Frank Isola

His ability...

to spread the court, open things up for Jalen Brunson is important.

And you mentioned a guy at the end, Mitchell Robinson.

I think Mitchell Robinson needs to be in the top 10 by the end of this series for the Knicks to win.

Because when you look at the games that he's played against San Antonio, he's been pretty dominant in the NBA Cup colony.

He had 15 rebounds, including 10 offensive rebounds.

And he makes it so when Benyama...

can't just roam around unless they're going to play Cornette and Wenbenyama together if not Wenbenyama is guarding Mitchell Robinson he's got to stay home you got to put a body on him because the way the Knicks kill you with Mitchell Robinson is offensive rebounds which a lot of time lead to those scrambled three pointers and most of the time it always seems like it's Jalen Brunson wide open off of those plays knocking down a three

So, you know, Carl Anthony Towns, high school, college, and pro has always had a reputation, incredibly skilled, one of the great jump shooting bigs ever, little flaky, bad fouls, gets into weird ruts.

I feel like something has happened recently.

since the atlanta series um obviously has the ball in his hands but i mean i think if i ask you all the years you covered uh cat we always kind of felt like man he's good but sometimes you're just not sure which one shows up has he evolved this year or or are the things we worry about still very close to the surface

I think there's a couple of things.

I think we conveniently forget that he's now been to three straight conference finals.

He was with one in Minnesota the last two years with the Knicks.

So he's been really successful.

Last year was an All-NBA center.

I think he came into this season.

There was a lot of talk about Giannis Antetokounmpo.

I think he looked at it as, hang on a second, I wanted to stay in Minnesota, but I'm happy to be in New York.

I'm close to my dad, close to where I grew up.