Tim Legler

I need to see the first round because there's just little things that matter to me.

Like, even if you win a series, let's say Denver plays Minnesota and they just hypothetically, let's say they win that series 4-2, whatever.

And there's a couple of guys that for Denver that are like not shooting well, like they didn't shoot well in the series.

And I'm thinking about what it's going to take against the San Antonio defense.

So like things like that really matter to me, like around the margins of your rotation.

Who's playing 7, 8, and 9?

Who are those guys?

How are they playing?

What kind of impact do they have?

What's the matchup going to be?

How much confidence going into round two does a coach still have in guys if they really couldn't make a shot for his series?

Stuff like that can change the way I think.

So I'm going to wait on that based on how the first round goes.

That's a good point.

And look, I know he's had success against both of those top teams and their defenses, but...

Doing it over the course of a seven-game series with that level of speed coming at you, the amount of traffic that they force you to play in.

Obviously, everything's called a little bit differently.

They're allowing more grabbing and holding and all of those things.

A guy that's been around for a long time, and we'll get into the MVP talk too here in a second, but the numbers on him as far as just total minutes played for the season, if he were to win MVP, it's like,

The only two guys lower are like, you got to go back to Walton.