J. Kyle Mann

It's just – if that's going to be – if that's –

Coming into the series, what I expected to be the problem, kind of the core problem that San Antonio would pose for Portland.

I don't know.

It seemed like they had a little more success moving Wimby somehow, getting him to pay attention to the first drive.

But he's pretty clever about that, too.

So I don't really know where they go from there.

What were you going to say, Justin?

Yeah, I think Scoot, this will sound like condescending, but I don't mean it this way.

I mean, he means well in the team sense, I think in a way that like for comparison, like Shaden, Shaden is just like, I'm going to shovel through my own creation.

I'm going to shovel this hole all the way through to the other side.

And I think Scoot, you can kind of, and I've always kind of thought that this was the case, whether or not he could like,

build the skill sets that would get him there was always the question because i always knew that he had the right mentality um but it was nice to see him do that and like you were saying what's what's the downside here for for scoot the downside is he experiments at this and has a great experience and learned something from it i and by comparison you know taking it to which isn't the end of the world i think it could ultimately be a great thing for scoot

Not that the Blazers are punting on their chances in the series, but I think it would be a good takeaway.

And the Fox thing is interesting because I always kind of thought that this was the best outcome for Fox's player type.

And watching his maturity last night of just like his usage didn't have to be at a certain level.

Yeah.

it's not very difficult to look at Victor Wimbanyama.

There's just a real road to Damascus kind of wake up call for you as a basketball player when you're next to a Wimbanyama that's like, okay, my place is over here.

I think it would take a real narcissistic monster to not have that realization.

Him making extra passes in the spots, he's a very difficult thing to wrangle because on a certain night, he is capable of being that primary type talent.