Es Baraheni

So you're missing your primary wing defenders.

You don't have Isaiah Hartenstein inside the paint.

So their defense looked immediately...

It looked porous.

It looked like it had some gaps.

They were not rotating as well.

And shout out to Toronto for taking advantage.

But I can't give an excuse for OKC.

You've had absences before.

Why are you not able to adjust, basically, from that?

And then there's something to be said about inserting Ariel Haporti in there and utilizing his youth and his excitement, I think, on defense.

I think that fatigued Joel a little bit in the second half, too.

I really like the fact that we've been talking about Joel Embiid being back.

I like the fact that we still are seeing him be dominant.

Right now, he's just got to put two halves together now, right?

Because that game was a tale of two halves.

He did phenomenal in that first half.

And he got tired, even leading down to that turnover that pretty much sealed the game.

So I really, I think that Joel Embiid's on the right track.

But from a New York Knicks perspective, you've got a rotation there that's starting to show up that without Kat,