1 00:00:15,359 --> 00:00:20,399 What is crack laughing, fellow thermonuclear A Effers, I am at Damn Valley, 2 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,920 coming at you with a solo mailbag here at the heart of the NBA 3 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,760 playoffs. We will get them some more playoff series previews as they sort of 4 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,719 are determined. Grant and I will talk sons nuggets. I think sometime on 5 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,119 Friday. I'm believe we're gonna go do that live at one pm from time 6 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,600 ten am Pacific. So if you're around on a Friday, come hang out 7 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,840 with us on YouTube. I'll try and set up that room earlier than normal. 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,600 Remember the rate review subscribe if you haven't done so already. That helps 9 00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:48,039 us out a ton, especially if you're gonna like and comment as well on 10 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:50,799 YouTube. If you've done all those things, We're done to all those things. 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:56,200 Excuse me. Word of mouth recommendations are fucking awesome. We super appreciate 12 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,320 them before we dive into mailbag and update we were met with as sounding response 13 00:01:00,399 --> 00:01:04,560 to my raccoon story on the last podcast. I really appreciate everyone's thoughts, 14 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:08,120 prayers, snark, hate or aid whatever being thrown at me. The only 15 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,719 update I have is that later this week, I think over the weekend. 16 00:01:11,719 --> 00:01:14,480 I'm gonna have to go up there and clean it out because we have hired 17 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,519 a company to come sanitize it before we then assess the damage and get everything 18 00:01:18,519 --> 00:01:21,359 fixed. So I am terrified to go open to the attic and clean it 19 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:25,680 out, but that is where we're at with that won't get too much into 20 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,120 tonight. We saw the Timberwolve season end as I'm recording this on a Tuesday. 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,959 We saw the Clipper season end in injury fashion with Al Kauai without Paul 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,760 George once more. But they put up a hell of a fight. If 23 00:01:36,799 --> 00:01:40,120 anyone hasn't been a chance to watch Game five against the Songs, they really 24 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,799 did come back. A few couple turnovers down the stretch and miss light up 25 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,359 by Rush as well. We're gonna be talking about a Game six for them. 26 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:48,159 I'm excited for Hawks Celtics Game six. That's definitely gonna be one to 27 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,000 watch for for thursdon I think the only game will have on tap. So 28 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,560 it's good that we got one game six out of the slates that we're all 29 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,120 three to one on Tuesday night, I'm not gonna do I did put out 30 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:00,560 a Wizard's off season look ahead I don't know if I'm gonna get to an 31 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:05,239 individual podcast or every team. Grant and I will eventually do free agency previews 32 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,080 for every team broken down by division, but teams that I find fascinating or 33 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,439 if they're in the news. We're gonna have a Rockets one coming out later 34 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:14,120 this week. Now that they've hired email Udoka, I will say my thoughts 35 00:02:14,159 --> 00:02:19,199 on the hiring of him for that episode. I did go on the Red 36 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:22,759 Nation podcast though, with Tom and Ali. I gave my thoughts on the 37 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,199 hiring there. She can go check that episode out or just wait until Thursday 38 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,759 and come check it out in this feed without further delay. Though, let's 39 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:32,719 get into these mail bad questions had a good amount of them. I'm scrolling 40 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:36,080 through them. I didn't organize them the same way I normally do this time, 41 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:38,960 so there's a bunch of raccoons gifts sprinkled in as I go through this. 42 00:02:39,039 --> 00:02:42,719 But let's see if we can keep it somewhat organized. The first one 43 00:02:42,759 --> 00:02:47,400 comes from Glad who asked who's the free agent that's having the biggest impact in 44 00:02:47,439 --> 00:02:53,479 the playoffs aside from Jalen Brunson. And it's funny that we have the non 45 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:54,800 jail and Brunson division there, who's you know? He heeled up in some 46 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:59,960 situations against Sarious growing defensively ever since Tis made that change in Game two, 47 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,240 I think, look, you know what's weird is that? And glad ads 48 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:07,439 and why is it Kyle Anderson? Kyle Anderson didn't play Game five against the 49 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,240 Nuggets because of an eye injury. He might be the answer shot like fifty 50 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,599 five percent on two's whatever it was pitched in. Defensively, they did kind 51 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:16,919 of have him roaming a lot, but he spent some time on Yokich, 52 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:21,080 he spent some time on Jamal Murray just rocks out. He was probably the 53 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,560 second most important free agency signing in the league this year, behind Jalen Brunson. 54 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,000 If we're not counting Jalen Brunson, is it russ in La? And 55 00:03:29,039 --> 00:03:30,479 I'm just mentioning Kyle Anderson. We're gonna try and just go through a couple 56 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:35,080 here, is it russ in La? Because it actually might be the rim 57 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,000 pressure he provided. You had Kawai and PG out between them for a total 58 00:03:38,039 --> 00:03:42,680 of three games, and Paul George Missus that entire series. He's there averages 59 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,240 pretty upsurd number is not necessarily on the greatest efficiency, but he played real 60 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,199 defense on Kevin Durant, and there were times in Game five, especially in 61 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,240 the I think it was the fourth quarter, Durant went long stretches without touching 62 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,120 the ball. Part of me is like, he's got to go get it 63 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,319 like Russ's baldnial and certain instances there it was. It was pretty terrific, 64 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,240 and so I think he has to be up on that list, even though 65 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:05,319 he was a buyout signing. I don't know whether to include Malik Monkey has 66 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,080 not been super efficient inside the Ark, but he's putting up like seventeen plus 67 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,759 points a game in the King's Warriors series, I believe, and so he 68 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:16,000 certainly has to make that list. I don't know if anyone else does. 69 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,480 Would you nominate Isaiah Hartenstein has had some big moments in the Knicks cav series. 70 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:25,439 I certainly don't think he's outperformed in Anderson or a or a Westbrook by 71 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,759 by any stretch. Aside from that, I mean, Josha Coke probably should 72 00:04:29,759 --> 00:04:32,160 be on this list, which just hasn't, you know, played enough at 73 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,920 all and hasn't played enough in the series to make that cut. That didn't 74 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,720 play enough in the Suns Clipper series past tense. Now have to remember to 75 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,040 to do that. Yeah, I don't. I don't really think there's any 76 00:04:43,079 --> 00:04:47,079 other options here. No one from Memphis really who didn't really have anything. 77 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,759 I guess Taias Jones you could count, but they resigned him, so I 78 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:54,519 feel like that definitely should not count. Dennis Shrewder with the Lakers had some 79 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,600 very up and down moments, like all the Lakers guards, but he's still 80 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,920 can be really active on defense, and he's going to get view some pressure 81 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,240 in the lane, even though he's not getting into the rim nearly as often 82 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,399 as he did in the regular season. That's a That's another good one there. 83 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,920 If I had to narrow it down to one, though, I think 84 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,759 I'm probably gonna settle on and let's just remove Kyle Anderson Jalen Brunson from it. 85 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,040 I think I might have to settle on Russ. It's it's Russ or 86 00:05:17,079 --> 00:05:21,560 malikue Monk and let him. Unless I'm just forgetting someone super obvious here, 87 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,639 I like, I don't even we didn't forget anybody in Brooklyn during their series 88 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:29,319 with Philly. We didn't really forget anybody in Philly. PJ. Tucker was 89 00:05:29,399 --> 00:05:31,720 kind of a bear for them, has really helped out their rebounding. So 90 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,040 if you want to go with him, that's perfectly fine as well. There's 91 00:05:35,079 --> 00:05:41,600 not gonna be anybody in Boston, and there is nobody in Amana. So 92 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,959 I think it's probably between the non Brunson non Anderson division. It is probably 93 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:48,040 between Russ and Malik Monk. And I apologize if I'm just forgetting a Bruce 94 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:51,959 Brown in Denver had some big moments in that series. I still don't think 95 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,600 he's gonna rival the two that we just listed the I still don't think he's 96 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,920 gonna rival a malikue Monk or Russell Westbrook in this year. Now, Bruce 97 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,279 Brown maybe playing deeper into the playoffs. So this is a question that we 98 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:06,839 should definitely be reevaluating down the line. Really enjoy that one good question. 99 00:06:06,959 --> 00:06:10,439 But the answer, it's Jalen Brunson, is the actual answer. It's a 100 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,600 non Jalen Brunson division question, but the answer is and always will be Jialen 101 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,040 Brunson. Piezos, considering a scenario with the team lands number one in this 102 00:06:19,079 --> 00:06:21,800 year's lottery, would be willing to trade the pick, would Okay, see 103 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:28,920 trade every single first round pick that they accumulated to trade up who I'm gonna 104 00:06:28,959 --> 00:06:32,639 say, I'm gonna say, no, we're talking about a lot of first 105 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,839 rounders here. You can't. You're talking about every single first round pick that 106 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,439 they really know, we're on double digit first round pick that I think they 107 00:06:39,439 --> 00:06:44,800 still have, that I think they still have in their in their chamber. 108 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,000 And then I mean even if it's just like would you give up some of 109 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,639 them, like don't project to be that good, but would you give up 110 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,319 even five or six? Yeah, I think you. I think you would. 111 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,720 And just for the thunder specifically, think about how terrifying it it really 112 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,879 kind of is when you when you look at Jaylen Williams, Shay Gilders, 113 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:04,759 Alexander chet Home Grin, you add Wemb to that, Josh Giddy, lou 114 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:10,680 Dort still being there. I just the problem that I can't the problem here, 115 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,439 uh Peto, that I can't. I just can't fathom any team being 116 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,079 willing to trade the number one pick. I think that would be flat out 117 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:21,600 bonkers of any team to consider. And so if Oklahoma Sea came calling and 118 00:07:21,639 --> 00:07:24,800 said, so let's see what they have, they have all their own picks 119 00:07:24,879 --> 00:07:29,439 moving forward, but they also have Houston's next year that's top four protected. 120 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,480 The Clippers next year unprotected. They have a twenty twenty four first from Utah 121 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:38,040 that's top ten protected, so they could have four next year alone. Technically 122 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,680 they're they're swaps in twenty so they have Miami's in twenty five their own, 123 00:07:42,759 --> 00:07:46,040 so that when now we're up to six, they have Phillies in twenty five 124 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:49,720 loosen protected. We're up to seven going through the list two thousand and twenty 125 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:54,160 six. Houston now we're up to Now we're up to eight, top four 126 00:07:54,199 --> 00:07:57,199 protected. There, we're just gonna assume all these combay twenty twenty six from 127 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,560 LA we're up to nine. That's unprotected. They have they have any that's 128 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,199 the latest that there there are things. And then of course they have their 129 00:08:05,199 --> 00:08:07,120 own by the way, so that's we're talking double digits. If they weren't 130 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:13,120 including their own, you're looking at them like between six and eight. Let's 131 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,120 say what they do it? Holy fuck, I think that I think they 132 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:20,240 might. I'm not gonna lie. That sounds less ridiculous. If we're not 133 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:22,879 including their own picks there, for we're including everyone. We get into double 134 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:28,560 digits, and maybe they value the other teams picks over their own at that 135 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,800 point because they think they're gonna be really good. If it was like seven 136 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,639 eight and that's just the cost of getting Victor Woman Yama, I could see 137 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,840 them do if they were able to just pick like the pick the six to 138 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,440 seven that they include, I think they might. I just I can't fathom 139 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,320 any team that wins a lottery making when be available that would be just that 140 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:54,639 would just be absolutely mind melting to me, cyborgian ass Neither team has what 141 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,240 the other needs. When Milwaukee trades for Dame or Portland trades for Giannat, 142 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,320 who's the best rebuild package for the other? I'll tank your answers off the 143 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,200 air, Thanks, Joe. Question. I think by far though, Portland 144 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:09,120 has the best rebuilding package of that too. So if Jan has one out 145 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:13,440 of Milwaukee, which I can't see it, although we do have questions on 146 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,519 that about the Bucks specifically, and we might as well go there. We 147 00:09:16,519 --> 00:09:22,720 have some nets questions too, put it there. Where is this Milwaukee Bucks? 148 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,759 One? Terrible podcasting? Here? Right now? There we go, 149 00:09:24,879 --> 00:09:31,440 DJ Underscore seven. I asked if the Bucks lose this series, do you 150 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:35,559 think oh Madam Leving got the phrase in this if the Bucks lose this series, 151 00:09:35,919 --> 00:09:37,440 do you think Mike Bootyholzer should be fired? And if so, which 152 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,159 potential coach that you think will be on the market should the Bucks pursue. 153 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:46,840 So, I just I don't think Mike Bodenholzer should be fired. There are 154 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,159 some things that you could definitely change about this series. Right now, as 155 00:09:50,159 --> 00:09:54,879 I'm recording this, the Bucks are down three to one to the Heat and 156 00:09:54,039 --> 00:09:58,759 it has not been a batter series for the Bucks. Why is Jay Crowder 157 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:01,120 maybe not being thrown against you Butler more? I think there's a lot of 158 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,919 question people have had. Isn't that the entire reason that he was acquired At 159 00:10:03,919 --> 00:10:07,759 the same time, Johannis has missed more than two games this series. He 160 00:10:07,799 --> 00:10:11,480 sat out with the back intusion for the end of Game one basically, which 161 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,399 was winnable. They win Game two without him, Okay, they get blown 162 00:10:16,399 --> 00:10:20,480 out in Game three without him. The other note here is that Jimmy Butler 163 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:24,840 has gone just supernova, which is I guess you could say, is unavoidable 164 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:26,440 or death. It's just something that he's wont that he's inclined to do. 165 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,399 In the playoffs, even though he's had some bad playoff outings before, including 166 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:35,279 against the Bucks. The Heat are just shooting the lights out of the ball, 167 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,240 and that's without Tyler Hero, who's out basically for the year unless they 168 00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:41,600 make the finals after fracturing his hand. This came from seth part Now on 169 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,279 Twitter. Miami shooting forty three of eighty two, which is fifty two point 170 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:50,600 four percent on contested threes in the series. The league average on those shots 171 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,879 in the regular season was thirty three and a half percent. The Heat actually 172 00:10:52,879 --> 00:10:56,679 shot below that at thirty three point two percent. This is a team has 173 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,639 been spacing challenge, shooting challenge all year, and now they're worring from deep 174 00:11:00,639 --> 00:11:05,120 like Gangbusters. And it's not like they're getting all of these super high quality 175 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:07,399 looks. Eighty two of their three pointers have been contested in the series. 176 00:11:07,639 --> 00:11:13,039 Bud System. For as much as he's criticized for how the Bucks you'll manipulate 177 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,919 the shot profile and have allowed wide open threes in the past, they've allowed 178 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,840 fewer than them this year as a percentage of the shots that opponents are taking. 179 00:11:20,159 --> 00:11:24,240 They've been able to protect the rim and kind of limit the quality of 180 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,080 the three point looks, and so I can't lay this specifically at his feet 181 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,000 if he wanted to make a change. Yes, Nick Nurse is still floating 182 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,320 around out there. Tylou would be very interesting Milwaukee, but he said that 183 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,679 he fully expects to be the head coach of the Clippers next season, so 184 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:43,159 you kind of have to you would punt on that. I like the idea. 185 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,799 Sam Quinn's been getting a lot of coaching consideration. He's on Miami staff 186 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:50,840 right now, studying under Spow. That's always something to maybe and bring some 187 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:56,039 of the trade secrets there with them. So like, that's that's that's fine. 188 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,879 I don't I think, I don't even know if i'd like Nurse for 189 00:11:58,879 --> 00:12:03,720 this team. I do think for Milwaukee though, more than anything. This 190 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:07,679 might be a personnel issue at this point. But it's also just Jannis was 191 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,039 absent for part of the series and the heat are catching fire at an inopportune 192 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,840 time. I will say the Buck's depth, I've touted it, I've panned 193 00:12:15,879 --> 00:12:16,879 it, I've been on the fence about it. I'm kind of back on 194 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:22,240 the fence about it now. There's not a ton of athleticism surrounding this team, 195 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,159 even though they have Yannis on it, which is wild the wing rotation. 196 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,360 Nikaia's Duncan had pointed this out on the Dunker spot leading into the playoffs, 197 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,480 those very stut observation. They just don't have a ton of juice on 198 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:35,879 the wings. There's Drew Holiday. You don't really consider Yannis a wing and 199 00:12:35,919 --> 00:12:39,720 that's it. Like Chris Middleton just doesn't move the same way. That can 200 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,600 give you problems defending at the point of attack when when the advantage. Creators 201 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,080 like Jimmy Butler are just these bigger power wing size dudes and so like that 202 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,559 can't be up to Drew Holiday to slow down. He just doesn't necessarily have 203 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,879 the size to go up against all of those opponents, and that's something that 204 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,840 they'll be they'll have a difficult time addressing, just because they're very limited in 205 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,080 trade assets. Obviously don't have a ton of cat flexibility. But to me, 206 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:07,480 I look at this roster and think that those are some of their biggest 207 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,480 things is you need to deepen the wing rotation beyond sort of these just aging 208 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,080 veterans who aren't going to provide the same punch. Looking at Joe Angles, 209 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:16,879 looking even at a Jay Crowder, someone who's gonna be you know, Pat 210 00:13:16,919 --> 00:13:22,279 Conston's had his moments in this series specifically, but who's going to provide more 211 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,440 of a consistent punch than a Pat Conaton on offense, or more of a 212 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,960 consistent defensive punch than a Grayson Allen who can like, yeah, he's tough, 213 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,159 he competes, but that's just there's not a perfect solution here. And 214 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,919 I think with Chris Middleton, who has a player option, that's going to 215 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,879 be fascinating to watch. With Chris Middleton getting up there in age, he 216 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:41,360 has slipped defensively for sure. He's not even moving necessarily the same way on 217 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:46,200 offense when you go back and look from a couple of years ago. Those 218 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,279 injuries are mounting. It's food for thought as we lead into the summer. 219 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,480 And I wouldn't expect Buenosa to be fired because they're just built in excuses here 220 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,600 with you know, with the Jannis injuries specifically, even if you want to 221 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,679 overlook the rest of the roster issues, and hey, the series isn't over 222 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:07,240 yet, maybe they're able to erase this. DJ Underscore seventh has two more 223 00:14:07,279 --> 00:14:09,759 questions. One of them is Bucks related. The first one the second one 224 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,360 is if Jannest loses this series, will you no longer have him as your 225 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:18,360 best player in the NBA? Uh, that's no, I would still have 226 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,480 him as What would be the reasoning here is if you weren't impressed with to 227 00:14:22,519 --> 00:14:28,200 impress with his performance coming back off that back contusion in Game four against the 228 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,679 Heat. I mean, he missed time in this series, and that's probably 229 00:14:30,759 --> 00:14:33,279 the reason Milwaukee's down in the first place. You would think that it's a 230 00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:37,759 you know, at least two to two now if he plays in every single 231 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:39,799 game. Now, if he had played in every single game and they're still 232 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,559 in this position, do we start to relitigate that and wonder, all right, 233 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:46,600 is it time to sort of look at the alternatives that we have here? 234 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,120 And I don't even know, you know, based off the playoffs specifically, 235 00:14:50,159 --> 00:14:52,840 the alternative would be, oh, it's Devin Booker and let's just move 236 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,039 on. But I don't know, like Lebron isn't going to replace them. 237 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,879 I guess it could still be Kevin Dramp. If you're worried about Janice's injury, 238 00:14:56,879 --> 00:15:00,720 all of a sudden, you're gonna definitely be worried about his. Could 239 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,559 be Yoki, could be embeed. Maybe there's debates at the top there is, 240 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:05,559 It's still Steph, but I would still have I'm still going to have 241 00:15:05,639 --> 00:15:09,279 him as my best player in the NBA. Is something not enough as materially 242 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:15,039 changed with Jana specifically, and as I already outlaid in the previous response, 243 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,080 is I kind of think that this is more of a personnel issue beyond Yanna 244 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:22,639 specifically. And look, there is something to this I mentioned that is in 245 00:15:22,679 --> 00:15:26,679 passing during a brief discussion with Grant last week. You do have to be 246 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:30,200 very specific about how you build out a roster around Jannis and around him be 247 00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:35,120 compared to a Yokich, a Steph Curry, maybe even a Lebron not even 248 00:15:35,159 --> 00:15:39,200 maybe, but but a Lebron James, like Kevin Durant, he's just not 249 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,240 as plug and play, even as even as more of a play finisher, 250 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,840 who, by the way, his passing in Game four out of this world. 251 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,080 So someone who's leveled up in every aspect of the game, with the 252 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,720 exception of being, you know, a reliable jump shooter. Really you still 253 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,080 have to there has to be more spacing for him than a lot of those 254 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,360 other guys. And he's not going to be the same player off the ball 255 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,960 as a lot of those other guys because of the shooting. That doesn't make 256 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 him worse because he's such this dominant force on both ends of the floor, 257 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,080 just like it doesn't necessarily make him Bead worse. But you do have to, 258 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,159 I believe, be more deliberate with your intentions as you flush out the 259 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,519 rest of the roster. And I just don't think Milwaukee has gotten there yet, 260 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,600 and you almost have to. I think the biggest, like the nitty 261 00:16:18,679 --> 00:16:25,320 grittiest thing about needing to build around your honest that that item is the brook 262 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,559 Lopes type center is you really need a big who can space the floor. 263 00:16:27,639 --> 00:16:30,360 And maybe he doesn't need to be a premier room protector because you can get 264 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,159 away with the Bobby Portis minutes, but he needs to be pretty damn close. 265 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,480 And the list of those players is just there's brook Lopez, There's Miles 266 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,840 Turner. I guess if you want to throw Christops porzingis in there? Am 267 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,279 I leaving anybody else off? Like maybe I'm like, if you're gonna start 268 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:47,039 to consider, okay, Zach Collins belong in this conversation, you know you 269 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,679 go a little bit lower end, but you can count the higher end dude 270 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,480 to do that on one hand. And so you do need that type of 271 00:16:52,519 --> 00:16:56,960 player at least a floor space or at the five not totally uncommon, who 272 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,120 can hold his own defensively. Since Bobby Porters is not going to be the 273 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,039 guy you want to close games with anyway, it might be easier to find 274 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,480 someone like him. But brook Lopez is just one of three maybe at this 275 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:10,400 point also going to be a free agent n age thirty five bucks or if 276 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,640 they lose this series. Approaching a fascinating offseason? How many times am I 277 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:15,920 going to use that word during this podcast? I think we're already up to 278 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,079 five. Let's set the over under it. Let let's just set the over 279 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:27,000 under at eleven. This next question will come from t Bloom one one seven. 280 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:32,680 Oh. I like this one. What's more likely this offseason Dame to 281 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:34,559 the Nets or MacHale to the Blazers. And I think this has started to 282 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,680 gain some traction because Dame has been linked to the Nets, but we also 283 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,680 know that Dame is in love with McHale Bridges as well. I would say, 284 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:48,440 when you're looking at the direction of the teams, I think it's McHale 285 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,200 to the Blazers. I don't feel confident in saying that because the Nets are 286 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:56,440 kind of sneaky as a superstar trade destination. They have all of these extra 287 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,440 first round picks now from the Kevin Durant trade, that distant Dallas first rounder 288 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,640 from the Kyrie Irving trade. They also just have a bunch of wings on 289 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:08,079 the roster and just players that other teams would want. The problem issue there 290 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,839 is, you know, how much do you want throwing from me Smith? 291 00:18:10,839 --> 00:18:14,079 If you're kind of starting a rebuild. I think some teams might still actually 292 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:18,319 want him, who knows, But yeah, I don't think they're going to 293 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,839 act with that type of urgency to go get someone in Dame who is just 294 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:27,519 so deep into his career, and whereas the Blazers are just beholden to Dame's 295 00:18:27,519 --> 00:18:33,640 timeline if they're actually going to keep him, And so unless the the goal 296 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:36,559 is to force him to request a trade now, because you know you're not 297 00:18:36,599 --> 00:18:41,119 going to move him unless you request for out, I like I think that 298 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:45,640 you're more likely to be Hey, let's dangle Shade and sharp. Let's we 299 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,319 have the projected number five pick in this year's draft. We can technly trade 300 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,599 some first allowable first as well with that two twenty four obligation to Chicago, 301 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,799 we have Anthony Simons. So I think it's become underrated at this point. 302 00:18:56,799 --> 00:18:59,559 I don't know if I'm I don't know if I'm overstepping there, but the 303 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:03,440 perception of him just seems to be so low. No one really wants Nurk 304 00:19:03,519 --> 00:19:06,559 hitch of course that that deal is like, I feel like that might be 305 00:19:06,559 --> 00:19:08,000 a disaster. Might look back on that like a few months time. Boh 306 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,119 right, Like that's way too much money for him. I think he's three 307 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:15,200 years of forty eight point five million or fifty four point five million, whatever's 308 00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:18,200 left. That's that's just too much for Nurk and the limitations he places upon 309 00:19:18,759 --> 00:19:23,920 your defense. So I could more likely see, like, let's consider a 310 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,200 move like this, and this is a trade. I proposed that both Nets 311 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,920 and Blazers Twitter they founded in an article. Of course, it was aggregated 312 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,000 without including on Twitter, without including a link whage just a screen shot. 313 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:37,319 The Blazers get Michael Bridges, the Nets get and Seer Little Shade Sharp the 314 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,440 number five pick, and then an unprotected twenty twenty six first round picks, 315 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,000 So it's essentially three first round picks, one of which you know is going 316 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:47,759 to be in the top five. Sharp was drafted number seven and is still 317 00:19:48,039 --> 00:19:51,680 basically a teenager, and then you have another unprotected and so we know the 318 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,519 nets turned down four first for Michael Bridges. I believe those were from teams 319 00:19:55,519 --> 00:19:59,880 like the Pacers and the Grizzlies. I guarantee you there wasn't a single one 320 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,279 of them. There was probably unprotected in there, but there wasn't a single 321 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:04,640 one of them that projected to be even close to as high as this year's 322 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,079 Blazers pick, or where Shade and Sharp was really drafted. I'd be kind 323 00:20:08,079 --> 00:20:12,160 of mythed or pleasantly surprised. Actually, if Indiana included its own first round 324 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,920 er, should it have offered four for Mchael Bridges? And it doesn't matter 325 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,799 if the Grizzlies were offering the Golden State's first round in the own first round 326 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:22,039 or they're all going to be dogshit Golden States twenty four first round, or 327 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:23,960 maybe that's a little bit better. So I think that's a viable deal, 328 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,920 and I could see the Blazers being more open to offering that. Then what 329 00:20:27,039 --> 00:20:30,599 is it going to take from the Nets to get Damian Lillard. Just I 330 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,880 guess they have the salary filler to make it happen. That's what Also, 331 00:20:34,319 --> 00:20:40,480 you know that I think what makes it more difficult is Dame's salary is so 332 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,359 large leading into next season he will be at his number is forty five point 333 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,880 six million dollars. The Nets having to come in the ballpark of that. 334 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,039 Yeah, if you want to move Ben Simmons or the Blazers, wildn't think 335 00:20:52,079 --> 00:20:55,839 Ben Simmons back as part of that deal. If not, you do have 336 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,480 Joe Harris and Dan Widdie. So yeah, it's easier to get there, 337 00:20:57,519 --> 00:21:00,799 But are you also going to need to give up Claxton or Phinney Smith and 338 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:03,319 Royce O'Neil. Like part of the appeal would be we want a pair of 339 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,440 Claxton with Dame and Bridges. I would think at least those three out off. 340 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,440 He was part of my corn. You probably even want Tory and Phinny 341 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,200 Smith. There's just this three in d Wing and he's on a you know, 342 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:17,359 a steal of an extension. For the most part, things get really 343 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,359 difficult then, and I could see the base of look if it can be 344 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:25,559 Bridges, Claxton, Dame. Let's say DFS, and then you're gonna keep 345 00:21:25,599 --> 00:21:29,559 Cam Johnson in free agency. That's like a super interesting base. And then 346 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,279 are you also keeping Ben Simmons as part of that because that could be semi 347 00:21:33,319 --> 00:21:36,119 interesting or you're just moving him as it's only two years left on his deal 348 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,240 as the large salary can basically be matched for Dame straight up, not really, 349 00:21:38,279 --> 00:21:41,000 but so. And then first round equity in addition to what so, 350 00:21:41,039 --> 00:21:45,839 it's Dinwoody and Harris or Simmons plus smaller stuff to get Dame plus all the 351 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,759 draft equity in the world. I just I don't fit. I guess it 352 00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:52,920 wouldn't be all the draft equity in the world. But you catch my drift 353 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,839 there. I think that the Blazers are more likely to act, and it's 354 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:02,440 just inherently easier to acquire in my mind, even though McHale is might be 355 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,000 on the NBA's best contract three years left twenty one point seven, next year 356 00:22:06,039 --> 00:22:10,200 twenty three point three, and then twenty four point nine, But substars, 357 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:14,599 sub superstars are normally inherently easier to acquire. I think, really what it 358 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,359 comes down to is McHale Bridges, is still the type of player that you 359 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,319 move without him agitating for it, and the Nets could theoretically pivot into more 360 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:26,599 of a rebuilding model here. And then the Blazers, we just know I 361 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,119 would be shocked if they moved Dame and he didn't ask for it. That 362 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,400 just feels like, you know, extending him and just the power, not 363 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,440 even the power he has with the organization, but his influence in the community 364 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,839 and just popularity around there. So I think the answer is that my long 365 00:22:40,839 --> 00:22:45,880 way away of saying Dame McHale to the Blazers is more likely than than Dame 366 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,319 to the Nets. Let me know what you guys think, though, whether 367 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,039 you agree or not, you should agree because that's obviously the perfect answer. 368 00:22:53,720 --> 00:23:00,880 This next question comes from JT. Alexander, and it's it's to let me 369 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,519 use the word. I'm gonna use it deliberately this time. It's a fascinating 370 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:04,319 one, and it's one of that crops up this time of year. I 371 00:23:04,319 --> 00:23:07,359 think a lot. Is it time for the league to scrap conference rankings for 372 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,839 the playoffs and do a flat one V sixteen to V fifteen, et cetera 373 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:14,920 set up? I see the tour, I see the argument for keeping it 374 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,720 as is, but it would be cool to see the finals play versus the 375 00:23:17,759 --> 00:23:19,920 league' two best teams, and not the two best teams in these each conference. 376 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,240 This does pre suppose that the two best teams would make it. I 377 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:30,279 would be all four doing this. I just recognize that the travel elements of 378 00:23:30,279 --> 00:23:33,880 it and how you're going to split up the schedule you would the NBA would 379 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,680 need to be way more deliberate and how they're scheduling teams road trips so that 380 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,880 they're not kind of jockeying back and forth between the coast too often. I 381 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,160 know the way these players travel are not anything like the way that any of 382 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:51,880 us travel. Load management and player preservation is happening right now when we don't 383 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,720 have that issue at play. And if you're gonna throw in theory more cross 384 00:23:56,839 --> 00:24:00,160 country games into the equation, it's going to become more common. And so 385 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,160 I don't know if there's a path to ever doing that, And I think 386 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,160 I don't know if this would hurt it. But because you're sort of shrinking 387 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,640 the sample size with which a lot of teams are playing one another, where 388 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,440 maybe you don't ever play anyone four times, doesn't ruin sort of the rivalry 389 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:18,000 or historical element of it where even if you know, even if you don't 390 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:21,400 care about the number of times they play in the regular season, and maybe 391 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,119 you shouldn't because of load management itself, look at you know, how often 392 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,680 teams were at full strength in certain matchups, or how often that they turned 393 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,480 over their roster with the deadline. So when they're facing these other teams during 394 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,000 the regular season versus the playoffs, their roster isn't the same even if they 395 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:40,960 didn't go through that turnover. But but like you do create a history in 396 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,240 the playoffs where it's just sort of like, oh, there's look at the 397 00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:45,839 Bucks and the Heat is a perfect example here, like, yeah, there, 398 00:24:45,839 --> 00:24:49,000 regular season games don't necessarily mean shit anymore. It's not ones that you're 399 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,319 especially looking forward to, or at least myself, Yeah, I'll always be 400 00:24:52,319 --> 00:24:56,599 intrigued by it. But there's real history there between them and the playoffs, 401 00:24:56,599 --> 00:25:00,640 and they're far more likely to play each other if it's split up conference, 402 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:03,200 And so we continue to get that rivalry that matchup and increasing the chances of 403 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:08,319 seeing it, rather than you dilute it by just going to the straight best 404 00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:12,039 sixteen teams model. The play would be wild too. By the way, 405 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,279 now all of a sudden, you're just like, so it's it's going all 406 00:25:15,319 --> 00:25:18,759 the way dipping into these twenty teams, and so the matchups they are I 407 00:25:18,759 --> 00:25:21,880 could get really wonky, I'd be I'd still be all for it, because 408 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:27,359 I'm above all a fan of like rewarding the competitive landscape and the best teams. 409 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,039 If you're not going to do that, I'm still a fan of. 410 00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:33,119 I think Zach Low proposed this, like let the one seed pick which teams 411 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:33,759 coming out of the plan to get the face in the first round. I 412 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:38,039 think that'd be great theater. I just don't see the NBA doing it. 413 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,200 I could see like at this point there's a situation where you just get rid 414 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,359 of divisions. That seems to do it pretty easily, but getting rid of 415 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,960 conferences feels like it would just be a dramatic step that I don't know if 416 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:56,359 the MBA is ready for or will ever ever be ready for. No name 417 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,799 before God wants me to answer a question about myself, which I'm always happy 418 00:26:00,839 --> 00:26:07,799 to do obviously because I'm a narcissist. The question is, so this is 419 00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:11,079 a bit out of let Field tell us a story of your be ball fandom 420 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,000 journey. Have you had a team you've been a hardcore fan of do you 421 00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:19,359 still feel the same irrational attraction towards childhood be ball idols? So the genesis 422 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:25,200 is my fandom. I can't describe a specific moment necessarily, but I grew 423 00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:29,319 up a Knicks fan, and some of my earliest memories of basketball come from 424 00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:33,880 watching the Patrick Ewing led Knicks, Alan Houston being on that team, going 425 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,880 up against Alonzo Warning in the Miami Heat, a bunch of like really just 426 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:45,240 hardcore warlike playoff series between those two. I'll never forget Alan Houston shot. 427 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,519 I think it was in ninety nine while Ewing was injured, hits the game 428 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,559 what turned out to be the series winner, I think, to beat Miami 429 00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:55,000 with point eight seconds left in the shock Hawk in the first round, you 430 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,759 had Lj's four point play against the Pacers. That team goes on to the 431 00:26:57,839 --> 00:27:02,359 NBA Finals is an eight that was special. I got trucked by the Spurs, 432 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,799 of course, because the Spurs of the Spurs, but that was probably 433 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:08,759 my favorite postseason experience as a fan was watching that ninety nine Knicks team. 434 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:15,200 Is just perpetual underdogs make it through the East and crack the NBA Finals. 435 00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:19,880 Ewing was definitely and even out in Houston. But more so Ewing I just 436 00:27:21,279 --> 00:27:25,960 took excessive amounts of glee and the amount that he would sweat his kneepads, 437 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:29,839 the defensive place that he would make like we just he was earlier on his 438 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,000 career shot blocking or defensive highlight. And I like growing up sort of the 439 00:27:34,039 --> 00:27:37,000 ground and bound style too, or like you would pounded to Patrick doing in 440 00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:41,079 the post. But he also had that sort of finesse and fadeaway game and 441 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,759 he has I don't know, I can't even point to which one it is, 442 00:27:44,759 --> 00:27:47,920 but you can see the anyone who's watching. There are other assigned basketballs 443 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,319 behind me, and he is among those that I'm lucky to have. And 444 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,519 so I grew up just an intense Knicks fan. I'm talking. I would 445 00:27:53,559 --> 00:28:00,759 get upset after losses. I'd be the Knicks in NBA live on PlayStation. 446 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,559 I think it was get upset when I would lose with them, but it 447 00:28:03,559 --> 00:28:08,039 would be like super cool winning a title as controlling that franchise. I also 448 00:28:08,079 --> 00:28:15,079 remember the first Knicks game I went to because I grew up in a incredibly 449 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,960 low income household where it was just my mom and tickets damas she were so 450 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,279 expensive. She somehow through a friend's husband, got basically courtside seats to an 451 00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:26,279 Atlanta Hawks game. And I was older. It's like, I not like, 452 00:28:26,519 --> 00:28:30,039 I don't think I was a teenager yet, but I wasn't like four 453 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,079 or five, and my dad wasn't around to Like. My mom didn't particularly 454 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,759 like basketball. She drove me to all the travel teams that I made, 455 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,279 which I was terrible on because I was too passive, and like, you 456 00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:41,640 need to be more aggressive. Even in the sort of youth association league where 457 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,640 it wasn't travel, I would be a little bit more aggressive or confident, 458 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,720 but I was still just too passive in them. She supported all that I 459 00:28:48,759 --> 00:28:52,720 remember wearing when I was able to get like Team Max shoes on clearance in 460 00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:55,759 one of the games, and I had all these stupid ass like wristbands and 461 00:28:55,799 --> 00:28:59,559 elbow pads at headbands. I thought I was so fucking cool showing up the 462 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:03,839 games playing in that. So yeah, that she did all that stuff for 463 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,160 me, but she didn't really like basketball all that much. But she took 464 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,200 me that game with my aunt. I think was there was it just the 465 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,039 three of us. Yeah, I think it was, as we had three 466 00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:14,720 tickets. It was a Hawks game. We were at center court, not 467 00:29:14,759 --> 00:29:18,359 really court side, but like only a few rows back. I can't even 468 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,119 tell you if the Knicks won that game. I think they did. But 469 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,640 Gallo was on the team at the time. I fell in love with him. 470 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,279 He made like a pass out of the side in bounds that I thought 471 00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:30,039 was spectacular. I was able to buy. The jersey is still hanging up 472 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:36,079 behind me now that Danilo Gallinari New York Knicks Saint Patty's Day. Just addition, 473 00:29:36,319 --> 00:29:38,680 jersey is one of my most treasured items, in part because it was 474 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,640 one of the more expensive gifts I got from my mom. And then like 475 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,920 as you grow older, and I lost her when I was seventeen. I 476 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,400 think it was just after my seventeen birthday. You grow to appreciate that more, 477 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,359 but that is like a moment that stands out. And then as I 478 00:29:52,599 --> 00:29:56,039 as I got older, you know, you meet people like one of the 479 00:29:56,079 --> 00:29:57,599 best men at my wedding. He's an intense Knicks fan. We went to 480 00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:02,079 a few games together. I would drag my now wife to certain games and 481 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:04,119 some of her friends would come with us sometimes. Two of the games that 482 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,559 I remember later on in life going to, and I always this was post 483 00:30:08,319 --> 00:30:12,079 post mom era. How weird is that to say I would still be in 484 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,039 college, But like, I made good money for someone who was in college, 485 00:30:15,079 --> 00:30:18,200 and I was one of my I was one of my few friends that 486 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,640 had a full time job while I was also going to school. So I 487 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,640 would buy tickets. And that's what we would do, is we would go 488 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:26,119 to a game every now and then two there are members we went to that 489 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,279 season that the Knicks, it must have been twenty nine twenty ten, before 490 00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:32,599 Lebronze free agency, when they were making all those salary cap moves. I 491 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,880 went to the first game that Team Mac played as a member of the Knicks 492 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,000 at MSG. It was electric. I think they won. He was talking 493 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,480 about a playoff push, but everyone knew this wasn't the team Ac of old. 494 00:30:41,519 --> 00:30:45,599 It was just old T Mac and or Team Mac who was old and 495 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,319 funny story, I ended up buying a house in an investment property in Florida 496 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,240 through a real estate agent that his brother was teams best friend. But that's 497 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,000 neither here nor there. Went to that game. He's talking playoffs, but 498 00:30:57,039 --> 00:31:00,440 it was really just this salary dumping move, and I was kind of dipping 499 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,680 my toes a little bit into the water of wanting to cover the league at 500 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,759 that point. I didn't end up doing it. It was still too early. 501 00:31:06,799 --> 00:31:10,079 It was twenty eleven, was my first season covering the league. But 502 00:31:10,119 --> 00:31:12,119 we went to that game that was super fun, and then I went to 503 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:15,400 I'm pretty sure it was when they still sucked, but it was earlier in 504 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,039 Kevin Durant's career, but the Oklahoma City Thunder where the Oklahoma City Under at 505 00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:22,200 that point an overtime game between the Knicks and the Thunder. I was behind 506 00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:26,599 one of the baskets and I watched. I think the Knicks actually won that 507 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,000 game too, I can't remember, but it went into overtime and I watched 508 00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:32,519 Kevin Durant cook and I'm watching him hit these really tough jumpers from above the 509 00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:37,039 break or from the mid range, and I don't think I appreciated in real 510 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:40,759 time when I was watching from that guy, but it was just so freaking 511 00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:44,119 smooth, and that was I remember the people I was with. I think 512 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,640 it was my vent my now wife then girlfriend, and we were with I 513 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,000 think I think that might have been the game where and he would have to 514 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:55,000 his name's Phil, my best one of my best friends, Phil, and 515 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,319 then his girlfriend now wife might have been with us. I can't remember if 516 00:31:57,319 --> 00:32:00,680 that actually happened, making up if it wasn't. That was one of my 517 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,400 my wife's from friends and what we went with them, But that was, 518 00:32:05,039 --> 00:32:07,720 like, it incredible. I just remember falling kind of in love with Kevin 519 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:10,480 Durant's game and still not following him closely enough until a few years after that. 520 00:32:10,519 --> 00:32:15,759 But I think that was also maybe in two thousand and eleven, because 521 00:32:15,759 --> 00:32:17,160 the thunder were there by then, right, I'm pretty sure I'd have to 522 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,480 I'd have to look that up. Maybe that was twenty and twelve, but 523 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,599 I feel like I was covering the league by that point for not in a 524 00:32:24,759 --> 00:32:27,960 you know, super fo Yeah, they were no Casey, but so it 525 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:34,279 was probably the year after lebron chose Miami, and so I still count myself. 526 00:32:34,519 --> 00:32:37,079 I call it a deadeningly disenchanted Knicks fan, and I grew. I 527 00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:43,400 got. I came of age during the era of Knicker blogger dot net love. 528 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:46,079 Robert Silverman, Jason Conceptio was one of my favorite writers of all time. 529 00:32:46,759 --> 00:32:50,160 Jim Kavin. I don't know if anyone's ever checked him out, if 530 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,680 he can find his old stuff. One of the single most talented writers I've 531 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,160 ever read in my entire life. I had the pleasure of working with him 532 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,720 at Bleacher Report for a little bit and he was always so nice to me, 533 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:06,000 and he was one of the few who kind of accepted me because I 534 00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:08,839 just remember NBA Twitter and it can still be this way, but like that 535 00:33:09,319 --> 00:33:13,640 clique of writers being I don't want to use the word incestuous, but it 536 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,440 was just there was a barrier there and Bleacher Report was viewed as Bleacher Report, 537 00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:19,960 and still it still is to some people who I think just need to 538 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,559 get over them fuck themselves. But back then, when it was earlier on 539 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,640 and he was so nice to me, I remember when he followed me back 540 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,400 on Twitter. I was over the moon. We had had a couple of 541 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,759 conversations. He was just a genuinely nice dude to him. Him and Howard 542 00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:35,680 Beck was always really nice to me while he was at BR and he's still 543 00:33:35,759 --> 00:33:38,799 kind when we've had exchanges, and it's normally just me like saying, you 544 00:33:38,839 --> 00:33:44,160 know this, this article is awesome, or what fucking company was stupid enough 545 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:49,079 to lay you off this time, so I've had the pleasure of like interacting 546 00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:51,720 with those Sidnecks fans with that, I do think his time has gone on. 547 00:33:52,519 --> 00:33:54,799 They can't hurt me as much. And I'm still I think I'm I'm 548 00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,160 I'm objective enough in my analysis. But yes, I'm always going to for 549 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,119 the Knicks, and if they were winn a title like yeah, I would 550 00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:05,079 probably be an emotional moment for me. But every year as I covered the 551 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,719 league more, you do distance yourself a little bit from it. You still 552 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:12,000 have your ties to that phantom, and I think it's important and it shaped 553 00:34:12,039 --> 00:34:14,719 the way I cover what I do now. And I'm not saying the way 554 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,039 I do it is perfect. I'm not saying it's in vogue. I'm not 555 00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:21,079 saying I'm actually funny, even though i make myself laugh hysterically when I'm talking 556 00:34:21,119 --> 00:34:24,840 to Grant. But when I was growing up, and even like later on 557 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,760 a years, I always thought I wanted to be sort of a Capital Jay 558 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,199 journalist, a beat writer. As I went to school, I want to 559 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:36,960 scholarship to Penn State for a year, and I had a miserable experience. 560 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,760 I was homesick. It was fewer than two years after my mom had passed 561 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,239 away too, so I think that was part of it. I ended up 562 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,599 leaving after the first year, went home to just a you know. I 563 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:50,079 went to community college for a year, transfer my credits to Saint Joseph's University, 564 00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:52,079 got an English degree. I started writing for Bleach Report while I was 565 00:34:52,119 --> 00:34:57,119 still I think the year I graduated, which was twenty eleven, Turner buys 566 00:34:57,159 --> 00:35:00,239 them out. They brought me on full time. I've never really looked back 567 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,679 knock on wood. I've been very fortunate in the industry, but part of 568 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,119 that process was realizing I didn't want to be someone who just either was, 569 00:35:08,199 --> 00:35:13,039 you know, doing these news and postgame quotes. I think beat writers hard 570 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,320 beat writer jobs are incredibly hard. I also think some of them have evolved 571 00:35:16,639 --> 00:35:21,440 the way that the job is done to make it even more harder but compelling. 572 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,199 And I would shout out to stick with the knickspread Katz of The Athletic 573 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:28,719 does it better than I think any doesn't as well as any beat writer, 574 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,199 if not better than any beat writer, because there's so much analysis and nuance 575 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,559 caked into Jut, I'm not delivering you these postgame quotes and these these throwaway 576 00:35:36,559 --> 00:35:38,360 moments that are now available at all these other places, and so he's found 577 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:43,360 an incredible way to differentiate himself while being on site. That's someone where you 578 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,599 know the access really matters to the job they're doing. I never wanted to 579 00:35:46,639 --> 00:35:51,760 be or I did want to be sort of the traditional beat writer at one 580 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,360 point, but as I went through more and more steps, I realized, 581 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,559 no, I want to provide analysis, and then it became a point where, 582 00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:00,880 oh, access wasn't nearly as an important as it used to be. 583 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,159 I still do think it's important, but there are some of the most talented 584 00:36:05,199 --> 00:36:07,719 writers slash podcasters in the industry right now are not people who have access. 585 00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:12,599 I've been granted access to Bleacher Report. I wouldn't say it's overrated. I've 586 00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:16,199 enjoyed my job just as much since I've kind of stopped doing quote unquote reporting 587 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,800 since the pandemic really and I've had opportunities to continue to do it or try 588 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,840 to do more of it. I've never really just pursued it. It's not 589 00:36:25,079 --> 00:36:30,119 there's definitely some anxiety things that are in there, and maybe some insecurities as 590 00:36:30,119 --> 00:36:31,719 well. I do think it's maybe been long enough where I'm older, where 591 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,519 I might be a little bit more confident in it. But I love the 592 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,639 analysis part of everything. I love the podcasting part of it and being able 593 00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:44,880 to provide what I think is objectively subjective analysis where you're gonna be a little 594 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:49,039 bit more critical and you're not beholden to your access and so that's like sort 595 00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:52,320 of my journey there, but that was kind of a long winded way of 596 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,719 getting here. Fandom definitely originated with the Knicks. A huge part of me 597 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,039 will it'll still always be there, which I think is funny when everyone and 598 00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:02,079 while I feel like I get destroyed by Nick's Twitter, and there's every team 599 00:37:02,639 --> 00:37:07,440 fan base probably does this, but Nick's Twitter, it cuts different because one 600 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:12,559 there's there's so many of them, but too because I feel so ingrained into 601 00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:15,719 that at least subculture of it because I was a member of it for so 602 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,760 long. I follow so many people who are in it, and you all 603 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,039 know. One of my favorite podcasts is the Knicks Film School Podcasts, in 604 00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:24,840 part because I have that Knick's allegiance, but I really do think that they 605 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:30,400 do the best job of covering the team slash League like more so than anyone, 606 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,840 and like it just provides the right balance of what I love to do 607 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,119 here while looking at the entire league, it's like there's probably not two nitty 608 00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:38,639 gritty x's and those stuff. You're gonna get that from Nicks Film School on 609 00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:40,880 Knicks though, but you're also going to get the transactional side of it. 610 00:37:42,159 --> 00:37:47,360 The cap analysis just sort of the immediate postgame reactions, pregame previews, guests, 611 00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:51,280 interviews, people who are close with the team, beat writers from the 612 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,119 team, but also really some hard hitting opinions like John John Macfrey doesn't pull 613 00:37:55,159 --> 00:38:00,920 punches on that, neither those claudio So like that element. I still care 614 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,159 about the Knicks to that extent, where like that's going to be one of 615 00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:06,760 my more listen to podcasts on my feed. But I think is each and 616 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,440 every year, and I believe it gets harder to cover the league now because 617 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,400 there's so many talented people out there and they're Look, you can look at 618 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,360 the questions from our discord members. Go join our discord by the way, 619 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,280 like because in the podcast and YouTube description. Just look at some of the 620 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,079 conversations, many of which I will chime in with others. I'll just sit 621 00:38:22,119 --> 00:38:28,280 back and look the knowledge of not just our listeners favorite teams, but they're 622 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,719 knowledge of the entire league so overwhelming, overwhelmingly impressive. Then you have people 623 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,880 who come on at the scene where you're either killing it by covering an individual 624 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,920 team KFS the Timeline podcast, Kaylin Cooper with the Indiana Pacers the clip, 625 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,840 but I don't even want to continue, Like the Oklahoma City Thunder really is 626 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:49,559 a deep stable of podcasters and independent team writers. The Clippers spectacular there too. 627 00:38:49,559 --> 00:38:52,320 There's every single team you name it. I try to follow it as 628 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,480 closely as possible, but they they force you in a great way to want 629 00:38:55,519 --> 00:39:00,079 to level up your knowledge of every team, and that's just takes more of 630 00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:04,880 a commitment to covering from my end the entire league at large, to where 631 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,400 I'm just not going to catch as many Knicks games as I used to him, 632 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,440 So I'm gonna catch a Crapton. I'm still thinking, I'm going to 633 00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:14,159 get the general vibe and makeup of how the team looks and plays and feels. 634 00:39:14,159 --> 00:39:17,159 And I do pride myself on trying to understand the tenor of what a 635 00:39:17,199 --> 00:39:21,800 fan base is thinking when it comes to big picture stuff, small picture stuff, 636 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,320 granular stuff. I think there's going to be more disagreements on and a 637 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,639 lot of it. A lot of the times I'm just gonna be wrong because 638 00:39:27,639 --> 00:39:30,679 I don't have that day to day pulse on the teams. But I still 639 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,960 do as exhausting as it can be. As I've been called because I always, 640 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,719 I guess, looked tired. There were some of our YouTube comes call 641 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,360 me sunken in Ben Shapiro, and I get it, like because sort of 642 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:45,280 looking at myself, it's still really hard. I still really enjoy it, 643 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,280 and it definitely has cut into my fandom. But the Knicks are always going 644 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:52,519 to have a special, sometimes soull in place just in my soul because they 645 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:59,840 are the origin of my interest in basketball. And it was something about BA 646 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,519 basketball stuck. I think you could even see sort of the fast paced nature 647 00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:07,320 of how things changed on and off the court that pulled me to the NBA 648 00:40:07,559 --> 00:40:09,199 over I was, and I like I am, a New York Giants fan 649 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,679 of football, but I was more diehard. I was a diehard Yankees fan 650 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,800 during the Andy Pettitt Tito Martinez teams. I'm not even really an MLB fan 651 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:21,159 anymore. I was. I was raised the Rangers fan by my extended family 652 00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:22,960 because they were Rangers sickos, and I would still count myself as a Rangers 653 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,440 fan. My brother in law and father in law used to have season tickets. 654 00:40:28,039 --> 00:40:30,280 They still do go to games, but like I, just hockey doesn't 655 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:35,360 do it for me, although playoff hockey's pretty fucking fun. So there was 656 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,440 just something about basketball and the Knick specifically that just it resonated with me, 657 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:43,079 and it continues to resonate with me. Now, I will say, well, 658 00:40:43,079 --> 00:40:49,480 I have no regrets I guess about the trajectory of my fandom, and 659 00:40:49,519 --> 00:40:52,000 maybe not even the trajectory of my career now that I think can sit back 660 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,239 about, I probably should. I wish I was just more popular, is 661 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,639 really what it was or more I don't know what's what it is. But 662 00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:01,880 regardless, like I do still miss them being able to Like, in a 663 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:06,039 way, it's good that they can't impact my mood as much as they used 664 00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:08,000 to, but I do kind of miss that feeling where I felt like everything 665 00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:12,800 was riding on these Knicks games, and sometimes when I was younger, like 666 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,119 these were just regular season games against the Heat or the Pacers, and you're 667 00:41:16,159 --> 00:41:20,000 not going to get that feeling anymore. There's still like the tinge of nerves. 668 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,000 But it's just it's not the same. I think Grant could probably tell 669 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,360 you that about the Warriors Adam. We love Adam from all around these parts. 670 00:41:25,519 --> 00:41:29,440 We'll probably tell you that about the Hawks nowadays. And I'll still get 671 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,960 like anxious during watching certain Knicks games, but I'll feel that same way about 672 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:37,880 Thunders Thunder versus Kings at point during the regular season. So that's the Since 673 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,920 we had not a crap town of questions, I was able to go twenty 674 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:44,639 minutes of myself and it's always fun to talk about basketball fandom journeys. I 675 00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:47,960 am happy to answer more questions about myself, less so about any Raccoons moving 676 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,679 forward. Rest Ashore. That is not where we end, though, because 677 00:41:52,719 --> 00:42:00,159 we do have another question from a DJ Underscore seven. If Paul George gets 678 00:42:00,159 --> 00:42:04,000 traded, hoof Clippers just eliminated and kudos and DJI asked this before, but 679 00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:06,119 there was kind of written in the stars of the Clipper will get eliminated. 680 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,719 If PG gets traded in the offseason, what team that has the assets would 681 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:14,159 you like him to be on. I will preface this, I don't think 682 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:20,440 I don't think the Clippers are gonna move him just because I don't know what 683 00:42:20,519 --> 00:42:23,840 you get back for him and Kauai At this point, they both have just 684 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:28,719 a year left on their contracts before they have player options, and maybe you 685 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,880 can count on them to both exercise it. They're forty eight point eight million 686 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:37,079 dollars options, but you're gonna have to start thinking about their age new deals 687 00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:39,039 for that thereafter, What do you get for these guys in the market, 688 00:42:39,119 --> 00:42:44,119 especially given the games that they've missed over the past few years. Paul George, 689 00:42:44,159 --> 00:42:47,239 I think is going to have more value than Kauai because he's played more 690 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,559 minutes, even though Kauai is the better player, But what are you getting 691 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:52,840 for him? And if you're the Clippers, it's not going to be enough 692 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:58,639 to offset the draft equity that you still owe to Okay, see, they're 693 00:42:58,679 --> 00:43:01,000 gonna I mean, and it's really so there's the swap in twenty twenty five 694 00:43:01,079 --> 00:43:05,199 and then they give up the twenty twenty four and twenty twenty six first to 695 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,920 Okay, see, that's still a lot. And so you're not going to 696 00:43:08,039 --> 00:43:14,119 tank at any point, is like where I'm getting at here. So you 697 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,519 still would want to be competitive and I don't know that there's a team out 698 00:43:16,519 --> 00:43:20,280 there that's going to give you a return that allows you to do that. 699 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,559 Now, I do, of course, have some teams singled out, because 700 00:43:22,559 --> 00:43:24,480 I don't want to answer your question. Let's keep it with the Knicks here. 701 00:43:24,559 --> 00:43:27,800 I could see them really looking at it. If you're able to make 702 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,440 that deal while you're not gonna move Brunts in or I don't think you would 703 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,440 move Randall as part of it. I don't know. I don't necessarily know 704 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,840 why. I guess because he's an iron man, the Clippers would be interested 705 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,480 in him. But if you're gonna keep brunts in and Randall, and I'm 706 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:42,079 assuming you're keeping Robinson in that deal, if you then get to keep one 707 00:43:42,159 --> 00:43:45,679 of at least one of Grimes and quickly and then you're going to resign heart 708 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,760 like. That's the outline the makings of a really good team. And it's 709 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:54,519 Paul George's extremely plug in play for a superstar and brings a lot of what 710 00:43:54,559 --> 00:43:59,599 Tim's values. I'd be worried about Tims monitoring his minutes with the injuries that 711 00:43:59,639 --> 00:44:02,000 he's had, but he wouldn't have to carry as much of the offensive or 712 00:44:02,079 --> 00:44:06,559 defensive workload. Really, I mean probably the same, if not a little 713 00:44:06,599 --> 00:44:09,239 bit more of the defensive workload that he would with the Clippers since Kauai existed 714 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,239 there, But he played so much time without Kauai, so I could see 715 00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,519 them being interested. I don't know if they would be one of the foremost 716 00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:19,480 teams that would be interested. I would love to see him in Memphis. 717 00:44:19,639 --> 00:44:22,880 I don't know what that package looks like. Necessarily, it probably begins with 718 00:44:23,039 --> 00:44:28,320 Zaire Williams and picks, and I'm assuming they would want You're not gonna get 719 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,039 Desmond Bay and it's not happening. I'm assuming that they would want maybe one 720 00:44:30,039 --> 00:44:36,280 of the La Ravia or Roddy Guy guys they would I would probably say Roddy 721 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,679 they would be more interested in based off what we've seen from him the playoffs. 722 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,960 Could they want Tias Jones? I honestly don't know, but they do 723 00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:45,320 have all their own picks, and they have Golden States who twenty four first 724 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:50,639 round pick, and if they're a team just because look number twenty seven this 725 00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,679 year, I'm not sure if the Clippers want it, but if that's one 726 00:44:52,679 --> 00:44:54,079 of the picture giving up, they probably give you two picks on top of 727 00:44:54,119 --> 00:45:00,199 that, plus a Zaire Williams. Would they do that for Paul George thought 728 00:45:00,199 --> 00:45:02,320 about Miami a little bit because Butler, we know is going to play at 729 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:07,159 least in the postseason, and so kind of a similar pairing. With regards 730 00:45:07,159 --> 00:45:12,000 to PG and Kauai, I don't know, are you giving up Tyler Hero 731 00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:15,079 for PG? I think that you're not giving a BAM and you do have 732 00:45:15,119 --> 00:45:17,239 picks. So if it's Hero and Picks for PG, that's a team that 733 00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:21,239 would really interest me. I love the idea of him in Atlanta, which 734 00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,679 still somehow needs perimeter defense with John Day Murray on the roster. He did 735 00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:29,880 not play in Game five that they won. DeAndre Hunter might be he's become 736 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:36,280 peak concept over practice, Like he's better as an idea when you're talking about 737 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,800 his defense than he is in actual practice. Would the Clippers be interested in 738 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:44,119 him? Would they be interested in John Collins? Would they be interested in 739 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:49,559 a J Griffin, Jay and Johnson Sadique Bay. There are actual picks that 740 00:45:49,639 --> 00:45:52,880 Atlanta has. They have their own pick this year, then they have Sacramentos 741 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:58,639 pick next year. They owe a twenty twenty five and twenty seven first to 742 00:45:58,679 --> 00:46:01,960 the Spurs. Would they be willing to go twenty twenty nine to trade that 743 00:46:02,039 --> 00:46:06,679 to Lac that could really get Like if we're talking, let's say Hunter a 744 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,159 kungu and you know a distant first, Like, does that and maybe the 745 00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,320 King's first? Like I'm not saying it has to be all those pieces, 746 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,920 but does that get the wheels in motion? I think that they would have 747 00:46:16,039 --> 00:46:21,519 the juice to get it done and so immediately. I would like Atlanta, 748 00:46:22,119 --> 00:46:28,639 New York or Miami would probably be my favorite destinations. But I could also 749 00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:32,920 see Dallas probably doesn't have the horses, the asset horsepower. Excuse me, 750 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:37,559 I don't want to refer to players as horses. I apologize. I don't 751 00:46:37,559 --> 00:46:39,000 think they have the asset fire power. You're looking at this year's first and 752 00:46:39,039 --> 00:46:44,119 then another first basically, or a total of two first Jaden Hardy, Josh 753 00:46:44,159 --> 00:46:46,800 Green, Salary Feller. I don't think that would get it done. Denver 754 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,280 would be really interesting. I don't know if the Clippers would want Michael Porter 755 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,599 Jr. You'd be exchanging like age for youth. But let's say it was 756 00:46:53,639 --> 00:46:59,400 Michael Porter Junior in a pick and then the other salary like Casey. I 757 00:46:59,519 --> 00:47:02,559 just I'd be intrigued, But I don't know that that. I just don't 758 00:47:02,559 --> 00:47:07,719 see it as being feasible. Golden State would be fun with Paul George. 759 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,320 I just don't are the Clippers gonna want Draymond Maybe he wants to play in 760 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:15,880 LA and they could give up some picks and Jordan Pool and Jonathan cominga that 761 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,079 I wouldn't hate that, So we go, what do you go? Cominga 762 00:47:19,639 --> 00:47:22,000 Moody and Pool. It's just sort of the base of the offer and then 763 00:47:22,039 --> 00:47:23,719 you have to come up with the rest of the money. So is it 764 00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:27,239 going to be a Draymond's heigne and trade or if he opts in, are 765 00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,039 you giving up Wiggins for Paul George? That's oh no way. Pool's money 766 00:47:30,199 --> 00:47:34,360 is just so large as it's fine. So Pool, Moody cominga for Paul 767 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,119 George and does it need to be getting picks? And they're honestly don't know, 768 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,559 And I retract my other answer. I want to see him in Memphis. 769 00:47:39,599 --> 00:47:43,920 Two would be super fun. So my favorite destinations are and I think 770 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:49,639 that these teams realistically have the assets to get involved in Atlanta, Golden State, 771 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,840 the Knicks, Miami and Memphis. Of those teams, if I had 772 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:58,119 to pick one, is it Memphis. I might be Memphis. I just 773 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,519 they, you know what, they might have the least attractive offer if the 774 00:48:00,519 --> 00:48:06,440 Clippers are looking to sort of build like the middle build where they're trying to 775 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,039 stay really good. So I'm gonna say Atlanta would be my favorite destination of 776 00:48:09,039 --> 00:48:12,760 this group, just because I feel like their package might even be a little 777 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:16,119 bit more realistic than GSWS. I would of course be enthralled with him on 778 00:48:16,159 --> 00:48:19,760 the Knicks. I think you could throw you know, if Toronto wanted to 779 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,840 get in on this, uh and like are you doing something with og there? 780 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,880 But can you guarantee that he'll stay in Toronto? And what are the 781 00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:30,159 like what are the Raptors building at that point? Would love him in Milwaukee? 782 00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,000 They just don't have the asset firepower there. I want a joke, 783 00:48:32,079 --> 00:48:36,159 okay, se which definitely has the asset firepower. Would they give the Clippers 784 00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,400 back one of their picks? And we know that Paul George resigned there once 785 00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:44,000 we resigned there. Again, I just I don't think they're going to accelerate 786 00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,000 the process at all to that degree. And it's did oh for it. 787 00:48:47,039 --> 00:48:51,159 I could see like Orlando would be fun. I just don't think they're gonna 788 00:48:51,199 --> 00:48:53,039 make a power play of that magnitude. Houston might. I just don't want 789 00:48:53,039 --> 00:48:58,320 to see him in Houston fun exercise. I ultimately don't think that it's going 790 00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:06,119 to matter Darkwing Duck as Dylan Brooks and a first round pick for Herb Jones, 791 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,840 who says no. So I guess the implication here would be that Dylan 792 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:15,239 Brooks is going to get signed and traded to New Orleans with the first round 793 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:20,679 pick for Herb Jones. Now, I think that New Orleans says no pretty 794 00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,559 quickly because they need shooting. And so while Dylan Brooks would give you some 795 00:49:23,639 --> 00:49:29,719 really big defensive oof, you're losing the defensive from Herb Jones without getting any 796 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,880 better of an offensive fit. Dylan Brooks is maybe more of a ball handler, 797 00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,679 but that's not necessarily a good thing. When you look at a shot 798 00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,440 selection, I will say, and I think this will anger Pelicans fans. 799 00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:44,320 I'm not doing this on purpose. I don't you Herb Jones as untouchable. 800 00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,199 Like if you could get Miles Turner for Jonis Valan shootis and Herb Jones, 801 00:49:47,639 --> 00:49:51,480 I would do it. Herb Jones did shoot really well on threes. To 802 00:49:51,519 --> 00:49:53,679 close the season. It was on like an attemph per game or some shit. 803 00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,760 When you get to the playoffs. We've seen it with other think about 804 00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,800 Isaaco Coo, how well he was shooting on threes year at one point, 805 00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:05,239 getting into a Knicks Cavs series to where he's barely played. Maybe the injury 806 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,440 is part of that, but they've just left him totally unattended. He hasn't 807 00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:12,280 really been able to capitalize. That can happen to Herb Jones and yeah, 808 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,159 talk about the cutting and the driving stuff all you want. I think that 809 00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:19,480 his improvement there was overstated this year. I really didn't see any improvement. 810 00:50:19,519 --> 00:50:22,280 Maybe people watch the tell because more than I did. That's fine. They 811 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,320 don't have the spacing to maximize it right now, and so I get why 812 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:29,280 maybe you'd want to give up picks or obviously other players, certainly not Trey 813 00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,920 Murphy or Dyson Daniels and Herb Jones. I don't think he has as much 814 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:36,559 value as It's not just Pelicans fans. I think a lot of people around 815 00:50:36,559 --> 00:50:38,320 the NBA believe he's also heading into the final year of his deal. I 816 00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:42,639 don't think his next contract is going to be super ridiculous or anything. But 817 00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:45,119 that's part of the calculus as well. I would not do this trade if 818 00:50:45,159 --> 00:50:50,599 I'm New Orleans, Herb and the other thing with the Grizzlies. I know 819 00:50:50,679 --> 00:50:53,400 a lot of people are naming them as a good Ognaobe destination. That's not 820 00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:58,159 it for them. If the Grizzlies are going to make a trade this offseason, 821 00:50:58,599 --> 00:51:01,000 it shouldn't be for Gianna Noby. You get in on the Paul George 822 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:05,639 sweepstakes the mcal bridges here. You need someone on the wings who, in 823 00:51:05,679 --> 00:51:08,920 addition to providing defense, is going to be able to space the floor on 824 00:51:09,039 --> 00:51:14,079 higher volume and generate their own shots. O Giannaoby can space the floor at 825 00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,280 reasonable volume, and we've seen him attack closeouts, but like doesn't have a 826 00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:22,039 lot of directionality to his offensive game. More turnovers a lot of times than 827 00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:24,559 assists. You need to if you're gonna make that close to all in play, 828 00:51:24,639 --> 00:51:30,000 it needs to be for someone who juices up your offense independent of offensive 829 00:51:30,039 --> 00:51:35,360 rebounding and transition, so your half court offense even more. I don't think 830 00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,400 that's a hot take, but I feel like that was lost in a lot 831 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:44,440 of the Oganna Nobi to Memphis dream scenarios is that the last we have draft 832 00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,760 questions coming in. I will eventually start draft prep, but it's not going 833 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:52,360 to begin now. We had a real, more realistic question from Cyborgian asked 834 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:58,519 this is here's another question based on the massive turnover of the Blazer since Olsha 835 00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:06,239 was fired, which fire GM deserves another job first man, So going through 836 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:10,119 sort of the Pampeona fire GM's at the moment, I say, there's probably 837 00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:14,159 a lot of them that I would name. I do think he's actually not 838 00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:22,039 my ultimate pick here. Travis Schlank in Atlanta certainly deserves another shot. I 839 00:52:22,079 --> 00:52:23,440 think that there are a lot of things he did right in Atlanta. The 840 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:28,559 Trey Young trade ends up being a mistake there, But I don't know that 841 00:52:28,599 --> 00:52:30,079 he was ever given enough of it. He was given the freedom to make 842 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:37,239 decisions for sure, on his own, but I just don't know if like 843 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,679 there was enough time to let it marinate with all the Nepo baby syndrome going 844 00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:44,880 on in there behind like Atlanta scenes, I just don't know if he had 845 00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,559 the freedom towards the end to really like how much was he pressured in the 846 00:52:47,599 --> 00:52:51,280 making the Dejante Murray trade and like, yeah, the Cardinal Ston might have 847 00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,639 been you made the conference finals on sort of this one off circumstances, and 848 00:52:53,639 --> 00:52:57,960 you lean too far into it. You're way too aggressive. In the DeAndre 849 00:52:58,079 --> 00:53:01,239 Hunter trade, I think that draft day Draft day trade, but I feel 850 00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:07,480 like he's someone who I could envision getting and deserving another shot. My ashchool 851 00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:13,119 pick is Dennis Lindsay from Utah. Just seemed to scout really well there through 852 00:53:13,119 --> 00:53:16,599 the draft, makes them really savvy free agency decisions. Maybe the biggest criticism 853 00:53:16,639 --> 00:53:21,000 has never went for the home run trade. It was kind of the core 854 00:53:21,119 --> 00:53:23,679 becomes stale, he leaves. It was cited as he went to an advisory 855 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:29,000 then left, and it was cited as eventually an ownership decision. That's someone 856 00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:34,239 that I would think the next big sort of executive opening that takes place, 857 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,159 I would believe I would think his name would be linked to it. But 858 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,679 just based off of the body of work that he put together in Utah, 859 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:43,039 I think it's him. I don't. I'm definitely not Neil Shay to me, 860 00:53:43,679 --> 00:53:45,760 and I don't think Cyborgin was asking that because I've talked to them on 861 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:50,719 the side and he really does not, you know, I would say he's 862 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,400 just let's just say he's not a support of Neil O Shay and why why 863 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:57,760 would ANSP? Why would any of us be at this point we have two 864 00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,480 more questions that come from Austin who asked him last week, but I didn't 865 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:06,320 have a chance to to get to them. His first one was what this 866 00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,639 was in response to the Kuzma Dinwoody beefs? What's the most random? One? 867 00:54:09,639 --> 00:54:13,840 Are the most random? Other? Most random beefs in NBA history? 868 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,599 I so two kind of stood out, and maybe they're two recent I do 869 00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:22,760 remember. I think it was. Was it February two thousan twenty one? 870 00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:23,840 It couldn't have been two thousand and well, none, he don't be didn't 871 00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:28,239 shut down in February two thousand and twenty and one way I should have looked 872 00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,360 this up went how long has Ronny McGruder played for the Pistons? But they 873 00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:36,639 were just the Warriors gobsmacked the Pistons as would make sense, and ron mcruder 874 00:54:36,639 --> 00:54:39,039 has been there, so must have been February two twenty one. But like 875 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:45,400 Ronny McGruder got dragged in the postgame comments by Drey and Clay because I guess 876 00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:51,280 he was getting a little bit mouthy during the game. I found that to 877 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,679 be incredibly random. The other one is of the many things that came out 878 00:54:54,760 --> 00:55:00,079 from that John Wall podcast appearance he made, and I can't remember it was 879 00:55:00,119 --> 00:55:05,159 the let me see if I can see it here. I don't even remember 880 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,639 it was Run Your Race podcast. I think it was we nobody said about 881 00:55:08,679 --> 00:55:13,000 the Rockets and poor Justin Patton, But this one started an actual beef. 882 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:17,400 He claimed that he wanted to go to UNC Wall, not Kentucky in college, 883 00:55:17,519 --> 00:55:22,400 but that when he went to visit UNC Tyler Hansborough told him that he 884 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:27,119 doesn't talk to recruits and that played a role in his decision to go to 885 00:55:27,199 --> 00:55:30,400 Kentucky. And then Tyler Hansborough fires back on Twitter that this and I guess 886 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,119 it doesn't count because Hansboro wasn't in the NBA at the time, and John 887 00:55:34,119 --> 00:55:37,039 Walls and in the NBA right now. But I just the John Wall versus 888 00:55:37,119 --> 00:55:42,000 Tyler Hansbroo bee was just not one that I thought I would really ever be 889 00:55:42,159 --> 00:55:44,639 talking about. And so to me, that is probably one of the most 890 00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:51,159 random ones in NBA history, without question, right, Like, what is 891 00:55:51,159 --> 00:55:52,719 more random? I would love to know everyone else is what's the first one 892 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:59,239 that that springs to mind? Do you think that you know what is your 893 00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,719 most random beef? Let me know in the YouTube comments. I would love 894 00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:07,119 to know what everybody is thinking. Austin also ask who are some players that 895 00:56:07,199 --> 00:56:12,760 who are your top players who may make an MBA all defense team that are 896 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:17,119 going to benefit from that there are no benefit now that there are no positions, 897 00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:21,679 but they may wait. So who are your top players who may make 898 00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,840 an all MBA defense team now that there are no positions, but may have 899 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:30,079 not done so without it. So basically I think this I'm reading this is 900 00:56:30,079 --> 00:56:35,199 which players are going to benefit most from the NBA ditching positions on all defense 901 00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:39,239 and all MBA. I think I think for all defense specifically, we're probably 902 00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:45,480 going to see bigs benefit Like this year, can you fit Draymond, Jannis, 903 00:56:45,039 --> 00:56:50,639 Evan Mobley, Jaren Jackson, Junior m Brook Lopez all five of those 904 00:56:50,639 --> 00:56:53,039 guys and say bam Adebayo all six of those guys in ten of the all 905 00:56:53,079 --> 00:56:57,360 defense slots? Maybe you can. With the way that MBA sort of let 906 00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:06,079 you flats around with positions. When it comes to all NBA specifically, I 907 00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:07,960 think guards are going to benefit the most. And so you sort of look 908 00:57:08,039 --> 00:57:13,920 at the premier All MBA guards from from this year, and I had the 909 00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,480 six that I had make it where Stephen Dame around my third team, Daron 910 00:57:16,639 --> 00:57:22,800 Fox and Luca around my second team, and then I had Donovan Mitchell and 911 00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:27,760 Shaels Alexander my first team. That leaves off James Harden, That leaves off 912 00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,079 Tyrese Haliburton, leaves off Devin Booker, some of them would have had Devin 913 00:57:30,119 --> 00:57:34,320 Booker, for instance, would have had a games played issue. It leaves 914 00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,480 off Darius Garland. The list can continue to go on from there, and 915 00:57:37,519 --> 00:57:42,440 so I think guards would benefit more than anyone this year. Specifically, we 916 00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,760 haven't seen the All NBA teams yet, and not that I've seen all defense 917 00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:47,840 either. If I had to pick the player that would benefit like just of 918 00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:52,239 the guards, would it be it would probably be hardened just based off games 919 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:57,159 or Tyrese Haliburton. Feel like the guys who it would benefit the most, 920 00:57:57,159 --> 00:57:59,920 I would say Devin Booker if we got rid of positions, but they're gonna 921 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,840 institute the games played minimum that also could have I don't think Steph got to 922 00:58:04,159 --> 00:58:07,480 sixty five games anyway, so that could have hurt him too. But it's 923 00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:10,440 going to it's going to just help guards in general because yes, that was 924 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:15,400 a fifty six. It's going to help guards in general because they're just that 925 00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:19,599 was the hardest thing to make cut and some of you know, like Jalen 926 00:58:19,639 --> 00:58:22,119 Brown was eligible a guard and followerdiddo for Paul George. I don't know if 927 00:58:22,119 --> 00:58:25,719 it makes it easier for harder for those guys, but I think that forwards 928 00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,679 and centers are going to be the ones that you know wings, the centers 929 00:58:29,639 --> 00:58:31,760 is gonna be the one that suffer the most, and center is just more 930 00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:35,639 so than anyone because I think you ask yourself, if we get rid of 931 00:58:35,679 --> 00:58:39,920 positions, Nicole Yokich and Joel Ebi still make teams. I would think does 932 00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:44,519 domas a bonus. I'm not saying that he shouldn't. I'm not saying he 933 00:58:44,519 --> 00:58:47,920 shouldn't make a team, but would he have? 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