Fred Katz

And if Cat is going to play at the level that you mentioned earlier, where it's like he's going to be in the right places, he's going to be physical, he's going to play hard, he's going to be...

He is running back on defense harder than I've ever seen him.

I think that makes a lot of sense.

We saw Ananobi be the primary guy on Cade Cunningham when those two teams played in the playoffs last year, and he did a really good job.

Bridges got reps on him also, and Bridges did a really good job on Cunningham too.

This is a different team.

I mean, you mentioned the possibility of switching, that kind of stuff.

That's...

That's what OGN and OB affords you.

Like you can switch him on to Jalen Duren and you can be okay, especially if he's going to be this physical on the boards.

With Cat, the biggest problem for me with switching Cat is never, oh, he's going to get cooked by a mismatch.

That's never the biggest problem for me.

The biggest problem for me is you increase his possibility of getting into foul trouble.

And he's so important for their defensive rebounding, too, because he has been great on the boards and really physical on the boards all season, not just in the playoffs.

But the fouls are really what gets it, because all of a sudden, when you've got Cat on any sort of aggressive pick and roll coverage with Cat that sends him out to the perimeter.

Part of the reason why the Knicks have had him in a drop for the majority of his time with his team is because it just keeps him out of foul trouble.

It's the best way to keep him out of foul trouble, even if you might give up a few more shots that you don't want to give up every once in a while.

It keeps Cat on the floor.

But with the way that he's defending lately, even though he has been getting into foul trouble, a lot of that, I think, is just guarding Joel Embiid, who...

I think just they'll just get anybody into foul trouble.