And a game earlier, he stuck with his starting five for the entire third quarter, and we all loved it.

We were all like, yeah, that was great. That was smart. In this case, at some point, he needed to pull Carl Anthony Pounds.

He needed to go to Mitchell Robinson. At some point, he needed to go to do Shm McBride.

And when he finally made those changes, it was too late.

Three minutes too late.

And that's like, of all the issues we could address, and there are plenty, and there will be plenty more from Nick fans, to me it was letting that game slip in the third quarter without going to Mitchell Robinson,

who let's face it, this is a weird statement to make. He was the best player on the next in game

five. He had a career day from the free throw line, you might say. 100%. That part was nuts. I know.

But in real time as a head coach, and you see this, you have to recognize it.

I have an alternative, and yeah, they may hack a Mitch, but right now, Mitch is actually making some free throws.

So you have to be okay with it. And even if it's just a, not even punitive, but just a collect yourself moment

for Carl Anthony Towns, sometimes as a coach, you got to help your guy. You got to help your team.

A hundred percent. By leaving them in there and struggling, and I know this is a, the old cliche,

yeah, he'll shoot his way out of it. Yeah, he'll work his way out of it. You just got to let him play and grind. By this point in the season, you got to know that sometimes that's not

going to happen for Kat. And not only that, if he was a two-way player, I'd say, fine, let him

and let him, let him want. He's a liability defensively, and he's committing idiotic foul. It's not like McHale Bridges. McCall Bridges can score two points on 20 shots and you're like, all right, whatever.

He's shutting down as a wing.

He's shutting down their best shooter.

So you're fine.

And we've seen games like that in this series.

But Cat doesn't have that leeway or he shouldn't have that leeway.

And this goes back to the fall that we've talked about with Coach Thibbello for a long time.

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