AJ Hawk

regular season and go out and get the best record in the league for us so they can have this advantage when it comes time, if it ever comes down to this like it did.

Robinson gets to get that pinky right.

He gets to get a couple more days to heal that thing up.

So that's good for them.

I think the key thing that happened for the Knicks, man, is when they had that moment in the playoffs where they switched and started playing kind of through Carl Anthony Towns up top and let him be more of a facilitator.

I think that's opened up things for Jalen Bronson because obviously he still can get the ball out

and do his thing whenever.

But I think him coming off the ball is tougher for opponents than loading up and guarding against him being an iso ball.

So I think that's opened him up.

Obviously, Mikael Bridges has played a lot better.

Hart is really like, you know, his name is, he's the heart of the team.

And I feel like the big guys have played great for them.

So, I mean, all things, they clicked where they clicked at the right time.

And I mean, this stretch that they're running on and winning in this way, it's not a fluke.

It's something that sometimes you see in a regular season where teams go on stretches.

They just happen to hit it at the right time in the playoffs.

So, for me...

OK, see all the Spurs.

I don't think, you know, how we started the playoffs thinking that, hey, it's kind of like the West or whatever.

It's not really like that.