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What is Krack Black hundred year a
efforts. I am Dan Valley coming at

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you with a solo mini emergency episode
segment because Ja Morant is going to be

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out for this season. He's having
surgery on a torn labram in his right

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shoulder. Just a bummer here and
changes so much obviously for the Memphis Grizzlies,

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but about the landscape I think in
the Western Conference very quickly. Jeff

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Stotts Intry Clothes on Twitter says that
in Rant the recovery period is normally one

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hundred and fifty six days. That's
a long time, that's about five months

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following surgery, but it comes with
a very high success rate. He notes.

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Other players to undergo labrom surgery include
Jalen Brunson, Pastika, and Paul

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George. I believe Paul George has
had some subsequent issues with that shoulder,

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if I'm not mistaken, but he's
still an All NBA caliber player as his

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past Colciakam. And we're seeing what
Jalen Brunton can do right now. And

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so next season, John Moran should
be fine and the Grizzly should be fine.

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They still have doesn't be and they
still Jaron Jackson junior. Steven Adams

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will be healthy at that point.
Anyway, they were already a little bit

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in lurch because of how much ground
they lost without Morant. They now seed

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all that back. They had the
worst offense in the league without him.

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They didn't generate a ton of rim
pressure. They weren't making a ton of

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threes. Not that he improves your
three point shooting, but that creativity is

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big. There's no one on this
team that is like, has unassisted an

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unassisted three point attempt to rate of
just like above fifty. So everyone on

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this team most of their three pointers
are coming off asis. Having John Moran

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as a creator to put pressure on
defenses is huge, in large part because

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you also do not have the offensive
rebounding element that you would have if both

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Brandon Clark and more so Steven Adams
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I think there's been the reactions to
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me. He's one calling it a
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up the value of Memphis' first round
pick this year. Okay, fine,

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the Grizzlies have not drafted that well
since the Desmond Bain picked. They have

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some interesting guys on here, but
they bet big on their internal development and

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that has kind of flopped since then, and they held on to some of

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their assets too. On before the
Marcus Smart trade, there was also sort

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of this I almost say glaring indifference. But people just not that they've written

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off John Moran or they're rooting for
an injury, but just everything down to

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the finger gun celebration once he returned
from his suspension earlier this year. I

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have been very critical of John rant
on a bunch of things, as has

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Grant on this podcast. This is
still a twenty four year old kid,

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and we should all be rooting for
redemption and we should never be. I

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don't even want to say no one
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shouldn't have just written him off for
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change a lot about what the Grizzlies
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everything about what they can and should
what they will do. They look like

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they could be They probably wouldn't have
done anything major, but they could have

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if he was going to be healthy. They still have their first round picks,

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They still have some salary matching tools. And they were four They are

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four games out in the lost column
of the play in right now. That's

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a tall order when most of the
teams in front of them are all going

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to try and make the playoffs.
There's a chance Utah pulls back. They're

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playing out a h hallacious stretch right
now that takes them through February. They

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can also be sneaky buyers though,
and so they were no guarantees, and

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if you're Memphis, this completely flips
that on its head. And I don't

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think do we see them tank?
Maybe what this really does that's damaging though,

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Is it really erases any type of
information they could have had on Okay,

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well, how does job work with
Marcus Smart and Desmond Maine and Jaron

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Jackson junior together? There's virtually no
sample there for that. This season on

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the year, those four have played
two hundred and thirty eight possessions together.

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The Grizzlies are a plus four during
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That's solid, but the offense has
been in the ninth percentile. They're

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doing a lot of their damage on
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offense still wasn't very good. There
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And I don't think you can look
at this team and think that they are

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built to navigate the rest of the
season without John Rant. Particularly on the

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offensive end. I look at Marcus
Smart specifically, has been mostly a train

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wreck. There. He is shooting
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He also has more turnovers than assists
on those drives. Some of that could

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just be his teammates not making shots, and it is to some extent,

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but he has never been that traditional
floor general. He has always needed another

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creator or two around him to be
optimized. John Morant might have given you

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that because you also have Desmond Bane. And you just look at when Marcus

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Smart is running pick and r this
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point six, He's averaging point six
to nine points per possession as the pick

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and roll ball handler. That is
an egregiously bad mark. There have been

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eighty nine players that have run at
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Marcus Smart ranks has There's actually only
one player that's averaging fewer points per possession

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in picking roles than Marcus Smart,
and it's Drew Holliday. That's a I'm

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not sure I saw that one coming. And he's turning the ball over on

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twenty seven point seven percent of his
pick and rolls. That is dead last

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by a mile among everyone who has
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You have Marcus Smart twenty seven point
seven percent turnover eight there eighty nine out

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of eighty nine players. And then
Josh Giddy checks in at eighty eighth at

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twenty two point three percent. And
so like, the distance between Marcus Smart

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and Giddy is basically the distance between
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someone who ranks in the sixties.
If that that's a problem that's not

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going to go away. And so
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because you are Memphis, because you're
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there's a player out there on the
trade market that you deem can be a

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part of your long term picture,
still go out and get them because that

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you can protect this year's pick.
Or maybe other teams are just more inclined

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to value your pick because of what
just happened with Rant. Go out and

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get them to set yourself up for
the longer term. But don't throw good

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money after bad and try and acquire
someone who is going to get you into

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the plane or the playoffs, because
you're not getting the playoffs at this point.

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Just the sheer difference and the teams
in front of you to get to

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that sixth spot. You are right
now as I record this, eight losses

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back, and it's just look at
the teams in front of you. Even

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if you don't believe in Houston,
even if you don't believe in New Orleans,

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even if you don't believe in the
Lakers, the Suns, the Warriors,

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either one of those teams could get
hot. The Jazz have been quietly

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playing really well, but you're not
going to reach the playoffs anyway, and

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so I do think this takes them
out if they had been tangentially linked to

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a Pascal Siakam, and if you
were really let's say you really believe in

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getting Pascal Siakam, okay, go
out and do it, because then he

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if you resign him, he comes
back. You can see what he's like

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with Jaw. But not having Jaw, I think or really eliminates that possibility

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of going out and getting someone that
they view as a high impact player right

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away, because you would want to
see that fit together before you have to

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pay someone like Sakam. There could
be other names available, but the goal

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should not be well, do we
all of a sudden look at de Jentay

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Murray because he's been a bear on
offense this year, and maybe that can

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help us get to the plane.
That's not the goal anymore. This needs

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to be about subsequent seasons and setting
yourself up to make another big move,

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the big move that you really haven't
even I say, another big move that

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you still haven't made. The Marcus
mart consolidation trade is not panned out like

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it should have. You waited too
long to make that type of trade if

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you're the Grizzlies. So now if
I'm Memphis, I'm looking at again,

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if the right player became available,
if you can get your hands on Michel

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Bridges, for example, you can't
just choosing as an example. Yeah,

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you go out and do it because
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At this rate, it's not about
you could keep this core intact. You

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could play everybody and you're still gonna
lose enough games to You're not going to

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be on the level of the Blazers
or the Spurs most likely, but lose

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enough game to have like top five
seven lottery odds and maybe you'll get maybe

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you'll get lucky there, and then
that's a pick that you can then move,

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and that you should move that pick
because you have John Desmond Bane and

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Sharon Jackson Junior right now. But
I think you should be doing in the

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intern And what you need to do
in the interm is what is the market

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for Marcus Smart Because I don't you
can't say this experiment that the ship has

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sailed on it. You don't have
enough information at full strength, but it's

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been underwhelming enough to where you look
at the two years and forty one plus

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million left on his deal, he
could still be very valuable to certain contenders.

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I look at what Dallas want to
take a shot at him. Someone

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suggested the Knicks. I think they
need more shot creation if they're going to

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go that route. The Lakers could
be a team that might want to get

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involved that you're willing to take back. Look, you can kind of both

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sides of defense. If you're willing
to take back de Lo in that deal

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and they're gonna give you their distant
first round pick, you have that extra

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shot creator in d Lo. I
don't think he leads you to the play

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in and he could pick up his
player option for next year, But then

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that's still sort of a human trade
exception type situation. If he does exercise

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that option, and I think that
you could get, you're not going to

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get nearly as much as you gave
up for Marcus mart I don't think.

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But there are teams that I do
believe would give up a first round pick

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and maybe more four Marcus Smart.
I don't know if that team would be

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the Lakers specifically, because they're only
going to be able to give you twenty

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twenty nine or two thousand and thirty. If that's on the table, you

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should absolutely be doing it. But
there are just other teams that could come

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in here. I saw someone had
mentioned to me Philly that would just be

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it would eat into their cap space. But man, if they're really all

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about this year, Philly would make
some sense. They have all those expiring

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contracts and some picks. That might
be a team where you could watch and

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see them really doing something there.
Brooklyn probably needs more of a floor general

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type, even though their defense has
been a little bit wonky this year,

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doesn't like do you just like a
Marcus Mart Jeantay Murray challenge trade. I

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still think that if you're the Grizzlies, you end up having to give up

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someone as part of that deal.
But if you're willing to take back Clint

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Capella's money, maybe send out some
of your other bigs. That's something you

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could look at. I wouldn't love
that one for Memphis though, quite frankly,

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you could also look at something like
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out two lines, would Charlotte be
interested in having Marcus mart as a culture

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setter and defender moving forward over Terry
Rozier, who's just been playing like Gangbusters

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lately. I mean, I really
don't know. Other teams. I don't

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think this is okay, see that
they're not really good team, even though

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he would be I think even in
the playoffs and upgrade over Giddy. But

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the other thing here is Marcus mart
is shooting thirty three point three percent on

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catch and shoot threes. Other teams
know this as well. But if you're

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like you're really going after trying to
make up maybe Houston they believe with him

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and Fred van Fleet, and you're
going to lighten his creation duties because of

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Shane Gun, they could really use
another creator in there, so there will

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be teams that I think can give
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And then you also have Lukenard,
who has a team option for next season.

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You should look at moving his contract. When he's been healthy. He

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has these knee problems he has for
years. He's going to be someone who

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could make shots for you and you
need that element. But I think at

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this point it needs to be about
aiming bigger. And that's you can call

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it tanking. If you want a
tank, and you'll really right now your

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two losses in front of the Blazers
and you want to You're not going to

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catch up to the Pistons or the
Wizards or the Spurs. But if you

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want bottom four lottery odds and you
want to go after the Hornets who are

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have three more losses than you,
and Portland has two more losses than you,

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by all means, you can do
that. But it needs to be

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more about setting yourself up to make
the move that you still have not made

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and what Marcus Smart did not do
for you. And that's why I'm looking

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at moving him, looking at moving
Lukenard Brandon Clark if the team wants to

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trade for him, as you know, some sort of salary matching that should

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be on the table, and it's
about getting picks back, maybe some young

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players back. I don't know necessarily
what young players are going to be on

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the table. And a Marcus Marter
lukenar deal. I think you're more looking

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at these protected first round picks.
And if what again, if it's a

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team that the Clippers, Marcus mart
could make some sense there. I don't

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know if they'd be willing to.
They have PJ. Tucker, they have

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Terrence Mann. I'm not giving up
Man, just giving his chemistry with his

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fit with the Stars, I would
say, and his chemistry even with Zobots.

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I can't get to that point.
But they could step Lauder their way

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there. They have a mere coffee
on top of PJ. Tucker and that

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like right there getting kind of close, so you could step out of your

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way there. If you're getting a
distant first round pick from the Clippers from

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the Lakers, then yeah, you
absolutely do it. And you can roll

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that into another trade for when the
right player becomes available over the offseason,

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because there will be player a player
or players who just fit that you need

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that will become available. And I
think you know, over the next couple

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of months or even leading into the
offseason. I do think someone like a

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Lowry market In or a Michal Bridges
would become available. And if you can

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arm yourself to make an aggressive play
for that player who's a better fit and

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who really nudges the direction of your
team towards that championship ceiling, you need

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to load up for that, because
I don't think you have it in place

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right now. Even again, though
we haven't seen the full strength Grizzlies a

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ton. This changes everything about what
the season could have been, though,

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because as we've said on this podcast, what they could have done is even

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if they were looking at this is
well, we'll make the play in,

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we might get bounced before we get
to the first round, or we won't

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even win a playoff series because you
had John Moran though anything was on the

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table not to make this all in
move for this season. If it well,

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let's say you could have gotten Lebry
Market and you can't. They just

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I don't be asking price in Utah
and then based off Memphis assets. But

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if you had gotten and went after
a Siakam, if someone else had become

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available, that you wanted to look
at because you have John Moran, and

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you could have gauged the fit of
whoever you're acquiring with Jaw, with Jaron

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Jackson Junior, with Desmond Vane all
that once that matters then for your bigger

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picture, and now that you can't
do that, I don't think you should

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be buyers if you even want to
go after kind of this lower level LEL

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lower level, cheaper big if Andre
Drummer can be had and it's not gonna

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cost you a young player, or
it's not gonna cost you more than some

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seconds, yeah, sure go that
round. If you can get Daniel Gafford

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for salary matching in some seconds and
you just want to try and tread water

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without Moran, fine that the Heart
and Sulvir organization has done for this season.

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It should be more about trying to
set yourself up to make a huge

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swing once he is healthy and over
the offseason and you have enough room under

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the luxury tax, like eleven plus
million under the tax. You have some

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players that I think teams would want, even if you're looking at trying to

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move santi Al Damo or Xavier Tillman
before you have to pay him this season.

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Those are not guys that are gonna
yield first round picks, but they

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could be nice sweeteners in let's say, a smart trade is not gonna just

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drum up your return or loosen the
protections on the pick that you're or picks

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that you're going to get, or
the quality of youngsters you're going to get.

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That's what the Grizzlies need to do
right now. It's not about tanking,

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it's about looking at all their options. When it comes to everyone on

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their roster not named John Morant or
Desmond Bayner, Jared Jackson Junior, I

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would say John Moran is truly the
only untouchable player here, because we have

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to redefine what untouchability means in the
league. There are only a handful of

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players who are truly untouchable. But
you need to set yourself up to go

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out in the offseason and make the
bigger trade that you never made when you

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should have in seasons pass that you
tried to make this past summer, and

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it was kind of a half measure
somewhere in between. And I do think

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that you have the players other teams
would be interested in. Lukenard Obama,

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Marcus Martz specifically that could get you
there, And look, you shouldn't be

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opposed to just because you have Marcus
mart of the books for two more years

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and some flexibility. If it's getting
some bad money back where maybe it's bad

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money for this season and next season, that shouldn't be outside like you shouldn't

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see that, it's outside the realm
of possibility because if they're gonna be expiring

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next year but it's not a good
contract, that becomes the human trade exception.

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Though, if they're coming off the
b or even if they have two

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years left and I'm not saying Marcus
Mart's on this terrible deal, I'm choosing

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it as an example of if the
player you're acquiring has, including this season,

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three years left on their deal,
all of a sudden, that's two

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years over the offseason and they become
more valuable as a salary matcher, and

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so that's gonna drum up your level
of return because there are teams concerned about

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the tax right now. You know, maybe if the Clippers are looking to

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get off PJ. Tucker because they
don't want his player option on the books

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for next year and they're willing to
compensate you for that, that is something

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that you could look at theoretically doing
and maybe PJ. Tucker, you know,

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he's not giving out that money in
the player options, so you're not

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getting to a buyout. But you
sort of get the point there. You

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can look at those avenues as well, because you can turn around and flip

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those salaries over the summer, because
it doesn't matter that they're on your books

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right now, your room under the
luxury tax and you're not going to be

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good anyway, and you've probably drove
up the return that you were getting in

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whatever trade you are making. That's
what I think they should do. Whether

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they will do it, we'll have
to wait and see. Hopefully John Morant

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makes a full recovery. He will
high surgery success rate. This team is

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still going to be fun and it's
still a team to keep an eye on

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