Zach Lowe

And Gordon, I realized more accomplished, better offensively, all that where you just have to like, you, you learn it by having it happen to you where like, Oh, if we win,

I'm going to get all of the credit and all the accolades and all the money that I thought I had to score 30 points a game to get it because that's what my whole life has been.

We've seen tons of players go through this.

I mean, Chris Bosch is a great example of it too.

That's an obvious one, but it's not just the sweet shooting big men.

It's different kinds of players.

I mean, I go all the way back to on a much lower level.

The one year the Hawks went really far in the playoffs,

John Collins accessed a completely different style of his game than he had ever had.

He was like grinding on defense, getting rebounds and everyone was giving him love.

And Kat has probably realized on some level, like if we win, everything takes care of itself.

And he's become a completely different player in this series.

The consistent guys, I mean, Brunson is like a metronome.

Some games he'll miss a little bit more.

Some games he'll make a little bit more.

He's just Jalen Brunson over and over.

Hart has been awesome the entire playoffs and just so handsy on defense, pushing the pace on offense, doing Josh Hart stuff.

I think Mitchell Robinson has been fantastic when he's played.

I think they could actually play him with Cat more because Cat defensively has been able to guard your Kelly Oubre's, Jalen Johnson's, whatever.

But I think Mitchell Robinson, when he's been in, has been tremendous.