyline and turns the final two games into a cleaner keepers-board audit.
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Michael Reinsdorf's support for Billy Donovan settles the easy coach debate. It does not answer the colder Bulls question: who actually owns the next roster-defining decisions?