Speaker 1: On a Friday.
Speaker 2: It's Friday afternoon, and this is excuse me, this is
Speaker 2: what we're gonna do on a Friday.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't put.
Speaker 3: This on me.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: It would be one thing if it was like Tuesday,
Speaker 2: but it's Friday. We only have ninety minutes left in
Speaker 2: the show, and you're playing pit Bull.
Speaker 1: I know, just getting the getting the energy for the weekend,
Speaker 1: you know, up to park. All right, let's put the
Speaker 1: weekend song.
Speaker 2: Let's bring in our resident pit Bull fan on a Friday, Zach,
Speaker 2: what do you what are you doing?
Speaker 1: We're trying to get the weekend started out the right way.
Speaker 3: One. I didn't request that this time, okay. Two, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you saw, but Tom Haberstrow was pit
Speaker 3: Bull for Halloween and crushed it nice. Three. I know,
Speaker 3: I know you are fighting an urge to tap your
Speaker 3: foot while that's going.
Speaker 1: The head was bobbing a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course it is. It's pit Bull, mister, of course.
Speaker 3: And then number four, I mean that's just a good song, Like,
Speaker 3: how could you not want that right before the weekend?
Speaker 3: That gets me ready?
Speaker 2: You gonna go ahead and disagree on number four, but nonetheless,
Speaker 2: thanks for the time. Well, okay, hey, what was your Halloween?
Speaker 2: The zach Arper Halloween experienced? There has to be something, yes, oh.
Speaker 3: Man, it was. It was crazy. Man. I watched some
Speaker 3: bad basketball and then I watched some better basketball, wrote
Speaker 3: a newsletter. You know, PopEd a gummy asleep by eleven.
Speaker 1: You didn't go out?
Speaker 3: Huh No, man, I'm Halloween. No.
Speaker 2: No, what about like last weekend? You strike me as
Speaker 2: a guy that likes to dress up?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: I like it if it is convenient, Okay, I like
Speaker 3: it if it is easy, it's presented for me and easy.
Speaker 3: I will I will dress I'll really dress up almost
Speaker 3: as anything like. I don't mind that. It's nothing about that.
Speaker 3: It's I don't want to have to go through a
Speaker 3: lot of efforts. So no, the previous weekend, you know,
Speaker 3: went out and everything, but not not a Halloween. Not
Speaker 3: a Halloween flow for me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know that you're getting old when you just use
Speaker 2: what you already have in the house. I think I
Speaker 2: was Iceman from Top Gun seven straight years.
Speaker 1: I didn't care. Yeah, it's easy, easy costume.
Speaker 3: Yeah, easy costume. And it's really like, you just want
Speaker 3: to have fun. You want it to be as pameless
Speaker 3: as possible and then you just you know, you move on.
Speaker 3: You're ready for thanks to me.
Speaker 2: Indeed, so you said you watched some good basketball and
Speaker 2: some bad basketball.
Speaker 1: I know you watched the Jazz and the Spurs.
Speaker 2: What what what category does that fall under?
Speaker 3: It was not good? You know, Wendy was was historically interesting.
Speaker 3: But I don't even what's crazy about him last night
Speaker 3: is I don't want to say, like, oh, yeah, he
Speaker 3: had a bad game that had those numbers. He didn't,
Speaker 3: but he didn't seem like he had a great game, right,
Speaker 3: Like That's the one little concern I have for him
Speaker 3: going into this or I guess after you know, a
Speaker 3: week and a half of the season, is he looks
Speaker 3: just a little slow. He looks just a little I
Speaker 3: don't know if out of shape is the right let
Speaker 3: worn down. I don't know what it is. But he
Speaker 3: doesn't seem to be moving all that quickly as he
Speaker 3: was last season. So that's like, really my only poor
Speaker 3: note about him. But yeah, that game last night was
Speaker 3: that was rough. I mean, all these Jazz games have
Speaker 3: been rough so far.
Speaker 2: Well, and it appears I don't know if you have
Speaker 2: made contact with the front office.
Speaker 1: But it appears they.
Speaker 2: Finally read the memo we sent them two years ago
Speaker 2: when we made them aware of Victor women Yama's existence.
Speaker 2: But they decided to go be fine and win thirty
Speaker 2: thirty five games, and then last year's same thing. But
Speaker 2: I am ordering my Cooper flag Jersey, Zach. And it
Speaker 2: appears that the best time to do this would have
Speaker 2: been two years ago. The second best time is now.
Speaker 2: It appears they're finally doing the thing that we all
Speaker 2: thought they should have done a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and this is whether it's by accident or by
Speaker 3: you know, on purpose, Like, I don't think it really matters.
Speaker 3: What matters is that you get the you know, you
Speaker 3: get the franchise guy right like that. Again, That's that's
Speaker 3: really all that matters here. I get it. You gotta
Speaker 3: sell tickets. You got to make the fans happy. What
Speaker 3: will make the fans happy if they're upset now? And
Speaker 3: I'm you know, I haven't really interacted that much, but
Speaker 3: I've seen Tony Jones' timeline and Jazz fans seem to
Speaker 3: be like, what like this stinks, like this isn't fun?
Speaker 3: And I agree, it's not fun. You know what could
Speaker 3: be fun. Fifteen years of Cooper Flag, that could be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, to your point about wimbinyon the
Speaker 2: last night, I mean, it's hard to nap through a
Speaker 2: stat line like that. But Jazz fans with a front
Speaker 2: row seat of what the prize could have been two
Speaker 2: years ago. And I know there's no guarantees. Every time
Speaker 2: I bring this up, I get the whole you know,
Speaker 2: DM or tweet. Look, they're flat and thanks. I'm glad
Speaker 2: you read a Hollinger article and now you're smarter. Like
Speaker 2: I know, Detroit went all in and they didn't get it.
Speaker 2: Atlanta had the ten best odds and they got one.
Speaker 2: So there's no guaranteed path, but front row seat of
Speaker 2: what the prize could have been if they did it
Speaker 2: two years ago, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: And here we are. Tell me, Zach, and tell the
Speaker 1: listeners here.
Speaker 2: What are you hearing about Cooper Flag and watching Duke
Speaker 2: basketball this year? As I'm encouraging Jazz fans to do, Like,
Speaker 2: what are some of this Because I don't do this
Speaker 2: gouting thing like I used to do on the level
Speaker 2: that I did once upon a time. What are the
Speaker 2: experts really saying about Cooper Flag?
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the biggest thing with him is
Speaker 3: one like, you've either really good athlete, right like, really
Speaker 3: really good athlete, very active and in a defensive way
Speaker 3: like he's. I think defensively is where he is going
Speaker 3: to make his biggest impact. He has a pretty incredible
Speaker 3: instinct for where to be. He makes up for it
Speaker 3: when he misses out on those instincts. If he makes
Speaker 3: a mistake, he's still quick enough and long enough and
Speaker 3: athletic enough to make up for it offensively. I have
Speaker 3: plenty of questions about him offensively. I've kind of been
Speaker 3: comparing him. I know we're not supposed to do this,
Speaker 3: but it's been a cross across racial comparison to like,
Speaker 3: he reminds me of Sean Marion. And you may look
Speaker 3: at that and be like, that's not a franchise guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe not, but he also could develop in a very
Speaker 3: different way. I don't love his handle, I don't love
Speaker 3: his jump shot, but I do love the way he
Speaker 3: attacks on offense. He's very good off the ball. Defensively,
Speaker 3: he's just a monster, Like I mean, he's maybe he's
Speaker 3: not the franchise guy. Maybe he's not Wemby. Maybe he's
Speaker 3: not you know, a Zion or whatever. He's gonna be like,
Speaker 3: he's gonna be really good. And the great thing if
Speaker 3: you miss out on him. There's an Ace Bailey, There's Harper,
Speaker 3: there's the big guy from from Duke through the Sudanese kid. Like,
Speaker 3: there's like five or six guys who could be this
Speaker 3: And then look, I know we don't want to stretch
Speaker 3: it out too much, and I know this could be frustrating,
Speaker 3: but twenty twenty six is loaded too, Like that's an
Speaker 3: incredible draft class too. Like being bad in the next
Speaker 3: two years will set you up for success down the road.
Speaker 1: There there is some jazz news.
Speaker 2: I want to get your thoughts on for real, because
Speaker 2: since you and I last spoke, just a horrific scene
Speaker 2: in Dallas with Taylor Hendrick's leg snapping in half. Poor kid,
Speaker 2: And what I will say is both speaking to people
Speaker 2: over there then just watching with my own two eyes. Bigger,
Speaker 2: Stronger came back in great shape, apparently had a great
Speaker 2: summer and stayed here a lot, and he and Keyante
Speaker 2: worked out together a lot.
Speaker 1: So we've seen it. And I'm not gonna the dudes
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 2: Radio that walk people through the difference of the fibula
Speaker 2: and the tibula drive me crazy, So I'm not going
Speaker 2: to do that. What I will say is, I know
Speaker 2: there's some variable between a guy like Taylor and a
Speaker 2: guy like Hayward or Paul Georgie or Marquis or Wes
Speaker 2: Matthews or what have you. We've seen injuries like this.
Speaker 2: He's twenty years old. That's great news. My guess is
Speaker 2: he'll heal and be fine. But what's does Zach Harper
Speaker 2: take on what this injury means for the potential future
Speaker 2: development of Taylor Hendrix.
Speaker 3: I don't think it. I mean, yeah, he loses a year, right,
Speaker 3: and maybe a little bit more. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 3: quite sure what the timeline is gonna end up being
Speaker 3: for him. But so that that stinks. But for the
Speaker 3: most part, I like, I mean, I liked him as
Speaker 3: a prospect coming out. I liked even like the little
Speaker 3: we saw last year. I thought when he was on
Speaker 3: the court, he made an impact. And then this year
Speaker 3: he looked good to start out the season right like
Speaker 3: like he looked, he looked very active, he looked very comfortable.
Speaker 3: It just sucks, like I think he'll be fine long term.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into I'm with you, like
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into like which bone was
Speaker 3: broken and what that means. It's modern medicine. It's like
Speaker 3: it's gonna be I think he's gonna be fine, I
Speaker 3: really do, but but it just sucks. Like he's such
Speaker 3: a talented young guy, and he's such a hard worker
Speaker 3: by all accounts, and I think he's I think he's
Speaker 3: going to be a really good role player for a
Speaker 3: very long time. He just needs to be helping it.
Speaker 3: And it's another blow to that.
Speaker 2: So Sam Amic, former member of the NBA Daily Assist,
Speaker 2: and we still get him whenever we can, wrote a
Speaker 2: piece recently about some young players to watch out.
Speaker 1: For as far as you know, potentially being traded.
Speaker 2: I know it's only November first, we've only got five games,
Speaker 2: but we're all just doing the thing where we talk
Speaker 2: about things that we hope you're interested in our thing,
Speaker 2: and Walker Kessler is one of the names that he
Speaker 2: brought up. I guess there was an athletic report that
Speaker 2: the Lakers have interest in Walker, and you know, he
Speaker 2: has been one of the very few bright spots so
Speaker 2: far for the Jazz. He's actually looked pretty good. He's
Speaker 2: rebounding with physicality. He's bigger, he's stronger. I don't like
Speaker 2: he's I don't think he's ever going to be like
Speaker 2: an eighteen point a night guy.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 2: He's back to really affecting rim percentage. He's blocking about
Speaker 2: three shots per game, and he does look bigger and stronger.
Speaker 2: He's young, and if the Jazz are willing, I'm certainly calling.
Speaker 1: What do you make about what Sam wrote?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think there are a lot of
Speaker 3: teams who are just looking for, you know, confident size
Speaker 3: with you know, and on player control contracts that aren't
Speaker 3: outrageous yet. And Walker fits that perfectly. He's such a
Speaker 3: good rim protector. He's good around the rim offensively, you know,
Speaker 3: he can do a little bit with the basketball. He
Speaker 3: could run some dribble handoff stuff with him. He's just
Speaker 3: a really good rebounder. I think a lot of teams
Speaker 3: will be interested. Now. I'm interested to see what the
Speaker 3: Jazz front office would expect back in return. I think
Speaker 3: we know Danny and Justin are are pretty aggressive and
Speaker 3: what they want back just in general. So I don't
Speaker 3: know that there's any kind of imminent deal. But yeah,
Speaker 3: there's I mean, there were teams calling on him in
Speaker 3: the summer, as we heard, right, Like, there have been
Speaker 3: teams that are very interested in him as soon as
Speaker 3: it looks like anybody on the roster could be available
Speaker 3: that you know, the Jazz have been fielding calls. People
Speaker 3: have been putting that out there. I don't expect anything
Speaker 3: this year. I think it would be kind of crazy
Speaker 3: unless they were just blown away by an offer. But
Speaker 3: he's I mean, he's really good. Teams are going to
Speaker 3: want really good players last Jazz.
Speaker 1: Then we'll move on.
Speaker 2: And I know you and I have talked about this before,
Speaker 2: and I actually give you the credit for it, because
Speaker 2: before they drafted Keyante, you reference like, hey, the dude
Speaker 2: just doesn't really know how to make shots very well.
Speaker 1: And he still doesn't.
Speaker 2: It's been almost three years, and if you average out
Speaker 2: the splits between college rookie in the first five years,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really like thirty four percent from the
Speaker 2: floor in like twenty nine percent from three.
Speaker 1: Like, I know he's young.
Speaker 2: I know he's a kid, but he has shown now
Speaker 2: for almost three straight years of playing basketball, he is
Speaker 2: a basketball player that's not good at shooting the ball
Speaker 2: into the basket, which could be an issue.
Speaker 1: At one point.
Speaker 2: At what point should Jazz fans be legitimately concerned about this?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think I don't know, Like I think,
Speaker 3: by the end of this season, if if it still
Speaker 3: looks the same way, yeah, then I would be concerned.
Speaker 3: You know, first two years for a guy especially, I
Speaker 3: think there's so many pluses with him, Like I know,
Speaker 3: I had a bunch of turnovers yesterday, but you know,
Speaker 3: he's He's got a really good feel for the game,
Speaker 3: and and I like the shots that he takes for
Speaker 3: the most part. It's not like he's just chucking up
Speaker 3: bad shots all the time. I think I think he
Speaker 3: understands how to play. I don't know what that that
Speaker 3: difference is. I don't know if he needs to be
Speaker 3: stronger as he goes to the basket. I don't know
Speaker 3: if he needs to be you know, quicker in terms
Speaker 3: of how he gathers into his jump shot. I don't
Speaker 3: know what that balance is. But everything looks good to
Speaker 3: me except it clangs off the rim right, And and
Speaker 3: so I think by the end of year two, I
Speaker 3: mean I kind of approached the whole Scoot Henderson thing
Speaker 3: the same way I get it. He doesn't make shots.
Speaker 3: You know, he's been okay the last couple of games,
Speaker 3: But I just look for the process of how they
Speaker 3: get to those shots at a certain point. Yeah, two years.
Speaker 3: In end of two years, you should be making at
Speaker 3: least a decent number. And it's troubling that he has
Speaker 3: gotten out to such a poor start now because I
Speaker 3: would imagine that gets into his head a little bit.
Speaker 3: I still like the way he plays. I don't know
Speaker 3: if that's just me being stubborn about him, but I
Speaker 3: you know, if he's still shooting this way in December, yeah,
Speaker 3: then I maybe figure out what you need to do.
Speaker 3: If he's still shooting this way, definitely in March or April. Okay,
Speaker 3: now that's now that seems to be a big problem.
Speaker 1: Most teams have only played four or five games.
Speaker 2: I mean, we don't know anything about anything as of now.
Speaker 2: But of all the teams that you thought would be decent,
Speaker 2: they're off to a bad star which team stands out
Speaker 2: the most?
Speaker 1: And why is it? Milwaukee?
Speaker 3: It's me just you know what I've got this there.
Speaker 3: This is zero reporting. This is just me being chaotic. Well,
Speaker 3: I would say this. We heard things towards the end
Speaker 3: of last season that maybe Monty Williams wasn't dying to
Speaker 3: keep that job in Detroit, right it was massive, massive contract.
Speaker 3: He was a horrible coach last year. It went beyond
Speaker 3: the talent, like his decisions were atrocious, and a lot
Speaker 3: of people wondered if he was, you know, maybe taking
Speaker 3: his own job because of the money coming in. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that's true or not. That's just the
Speaker 3: conversation that was that was being had. There's part of
Speaker 3: me that thinks stock Rivers looked at that and said,
Speaker 3: I could do that, you know, like I could I
Speaker 3: could get that done. Like Chris Middleton's fantastic. He shouldn't
Speaker 3: be the difference between them getting blown out by thirty
Speaker 3: in Memphis and being a title contending team or even
Speaker 3: just a good team, like they have the talent, they
Speaker 3: have the players, This is good enough. I don't know
Speaker 3: what isn't clicking. It's not like Dame and Yannis have
Speaker 3: just been bad to start the season, but there is
Speaker 3: just something where it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: And it's too.
Speaker 3: Early to say they've got to blow it up. It's
Speaker 3: too early to say any of that. But the fact
Speaker 3: that you're already getting those Yiannis comments and those Giannis
Speaker 3: like well, maybe he does want to get traded after
Speaker 3: end this year, and whether it's true or not, those
Speaker 3: things seep in and I just like, I really thought
Speaker 3: Milwaukee was going to come in this season and establish them, like, Hey,
Speaker 3: we were supposed to be this team last year, we
Speaker 3: are this team. We're gonna do this now, Like five
Speaker 3: games in, I'm ready to just write them off and
Speaker 3: that's crazy. You shouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: Five games then, well, look, I will admit to potentially
Speaker 2: being blinded here because Doc was a nick in the
Speaker 2: nineties and that that was my team. Yeah, but you
Speaker 2: from my seat, you've kind of always been like either
Speaker 2: lukewarm or entirely out on him.
Speaker 1: Is that fair?
Speaker 3: You know? I mean, I think he's a I don't
Speaker 3: think he's a bad coach. I just don't think he's
Speaker 3: a great coach. Like I think he's I think he
Speaker 3: can help a good team remain good. I think he
Speaker 3: caught the perfect storm with Kevin Garnett being super underrated
Speaker 3: when he got moved from Minnesota there, and I think
Speaker 3: Kevin Garnett did a lot for Doc Rivers and did
Speaker 3: a lot for Paul Pierce, Like I just do I
Speaker 3: think that he was the reason that team was great.
Speaker 3: I know Paul Pierce got the finals, MVP, don't care
Speaker 3: like KG ran that team and sacrifice in the way
Speaker 3: you want and ever since then. I mean, look, JJ
Speaker 3: Reddick can be salty about things and have a bad
Speaker 3: perspective or a biased perspective. I think a lot of
Speaker 3: the things that he brought up when he was an
Speaker 3: analyst on ESPN throwing Doc under the bus, I think
Speaker 3: there's some validity to a lot of that. I think
Speaker 3: it was maybe a little harsh and unfair at the
Speaker 3: same time, but there's a lot there. Like, he's a
Speaker 3: smart basketball guy, he knows the game. I don't doubt
Speaker 3: any of that stuff. At the same time, I have
Speaker 3: a real problem. This has really like come to form
Speaker 3: the last couple of years, and it mostly has to
Speaker 3: do with Darryl Mory. But I do think Doc Rivers
Speaker 3: is in that same vein of when you were doing
Speaker 3: nothing but making excuses for why something isn't your fault.
Speaker 3: We weren't healthy, the rest did this, so all this stuff, right,
Speaker 3: I think you set up a culture of excuse making
Speaker 3: that is not conducive to competing for a championship. We
Speaker 3: saw that with the Clippers. We've seen that, you know
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee early on, like there's just always a reason
Speaker 3: why it's not his fault or it's not their fault.
Speaker 3: And I don't think that is the proper way to
Speaker 3: build a winning basketball culture.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Reddick, have you.
Speaker 2: Know, they lost a couple straight, but they got off
Speaker 2: to that three and zero start. So every time I've
Speaker 2: turned on ESPN, there was a big Laker thing, because
Speaker 2: that's the deal. Is there anything real about what Reddick
Speaker 2: has done that makes them look different and better in
Speaker 2: your mind?
Speaker 3: I mean, they they just look like they want to
Speaker 3: play for him. And I know that sounds very cliche
Speaker 3: and very vague, but you know, he talked a big
Speaker 3: game about, you know, upping their three point volume all
Speaker 3: of stuff that it doesn't really happen, Like they're shooting
Speaker 3: the same amount of threes as they did under Darbnham,
Speaker 3: But there is a different energy. Maybe that's just the
Speaker 3: start of the season. They seem more organized. They're running
Speaker 3: some cool stuff out of timeouts. You know, they've got
Speaker 3: some good sets they're using guys, They've unlocked a d
Speaker 3: a little bit more it looks good. I still want
Speaker 3: to see what does it look like if they lose
Speaker 3: four to five in a row, right, and maybe we're
Speaker 3: about to see that. I don't know, but I do
Speaker 3: think he's an upgrade. I don't know if he's the six,
Speaker 3: but so far I think the results are really good.
Speaker 1: It's not Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: But look, you know, I always draw the parallel because
Speaker 2: NFL people would talk about, like the Colts just wasting
Speaker 2: Andrew lock and after like seven years, Andrew Luck was like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to do this anymore. And Jokic has
Speaker 2: a ring. It's not like they haven't done anything with him.
Speaker 2: But are they in danger? Because whenever I lock in
Speaker 2: on Denver and watch him, I'm just like, he's still
Speaker 2: the best in the world.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that it's close right now.
Speaker 2: To be honest, is Denver in trouble at this point
Speaker 2: and potentially wasting the final five? I don't know, four
Speaker 2: or five six years of this type of play from Jokic.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, they got cheap. They got cheap, and look what
Speaker 3: it looks like, right. I don't think it's as doom
Speaker 3: and gloom as it sees, But you know the reason
Speaker 3: they're in the win column is because they had to
Speaker 3: work hard to go to overtime against Toronto and Brooklyn. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and Yokic took over. And Yokich was great because Jokic
Speaker 3: is great. He is the best player in the world.
Speaker 3: It's not close, but they you know, there is a
Speaker 3: concern of burning him out. I don't know what to
Speaker 3: think about the whole Like he may walk away stuff right,
Speaker 3: Like we keep making this joke. We know he loves
Speaker 3: horse racing. People seem to think he doesn't love basketball.
Speaker 3: I think he loves basketball. I don't think he loves
Speaker 3: the NBA, but I think he enjoys his job and
Speaker 3: how he plays. I think he's a crazy competitor in
Speaker 3: that way. But I mean, is Michael Porter, Junior Good?
Speaker 3: Is Jamal Murray Good? Is Air Gordon? You know, a
Speaker 3: guy who should be third most important player on team?
Speaker 3: All that seemed very easy to justify and very easy
Speaker 3: to say yes to all those things when they won
Speaker 3: the championship. But what we see they lose a little
Speaker 3: bit of depth, and this is how it looks. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's too early to write them off, but would it
Speaker 3: shock you if they were just a playing tournament team?
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, are you saying in three years Jokich
Speaker 2: is going to be with the Basketball League of Serbia
Speaker 2: averaging like seventy forty and twenty five.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be so fun?
Speaker 1: It would be awesome, That would be so fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, I want him to be in the NBA
Speaker 3: as long as as long as he can be, because
Speaker 3: he's just a historic talent. But I do kind of
Speaker 3: want to just see him go to some random Serbian
Speaker 3: league and just average eighty.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now that it would be entertaining and it would hopefully
Speaker 2: send a message to the rest of the league, like
Speaker 2: you can't waste a guy like that. Last thing, Kenny Atkinson,
Speaker 2: it's kind of interesting looking at the splits between the Cavs.
Speaker 1: And the Warriors.
Speaker 2: They're both playing like thirteen players fifteen minutes a game.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's like the new thing.
Speaker 2: But the Cavs, I was a little skeptical, but they
Speaker 2: smoked the Lakers, they beat the Knicks.
Speaker 1: Are you buying this five and oh start?
Speaker 3: I'm buying them in the regular season, But I've always
Speaker 3: bought them in the regular season, right, Like I I
Speaker 3: don't think it. I don't think coaching was the problem.
Speaker 3: Last year. I just I don't like they had a
Speaker 3: bunch of injuries. I think JB. Bickerstaff did a great
Speaker 3: job of managing those injuries getting them through the regular season.
Speaker 3: I think they have a roster construction problem. When you
Speaker 3: get down to seven game series and you know, just
Speaker 3: playing playoff basketball. Now, they're still really good. I think
Speaker 3: the encouraging thing and what you love and maybe this
Speaker 3: was always gonna happen. I don't know that's fair to
Speaker 3: put on on JB. But Evan Mobley looks like a monster,
Speaker 3: right yeah, and the mobilely looks looks unbelievable. It's early,
Speaker 3: but he looks so good. And so it's good that
Speaker 3: their offense has been so good. I think, I actually
Speaker 3: think they have the best offense in the NBA through
Speaker 3: a week and a half whatever whatever that means. They
Speaker 3: did opened against you know, Toronto and Washington and Detroit,
Speaker 3: so two good wins against the Lakers in the Knicks.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to downgrade that, but we got to
Speaker 3: see a little bit more before. I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they figured it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. All right, man, thanks for the time.
Speaker 1: I've agree. Good weekend with chat too.
Speaker 3: Dolly appreciate it.
Speaker 1: There he is all right. He had to he had
Speaker 1: to go there.