I would think there is significant planning going on and most within the organization know it. Granted they play one game at a time, but think of the message this sends to the players. Sublimaly, the players realize that they are expected to win and that the coaching staff is planning for all contingencies.
Like the line in Hoosiers.
OK when Ollie makes his second shot, and you will make your second shot, everyone hurry back on defense, they might have time to get off a shot.
Well, OK, since you put it that way, I guess I can let some of the extensive and highly professional fellow fans take on that assignment. You're right, some advance scout work needs doing. Just don't talk about so much right now. Got a game tomorrow.
Not to worry, the Quatrains of NEMstrodamus says that....
"A wave of white and silver, surrounded by the blueness of the sky and the redness of the fires of the earth will rise to the occasion and will reign their wrath on the bevy of ravenous birds or the charge of the beasts of the west."