Jared Weiss

Listen, their path was relatively easy.

And I think in hindsight, we could see that because of the Thunder injuries and obviously the Wolves injuries, like maybe a little was the same for the Spurs.

And at the end of the day, the team that usually wins the championship is just the really good team that's healthy.

Like that tends to be how it goes.

And

The thing, though, that we saw was that New York's ability to spread the floor and not just to spread the floor, but to move their spacing around made it so hard for Victor to have his spots on defense where he could catch his breath, where he could know exactly what his angles are and how he's going to move.

And you could just see he was a little late on rotations at times.

He was wearing down from all the different pick and roll coverages he had to do.

he was always like especially the closeouts on og were late a lot of the time and so his defense he just did not get to own the floor on defense the way that he usually did because of how smart the knicks offense was so um i can't even remember what the rest of the question is no but i will say i will say so i did i did with fantasy and um

he when when wendy can like know what tracks he's operating on where it's like you know the vertical dropping back track on a pick and roll and then the shell around the paint he's it's it's like insane what he does because he knows where the spacing is he knows where to get his hands out and that's when he's like perfect it's really when he's stuck in like the weird no man's land when he's not quite the low man on the baseline that's when things get a little tricky for him but

when he's able to have all the action in front of him, he will, he will disrupt things in a way that nobody else can.

And like that, that's still proved to be true during that series.

It was just the way that the Knicks could get them turned around in certain ways.

That was just so effective.

It was hilarious.

yeah it's funny i remember when i when i wrote the the story that had the sodas thing in it the amount of glazing comments that i got from people which i'm sure some are new yorkers but i think it's a widespread thing of that when for those of us that have been covering victor on the grounds and like particularly for me i'm like a very poetic style writer i like trying to dig into like the emotional nuance of what an action means and things like that i understand how

The way that I do it will probably annoy a lot of people that are already predispositioned to being annoyed by the overall worshiping that happens with Victor.

When it comes to stuff like the walking barefoot thing, like the walking barefoot thing, I think is mostly just that he does a lot of work on trying to open and free up his feet because your feet get destroyed when you're an NBA player.

Like,

i i guess our listeners can't do this but walk into an nba locker room look at lebron's feet look at most of these veterans feet their feet are absolutely destroyed victor does a lot of work probably more work than anybody to take care of his feet because his entire career hinges on his feet staying healthy and pretty much no seven six guy has ever been able to keep their feet healthy over a long career so i think that's the main reason why he walks barefoot