Jon Krawczynski

Right.

Yeah, I mean, I would say that going into the series, you thought if Minnesota had a chance, even though they were shorthanded, Ant was hurt, Dante DiVincenzo out, I would assume limited a little bit.

you figured that the way that they were going to advance, if there was going to be a chance, was going to be experience, metal, toughness, kind of mental fortitude, those types of things, because they had been in that spot for three years in a row, and San Antonio had not been there yet.

And to me, the thing that just shone through so much about San Antonio was that

There was nothing in these young dudes that was going to get rattled by the moment, by the stage, by the physicality, by any gamesmanship that was being thrown at them.

You know, Castle, Harper, Wemby, Fox, like all these dudes are just tough as nails.

And they didn't let...

the Timberwolves get into their heads at all.

And the Timberwolves really tried to do that.

And so their ability to just rise above whatever kind of games the Wolves were going to try to play with their heads that way was the key to the series.

They just were not being drowned down into the gutter.

They were bigger, tougher, stronger, a little more talented, and they just outlasted them that way.

It was really, really impressive to see

those really young guys just not get shaken at all by any of the theatrics.

Yeah, I think that the thing that really sticks out to me about both of them is they are so well coached and mentally disciplined in their assignments.

I mean, I know that Castle has turned the ball over a bunch already in this series, but when you look at...

understanding game plans, executing, and having counters for what each other is going to present to them.

I just think their basketball IQs for both teams are off the charts, and both coaching staffs really know how to kind of develop

counter punches and figure out how to work through a game and through a series.

I think that is frankly, one of the things that the Timberwolves really struggle with is when you get into an intelligence contest against these two teams, they are falling out short, but, um,