Zach Lowe

It might be a little hyperbolic, but in my opinion, only a little.

Maybe you disagree.

You know what I've forgotten about that game, by the way, I forgot how heavy, heavily Tyler Kolek was involved when I went back and watched that game.

I was like, wow, Tyler Kolek, there was like a, they found something off the bench with this guy.

And I think going into game one, we'll see it right away.

the nitty gritty of the Spurs offense.

These are two of the best rebounding teams in the entire league, and that's going to be obviously a pivot point.

The Knicks were seventh in offensive rebounding rate and obviously much better when Robinson plays.

The Spurs were 10th, and they're two of the top four teams in defensive rebounding rate.

The Spurs were first in the regular season.

The Knicks were fourth.

Spurs were also an extremely low turnover team.

They were fifth lowest turnover rate on offense.

That's jumped a little bit in the playoffs.

That's what happens when you play the Thunder.

And the Knicks were kind of average at forcing turnovers.

On the other end, the Knicks were a pretty low turnover team themselves, and the Spurs were actually 28th in turnover rate forced on defense, which surprised me a little bit.

So the Knicks probably need to win the turnover battle, given those statistical indicators, to win the series.

And just, you know, fun trivia here.

Number numbers one and two in corner threes attempted per game in this series.