Logan Murdock

on their offensive end and defensive end that it just pushed him out of the game.

And then he has this spurt in the third quarter where he's playing well and he's playing aggressively and he's playing all these ways, but he needed to get that out of him because he played so poorly in the first half.

And that's the hard thing with Cat at this point as he's dealing with all these trade rumors and he's dealing with all these things that have everything to do with the New York market but nothing to do with what's going on in that locker room.

And it's really affecting him and you can see it on the court.

There's so many ebbs and flows and highs and lows with Cat's game, and it really affects how his defense, and by extension, how the Knicks do game to game.

Yeah, because what happens is you mentioned the threes and eight for 35.

From what I saw with the naked eye is there's the Knicks are so bad defensively that they get behind early and they have to shoot threes to get themselves back in it.

And then you're you're in a position where.

you're constantly just playing catch up.

Right.

And because of how in the biggest way you played to catch up in this modern iteration of the league is with three point shot.

And they're just forcing it all the time.

Like the Knicks teams of two years ago would,

similar to the Pistons, would just impose their defensive will, but they just don't have the bodies defensively to be able to keep up.

So, I mean, the Knicks have terrible vibes right now.

And you know it's bad.

You see terrible vibes when you're in an arena, right?

You can see it when you actually look at the bench.

But when you see it, when it cuts through on TV, that's when it's really bad.

And that's at the stage right now where I see the Knicks