Fred Katz

Just being able to guard defensively,

everybody uh he's a huge credit for the way i mean look the next offense has been insane they're hitting shot after shot after shot but defensively they're playing out of their mind and a huge part of that is their ability to put ananobi on anybody so they can put ananobi on you look at how they defended in the hawk series they could put ananobi on on yaka okongwu which allowed them to put carl anthony towns on dyson daniels or mitchell robinson on dyson daniels for a

on Nikhil Alexander Walker, and he'll just wall off one side of the court and just take away all of Alexander Walker's relocating that he likes to do on the weak side to create open threes.

Against Philly, same sort of thing.

You can put him on Paul George.

You can put him on Embiid.

And he is locking guys down.

He is taking away entire sides of the floor.

He's disruptive as hell.

He's been...

I actually think there's a good argument that in the eight games that he's played, he's been the best player on the Knicks during this playoff run.

And I think he's their most important player.

Like, I agree.

If he's there, they can accomplish a whole lot.

If he's not there, obviously, they're still a very good team.

Look at what they did to Philly in those two games without him.

But it's a different sort of look, especially, by the way, with the way Bridges, you mentioned Bridges' offense.

Bridges' defense is...

was awesome on Tyrese Maxey.

Like, so good.