12-15-2022, 12:00 PM
(12-15-2022, 10:00 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Cato made a comment related to this on his 77 Minutes podcast. He said the team had the mentality that they were a WC finalist. If that is your mindset, you do things a certain way to try to tweak your way a little further up the ladder. It is obvious, for whatever reason, that they aren't that. If you are an ~.500 team fighting for a play-in spot, you take a very different approach.
"He said the team had the mentality that they were a WC finalist.".... They were, with Brunson. He was the 2nd star. Without him, it's a completely different equation in every way that counts, always searching for a missing piece. (It's in NY.)
Brunson was able to change the way Luka played, for the better. Without JB, it's all Luka, all the time, and while that creates great numbers for Luka, it's not a winning formula.
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