Jon Krawczynski

And the guy who's 6'10 and can theoretically get to any shot he wants looks awfully good in the process.

Their team just feels like it makes a little more sense.

And some of that is honest, like Tristan Da Silva has played really well.

Wendell Carter has played really well.

Not for nothing, the swap of Tyus Jones for Javon Carter, I think it's like a meaningful difference in like tenor for their bench, like giving them like a little bit of backbone in a way that they kind of needed.

And someone who will shoot the basketball.

I mean, it does help.

It's hard to know just because I didn't expect them to be as bad or inconsistent as they were.

So how am I to make sense of them being good randomly other than a stretch of schedule?

It just feels like there's a fracture with reality.

This is a very talented team that doesn't always translate, that hasn't quite found itself yet.

There's so many elements that I like, and I agree with you that CJ's inclusion, even though...

he individually is like not had his best stretch.

I think he just helps their starting lineup and just really key lineups of a lot of their best players find a balance and make sense in a way that they were not before.

And some of that is just like, he is obviously less talented than Trey young, but also much lower maintenance than Trey young, also more available than Trey young was for a majority of this season.

And it's like just having him out there, I think has been genuinely helpful.

But other than that, I really have no way to explain why,

a sudden turn in a team that has been among the most frustrating of all the teams in the NBA this year.

I don't mind watching them.

It's also why if they just rolled into next season with basically this exact roster, I would fall for it again.