Jon Krawczynski

was going exactly to Murray and Jokic in some combination over and over and over.

And they were kicking out and making plays.

And you could say the same about, you know, finding Spencer Jones in the lane or Cam Johnson certainly had his moments down the stretch.

But it just felt like a team that knew what its shots were versus one that didn't.

And maybe that's somewhat having Wimby not in the mix and you can get to your stuff more accessibly and more easily when he's out there.

But I'm not even sure that San Antonio, when Wimby plays, knows exactly where and how it wants to go in crunch time.

Where...

Denver has done this over and over and over.

It felt like old hat for them.

It just doesn't seem fun.

Like, it seems fun being a big enough wing that you can bulldoze your way through other wings.

But when then you're asked to guard Nikola Jokic, like, it's not ideal.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, just a reminder, whenever he pops out there and hits a couple shots, or I think in this one, the play that made my eyes go wide was...

being chased off the three-point line into a baseline drive, met at the rim, I mean, near enough by Jokic, I think, and just reminding you of how much of a big-bodied wing he is on top of the length and the potential shooting.

He factors into their future in a pretty significant way.

And I think the idea that the Spurs, they're here now contending for the title in the present tense with Victor Webinyama,

They also just have all of this slow burner stuff going in the background, like Carter Bryant, who if you told me in two years, he's just like a critical part of their team in every possible way.

I want to say they have 35 percent down from 40, but now they might be back up to 38 percent.

You know, the five the pie is a fluid exercise.