In hindsight, this is useless

A sports interviewer asked a basketball player: "Are you a playoff-quality team?" "Time will tell," said the player.

Well, not really. Time will tell whether they'll make the playoffs, not whether they're a playoff-quality team. If looking at the list of playoff teams is the only way to determine if a team is playoff-quality, then people should stop using the term "playoff-quality team" because it's nothing more than a tautology.