Zach Lowe

So I don't really know what they're supposed to do there.

If French vanilla is even an option, they just haven't really used that.

And I don't love it for them.

I don't think their team really is built to play that way.

I would go back.

The first thing I would do if I were on the Spurs coaching staff is have a drink.

The second thing I would do is queue up my film and watch the last five minutes of our defense versus New York's offense and see, did we find anything in that stretch or did the Knicks just kind of slow down?

Did they get tired?

There was that one possession where Brunson kind of just stood in the corner and Mikhail Bridges dribbled around for a bit and committed a turnover.

Um, because the defense they went to in that stretch was the Victor zone where he's just tagging, tagging off and switching off on, on one player after another, not guarding towns, not guarding heart, who was on the floor, off the floor, on the floor.

Um, and the Spurs are trying to mix up their defenses, um,

I think to be unpredictable, like he'll, Victor will start on town straight up and then hit next possession.

He'll be in his own next possession.

He'll be on Josh Hart next possession.

He'll be on towns again.

And part of that is you can't always set the defense you want, but I think a lot of it is they're trying to be so unpredictable to throw the Knicks out of rhythm and the Knicks are too smart.

The Knicks are just sussing it out immediately.

And I wonder if that, if that zone ends up being their best answer, but the Knicks have figured out how to beat,

how to beat Victor in his own.

And the way they've done it is bringing him into the action on the ball, finding him and bringing him in a two man game that he can't really get out of, or hasn't figured out how to get out of.