Chris Mannix

coming into the series, because I thought three days was a long time.

And I thought being at home was going to be enough for San Antonio to recharge the batteries and not make fatigue as big an issue as some were.

But I'm watching that game one.

I'm sitting there, and I'm looking at Victor Wimbanyama kind of grabbing his knees in the first quarter.

I'm looking at some of these other guys.

just not look like they had the same energy that they did early in that series in Oklahoma City.

How big a factor do you think fatigue is going to be in this game, too, and potentially the rest of the series?

It's significant, but I'm confused.

Again, I was not around Victor that much all season long.

We've done this a long time.

You get in the gym with these guys and you try to study them and learn how they're wired, how they operate.

Victor and the way that he crashes out from a fatigue standpoint is puzzling.

Because yes, I understand he's 7'4", but he's not lugging around 300 pounds.

But he absolutely does have these moments and you just hit on it early in the game.

when he's clutching at the knees or looking for a blow that doesn't make sense.

And that's where, as transcendent, great, and talented as he is, the inconsistency part has got to be tricky for Mitch Johnson from a rotation standpoint because is that tied to

not having as much of a break as the knicks coming out of the west finals like that's a little hard to believe like you said three days uh so they gotta fight through that you didn't see any of that from the knicks and i don't really think that's necessarily because of you know that long stretch that they had to rest but um wendy's great again i keep kind of hitting the same point he's great but he comes and goes a bit how short a leash do you think the aaron fox will be on tonight

very curious to see it because there are bigger picture implications of that kind of a choice.

I've been asked this a couple times and my thing is the Spurs from a culture standpoint are obviously incredibly savvy and they know that the moment you open the door to the Dylan Harper era and you

put De'Aaron on the bench because of the stakes of what's going on right now, there's got to be a domino effect.