Zach Lowe

He's out of the rotation.

He's like, oh, look at all Jared McCain.

Big deal.

He's out of the rotation.

Comes back in the rotation in the Lakers series.

Does pretty well.

Daryl Morey gets fired.

It's like,

oh, but Jared McCain, like he had some nice playoff moments.

Now it's like, is Jared McCain going to swing the NBA championship?

Is that the end game of this portrait?

Is Daryl Morey gets fired and Jared McCain not only plays like real minutes in the playoffs, but becomes an incredible swing player.

And then the third way, the desperation manifests.

And this is where you and I probably are just loving this is,

just the effort level, the urgency on every possession.

Like some of these offensive rebounds, Cason Wallace and Keldon Johnson jostled for one that Cason Wallace just shoved his way inside position and got one, and it resulted in he made a three.

Keldon Johnson screaming in for an offensive rebound and a putback to bring the Spurs within six.

At the end of just every, the urgency with which every loose ball is chased, every two-on-one is contested from behind.

It's just a full-on, you could almost hear it.

It's like if the game could make a sound, it would be just a continuous scream of desperate urgency.