Maybe the trade deadline really *was* one of the things that was most bothering KAT?

IMO there was nothing wrong with KAT that a few silly newspaper articles, social media posts and TV discussions didn’t cure. He’s been unjustly taking heat because his coach and PG weren’t looking for him or running anything to get him open. Now they are trying to fix it.

Now that he has become a priority again those same people are going to start whining about Bridges, OG or Hart or someone else whose decline in production is a mathematical certainty given there’s only so many shots in a game.

People just have to get used to fact that we have 4 starters capable of putting up 20 or more points almost every night and a few player that can get 15. On any given night a couple are going to do very little because of the defense, matchups or focus of the coach and Brunson. It’s primarily on those two to get the balance right and find the right player on any given night. They have been terrible at it with Towns this year. Next up it may be Mikal or OG. I don’t trust either one of them to get it right. Brunson is too self centered. He’s a score first PG except for rare games when someone else on the team has been taking heat in the papers or on TV and Brown appears almost clueless at this stage after a very promising start.

Mo will be happy to sign a Deuce type contract this summer if he barely plays for the rest of the season. The trick will be for Sochan to have a solid performance game ~ once a week for 5 weeks.

Shamet will have to show some loyalty back to Leon who had his back all of last year and brought him back this year.

Back to the third seed!

Did Brown play the closing lineup tonight at any point?

The starters played 36, 33, 32, 32 and 30 minutes tonight with Mitch unavailable. Last year’s the coach would have played at least 3 of the starters 40 minutes and they would have won by 13 and y’all would have been happy.