Tim Legler

Does he want to stay in L.A.?

I don't know.

Well, I think a few reasons.

I think one of the reasons is...

Injuries have played a part in it, like just teams not being whole in certain cases.

I also think just the three-point shooting, the volume of three-point shooting.

I also think there's been some teams that have some younger guys that didn't react well to playoff pressure.

So I think there's a variety of things that have gone into it.

Now, that doesn't explain some of the things we've seen, including a game that I was part of a call that had a 61-point

deficit in the third quarter.

A 61-point deficit in a 3-2 series, by the way.

This wasn't a situation where it was a 1-8 matchup and it was a 3-0 series and that team just mailed it in.

This was Atlanta and the Knicks.

It was a 3-2 series with a team at home to try to force a game 7 and they were down by 61 points in the third quarter.

Well, they're playing at that level.

Now, throughout the year, I saw peaks and valleys where you kind of go, teams that are ready to win it.

They don't have those kind of peaks and valleys.

And so I saw that from them throughout the year.

And I will say this, they made some adjustments to what they run during the season that helped them.

They made adjustments again in the middle of the Atlanta series when they were down 2-1 that turned that series around to a great degree.