Jon Krawczynski

I think Mark Dagnall does an unbelievable job of really defining roles for all of his guys, and then all of those guys accept those roles and just go into them happily and know that if they do what they're supposed to do, they're going to be successful.

I think San Antonio does the same thing.

Everyone knows that Wemby is the sun and the moon and the stars, but everyone...

has an idea of where they're supposed to be at all times.

There's very few game plan mistakes, very few brain farts that happen with these teams.

Like you're not, they don't beat themselves with those types of things.

Of course, again, the turnovers are, are an issue for San Antonio right now.

But, you know, I thought the other night when Keldon Johnson got beat back door in overtime and then was taken out, like,

That's just the expectation.

If you do not do what you're supposed to do, you're sitting on the bench and we're going to put someone else in there that will.

So just the overall discipline that both of these teams operate with, it's off the charts.

Who did you pick before the series started?

I picked Spurs in seven, and that may even be just because I was just in the series with San Antonio and saw them really up close.

And I know that Oklahoma City is terrific, but I just think that Victor Wembanyama is the best player in the league right now.

Like, I think that that belt has been passed.

When I see what he is able to do on both ends of the court, and then you see the way that Harper and Champagny and Fox and Barnes and everyone, Vassell and Castle, all operate around him.

They just have a ruggedness and they have a toughness and a physicality to them that I think...

should play well against Oklahoma City.

We'll see how Dylan Harper is holding up here, and that would be a huge thing for them if they were to lose him for any time in this series.

But I just really love the way that they not only play defense, but the way that they don't back down from anything.