Zach Lowe

I mean, what a test for Jalen Brunson.

And then, you know, you switch and you put Castle on to Cat,

That's what I would do if I were Mitch Johnson.

It doesn't matter what I think they could surprise us by just saying, hey, we're going to save that card and we're going to open with women.

I'm on cat, even if it's just for five possessions to throw you off course.

But obviously we're going to see a lot of that.

And I did think it was notable that in that March game.

Josh Hart set the most ball screens he's ever set in a game in the NBA.

And it was one way the Knicks coped with, okay, if you're putting your big guy on Josh Hart and not Cat, well, Josh Hart is the, I guess, worst shooter in our starting five.

We're going to treat him like a non-shooter.

We're going to play him as if he's a non-shooter and make him a roller and surround him with shooting.

And they actually got in a rhythm with that against the Spurs, particularly in that game in March.

That's obviously going to be like the biggest cat and mouse game

of the series for the Knicks offense.

Do you think we'll see that right off the bat?

Well, and this is the power of women Yama and how he's like nobody we've ever seen before, because playing a one man zone with your best rim protector is not a novel concept.

Right.

I think what the Spurs have discovered is he's so fast and so long and so determined that,

that you can get away with him playing that way against more lineups and different lineups than you would think to wit.

Like this idea of, okay, we'll bring Josh Hart into the pick and roll.