Bill Simmons

I've stood next to Jalen Brunson.

He's not 6'2".

Well, I mean, look, the statistics will say, well, they only solved it to a little bit degree because the final offensive rating for the series was Knicks 110, Spurs 107.5.

And I'm pretty sure 110 would have ranked last or close to last in the regular season.

But here's the thing.

you are in game 100 whatever of your season.

You are facing a top two defense in the NBA and the best defensive player in the NBA, the unanimous defensive player of the year winner who has nothing to do but game plan for your team under the highest possible pressure.

Right.

with an officiating regime that is going to let everyone play super physically except Carl Anthony Towns, I guess.

They sure did.

And all you got to do in that, what all that solving amounts to in that scenario is scoring enough to win.

And they scored enough to win over and over and over against a defense that was giving them different kind of looks, Wembes in different places, different styles.

They solved it enough

to just eke it over the finish line.

And that's enough.

That's all that it took.

Like 110 offensive rating in those circumstances.

Like I'll take it.

Good enough.

I was going to say Kareem is the standard bearer of that.