Bill Simmons

So he just needed a little more at basically every step.

And if any one of those things you mentioned goes a little differently, if Moses Moody is 40% better as a player, 30% better as a player than he is, maybe Golden State's entire trajectory looks totally different.

You have the conversation.

You kick all of the odds on that dice roll.

It feels a little loaded to me.

Like that's a casino I don't know that I want to step foot in.

Yeah.

If he's indeed available, which apparently, supposedly, the Pelicans would never dream of trading Trey Murphy.

But you're doing a lot of spinning.

Don't make yourself dizzy here.

Yeah, I mean, normally with teams like this, the Knicks are on paper still a good team.

They're in a conference that has a lot of opportunity for them to go deep.

Normally, I would be pretty conservative with a team like the Knicks.

I just think something is really off here.

It feels awful in ways that transcend just the last three weeks.

That's been a particularly bad stretch.

But really, you're looking at two years now of the team's best players not fully understanding how to best play together, how to work off each other in total.

Their quote-unquote best five on the floor this season, they're losing their minutes.

And that was not quite true under Tibbs, but there was something that was a little off.

Clearly, they don't fully understand exactly how to play off each other in this offense.