Jared Weiss

I mean, listen, the Knicks themselves clearly hate him, too.

Like, that was pretty apparent there.

The vilification of Victor is is going to be fascinating as it plays out over the offseason, because the thing that I think we've learned about Victor is him.

Him being a little ahead of schedule and in a little bit over his head with the finals, not surprising.

It was the way that his bravado, the way it was experienced and interpreted by others and the way that it channeled him was really interesting where he lacked urgency a lot of the time and the Spurs team overall lacked urgency a lot of the time.

And the irony is I feel like Fox was the one guy that reliably seemed to have a feel for how

much intensity the series required but his shot was just so off in the series that most of what he tried to do didn't work and so it made him look bad but he also I think deserves some credit for the fact that he seemed to understand that their offense was in bad shape the entire time and that was something that I don't think Victor really understood and so we really come out of this seeing listen the way to use Victor as a tool within your team on both ends is still clearly incredible and it's what got them to that point but

they faced a team that was pretty much playing perfectly, even if it was imperfect a lot of the time, like the Knicks had the balance of a championship caliber team and the Spurs, they had so much balance, but what they didn't have is what's at the heart of that, which is you need a great player that can just get to his spots and own those spots.

And Brunson did that at historic proportions in the series.

And like,

I don't know what he finished with field goal percentage wise, but he owned every single game at the end, basically.

And that was something that Victor couldn't do.

He does not have spots and shots yet that are like unflappable in a final setting.

And they're good enough to get him to that point, but it just wasn't good enough to get over the hump.

It's, I think it starts with that.

It has to utilize their guard play.

They have three downhill guards that once they get into the paint, usually can own that possession.

And then they either have Victor rolling behind the coverage and they go over the top or Vassell and Champagne are wide open.

That's, that was their bread and butter throughout the year.

But then I think getting to the solving the issues for the future, the significance of all this is just that Victor couldn't own the post.