Zach Lowe

And I,

I can't figure out why or what clicks or what makes them click when they click, but they're not clicking enough for me to have a ton of faith that this year is going to end the way James Dolan says that it had to end.

But you watch this team up close.

You live in New York.

What are you seeing?

Does what I'm saying make sense to you?

They have it and then they don't.

This is like every week there's either, there's some sort of Nick's existential crisis every week.

It's a cat quote.

It's cat shot attempts.

It's the McHale Bridges trade being brought up on every media show because McHale Bridges had eight points on two of seven shooting for the third straight game.

It's just, there's just a lot going on all the time.

other than the Knicks playing awesome basketball.

I'm just, I find the Brunson cat thing endlessly fascinating.

I, you know, I remember, I think I was on with Bill earlier in the season when I said that pick and roll combination just hasn't led to what I thought it would lead to.

It's just not as easy for them to get cat open threes and cat pick and pop attack, close out all that.

And you wonder why, and the most obvious answer is that teams don't put their centers on Cat.

We'll get to that.

Even when they do, and Detroit did for almost the entirety of the first round last season, it just doesn't lead where you think it's going to lead.

And I think part of it is that Brunson, as great as he is at lots of things, is just not that kind of playmaker.