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takes. Let's dive into part two of this mailback though. JT. Alexander
also ask reports coming out recording Alvin's Adam Silver wanting teams to wanting to discourage
teams from tanking. Do you have any thoughts around how they could successfully do
this after Utah gets Wemby. Of course there was talk about relegation, which
was mentioned in our discord. It's just not feasible with the way that the
NBA is set up right now. I think that the only other thing you
could try, and that will be unintended consequences of anything you do, is
do you limit the years in which a team can land inside the top five
consecutively? And you're still then though, ensuring there'll be one year tanks,
And then you also might have the unintended consequences of, well, they're just
random kind of good team that might tank for that one year because they know
that there's a better shot since these maybe these you know, two other teams
have sucked the past two years and they still suck, but because they've already
had top five picks. You already know if they're not going to get a
top five pick. But that's the only thing that I could really see there,
and I don't other people have ideas. I there's going to be unintended
consequences of everything, is what I've learned, because even we thought the flattened
lottery odds would help. And I do think it's alleviated tanking a little bit,
but it's it hasn't cured it. Nothing's going to be a panacea for
it. Maybe the mid season tournament helps, but I just don't. I
still don't even that one. I'm gonna be there's so much parody in the
league that maybe it gets interesting, but I don't really understand what value from
a stakes perspective that brings, So yeah, I don't. I don't really
know how they could successfully deter teams from tanking anymore. And the other thing
is just like right now, the NBA doesn't have a tanking problem at at
the moment in this season, if we're going to probably see other teams sort
of sell themselves into it, but like the Spurs are winning and the Jazz
are winnings, like some of these flagrant tankers and then there's the Pacers who
it's like, well, they're not tanking because Myles Turner was injured, came
back and then immediately played. It might I'm assuming it gets worse as we
lead into the deeper into the season, but it doesn't seem like a huge
issue to me right now. I just think the best bet would be you
can have one top five pick. You can't have it like more than once
every three years or something. I don't. I don't even maybe that's even
too harsh because then you're you're really saying that you're not giving teams a rebuilding
window, and sometimes it just takes a little while to rebuild where you are
discouraging there. If you do make that decision, let's say you might else
will just be damaging the trade market, because well, if the Jazz are
like what they're doing right now, they have control of so many other teams
as drafts, but those are so far out you're counting on having those in
your back pocket while you capitalize on your own draft picks. But if you
can only capitalize on really one of them, like in the top five or
whatever it ends up being, why would you want to go through this methodical
rebuild, you might be more inclined to doubled down on the core you already
have and mortgage your own future. So yeah, that would be my only
thoughts there. Karrigan, how should the Jazz celebrate their first ever eighty two
eighty one and one season since they already lost This question was asked before.
Then a parade doesn't seem like enough. It is not. They should immediately
go out and trade for stars is how they celebrate. Maybe Dona and Mitchell
Rigobert Wi will become available at that point. But man, the Jazz have
been fun. I've only watched one full game of theirs and then gone back
and I was watching possessions of players, and just like how their offense was
looking, the Jazz are really fun. And Larry Marketing just looks like a
completely different player from where he was, not even just last season in Cleveland
where he was in a more complimentary rolling offense anyway, but like in Chicago,
that just unrecognizable from the player that was there in his final season.
Dark Wing Duck is having to change the defensive schemes with Rudy in versus Rudy
Alt going to confuse the Timberwolves to mediocrity. I yes, isn't. I
don't know permanently, but when you look, they've had such a confusing season
and dark wing duck. I just want you to know that I didn't have
the Timberwolves on my must watch to start the year because of the teams they
were playing. When you look at San Antonio twice, okay, see twice
and Utah, I was like, I don't know what I'm going to learn
about this these teams. I was gonna watch snippets of their games. I
went back and I watched post none, no live games, but like almost
three hours worth of Timberwolves games to try and understand what's happening defensively. I
don't understand what's happening defensively. The things I observed there is I do think
there's probably some bad luck there. Like teams are just killing them for mid
range. They're at forty five point five percent. They've hit some just like
pretty tough loaders over a Rudy Gobert. They've gotten some bad bounces as well
when you look at the defensive rebounding, but they've also been really bad at
defensive rebounding. They're twenty fourth right now, that's an issue. And when
you look at so a lot of the players on their team or some of
their lineups have done a really good job of getting back off of missus or
live ball turnovers. The starting lineup is not. They have been an absolute
disaster at getting back in transition. Twenty two point one percent of all their
opponent possessions against the starting five is in transition and thirty seven point one percent,
like thirty seven point one percent of their opponent possessions and in transition after
a missed shot by the Wolves, that is really bad. They're not getting
back when they commit turnovers, and that's an issue as well, Like there
is so like they are just behind the place so much and they're around the
bottom five, bottom six and turnover rate. At the moment, these three
teams have scored an average of one point five seven points per possession after the
Wolves commit a turnover, and the starting lineup, by the way, has
turned the ball over on nearly twenty percent of their possessions. When you look
at the actual defense, like being thirteenth overall in points per possession is fine,
but again that level of competition, Utah has been on fire. But
these teams are not supposed to be good. And even if you think Utah
supposed to have this like wildly elite offense, the Spurs and okay see are
not slash. They do not like so that is something to consider there.
And yeah, I mean San Antonio is twelfth in offense this year, but
like, how much of that has to do with the fact that they played
the Wolves. They are giving up a lot of threes in Minnesota and opponents
are hitting them. I think what I've noticed, and the timpermost broadcast has
pointed this out a couple of times too. They are toggling with their defensive
coverages, like even with Gobert, like you're in kind of a zone at
points, but then they're confusing it because they're actually just switching a bunch Some
of the big the bigger things that I've noticed from an individual perspective, Jane
McDaniels has some really weird just moments away from the ball. Karl Anthony Towns
needs to do a better job of not getting sealed off when he's the only
big on the court or letting guys get behind him. In semi transition,
not even transition transition, semi transition in general, there's been weird ball watching
when they're in their zone. I think nas Reid has been guilty of that
a ton at points. Andy Edwards looks flat out lost at times, just
a bunch of a bunch of weird stuff, and I do think some of
that could be Okay, Well, we're trying to we're going back to the
more aggressive scheme when gobets off the court. You could see it, not
fully from last year, but like you can see what the Wolves are trying
to do. They're forcing turnovers on sixteen point seven percent of plays in which
gobets and on the court versus ten point eight percent of plays when he's on
the court. My recommendation there would be, like, don't do that anymore,
Like stick with your baseline defense. I know, having additional packages and
schemes is important, Like it's all about versatility and adaptability whatever you want to
call it, however you want to frame it. That being said, like
when you're still so new to each other and you're trying to teach the Wolves
something new compared to last year, I think you really need to hammer in
the more conservative approach even when gobets off the court. Now, that does
leave you susceptible because Karl Anthony Towns is not built to play that way.
Like this way also kind of sort of isn't working all that well, and
you can just tell at this point, I would just wonder if more consistency
might streamline the development and then maybe you can get to a point once Jane
McDaniels and Anthy Edwards are more comfortable with this stuff. I don't know that
you're ever gonna count on. Maybe Karl Anthony Towns necessarily be like once you're
like your most important players are comfortable in the new system that you're trying to
go through, and a lot of the times it's just I will say they
are giving up a lot of threes, and a lot of them are wide
open threes. They thirty one twenty excuse me, twenty seven point five percent
of their opponent threes have gone completely young contested opponent when they're six or more
feet away. That's the highest mark in the league. And then their overall
opponent shots thirty thirty one point five percent of them are going completely uncontested,
so including two pointers, that is the by far and away the highest mark
in the league. It just feels like they're getting lost. I mentioned the
weird off all moments for Jane McDaniels and the half before when they're getting back
in transition. I don't know that there's like this hold on where you're supposed
we could say assignments, but like, are you you're not necessarily trying to
cross matches? Do you know where you're supposed to be in that zone?
Or I think the bigger thing, even like I said, is just letting
teams get behind them. And even Rudy Gobert has been guilty of this at
points, and I will it's harder for him because of where I'm not making
an excuse for those situations. It's going to be harder for him because he's
so near the basket a lot of the time on offense that to then have
to get like, yes, if if there's going to be a live ball,
misshot a long rebound, although statistically we know that you know, taking
threes does not lead to necessarily longer rebounds and more transition whatever, but if
there's a long rebound that lasts for a transition, if there is a turnover
from you know, above the free throw line, and you're below the free
throw line, it's just gonna be harder for him to get back. Those
are things I won't even I just I don't know that it's an effort thing.
I think it's just a grasp of what's happening. We should ask a
coach. I'm sure Chris Finch is been asked about this at toime. I'm
sure someone smarter than me is going to write about more of this or podcast
about more of this soon. I'm just wondering if it would benefit them to
be more consistent in what they're trying to run, even though I recognize that
because the lineups they do field are so dissimilar. When it's Gobert in towns
versus towns and no Gobert, let's say as the one that it can get
or just no Gobert that it can get messy. Trying to stick with that,
but you need to because a lot of the miscues have happened with Gobert
on the floor, and he's still been a defensive, just life force for
them. But it's clear that these guys are still trying to learn. I
guess where to be or how to know when to I guess necessarily, like
I don't know, like do they forget which coverage they're supposed to be running
there, there's just been even for a team that has been like relatively good
in the half court defensively, I think they're I mentioned there's seventh in half
court defensive efficiency, They've just still had just a lot of gas there from
what I've watched, And so I don't think this is going to be a
permanent issue for them. I do believe that the learning curve on defense might
last longer than we expected. But does it matter when Jaylen Nowell is gonna
win MVP? That's really the that's the actual question here. We're I think
we're gonna all have to watch them more closely when they're playing quote unquote better
teams. I know the Jazz are future NBA champions, but like you know,
when you're gonna go up against like you haven't been up against the Western
Conference superpower yet, and so in the coming weeks, that's something that we're
really going to need to once their schedule gets a little bit tougher, that's
something that we're really going to need to pay attention to. Kill. Hoss
asked if the Magic somehow got the number one pick, what the hell did
they do with their roster? And do we ever see women, Yama,
Bulbo and Bomba on the court together. Pretty sure they break the record for
tallest lineup ever. I wonder if that would be the tallest lineup, it
would have to be they. I think the magic would just lean into the
weird that we've seen Franz Wagner play some actual point guard this season. It's
not been pretty, the magic of an offensive rating of eighty seven point nine
when he's at point guard. But like they have rolled out the it's sort
of the pet base of it is, Oh, it's gonna be Bomba,
Franz Wagner, Caleb Houston, and then they're sort of mixing ino Is Bobo,
Chumo KK and Palo Bank, Caro, Wendell Carter Junior. Like two
of those guys will be in there. That's what we see though, is
if you're if you're trying to build like the best player lineup, it's Franz
Wagner. I would put Palo Ban Carro in there right away, because now
you actually have all these creators with Wembin Yama, so Wagner, he's actually
scored well the pick and roll this year, and he was last I checked
at like fifty six percent shooting on his drives, less self creation than I
would say Paalo bean Caro for sure, who knows right off the bat with
Weben Yama. But you have those three guys and then I'd probably flesh it
out with Wendell Carter Junior and then just Bowbo like that's I don't even mean
to disrespect Obama, but like Bobo, like all of those guys can do
stuff on the ball where Mo Bamba really can't. So it's you run out
Bobol with ban Caro, with Franz Wagner, with Wemen Yama and then Wendell
Carter Junior. That's what you roll out. I know you want to go
for size there, and so do you exchange Carter for Bomba in that situation?
Look, that's fine if you like they would fucking try it. Look
they're basically trying it now. Like we've seen four of these guys that we're
talking about. Themore we played together. So we've seen Bomba, ban Carro,
bowball and have we ever seen four though of the bigs? Yeah,
it was. We've seen Wagner, Caleb Houston, Bobo, Wendel car Junior,
and Bomba. I remember seeing those five together, and so you just
look, you take Caleb Houston out of there, and then you're gonna throw
in Palle But do you take Houston and then Wendel car Junior out there and
you throw in Weben Yama and Paula Man Carroll. That's not a stretch just
because Yeah, I think objectively Bomber or Bowboll is going to be your worst
players. Why not pull them? But those are the line umps that you
would be running. So if they do get Wemben Yama, uh, we're
absolutely seeing that unless they trade Wander both of bowbol and and Bomba. I
would be excited to see that unbiased Pistons fan as the learning world in which
Wemby doesn't go number one. Like aside from death and retirement, if Scoop,
it's if Scoot average fifty ten and ten, Wemby would still go number
one? Would he still go one with a Paul George level injury? Knock
on wood that that doesn't happen. I'm really interested in how transcendent of a
prospect he is compared to Scoot. Here's my having watched bits and pieces of
two games of each of these players, here's my un assalable take on this
da Scoot Henderson was like six inches taller n let's say five six seven,
he would be considered the better prospect. I think a big part of it
is there were questions about his jumper, but he seems like he's really worked
on that. The step back has looked very pretty, being able to dribble
into to pull ups. He's six two I really, I honest to God,
think that that's what it is. And then you would look at him
if he was six five six six six seven, be like, oh,
that's that's playmaking wing Terror's story. And then Wemby's just this like nine foot
seven, rail thin superstructure. How is he going to hold up? Those
questions? I think would be propped up even more, And so, barring
an injury, I don't see how Wemby doesn't go number one. And it's
just I think Scoot's really good. I would argue there's more of the meld
of speed and fluidity to his on ball game, where it's very fluid when
wemen Yama has the ball, but it's happening at a slower processing rate,
and I think part of that is not even necessarily an understanding of the game,
but like, he just has so much length that has to go with
him. It inherently takes longer. And so I don't know there's anything Scoot
could do to usurp him now. But if he was taller, let's say,
i'll say four inches taller, if he if he was six five six
six, he would probably be. I think he might be. Maybe he
wouldn't be. That's really unfair to say, because wemen Yamma is just but
I do think it would be more of a discussion. I think a lot
of it does have to do with the fact that he's six two, and
then I think you're gonna he would have to be just like this more disruptive
defender as well. So like because he part of the appeal with Oneman Yama
is like, oh, he's party crashing plays from all the way behind them.
He's in the passing lane without actually being in the passing lane somehow at
all. That dude's a primary rim protector, but he's getting back in transition
and oh he knows how to use his length when he's on smaller players.
So he's definitely a transcendent prospect. I do think Scoot, who's already viewed
incredibly highly. It seems I think that if he was six five, let's
just six five, six six, I won't even go to six seven.
That maybe this is a different conversation. Jay Dobbs ninety four asked, fuck
Mary kill Jaw, Luca and Trey. I'm gonna say fuck Mary cut from
the team because kill is so morbid and I don't wish death upon any of
these guys. So fuck Mary cut with a K from the team, Jaw,
Luca and Trey. You marry Luca because of the stability there. He's
the closest thing we have to just a one dude contender right now, and
then you fuck Jaw like this, Every single possession from this guy is an
unforgettable experience. So he's just gonna rock your world for a night or whatever,
and you're never gonna forget. It's probably gonna be the best night of
your life. That's easy. And then Trey Young just becomes collateral damage there.
It's it's unfortunate, but I think that's what you go with when you
look at just their like comparing it to basketball games. That's what I just
like, sort of an analogizing that I would stick with it. It's Jaws
like the basketball player that you fuck because there's substance, but there's just so
much flash as well. Luca gives you that air of stability. Trey is
more of a wild card than both. I would argue, even though you
trust maybe he's off the dribble shot making more than Jaws. Away from the
rim. He's just smaller, going to be easier to move around on defense,
and look, he has killed at moments in the playoffs, so maybe
I'm wrong there. The Jaw versus trade debate is extremely fascinating. Usher.
With CB three region the eleven K milestone and assists, I wanted to know
which under twenty five player do you think will most likely reach that milestone,
or if you think no one currently will. It feels much more unlikely with
traditional guards and quotes becoming a thing of the past and many point guards are
focused much more on scoring. Love the show as always, Thank you,
Usher. I'm pretty sure this is also Chris Curtis, just because of how
you signed off, and I know for a fact Chris Curtis says he asked
questions in multiple mediums, so there was a riveting discussion about this in discord
I'm just like Chris Paul's in year eighteen and is averaging over nine assists for
his career, I believe, just trying to imagine someone doing that. Trey
Young and Luca were the ones that are most talked about, excuse me,
and there are no brainers. Does that ever pull back for either of them?
If you know Trey Young being off the ball more in Atlanta this season,
does that escalate down the line in the best version of the Hawks?
Looking at other players, I don't know that Kator Garland could ever get there,
especially looking at the makeup of their rosters now, because you just almost
can't afford maybe your first two years because CP three was only at like under
nine assists for both those years. But like you just there's no recovering if
you have a few years where you're playing alongside someone else who has a majority
of the playmaking duties. Haliburton, you know, he kind of like,
Okay, there's that pullback from the first two seasons, but like he's there
now, and so if he just keeps this up and he's the dude that
everyone thinks he is and he stays healthy. A sneaky one might be Lamello
this season could techually hurt him depending on how much time he misses, but
that would just be if you put him on a better team. He feels
like the guy who could have some really astrical, like astronomical seasons with assists
where it's like twelve twelve on a few seasons, and perhaps if he stays
healthy, that could get him there. I don't see anyone else. If
any if anyone else disagrees, feel free to get at me. Romeo eighty
one eighty. How do you justify putting RJ. Barrett ahead of Wendell Carter
Junior on your top twenty five under twenty five list? Please explain, sir.
I'm not sure Barrett will ever be able to shoot. He couldn't in
high school, couldn't in college, and still can't in the NBA. What
good is rim pressure if the ball doesn't go in. While Carter's not an
amazing long range shooter, he at least scores efficiently at the rim and makes
his free throws. Plus shooting is a bit less critical in his position.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he has a good argument for
being a better player on both ends of the court, especially when you start
digging into the numbers. He Romeo also or rome Romeo said not to waste
time on this. With the mail bag, We're going to waste time on
this. Look. I was pretty upfront that twenty five was a tough decision.
I considered MPJ, I considered Wendell Carter Junior. I considered Caldon Johnson.
I considered Anfrey Simons. I'm not saying I'm might. When I look
at RJ. I do think that, oh, he can't shoot is overstated
the past two years. And yes, he's off to a slow start this
year. I think he's at like twenty seven percent I'm catching shoot threes.
But he's been able to hit catching shoot threes at between thirty eight and forty
percent clips over the past two years on real volume, higher volume than Wendell
Carter Junior has seen. I think that matters. The rim pressure, to
me, absolutely matters. I just looked, you know, I just described
how when I'm talking about younger players trying to graduate into different types of roles,
I'm gonna throw efficiency out the window a little bit. And when you
look at RJ. Barrett this year, look the moments on offense, they
have not been even kind of sort of pretty for most of this year,
but that room pressure is still there. Forty percent of his shots are coming
at the rim and is shooting. Until the game against the Hornets, I
think he was hovering around sixty percent at the basket, which would be a
career high, and so that's scaling upward. I don't think the Knicks have
really given him legitimate spacing even yet. There's definitely better versions this season.
Having as a Hartenstein on the court helps a ton. This version of Julius
Randall helps a ton. Jalen Brunson of course. So to me, there's
a plugin play aspect to R. J. Barrett's offense because I trust him
to knock down spot up jumpers in the aggregate. If this if he goes
through an entire season like this in year four, yeah, when it was
year one, it was whatever, years two and three he was more consistent
with it, then I'll be concerned. I think there's a better finisher here.
I think we're going to see it by the end of this season two.
And rim pressure is still going to help you draw more fouls even if
you're not finishing. Last year, his shooting foul percentage was the highest of
his career. That is not going to be a coincidence. This year already
he's on pace to have like the highest and one percentage of his career two
so that stuff matters. His shooting. His shooting foul percentage though, that
is down. But at the same time, look at his three three throws.
He's I think shooting eighty three plus percent on free throws this year.
If I'm not mistaken, he's over eighty percent. I believe that's an improvement,
not always a good indicator of shooting. I'm not saying he's going to
hit step backs or ever really have the great pull up mid range game.
But just as shooting isn't critical to Wendel Carter Junior's position, I don't think
ARJ Barrett needs that pull up game. Look at Jimmy Butler. I'm not
saying they're the same players, because they're not. The other thing is I
think he's an understated passer. Wend O'carter Junior is still probably better there.
Defensively. R J has taken on really tough assignments the past three year or
two plus like two previous seasons plus this one, and I don't think he
receives enough credit for how well he's done with it. I trust him against
Yeah, there was a game against the Grizzlies. Yeah, he got burned
a lot by John Morant and was like dying, like not necessarily on screens,
but like sort of like floating around them, and it felt like it
was infecting his offense. But like he can actually handle those types of assignments
and not be absolutely slaughtered, Like he's the guy that you can least turn
to. And no, maybe not feel great about it, but the fact
that he is doing that, it makes me think about, well, the
best version of himself probably doesn't include doing that. So how much of it
more of an impactful defender can he still be? And I still think he's
been pretty damn good. What I would say is I would have to go
back and look at the I should have, But this was one of the
last questions I was adding, So I didn't study foward too much because I
thought that I did enough on the under twenty five. Who knew if you
look at it. I just feel like he's had to guard a higher caliber
of player over the course of his career, and I value the returns I've
seen from there. I value the more long standing sample size of him knocking
down set three pointers. I was taking a gamble on his rim pressure.
But Wendell Carter Junior, I was also looking at his role this year feels
a little bit more complimentary. Still, you know, slow start picked it
up since he's really good. I said he could be an All Star this
season, and maybe had he gotten off to a faster start, I wouldn't
have let myself get colored by this. It was close. I don't think
I think Romeo, if you're just going to say, and I know where
your name is, so I'm calling you Romeo. But anyway, if I
think, if you say that Wendell Carter Junior is better than RJ. Barrett
right now, that's fine. I don't think it's just like a given,
and maybe it isn't. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I would justify
it is. I trust his set shooting more already, even again in the
larger sample size that we've seen, and Wendell Carter Junior a problem in Chicago.
I mean, we just saw it happened with Larry markin He was a
victim of that too. Didn't really get the chance to like bust out in
this consistent fashion until last year, so we are dealing with a little bit
more of an unknown with him. He's always shown the flashes of defense and
then some of the well rounded offensive skill set, someone like a big being
able to just get that north south fuel without a running headstart, like you
don't see that a ton again. The skeleton, as I said a lot
in that article or audio podcast, whatever of that game, is there fringe
stardom even, but I would have to see a larger sample of it before
I'm ready to definitively say that he's better than r J, and RJ would
have to make zero improvements. So that's just where I land on that.
I'm not saying what I believed was Opel though Loan beepop in honor of the
late Tony Brown, r I P to Tony Brown. Does Dan have any
memorable slash favorite referees he enjoys calling games or any referee player interactions he found
memorable or funny. For me, I always enjoyed Dan Crawford. He's a
Chicago native native and I think still lives there. I enjoyed another Crawford,
Joey Crawford was just funny way over the top and pissed off Tim Duncan,
Like how do you piss off Tim Duncan so so visibly where it's yeah,
he had the facial expression at the point, but like he was just so
mad, So I have to give I don't know if it's credit, but
that was fun. Ken Mauer always like looked like he's there to whack someone.
I felt like I was watching good Fellows on Broadway or something. Bill
Kennedy has an I'm jacked and I know it swagger about him. I very
much appreciate that. And then Lauren hole Camp I'd kill for her running stride
and she has this stareing to your soul bag of facial expressions that I think
or just sometimes the whistles in her mouth too, so it just adds like
a like just a layer of don't I don't even know what the word is.
It's just like hysteria to it, like it's just like, oh that
that just happened. It just gives it a different look when when she has
the whist of her mouth too, and she's sort of just like glaring or
smiling with her eyes. So yeah, those are the four for me.
I've I've never been somebody who gets two into referees, like I can't bring
myself to get into oh what team's records are when when this ref is on
the court, or the conspiracy theories that are out there with teams and their
referees, but like you know, you know certain referees, or like Joey
Crawford was always one where it was just like gonna be so flamboyant with his
calls. Bill Kennedy's gonna like saddle up into the camera, make sort of
a show of it, kind of like that, oh they're they're here to
see me type deal, like stephen A. Smith walking into an NBA arena.
So like I could appreciate that, I don't really get mad at refs.
I think that's probably the benefit of covering covering the league at large,
even though I am a deadingly disenchanted Knicks fan. But yeah, that's r
I p to Tony Brown. But we all watch basketball to watch the refs
and so like that, that's why you ask and answer this question. Thank
you all for asking these questions. This was long enough that I actually might
split into the two that I normally would. I guess you won't know until
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the only, the indelible, be forever, the real best player under twenty
five in the MBA who I did know was hurt kill Hawks. How would
I not know that he wasn't hurt? That was the implication when I said
that there's not enough frankielo Key in the mass rotation. He is their most
valuable player. His name is Frank Nielkina