Frank Isola

I thought it was a mistake that Oklahoma City made in game one, putting Alex Caruso on him.

I know that Alex Caruso is going to compete, but he's just not big enough and strong enough really to contend with Victor Nguyen-Benyama.

I could certainly see it being OG.

And I think...

The Knicks need to be physical.

I think if you go back to Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals, when Benyama clearly frustrated his team lost the game to not meet with the media afterwards, I think that had a lot to do with the way the game was being officiated.

He was sulking a little bit, but what I like about him

is that motivated him to play so well in both game six and game seven.

So the league reprimanded him saying, you know, enough of this.

If you're going to sit down and talk, if you have a great game, you better be the guy that sit down after your team doesn't play well.

But to his credit, I love the way that he responded.

Again, to me...

That's I know I don't want to get too far ahead of it myself here.

But that's a little bit of that Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant quality that he has in him, that competitiveness when he has a bad game.

He's in a bad place.

Look at the way he responded in six and seven.

He was outstanding.

You know, James, I didn't love when James Dolan made the move.

I said, why screw with it?

But one of the things I've heard about Mike Brown, he's worked under Popovich, he's worked under Steve Kerr, Budenholzer, Malone, Carlisle.