Zach Lowe

And it was because of that.

It was their way of saying, hey, Wemby, if you're going to guard Hart but lay off of him, we're just going to bring Hart into the screening action and a shooter's going to come around the corner, you're not going to be there, whatever.

And I feel like the Spurs have gotten more and more and more daring with Wemby in that zone of like,

okay, if you try to bring Josh Hart into the action, he's just going to wave goodbye to Josh Hart and stay parked down on the baseline and be like, oh, this Mikael Bridges over here, I'll be cool.

And I just don't know, like he's the first guy that I've ever seen where he's dictating the terms to the offense.

They're trying to get him in the action, in the action.

He's just like, no, I'm cool.

I can cover any amount of, I don't know what you're supposed to do.

That's tough.

San Antonio's transition defense.

Give me a small, before we let you go, give me a small X factor for both teams that you're going to be looking for.

It could be a guy off the bench.

It could be a tactical wrinkle.

It's just any small thing that comes to mind that's like, this could actually be a little game within the game that swings part of the series.

So a couple of just riffing off that.

I looked at before the Thunder series, Thunder Spurs, would it look like the Thunder were going to be fully healthy with J-Dub and A.J.

Mitchell and all that?

And I'm like, man, this is the most powerful offensive team the Spurs have faced.

And I was.

Wondering like and I was gonna mention this in my preview and forgot are we gonna see more minutes of Harper Castle when Benyama and no Fox not like they're gonna bench Fox But like Fox maybe goes down to 28 minutes Because they just need their a-plus defensive lineup out and if you look at the numbers when those three guys are on the floor together Harper Castle women Yama, it's like you can't even score.