Nick Wright

And then the, sometimes the, well, actually... Not the conspiracy guy up in the middle?

No, the guy up at the top is not a conspiracy guy.

But it's that the folks who fancy themselves the smartest and look down on the simple, basic opinions are often missing that the simple, basic opinions...

are very often more rooted in more truth than their own and so like the to remove it from my example it would be

for that meme after the Knicks are up 3-0 on the Cavs, the dumb drooling guy would be saying, the Knicks sure are kicking the Cavs' ass.

And the super smart guy would be like, the Knicks sure are kicking the Cavs' ass.

And then the guy in the middle is Kenny Atkinson saying, well, when you look at shot quality, we're actually up 2-1.

Beautiful.

And that's how I feel about

having people explain to me after this series, not about who they'll be next year, not about what the future holds, but that right now, Victor Wynn-Manyama is better than Jalen Brunson.

Why?

Why?

If anything, this series showed...

That even if you are allegedly the greatest defensive player ever, there's no stopping another guy from averaging 30 plus in route to walking you guys down every fourth quarter.

And the gap in their offensive games is so vast that

And the gap in their stamina levels is so vast that you just, it's certainly not a ridiculous opinion that the guy who was at his best at the end of all of these games and was a fourth quarter killer and averaged 30 plus for the series, that right now this moment,

He's better than the guy who consistently wore down, made mental errors, and repeated high-pressure errors, and his lack of an offensive package was fully revealed throughout the series.

It's not only that it's not a hot take, and then we can move on.

It would have been just the consensus opinion for the vast majority of sports history.

Oh, you have two star players.