Brendan Haywood

And I think sometimes you can't be so stuck in your way that you're scared to adjust.

I know they want to end games with De'Aaron Fox.

But if he's struggling and you got a guy as talented as Harper and he's playing well, sometimes you got to roll with the young dogs and let them see if they're ready to eat on the big stage.

Yeah, 11 minutes in the fourth quarter was too many for De'Aaron Fox, the way he was playing.

And I'm not sure if it's injury-related, inconsistency, whatever it is.

He's just not looking like the same guy we saw for most of the regular season, the all-star, the clutch player.

He hasn't looked like that same guy.

Look, I thought he was okay defensively against Brunson, and that's the big question, I think, for San Antonio on that end of the floor.

What do they have to do differently to prevent the kind of fourth-quarter explosion that Jalen Brunson had?

Well, when you look at Jalen Brunson, he didn't shoot the ball well from the field.

So defensively, their game plan was solid.

I thought early in the game, they tried to put Carter Bryant on him.

I think it was like the second quarter, Jalen Brunson was kind of struggling, and then Carter Bryant was on him.

He reeled off like a quick three or four field goals.

I think they need to stay away from that matchup.

Youngfella's not ready for that just yet.

And then as far as the fourth quarter goes,

I think they need to load up a little bit more.

Brunson wants to iso.

They need to make that 15-foot mid-range area look real cluttered, similar to what they did to Shea Gilgis-Alexander.