Zach Lowe

other than the Knicks playing awesome basketball.

I'm just, I find the Brunson cat thing endlessly fascinating.

I, you know, I remember, I think I was on with Bill earlier in the season when I said that pick and roll combination just hasn't led to what I thought it would lead to.

It's just not as easy for them to get cat open threes and cat pick and pop attack, close out all that.

And you wonder why, and the most obvious answer is that teams don't put their centers on Cat.

We'll get to that.

Even when they do, and Detroit did for almost the entirety of the first round last season, it just doesn't lead where you think it's going to lead.

And I think part of it is that Brunson, as great as he is at lots of things, is just not that kind of playmaker.

He's a little bit more methodical.

he's looking for his own shot more than he's looking to like bust down the defense and start ball.

And that's fine.

He's great at that, but it's not conducive to cat being maximized.

And I looked this up because I was curious because I think about like, when do the Knicks start to look like,

the ball is flying around because they have a lot of like smart, intuitive movers and cutters and passers on their team.

And that's to tell for me when the ball is really moving, they're very hard to guard and they're in a rhythm on both ends of the floor.

And I think it translates to the other end too for them when everyone's involved.

And I just like looked up

When Brunson and Mitchell Robinson are on the floor and cat is off the floor, they are plus 11 per a hundred possessions and scoring at 127 points per 100 possessions, according to cleaning the glass.

And the reason I looked that up was there was one game I watched recently.

It was one of the games where they found it, where they found it.