Fred Katz

you don't understand that the most valuable thing, like people don't realize the most valuable thing is to just have a guy who you can say, here you go.

Just please go win it.

Just please go, go win the game.

You don't have to do anything.

Just please go win the game.

He's like, people don't talk about it that simplistically.

They talk about it more schematically and more analytically.

And he's like, the reason why is because those kinds of guys don't exist.

They're MJ and they're Kobe and,

And that's about it.

And I'm not saying that Jalen Brunson's as good as MJ and Kobe.

I'm not saying that, but I am saying that like of everybody in the league right now, I don't know how many other people who you can just say, just give them the ball and tell them, go win the game.

And then they go do that thing.

I don't know how many people are on the list ahead of Jalen Brunson in terms of like, it's crunch time.

You need a bucket, go get 45 in a closeout game.

go figure it out.

And that's why that team is as good as it is because they have that element.

And that's why they outlasted the Spurs at the ends of all of these games that were close, that could have gone either way.

And it's why they came back against Cleveland in game one.

And it's why they came back from five 20 point deficits in the playoffs over the last two years.