J. Kyle Mann

You don't want to be riding that solely with Julius, but if he's catching it

in a good matchup.

Those are the things that Ant's downhill stuff creates a lot.

Like I had it written down here.

Yeah, 31 pick and rolls.

19 of those were just straight switches.

That's just like they didn't... That's not Ant being typical Ant to me.

This... And then, yeah, a lot of ISO and just kind of him playing over the top.

And if he's not going to make those shots, it's going to be pretty tough.

But over... I still think this is the best... This series has the best...

potential for variants in terms of like where they could go.

I mean, I still think this is the best first round series.

Where's the switch, I guess, is the question.

I mean, who do you want to put him on if not Jokic?

Yeah, I think the combination of what you're talking about, if Brunson, and this has been my kind of frustration with him over the years, is just if he's going to be willing to lean into that and buy into that, you're taking away one of the self-sabotaging themes that the Hawks are hoping for.

And then if New York is going to be that efficient, spotting up, hitting shots, you're just taking away oxygen from the Hawks' fire that they really are going to need.

Maybe they can find a way to sort of lure them into some other

Some other areas where the Knicks are more vulnerable to it, but they're going to have to tweak and discover those things as the series goes along.

So we need our starters to play more and we need them to run more.

You can kind of see the funnel that we're rolling down to here.