Fred Katz

happened after game three in Atlanta.

Something had to happen.

All of them say the same thing.

All the players, everybody, they all say the same thing.

They all say, we all just realized we're too good to be in this position.

Like we should not be down to one.

We should not be losing in the way that we're losing this series.

And this is the way that all of them have related to me, just that this is not the spot that they should be in.

And they kind of realized, all right, everybody throw whatever sort of ego you've got to the side, throw whatever sort of role you wanted to the side.

Everybody, you better cut as hard as you can cut.

You better screen as hard as you can screen.

Because one of the things that I did think was really interesting was

following game three of the Atlanta series was like, they totally made so many of those schematic adjustments.

But like the biggest, you know, air quotes adjustment they made was that everything they ran was so crisp.

Even once they started running the stuff they were running in the regular season a lot more.

It was like their screens were so on point.

They were just holding their screens.

Their cuts, they took off when they were supposed to take off.

Their spacing, their spacing is so good.

People think of spacing as just like, if you can shoot, you're going to pull people out.