Jerry Recco

And when you talk about making a major change at head coach,

I think we said it at the time.

Your job is to unlock Carl Anthony Towns and to get the best out of him, and Mike Brown's done the opposite of that.

Well, I think one of the reasons why Carmelo says disconnect is because when you watch the team and when you watch teams in general, you want to see a free-flowing offense.

You want to see guys playing off of each other, guys moving constantly.

It's the same thing in hockey.

You want to see guys connected together, reading off of each other and playing off of each other.

For whatever reason, and this happened last year too, and we saw this again and we're seeing it again this year, when Carl Anthony Towns does get involved offensively, for whatever reason, it seems like he always has to make the toughest of shots.

And maybe that's because of him being slow.

Maybe that's because of...

other teams knowing that they can push him around a little bit, that he's not nearly as physical as you would like to think that his size would lend him to be.

So while he's a double-double waiting to happen for sure, is he truly the guy that's going to take a team on his back and lead them to a championship?

And I don't necessarily know that this team is set up for him to be able to do that because I think a lot of the –

team defers to whatever the decisions that jaylen brunson are is making in real time yeah and i also want to see him shoot more threes i want to see mike brown design the offense and get him some more looks from three because he's great at that and when he's on and i think that's a that's another opportunity missed with him let's go to matt in manhattan what's going on matt good morning hey guys good morning thanks for having me on listen i uh

They do get a little bored down the stretch in the long regular season.

But here's what we were saying, Matt, earlier this morning, was that the big change was the coach.

And maybe the coach turned it up in practice.

Maybe the coach turned it up in the locker room.

Maybe the coach made these players a little bit more playoff battle-tested.

I don't know.