Adam Mares

Tonight, four points.

22 minutes, four points.

He did grab seven rebounds, which was really big, playing that role, and he was a plus eight.

But the fouling, he had five fouls in his 22 minutes.

And just some of the general...

I thought he was disconnected on the offensive end.

You remember the turnover they had in that fourth quarter, which all kind of like pitched him the ball.

He wasn't ready for it.

Just goes out of bounds.

You saw Jamal being like, look at me.

It felt like he had a bunch of those tonight where you're just like, oh, he's on a different wavelength at the moment.

Yeah.

The thing about that is, I think you're probably right.

But, well, here's the thing, though.

A month ago when we were talking about this and how I thought he's a lock to be in the playoff rotation, and he was playing his best basketball at that point, it really was that you had Spence and Piwot as these two defensive specialist guys that you felt like could make a real impact on good players.

And I just didn't feel like that tonight, I guess.

But we'll see how it plays out these last 10 games.

I'm saying a good version of him is a value-add in a meaningful way.

So I hope that I feel that way going into the playoffs of like, okay, you have this value-add defensive guy that you can go to.

Well, that one out of the timeout in particular.