Zach Lowe

and they were rolling.

And it was during one of those segments.

And the reason they were rolling is because when Mitchell Robinson's in the game, the other teams put their centers on Mitchell Robinson.

He's not a threat to shoot jump shots the way Cat is.

We're not worried about switching where to play our normal defense.

And they often blitz Jalen Brunson or come up to the level of the screen because if you drop on him, he's just going to eat you up with mid-range jumpers.

And when you do that,

on that, in that alignment, Brunson gets off the ball fast.

And sometimes he hits Robinson on the roll for a dunk or Robinson kicks it out.

Sometimes if he can't get that pass, cause it's a straight on pass and jail and Brunson's not very tall, he'll swing it to Josh Hart over here.

Hart will hit Mitchell Robinson on the roll and the ball just starts moving in such a dynamic way.

And I don't think it's entirely a coincidence that

through no fault of his own, that those sequences seem to happen more when it's Brunson and Robinson and not Cat.

However, you are not getting to the promised land without Karl-Anthony Towns giving you 30 to 35 A plus minutes in a lot of games because his shooting is so powerful.

So yet again, we are two years into this and the Knicks have to figure out more consistent answers to the wing on cat wing on Brunson center on heart defense that the smart teams, the able teams, the teams that have the personnel to do it are going to throw at them.

And that's, what's so maddening about the Knicks because in some games they pull all the right levers.

It's not like they don't know what the counters to this are.

They've seen it for two years.

And those levers work to varying degrees.

And in other games, they just don't touch some of the best levers and they just get it gummed up.