Let's go to Tom and Howell, New Jersey. What's up, Tom?

Hello, Tom. Hey, what's going on? Yo, what's up, man? Evan, I just want to know what you think. Everyone's talking about Mike Brown, the substitutions, playing the bench, how that's so much better than Tibado and stuff like that. You know, I don't really see that as, you know, a calling card for the coach. I mean,

obviously, most coaches do that at this point. To me, it's the adjustments in game, which I don't see him making. For example, in game one, they were just doubling Hardin and Mitchell the

whole game, leaving guys wide open. That almost cost them the game at the end. They go double hard and the guys wide open top of the key. Obviously, it wasn't working the whole game, but you just kept going to it. He didn't make one adjustment on defense, try to do something else. I mean, you've got to get Bridgett a chance on Hardin one-on-one. He's a great defender, even OG. Why are they so quick to double? And once it wasn't working, you never went away from it.

Yeah, I mean, look, they, I think they've had success, blitzing the, the ball handler.

And but the challenge, the challenge, and this is where you give the cavaliers credit, they kept their shooters right there on the strong side.

So you get blitzed, shooters

wide open. They missed a bunch of those shots, but it's a philosophy that you have to employ

sometimes because as much as we were going to laud Jalen Brunson for his fourth quarter heroics,

he got cooked for most of this game as a defender.

And ultimately, they don't want to switch it.

But if they don't switch it, James Hardin and Donovan Mitchell,

would they score 70 points off of them, whatever it was?

Like, he's not a good enough defender to not do what they're doing defensively.

I think with Mike Brown, there's two things.

Number one, he mentioned the difference between him and Tibbs when it comes to the bench.

It's an immeasurable thing to know.

How did Mike Brown playing his starters less during the regular season and using his bench more?

How does that impact results? How does that impact health? How does that impact performance now that we're sitting

here in the middle of May? So that's more of a speculative thing we do as fans where we say,

hey, Landry Schaumet was more prepared to make an impact because he was used more. Even though

Landry Schaman had a big impact last year in game five of the Eastern Conference Finals. We forget that. People were calling on it, Landry Shammett last year. It felt like we needed to scream and yell to get it to happen. But yes, the execution of the way a bench is used and the minute allotment during the regular season was a major talking point. It still is, but there's no way to

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