hear me out on this.. we're one of few teams reasonably favored in game 1 that knows with near certainty who we get round 2, if we spend all week focused on Providence and get the w but then go quietly to Goliath as expected 2 days later no one will care that we won a game we were supposed to
rather just hack it game 1 and rely on our talent to carry us while going all in to give us any tactical advantage possible with the extra preparation to go out and do something big
if we get bounced off the bat we weren't going anywhere anyways