Zach Lowe

And every commentator says the same way.

You got to give the ball to cat.

You got to force feed the ball to cat.

I'm here to tell you, that's not the answer to this.

At least not all the time.

You want to force feed the ball to cat in the post against Tari Eason or Jalen Williams from the thunder wing, Jalen Williams.

That is a losing proposition.

You're not going to win against good teams that way.

He's not going to be efficient enough.

There are going to be too many turnovers.

Now,

if you want to force the ball to cat, when you're like, if he times his duck in correctly and the defense isn't ready to load up on it and he can go quickly, that's a different story.

If Brunson has not a wing on him, but a small guy on him, like a traditional point guard and you run Brunson cat pick and roll.

And that guy switches on to cat.

That's a different story than Jalen Williams or Tara Eason, but the Knicks two years in have let this scheme sort of gum them up too often.

And against the wrong opponent, it happened against the Cavs.

It happened against the thunder.

It's happened against the Celtics.

They're just not going to score enough to win.

And they have to figure it out because they need cat and they need a spacing the way he unlocks their cutting game.