Bill Simmons

And the Knicks dug down and they found something.

Is that team still in existence?

I don't know.

I don't know if we're still that team.

The weirdest thing about the Knicks, and a lot of people have made this point, I'm not inventing it, is just that their five best guys do not play well together.

And now we have lots of math that proves this.

And so you fundamentally, it's like when these five guys play together, it's not that good.

And they fall behind and then bench guys come in and then they rally back.

Not a great recipe.

Starting lineup has been a problem for two years.

It's a problem last year.

It continues to be a problem.

Net rating tells you that you're leaking water with the starting lineup.

But, and the fact that they are unable to kind of change it

lets you know that there's something, is kind of the crux of the issue with the team.

There's some sort of deep-seated personality friction that means you can't change the starting lineup of the team.

And, you know, I don't know if that's Kat and Mike Brown.

I don't know if that's Bridges and Kat or the rest of the team and somebody else.

I don't know what it is, but it's clearly something and it bubbles up every few games to bedevil the team.

Yeah, I guess my biggest question, and I talked about this the other day, how basketball is such a naked sport.