Zach Lowe

He's everything.

You need a lot of things.

I think you need a lot of shooting.

For the most part, the Knicks, I think, have enough shooting, particularly with Cat at the five.

One ingredient you've got to have, the more I watch them, the more I'm convinced this is going to help Mitchell Robinson in free agency.

It's going to help Time Lord in free agency.

It's going to help guys like this.

I think you need to have a center in your rotation who is an elite offensive rebounder and also an elite lob catcher who can do both of those things at a super high level, who can make Wemby at least think, if I challenge this shot and I don't get it,

Is someone behind me going to be able to punish me?

And that's going to, like, there will be five shots a game where he doesn't go for it because he's scared of that guy.

Or five shots he goes for and maybe doesn't get.

And that guy actually punishes him.

And Mitchell Robinson is the single best offensive rebounder in the entire NBA history.

and an elite, elite lob catcher to the point that some of New York's best offense all season, including in this run, has been when Cat rests, just spam the Brunson-Robinson pick and roll.

They get lobs.

Bridges-Robinson, they get lobs.

They get floaters.

They get everything out of it.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say, like, it might swing my pick.

It might swing the entire finals, whether Mitch Robinson can play and play effectively with this injury.