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All right, you know what time it is.

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It is that time of week, Friday, hoops, and I am here with the Canadian bomber, the Canadian

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shaman, the Canadian Bill Simmons, and the Canadian Zach Lowe.

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Nico, Miatella, what's up?

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Not much, man.

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That's always lofty titles to live up to, but I'm glad to be doing it today.

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I'm excited to get going with the story you were telling me.

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We're going to do some storytelling on today's part as well.

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Story time.

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So I was a little lad and I was exposed to a lot of things early on in life, maybe some

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seedy underbelly things.

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One was horse racing.

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So my dad thought it'd be a good idea to take his young son to the track.

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And he had all his little degenerate friends with him, right?

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And they all knew about horses and all this horse does this and this trainer does this.

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And I got all this, you know, I got like the key to making money.

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Yeah.

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So I sat there and I was like, well, I have a couple of dollars, right?

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I was like, would somebody please guess for me, right?

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So I started to see a trend, like, I don't know, third race on.

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Now I'm hit on the first two because really honestly, it was pure luck.

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But then I'm starting to like pay attention to what's going on.

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And they had a jockey by the name of Lafitte Kenkai Jr.

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It's like a really famous jockey or whatever.

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And he had a day at Hollywood Park one time where he won like all the races.

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And that was the day I was there.

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Oh my God.

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So I just started picking him.

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I was like, oh, this dude is awesome.

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He must know what he's doing.

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So now as now just betting one horse, you know, to win, he's going to win.

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As we leave Hollywood Park that day, I have $165 now, $165 in 1980 for eight year old

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child, probably really good.

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That's a million bucks.

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Yeah.

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And all these other idiots had $0.

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Like there's people who can't don't have gas money really to get home.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And I'm sitting there and I'm looking at everybody.

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I'm like, ah, it didn't go well for you.

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Why not?

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You didn't pick the guy.

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Probably y'all didn't see this guy had won like more races in a row.

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We just picked the dude, right?

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You got all these high level thoughts on, you know, he runs better on the turf and he,

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you know, this one is a downwind, you know, a scrinter.

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All this other, this trainer is really good in the mile and a half or whatever.

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Or just go with the jockey that's hot.

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Yeah, man.

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Sometimes it's as easy as that.

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I think that's a great allegory for basketball overall.

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Like we talk about all these different nuances between these teams and what team should win

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what game, but sometimes it just comes down to is Steph Curry going to hit 10 out of 12

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degrees.

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Cause if that happens, you win.

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It doesn't matter anything else.

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Sometimes it's just that simple.

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It's the right person on the right day is playing well and it changes everything.

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With that being said, I think I got some, some, uh, some things, some observations that

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I want to run past you.

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We didn't even talk about this.

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So this is like just straight off top of your dump.

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How many actual difference makers going off the theme of what we just talked about?

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How many actual difference makers are there in the NBA?

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Well, I think generally speaking, um, I tend to shy towards more as opposed to less on

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this scale because a lot of people, um, won't give that same credit to people who haven't

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necessarily won titles before, but watching a guy like Damien Lillard play and snatch

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victory from the jaws of defeat time after time, you have a hard time convincing me he's

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not a difference maker like that.

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So I I'd sit somewhere around the 12 to 15 mark of difference makers that are in the

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league.

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Oh, that's yeah, that's how I numbered.

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So you're telling me you think that the 13th best guy in the league, if he changed franchises,

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that's probably like the game range for me.

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He would make.

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Okay.

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So who do you consider 12, 13, 14, 15?

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Who's in that range?

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I think we're looking at guys like Dame, like John Moran and like Anthony Davis, like that.

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That well, Anthony Davis might be a little bit higher.

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Yeah, no, he's not.

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It's closer to like eight, nine.

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But what?

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Maybe Donovan Mitchell is in a similar range.

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He he's probably the line for me, like Donovan Mitchell and below, I think are quite those

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difference makers.

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But the people overtaught that level of play, I believe, are difference makers.

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I do not think Anthony Davis is top 10.

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Oh, you don't think so?

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I I get I I don't think he's top 15.

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I don't even think he's top 15 at this point.

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That's fair.

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That's well, if you're I guess it depends how you're looking at it, because if you're

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looking at what Anthony Davis gives you throughout a regular season, he's probably he might not

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even be top 25 necessarily.

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But if you're putting me in a playoff series and you're giving me a certain amount of guys

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and Anthony Davis is going to be a lot higher for me than a lot of the other guys on the

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list.

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Can I ask a question without sounding condescending?

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Yeah, sure.

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Is that really how like the guys talk about it and like the discord?

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No, Anthony Davis, no, just players in general.

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Like if I have if I'm winning, if I'm just talking about playoffs, like you've already

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discounted the regular season to a point, right?

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Yeah, that will.

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I think I'm not sure that's how they talk about it necessarily.

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But for me, once you get in specifically to the conversation about difference makers,

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that's kind of where my mind goes, because I'm thinking of a guy who's going to make

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a difference in the games that matter.

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I'm not really worried about what you're doing in the regular season.

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Yeah, you and I have a different definition on what a difference maker is, because I'm

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thinking I'm thinking like, if you put Donovan Mitchell on the on the Knicks right now, they

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don't win a championship.

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No, no, they know.

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And I like even in my estimation, Donovan Mitchell, I wouldn't have as a difference

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maker.

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I was trying to say he's like the line that everyone's who's like at Donovan Mitchell's

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level approximately is probably not.

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And everyone who's better than Donovan Mitchell probably is the difference maker in my mind.

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So is Trae Young a difference maker?

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He showed the potential to be one.

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But at what we've seen from him the last two years, he's not at that level.

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OK, so Dame would be on this list, right?

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Yes, Dame is definitely on the list.

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So if I took Dame and I put him on the Knicks, would they win the championship?

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No, but I don't think there if you put Yonis on the Knicks, they're winning a championship.

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I don't really I don't think there's anyone you can just drop on this Knicks team.

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They're necessarily the best team in the league.

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I think the league is very balanced right now.

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It's going to be hard to get over some of these teams.

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Yeah, I think if you took Yonis and dropped him in a Knick uniform, it drastically changes

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who they are.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And they're like Eastern Conference Finals, like no doubt every year.

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I don't know about that.

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I don't know if they're Eastern Conference Finals.

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I think they need this roster to be overhauled.

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I mean, literally, let's say because if you took the position, they play it right.

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You took Julius and switched him to put Yonis.

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You know, talking about this.

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Yeah, just swap them, please.

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I'm just thinking like if you put Yonis on this team.

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Now Hardenstein would have a role.

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Yeah, he would for sure.

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But you have absolutely no spacing in front court.

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And I think you're way more powerful because against that team, you can build the wall

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against Yonis.

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And we've seen people successfully build the wall against Yonis several times.

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There's no Brook Lopez.

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There's no Bobby Portis.

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There's no one who's going to present that threat from distance.

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So you're going to end up with Yonis taking a lot of jump shots in the playoffs.

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And that's a recipe for the Bucs to lose the series.

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We've seen that happen many times.

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So let's go to Jokic.

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You put Jokic on New York.

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Do they win the championship?

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Are they in the championship mix?

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It's very difficult to win a championship with a guy like Jokic.

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And defensive front court of Jokic and Randall might give me an aneurysm.

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How about Embiid?

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I don't think so.

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I don't think there's a guy you can just drop on this team.

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Weirdly, the guy who might be the most qualified is probably Luka.

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If you have Luka in that RJ Barrett role, because you have Tibbs, Tibbs can figure out

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defense with a guy like Luka for sure.

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We've seen him get good offensive players to defend adequately several times.

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I think Luka is probably their best chance to win the championship.

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Maybe you just drop him on this team, but even then, I think it'd be very difficult.

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Well, this was a good exercise with this because I just wanted to see where we were with like

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because I would think a team like the Knicks are your kind of like your test subject because

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they're good.

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They're just not title contending good as far as that's concerned.

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Sorry to my New York brethren out there that I don't think your title contending at this

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I think you're a move away if I'm not mistaken.

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You know, weirdly, the Nets might be a good example for this going forward because they're

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kind of a team that's structured with really good defense, really good spacing and like

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the right players to function in the playoff.

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So they're kind of a team that makes the most sense for me in my head to just airlift and

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drop a superstar in the only difficulty they really have is shot creation.

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So assuming the superstar helps with that, they're probably going to be like a title

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contender like that in my mind, at least.

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So I think if you were to air drop a guy like Dame on to the Nets, they'd be on the periphery

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of contention for sure.

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I wouldn't be surprised if they won the East.

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So what you're saying is that you want to stage house.

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Yeah, basically.

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I think that's the best way for me to visualize the difference maker conversation.

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Which leads me into my next question.

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We talked about something off here pre production wise.

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Yeah.

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And I'm going to allow you to speak on what I said.

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At this point in time, just as purely as an evaluator of talent and looking at today's

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NBA, could you let me write down this road?

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I'm taking Brandon, I'm taking Brandon Miller, number two overall.

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So Victor will be one.

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Brandon Miller will be two and scoot would be three at this point in time.

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Now, here's my quick.

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Here's my my one thing I will say.

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I don't necessarily think I would if I was a GM.

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I don't think I would necessarily have them on my board.

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I know that's that seems like an oxymoron.

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But talent wise and what today's NBA is wanting.

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I could do a lot with him.

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He's plug and play.

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He's what you want.

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He's a starter home piece.

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He's a stage home piece.

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I I definitely feel differently, but I think I'll break it down into a few parts.

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The the first part is just that my prospect evaluation is different on Brandon Miller.

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I'm significantly lower than you are.

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I still I'm higher on him than I was at the beginning of the year.

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I've definitely moved him in within my top 10.

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I think he's outside my top five right now, though.

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I think there are five guys I like better than him in the class currently.

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I would hope that one of those guys would be just Walker.

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Yeah, just Walker is amongst the group.

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I really like Amon Thompson and I I really like Keonte George as well.

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I see some some special stuff out of Keonte George and I feel like there's someone else

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I'm forgetting.

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Honestly, I've got a few guys I like in this class.

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I the Brandon Miller.

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To me, if you would have asked me the same question, I think three years ago, I probably

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would have been irresponsibly high on Brandon Miller because he is the type of prospect

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that used to really infatuate me.

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He's got so many skills and his game is, like you said, tailor made for the current NBA.

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But what I struggle with is I don't personally believe he really has that one lead skill

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to separate him.

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I don't I'm not sure.

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I believe the scoring is that I think defense is adequate.

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I think the handle is much better than I thought it was, but it's not anything you want to

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write home about.

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I don't know.

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Finishing inside same story.

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I don't know what he does necessarily to make him that that guy and scoot as a plethora

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of those qualities in my head.

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Even when you're talking about the current NBA.

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Looking at the teams around, even again, looking specifically at my Rockets, everyone drink

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shot creation is still king.

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If you don't have anyone who can create shots either for themselves or other players, you

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can't have a functioning offense and scoot.

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Two best qualities, I would say, are creating shots for himself and then creating shots

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for other players.

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He's going to create for your offense instantaneously.

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But I'm not as worried about fit because I kind of think he can work in most situations.

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The only need he really has is to have the ball in his hands.

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So like just unless you have a lamello type, I think you move other people out of the way

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and let's go.

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I probably out of the prospects I've watched in the last four or five years, I might only

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have like Victor and Zion ahead of scoot.

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He is in rarefied air for me.

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I like him so much more than these other guards we've had in recent years.

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Can he play off ball?

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I think so.

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He hasn't done much of it so far at this point.

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Often he's asked to play off ball when like City Susoko or Leonard Miller are initiating

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offense and those guys are looking to create their own shots.

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They haven't done much with him and London Johnson on the court at the same time.

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And he's another player who functioned kind of similarly to scoot.

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I don't think he's at scoot's level or anything, but he runs offense in the same way and he

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hasn't been asked to do that at all, which is something I question a little because I

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love Jalen Green pre-draft.

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QPPN listeners will remember.

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And the thing basically I love so much is all the stuff they did with him off ball.

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We haven't seen any of that in the NBA so far, but they did a lot of really creative

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stuff with him and he showed like propensity and intelligence for it.

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So I'm surprised that they haven't tried to run scoot very much with another guard.

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I believe he can play off ball though because he works hard enough and you even see him

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out there setting screens.

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The type of size and guy he is, I think he will develop off ball definitely.

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I really want scoot to succeed.

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I really want scoot to succeed.

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My issue is, is I think he has to go to like the correct team.

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They would have to have a bunch of shooters around him for it to work.

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I think he can kind of shoot, so I'm not necessarily as worried about that.

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It's so sporadic.

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It is.

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It is.

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He's still quite young and like we said, he hasn't done much stuff off ball.

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So generally off balls when you develop that nice form, I think if you get him in the NBA

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with an NBA shooting coach where he can now focus on that part of his game, he's going

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to be a good shooter because you don't show like the level of touch that he's shown not

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only on the floater game, but on free throws and on the pull up jump shot.

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The pull up jump shot is significantly better than the spot up and that's like never true

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for anyone.

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So you can tell it's likely just reps.

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I want to see him rev it down.

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Like I want, I don't want it to be great next.

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I'm not seeing different levels of pace.

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I am yet.

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I think I think I've seen different levels of pace at times.

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I can maybe will watch a game together or something, because I think I might have some

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good examples of him doing the fast and slow stuff.

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He generally against teams that move quickly.

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He's very happy to get out there and run, but at times he can be a little more methodical

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to normally when he starts like the step back on a play, he then like reexamines the floor

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and tries to go into another set or something.

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I've seen him do it a few times, so hopefully I can pinpoint some of that on Phil.

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Yeah, I need to see it more.

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I need to see a more consistent level of that that he's willing to do that before I turn

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my my offense over to him.

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The one thing that I wanted in this might sound very hot takey, but it's not to me.

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And I'll put some thoughts behind it.

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And then, Nico, you tell me exactly what you think of this.

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If I was going to put that time and effort into somebody.

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I would want to do with a man Thompson because of the 6667 frame and the ability that he's

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going to see over defenses.

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And I love the athletic skill of both scoot and a man Thompson scoot Henderson being good

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Henderson and Amy Thompson being Amy Thompson.

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But if I think if I was going to look at it that way and I was going to say Uber athlete

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to Uber athlete, I would think I would want to put all my wealth of development into Amy

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and Thompson just because of the size difference.

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Is that am I crazy?

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Am I am I just overlooking this?

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He does remind me a lot of Derrick Rose.

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Yeah, he's so I'm scared to even say what I'm saying, but I'm looking at today's NBA

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and I'm going.

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I get it.

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I want that because that looks more prototypical to what I'm trying to do.

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But that's fair.

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I understand that perspective to a certain extent.

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However, like if you just look at there's I love Amen and I don't mean to disrespect

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him in any way.

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But if you just look at their skills as actual basketball players and their touch on the

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floor scoot is in a different world than Amen.

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He's also a full year younger than Amen at this point, and he's playing against men in

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the G League where Amon's playing against mostly high schoolers and overtime elite.

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I think Amen is an impressive prospect for sure.

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And I love the creation at that size.

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He's another guy who I think would look great on the Rockets.

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But everybody a player like Scoot is just to me like once almost like a once in a decade

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prospect that you just don't get guys like this who care like this and work like this

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have the body like he's built like a full grown man already like this.

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And like coming to the league ready to create for others, ready to learn and improve.

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You kind of can't miss on Scoot in my mind.

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I think he's almost guaranteed to have some level of success.

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I wonder what Kendall thinks about Scoot.

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Yeah, he loves him.

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Oh, yes.

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Yes.

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He's great. See, you guys are bringing me back to just because I've always been the

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type of guy give me the best prospect.

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This is the first time I've.

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Kind of zag on my.

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Like, oh, no, that dude can play basketball.

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Yeah, I can just see it.

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Because the Desmond Bay thing wasn't analytics or anything like that.

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I just said that dude can play basketball at a high level.

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I think I'm I will put my reputation on that guy.

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Yeah, right.

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I felt that way about Mowgli.

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You know how I felt about Mowgli and I felt I feel right on that one.

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I mean, young guys making bad choices.

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But now the thing with Scoot is that I do see all of these traits that you're you're

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telling me about.

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The only thing is I want.

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I don't want him just to be an athlete.

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I want I understand that you can out athlete people.

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What I want him to be able to.

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Mentally impose his will.

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You know the game.

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And I understand that comes with time.

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He's young to get that part.

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Well, I just wish the if I if you got tape that says that he slows it down.

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You play at different gears.

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Then I can say, OK, I can see a developed path, a developmental path that he will get

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there.

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But what I've seen, because I think that game against Victor was a little telling because

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he was he was ready to go.

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Oh, yeah.

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He was ready to go.

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He was ready to like real.

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That's that.

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I can't scoot that guy definitely exists.

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If you are in the big lights and you need to make the game about himself, he is ready

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to do that.

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And I've I've seen it several times from him.

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But there are definitely other situations where the game takes on a slower pace and

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he matches that and orchestrates it.

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And I I'm very hesitant to say this name because I don't see necessarily all of it in their

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player styles.

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But I've seen a lot of people make Chris Paul comparisons.

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And there are times you can see elements of the CP3, OK, stop what's going on right now.

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We are scratching this entire play.

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We are rerunning a different play that whether it's something he came up with or it's some

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audible the coaches have worked in, he's willing to do that at times and often can exploit

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defenses doing that.

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Also the touch, the touch is the thing that athletes generally don't have.

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And his touch is special.

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He knows how to put the ball in the hoop.

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It's so soft everywhere on the floor is.

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He's a rare prospect.

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I feel weird having him second because I I really love Scoot coming into the year.

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I was way more open to the idea of scoot over Victor.

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But as soon as we started to see Victor, it was never going to happen.

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But man, I I love that kid.

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I hope he comes to use that.

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Then my concern then you said it in your praise in your analysis of them.

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When the bright lights are on, he wants to take it all over.

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And can we can we beat that out of him a little bit?

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Oh, I know.

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Let me let me reframe that.

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Is there any way we can curtail that out of him?

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I'm not sure it's necessarily like.

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A thing that is ingrained in him as much as the fact that he plays for G League at night

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and often G League night puts him in situations where they're asking him to do that.

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And when when they ask him to do that, he's ready to do it.

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That's not going to be the case in the NBA.

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We're not going to need Scoot to come show why he got drafted or whatever, unless it's

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like a summer league game or which he probably won't play or like like the time in the season

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we're in right now, like the games 68 and on when it doesn't matter anymore.

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Maybe then you need Scoot to go off and it's all about Scoot.

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But besides that, in the NBA, that's not going to be the case anymore.

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I think it more shows his ability to perform under pressure.

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I don't think it's as much him trying to make the game about himself.

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What do you think Scoot Henderson ceiling is like?

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I'm going to throw a couple of names out to you.

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At the end of the day, is he better than Dame?

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That's a tough one.

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I I I'm hesitant to say yes, that any prospect will be better than Hall of Famer, but I could

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see it.

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It's possible.

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OK.

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All right.

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Is he going to be better than James Harden?

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I think it's the same the same conversation.

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I don't know.

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It's really hard to say that any product is going to be that good.

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You're looking at maybe a five percent chance, but he could be.

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He could be better than almost any guard we've ever seen hypothetically, just because the

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physical build, the intangibles and the touch.

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Like the starting point is so high that if hypothetically he develops like a player like

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LeBron develops.

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Yes.

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Yeah, he could be better than everyone.

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OK, I just have to see the.

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I'll have to see the be able to process the information.

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I see a lot of I just want to go kill people.

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Yeah.

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He's got that.

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Because he did it in the in the Rising Stars game.

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You know, he went he went for that dunk.

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He went underneath the rim and then came back under.

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And then to Smith, Jr. was like, no, Blair, we don't do it.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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You are not having this moment on this stage and you haven't arrived yet.

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No.

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I think that might be a good point here to wrap it up.

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I wanna wrap this section up, the Brandon Miller versus Jaws,

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or not versus Jaws, Brandon Miller versus Scoot conversation.

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Last year, I had Jabari Smith ahead of a guy like Paolo.

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And I think a lot of it had to do with the same conversation

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this is kind of about, where Jabari Smith is the prototype

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of the player you want in the NBA right now.

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He can play the small ball five, he's really a four,

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he can defend all the positions and he can shoot the three.

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That's what you'd want.

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So ideally that player type fits so well

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that it had me very infatuated with Jabari.

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Whereas you look at a guy like Paolo

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and it's more of like a heliocentric option.

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You're not too sure how he's gonna play with other players,

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though the passing has shown to be better

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than we all ever would have hoped.

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Same with the defense, but at the time we weren't so sure

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his defense was going to be at such a high level.

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He is a little bigger.

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There was a lot of conversations about this sweat problem

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that isn't the thing.

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But the thing I personally didn't take into account enough

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is the touch, the actual basketball ability on the floor.

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Paolo has that in spades.

478
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:27,320
And I think we're kind of looking at a similar conversation

479
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:32,320
with Jabari versus Scoot, or not Jabari versus them,

480
00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:36,400
with Brandon versus Scoot.

481
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,400
I think the just straight up basketball talent with Scoot

482
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,800
is in such a different world, I don't know.

483
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,480
I'm just drafting that guy every time at this point.

484
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,480
I think I wanna focus more on taking good basketball players

485
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,680
in my mocks, so that's a lesson

486
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,680
I think I've kind of learned this year.

487
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:14,200
I've always said put dude traits over, you know,

488
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,840
conventional basketball wisdom, I've always done it.

489
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,040
The one thing that I will say about Brandon Miller though

490
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:26,040
is that he does give you a lot more of offense initiation

491
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,400
on his own that Jabari Smith Jr. never did.

492
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,720
Now, obviously he had guards that didn't wanna pass him

493
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:39,560
the ball in college, and it also looks like he has it

494
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:40,920
in the pros.

495
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:45,920
So no ball for you, buddy, no ball for you.

496
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,920
God, I almost want Wim Bayama to go to Houston,

497
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,160
everybody drink just for that reason,

498
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,800
because I would love to see Kevin Porter Jr.

499
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,840
not give Wim Bayama the ball one time,

500
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,840
because I think just the disdain that that young man

501
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,760
would have on his face, swear KBJ, would just make it

502
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,440
so spicy.

503
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:23,440
I'm wondering though, if in a different offensive system,

504
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,200
do we get a different KBJ?

505
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,360
We're already starting to see it a little bit right now,

506
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,960
since he's came back from injury where he's not really

507
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,080
interested in taking the shot as much.

508
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,240
And realistically, if you look at the solid offense

509
00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:44,200
the year before he came to Houston,

510
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,040
and the way he was using Luca in Dallas,

511
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,080
that's basically the role he spoke KBJ in Houston.

512
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:57,080
And I don't need to tell anyone, but KBJ is not Luca.

513
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:03,040
So I'm wondering if the coaching change turns KBJ

514
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,080
into more of a pass first player,

515
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,360
because that's what it looked like he was

516
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:12,360
when he first came over from Cleveland.

517
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,040
He had like 14 assist games,

518
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,120
and was going down to the G league,

519
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,680
and having games where he shot nine times in the G league.

520
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:25,680
So I haven't seen that guy in a long time now.

521
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,560
I'm wondering if he still exists behind the wall

522
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,440
of the Steven Silas offense.

523
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:38,440
No, and he won't be on this team.

524
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:44,240
If, if, if, if Wimbayama comes to Houston,

525
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,360
but we don't have to worry about him.

526
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,800
I think he will be on this team, but I understand.

527
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,000
We might have to put a little weight on that buddy.

528
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,720
I have to put some on that, figure that one out.

529
00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:02,520
But it only happens if Wimbayama is on this team.

530
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,040
Or Scoot, well, if Scoot is on this team,

531
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,160
he's definitely not on this team.

532
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:12,160
Oh, I think he plays a good brand of basketball

533
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,880
with a player like Scoot.

534
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,800
Because- We need Jamie Green

535
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,520
to play a good basketball.

536
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,000
Oh, he definitely will, he definitely will.

537
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:27,000
But with KBJ, you're looking at a guy who's six foot,

538
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,960
five and a half, he can slide up and play the three,

539
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,440
if need be, in those offenses.

540
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,840
And if KBJ is in that kind of role,

541
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,600
the balls in his hand, way less,

542
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,840
he can focus on the spot ups.

543
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,520
I think that could be great for him.

544
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:46,160
And like, it's in KBJ's best interest

545
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,840
to be on his best behavior next year.

546
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,320
Cause the Rockets have an option

547
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,280
to just be out of his contract entirely.

548
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,360
Well, we got sad news in the NBA.

549
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,520
We got Kevin Durant being out

550
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,320
for at least two to three weeks.

551
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,880
That's a reevaluation in two to three weeks.

552
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,720
And where does it put Phoenix?

553
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,240
I don't know.

554
00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:20,000
I have no idea.

555
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,000
Booker scores a lot of points right now.

556
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000
He can carry the load of the offense,

557
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,920
but that ankle screen did not look great.

558
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:34,920
And now we just have nothing but chaos in the West,

559
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:40,480
which is, I don't know if this is entertaining.

560
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:41,720
I don't know if it's sad.

561
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:43,040
I don't know.

562
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,720
I have no idea.

563
00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:47,720
I think it's gonna make for good TV.

564
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,520
So the playoffs are gonna make for good TV.

565
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:55,320
Because I think the bottom of the West

566
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,280
is gonna look like a who's who.

567
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,600
It's gonna look like a who's who.

568
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,400
I don't know if you wanna call it your royalty of the NBA.

569
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,400
It's gonna look like a who's who.

570
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,200
I mean, there are chances that you see like Steph Curry

571
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,920
like in the sixth squad.

572
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,960
That's where he is right now.

573
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,560
There's a good chance that you might see like Kawhi Leonard

574
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,640
in the seventh or eighth spot.

575
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:33,120
Yeah, I hope they keep moving.

576
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,480
I'm loving this Clippers suck ever since we got their draft back.

577
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:43,680
And then you have the team that everybody just kind of craft on.

578
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,720
And how could they trade this guy

579
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,560
and all these get all the trade, all these picks?

580
00:42:51,560 --> 00:43:00,560
Minnesota might find their way into non play in situation.

581
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:06,840
Oh, yeah, I assume they will at this point with the three teams

582
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:11,520
ahead of them in the Clippers Warriors and Suns,

583
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,520
all in not the best position to close out the year.

584
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:20,160
I think they're probably gonna jump ahead of at least one of those squads.

585
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:27,880
And with Kat coming back, I think you might have a situation

586
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:32,680
where you can work it in a little easier at first than before.

587
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:37,360
It seems like you might be able to slide him in,

588
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:45,440
like on a short minutes limit considering how long this injury is taken.

589
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,280
And if you hypothetically were to bring Kat in at first,

590
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,880
just like replacing Nasrid minutes

591
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,840
and then slowly creeping them up from there into the playoffs,

592
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,840
I think you might be looking at a spot

593
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,280
where the Timberwolves are pretty hot towards the end of the year.

594
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,360
I could see them climbing up maybe even as high as four.

595
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:14,160
Carl Anthony Towns taking minutes away from. Slow mo.

596
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:16,360
That won't happen.

597
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,640
He's not that can't happen.

598
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,840
No, there's no chance to slow mo.

599
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,160
Yeah, he's the best player on the team at times.

600
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,760
He didn't get Daniels.

601
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:29,960
He's got to play.

602
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,560
Yeah, he he's playing a ton, too.

603
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,960
So there's there.

604
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,760
There are minutes there.

605
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,360
Oh, there's still a lot of minutes they could break up for.

606
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:46,560
First of all, you got to excise Nasrid entirely from the rotation,

607
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,360
but you can play

608
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,160
Nikhil Alexander Walker less.

609
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:58,360
Give McDaniels those minutes and give Kat the minutes that are missing there.

610
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:02,560
The five to seven minutes a game you give Luca Garza.

611
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:07,160
Occasionally, there's minutes you could even take off Rudy's plate

612
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,560
because the often get in foul trouble.

613
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:13,760
There is, I think, tons of options for Kat to take minutes

614
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,560
without taking minutes away from their good players.

615
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,960
I just can't wait till the off season

616
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:25,960
and see what Minnesota does with this team, because I think

617
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,960
the writings on the wall about

618
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,560
someone's tenure in Minnesota.

619
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:35,760
Personally,

620
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,160
I think we need to aggressively start this

621
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,960
era of Anthony Edwards.

622
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,560
In a real way, I think they already have.

623
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,760
Well, I think we need to continue.

624
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:55,360
I think the team's the team's pretty built around him.

625
00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:01,560
Like a guy like Jayden McDaniels refusing to trade him.

626
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,560
I think a big part of that is how well he works with a guy like Ant

627
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:10,760
on the outside, making sure Ant never has to defend the best wing defender.

628
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,160
A guy like Mike Connolly over DeAngelo Russell.

629
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,560
We've talked about this already, but that is clearly an indication

630
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,960
of moving in the direction of Anthony Edwards over the team.

631
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:28,960
I think this is kind of Ant team right now that just has Kat on it.

632
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,960
I'm not even fully sure

633
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,760
what Kat's best role is on this team.

634
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:37,760
He's just so...

635
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,760
I can tell you. You want to know?

636
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,760
He is

637
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,160
pick and talent acquisition.

638
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,160
He's just so good.

639
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:53,160
Pick and talent acquisition.

640
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,560
That's his best role on this team.

641
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,360
Yeah, I know that.

642
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,960
Yeah, that's the role he has on this team.

643
00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:03,560
But I don't care what Momo says.

644
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,160
I don't care what anybody says.

645
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:12,360
My first piece of business in the off season

646
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:20,560
is I am going to find a way to get picks and players back.

647
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:29,560
To fit Rudy Gobert, McDaniels, Anthony Edwards.

648
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,560
That's what I want.

649
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:32,560
I want that.

650
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,560
Yeah, I'm...

651
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,560
The point guard would be great.

652
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,560
Yeah, I'm not...

653
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,560
You're...

654
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,560
I think Kat is

655
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,560
a very good talent that if you try to turn him away,

656
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:53,560
there's no way you're going to get a player at his level at this point.

657
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,560
You're not going to get a player at his level.

658
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:56,560
I have no problem.

659
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:58,560
I get that part.

660
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:04,560
That's why I think you have to hold for one more year

661
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,560
and see what this team looks like.

662
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,560
And then on the other side of this year,

663
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,560
you're also looking at Rudy Gobert being a year older.

664
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,560
You're looking at Mike Conley being a year older.

665
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,560
You can trade Kat then, move on from that,

666
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:27,560
and kind of rebuild a different look of the organization around Ant, if need be.

667
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:31,560
I think that's a way better inflection point,

668
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,560
especially considering this off season,

669
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,560
you're going to need to give McDaniels the big money.

670
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:41,560
So it's going to be hard to sell me on

671
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:47,560
we're moving into the tax for the first time in this new ownership's history.

672
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,560
And we're also trading away our second best player.

673
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:55,560
I cannot fathom moving in that direction.

674
00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:01,560
To jump up in the West because the West can be had.

675
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,560
That is the caveat on the back end of that

676
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:11,560
because you know, and I know that Carl Anthony Towns does not

677
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:17,560
will not refuses to play defense.

678
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:24,560
He played. He played some of the best defense of his career in the last in last year's playoffs.

679
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:29,560
And they kind of built their defense around him blitzing and stuff.

680
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,560
He is. I wouldn't say he refuses to play defense.

681
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:36,560
I think he tried actively to get better last year.

682
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:41,560
And I think we could have been working into a situation that would be even better for him.

683
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:45,560
Working with Colbert just takes time to figure that system out.

684
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,560
We didn't have the time.

685
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:53,560
I I'm I think just a lot more bullish on Kat as a player than you are.

686
00:49:53,560 --> 00:50:01,560
We've talked about this before, but like one, I think it's it's becoming more extreme as time passes.

687
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:06,560
I don't think he fits one.

688
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,560
I think he's a tremendous offensive player.

689
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:15,560
I think if he.

690
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:22,560
I am going to sound like a complete moron when I say this, but this might actually be the clip.

691
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:28,560
I wonder if he was the piece that went back to Utah.

692
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:37,560
And not the other pieces, what this team will look like.

693
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:41,560
I'm I'm not sure because like.

694
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,560
I mean, you got them.

695
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,560
I mean, you say a walker gets where they are, too, with him.

696
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,560
You know, like a walker gets with him.

697
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,560
And you imagine like Lauren marketing.

698
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,560
Kat Kessler.

699
00:50:55,560 --> 00:51:01,560
Yeah, you know, I'm saying like you need to surround that cat with a bunch of dates.

700
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:05,560
Yeah, I I agree, but I think they got a bunch of dudes.

701
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:16,560
But I think the biggest piece that they lost Minnesota like on the team this year in that move would have been Vando.

702
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:21,560
And I don't know if they would have signed Kyle Anderson if they would have kept Vando.

703
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:25,560
And Kyle Anderson's been crucial for this team this year.

704
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:31,560
So I I kind of think that they ended up OK on the other side of that.

705
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:42,560
They could have used a Patrick Beverly type, but they're trying to let Jordan McLaughlin like fill into that role behind Mike Conley.

706
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:46,560
He's not the greatest player, but he is talented.

707
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:50,560
So I I'm interested in seeing what that's like.

708
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:55,560
They've also moved a guy like Austin Rivers out of the rotation.

709
00:51:55,560 --> 00:52:01,560
He's known to have one big playoffs game though per team he's on.

710
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:06,560
So I'd look out for that this year.

711
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,560
Nikhil Alexander Walker has actually been really good for them as well.

712
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,560
He can defend now and he's been hitting over 40 percent of his three.

713
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,560
So I think he's at like 42 percent on the air.

714
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:23,560
42.1 So that's a very interesting wing they have.

715
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:29,560
I like this Minnesota team on an outside level.

716
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,560
I I like this team too.

717
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,560
This one I like this team.

718
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:38,560
But I think this team with Kat can still be good.

719
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:46,560
I think there's a lot of there's a lot of other that you can trim around the edges and have it work.

720
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:53,560
I know that the tenure amongst Minnesota fans, including our guy Momo,

721
00:52:53,560 --> 00:53:01,560
is that perhaps Chris Finch isn't the best guy to optimize this kind of team.

722
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:08,560
They they were I've seen a lot of Timberwolves fans and not just Momo upset when Quinn Snyder

723
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:16,560
did the Atlanta job because they really wanted him to figure out their defense around Rudy.

724
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,560
So I'm wondering if I really like Chris Finch.

725
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,560
So I think they should keep him employed.

726
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:30,560
I'm wondering if maybe in the offseason they go find some sort of new defensive coordinator or something.

727
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:42,560
And once that happens, I'd be again, I'd like to see maybe 35 games next year with Kat on that team to see what it looks like.

728
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:53,560
You have a lot more optimism on Kat working with Minnesota than I do, which I mean, I can I can wrap my head around.

729
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:58,560
I mean, I definitely am the person would say, let's let's take a breath.

730
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:04,560
So I'm not like beholden to this thought process that I'm on.

731
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,560
But I am just I've seen so much in Kat.

732
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:11,560
I thought the performance in the playoffs last year was abysmal.

733
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,560
I thought the foul situation was abysmal.

734
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:27,560
I thought his his lack of understanding the moment was horrific for somebody that if you're building

735
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:37,560
a team around as a pillar, I'm not saying that he's the number one dude, because we all know that Anthony Edwards is the number one guy there.

736
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,560
I just don't know if he can be one of those pillars.

737
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:52,560
I just that was that playoff performance really scared me about him because he's been in the league a long time.

738
00:54:52,560 --> 00:55:09,560
That's my problem is that if he would have got there and understood the moment and even if he didn't play well, but it didn't look like he was getting like electric shock treatments every time he was on the court, then we will be OK.

739
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:16,560
But I'm looking at a guy who just clearly didn't understand the moment.

740
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:22,560
And your 20 year old counterpart did understand the moment.

741
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:30,560
That's the scary part is that the 20 year old showed the poise.

742
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,560
And I was like, OK, well, we're building the team around him, right?

743
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,560
That's what we're doing. Right. Yeah.

744
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:38,560
Scrap this other guy.

745
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:48,560
But I'd see that where you lose me. I I follow you the whole way around to in that whole conversation.

746
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:50,560
Yes, he didn't understand the moment. Yes.

747
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,560
Anthony Edwards did understand the moment. Yes.

748
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,560
We need to build this team around.

749
00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:04,560
But I don't think that means the nuclear option of just removing cat entirely.

750
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:13,560
I think cat is a number two guy like he's not going to go somewhere else and magically figure out how to be number one.

751
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:19,560
He needs to be behind some leader in the locker room.

752
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:28,560
Clearly, like the best season we saw from Kat and his early career was when KG was there whipping his ass into shape.

753
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:33,560
Can I help with this?

754
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:38,560
I have the perfect team for Kat to go to.

755
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:42,560
We just listen, just listen.

756
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,560
It'd be perfect for both teams.

757
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,560
That's what I'm trying to tell you.

758
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:52,560
I don't think the other team would do it because they look at Kat and they go.

759
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,560
That's a L for us.

760
00:56:55,560 --> 00:57:03,560
What if you could trade cat to the Boston Celtics and you trade Jaylen Brown? Oh, yeah. Minnesota.

761
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:05,560
So I thought those dudes.

762
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,560
Mom, I would kill you right now.

763
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:11,560
Is why?

764
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:14,560
You're not right.

765
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,560
But I have Robert Williams that helped me on the other end.

766
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,560
And I got Jason Tatum.

767
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:25,560
I see I said, and then I got it.

768
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:37,560
Number two, I don't think it's that different with having Rudy go bear and Jaden McDaniels and having Robert Williams, Jason Tatum is because he still thinks he's the number one.

769
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:40,560
But I'm in syndrome all over again.

770
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,560
I don't think this that's permanent.

771
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:52,560
I think that is going I think cat is going to very clearly see he's the number two option when he comes back.

772
00:57:52,560 --> 00:58:00,560
Like trading away his friend for Mike Conley. It couldn't have been a clearer.

773
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,560
Example to him. This is not your team anymore.

774
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,560
And by the way, you're out the door to.

775
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,560
I can't go away.

776
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:17,560
And the town, if you have a house in Minnesota, go get a realtor.

777
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,560
Go get that squared away, bro.

778
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:26,560
Just let you know, because if I was a GM, you wouldn't last three seconds.

779
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:36,560
And I like when I got introduced at the press conference, it when I get introduced at the press conference, it would be like, my first piece of business.

780
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:41,560
No, no, I think it would be a bad move.

781
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:45,560
I understand where everybody's coming from with that. And I understand.

782
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:49,560
I'm just saying for me.

783
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:54,560
Yeah, what I want to see on a basketball team.

784
00:58:54,560 --> 00:59:01,560
I want to see more Anthony Edwards.

785
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:07,560
It's called Anthony Towns. Actually, I like to see the car Anthony towns. I'm saying right now, I see this.

786
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:15,560
No, why not. Can I not see, can I just see this. This is the version of Carl and Lee towns. I want to see on the Timberwolves actually.

787
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,560
Can I see this one? No, no.

788
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:18,400
No, no, no.

789
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:19,240
This is it.

790
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:24,240
More, more McDaniels, more Anthony Edwards,

791
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:30,520
more semblance of good cohesive offense with Mike Connelly

792
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,160
and Rudy Gobert and less Carl.

793
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,960
Actually this amount of Carl Anthony Giles,

794
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:38,280
it works perfectly.

795
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:40,000
Perfect.

796
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:40,820
Okay.

797
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,880
Yeah, I don't think I'm convincing you at this point.

798
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:46,200
No, you're not.

799
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:47,280
You're not.

800
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,320
I mean, this is just how it is.

801
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,800
Oh, I do have a couple other things that I wanna get to

802
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:55,660
and I have questions for you.

803
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:57,960
Yeah.

804
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:03,060
With the lesbian so tumultuous at this point in time,

805
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:11,920
the Lakers are really actually in the plan right now

806
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,040
and could make a mini run

807
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,640
and they could get to six.

808
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:20,880
They could get to six.

809
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:21,720
They could.

810
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:27,160
Everybody's playing like, not great

811
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,720
and they're getting D'Angelo Russell back tonight.

812
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:36,120
So your lack of optimism or optimism

813
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:44,120
or optimism that the Lakers could push for six as of right now?

814
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,240
Six might be a little difficult

815
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,760
because of that team we just talked about.

816
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,080
I think Minnesota is gonna be putting up

817
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:57,800
the standings as well.

818
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:02,800
So I'm not 100% sure you can necessarily contend with them

819
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:07,800
but honestly, I might like your chances better

820
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:14,000
at seven or eight against a team like Denver or Memphis

821
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:18,200
than against what I think will probably be Phoenix.

822
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:19,760
I don't wanna play Denver.

823
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:22,920
That's fair.

824
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:26,320
That's fair, but I'd rather play Denver than Phoenix.

825
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,000
I don't wanna play against Kevin Durant,

826
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:33,000
Devin Booker and Chris Paul in the first round.

827
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,480
I understand.

828
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,800
Do you believe that they're gonna get to two or three?

829
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,120
I think they're gonna get to three.

830
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:45,760
I think they got to get to three.

831
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:47,600
Just cause the rest of the season,

832
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,200
their schedule is pretty easy.

833
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,760
So I think they should be able to close it out.

834
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:57,000
They've got Orlando, they've got OKC,

835
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:02,000
they've got Utah who's gonna be shut off by that point.

836
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:05,160
They've got Philadelphia who should be shut off by that point.

837
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:07,760
So I think they're sitting in a spot

838
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:10,600
where they should win a lot of these remaining games.

839
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:12,720
I guess they do have the two of them

840
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:14,840
with Sacramento specifically.

841
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:18,440
So Sacramento, if Sacramento can win those games,

842
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:20,800
it's gonna be a harder contest.

843
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:25,800
So I guess you would rather play the Kings obviously

844
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:27,720
than either of those teams.

845
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,240
But I would just be worried that you're gonna see

846
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,440
the Suns in the three seed.

847
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:36,960
So I might prefer to finish in that seven, eight seed,

848
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:39,160
even if you have to beat the Pelicans

849
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,000
that'll play in the game or whatever the case.

850
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:45,600
I wonder if Phoenix has the finishing kick to get to three.

851
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:47,840
Because I think without Durant, they don't.

852
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,000
I just, I love Booker.

853
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,920
I love what he's able to do,

854
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:58,320
but I love Booker a lot more with Kevin Durant.

855
01:02:58,320 --> 01:02:59,160
Yeah.

856
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:02,640
Like I think they could stay where they are.

857
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:07,640
I think maybe get to three in like Memphis falls apart.

858
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:10,880
Right?

859
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:14,840
And like sack goes to two, Phoenix goes to three on that.

860
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,240
And then I definitely don't wanna play Phoenix.

861
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:22,600
I would definitely wanna play sack at that point.

862
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:23,920
Mm-hmm.

863
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,360
A lot of it depends on those head-to-head games.

864
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,920
If they can split the head-to-head games,

865
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,800
I think they have a chance to get to three

866
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,480
just because they're going towards the end of the year

867
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:37,640
and they're gonna have shit to play for.

868
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:39,160
And a lot of teams they play against

869
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:41,000
are not gonna have anything to play for.

870
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,160
So it's gonna be Devin Booker

871
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,480
against Eugene Uminyari and stuff.

872
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:52,920
It'll be easy for the Suns to be able to finish the year up.

873
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:54,280
All right.

874
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:59,040
Now you don't have a college basketball team

875
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:00,400
to speak of, sir.

876
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:01,760
No, I don't.

877
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:06,160
But here in Casa de Vence,

878
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:11,160
we are all in on fours up, eight clap all day.

879
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:15,720
UCLA Growns who won their first game

880
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:20,160
in the Pac-12 tournament yesterday, which was awesome.

881
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:21,600
We play Oregon today.

882
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,120
And then it looks like we're on a collision course

883
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:30,120
with Arizona for the Pac-12 Conference Tournament.

884
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:36,560
With the madness about to start,

885
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:42,440
who do you think will be in your final four

886
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,960
when you make the selections?

887
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:47,720
When you put your bracket together

888
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:50,000
and you wanna have your one shining moment

889
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:53,400
and win your bracket.

890
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:54,920
Yeah.

891
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:56,160
Who else is in on it?

892
01:04:56,160 --> 01:05:00,800
Who, what other Canadian brethren is in on your bracket?

893
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:03,120
I-

894
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:05,800
Is Johnny from the Timmy Horton's down the street

895
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:06,640
in your bracket?

896
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:07,680
I just need to know.

897
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:11,640
No, I didn't do a, man,

898
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:14,240
I could not put together a bracket here

899
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,320
if people who play college

900
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,760
or know anything about college basketball,

901
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:21,320
it'd be impossible.

902
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:22,600
Very hard to find.

903
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:24,280
I have-

904
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,600
Are these your friends on the Discord?

905
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:27,960
I know they're into their bracket.

906
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:29,280
Oh yeah, yeah.

907
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:30,880
They're in the bracket too.

908
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:32,760
I haven't actually set mine yet.

909
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:35,040
I haven't looked at the bracket itself.

910
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:35,920
Do we have?

911
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:36,760
No, it's not.

912
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:39,000
I'm just saying like, do you have a-

913
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:40,840
I have a few teams.

914
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:43,040
Yeah, like what's the trouble teams

915
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:45,560
that you feeling really good about?

916
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:46,760
You teams.

917
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:50,400
That, the team we've talked about a lot during this show,

918
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:54,080
I think is actually interesting in Alabama.

919
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:57,240
I think they could make an impact.

920
01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:00,640
They've got a lot of very good players

921
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:04,320
and I wouldn't want to see them win March Madness though

922
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:07,200
after having so many national championships.

923
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:12,200
But I think it's gonna probably come down

924
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:17,200
to the other three teams are your boys in UCLA.

925
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,720
They're clicking right now.

926
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:23,400
I think Jarris Walker, Marcus Sasser,

927
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:27,680
and Houston is gonna be a problem.

928
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:32,280
And my Canadian brethren, Zach Eady at Purdue,

929
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:36,600
is gonna be an issue in these playoffs.

930
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:40,240
It's gonna be hard for certain teams to match up with.

931
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:43,240
Arizona, another good squad.

932
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,840
Those are the teams I'm kind of on so far.

933
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:50,920
I think Arizona might be missing the ultimate firepower

934
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:55,000
to get over the top, but I do like,

935
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,240
I would say those five teams best.

936
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,920
All right, well, I'm gonna do this.

937
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:05,960
Kansas, somehow, some way.

938
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:10,960
The big 12 somehow, some way gets one team in there.

939
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:13,040
Yeah.

940
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:13,880
Janty.

941
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,000
Kansas, probably the best bet.

942
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:21,000
But that whole conference has been just ridiculous this year.

943
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,160
I don't know if you've seen any other games.

944
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:24,480
Yeah, I've seen a few.

945
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:26,440
They play with baseball bats

946
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,240
and all kinds of stuff is great.

947
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:33,960
Houston scares the living daylights out of me.

948
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,280
Yeah.

949
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:41,280
You know, but I'm definitely looking at UCLA going,

950
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:47,240
this is the team that I thought would start the year off.

951
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:50,960
And it just took a while for it to show up.

952
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:52,120
Oh, yeah.

953
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:55,520
Yeah, they believe, which is scary.

954
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:57,040
That's the scary part.

955
01:07:57,040 --> 01:08:00,040
And they have a ton of experience,

956
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:04,080
which is always good at this time of year.

957
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:05,520
Definitely.

958
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:07,520
Is there a guy in the tournament

959
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:09,080
that you're sitting there going,

960
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:14,080
he's in my late teens to the end of the first round

961
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:17,120
that might jump up?

962
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:19,040
Yeah.

963
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:23,800
Yeah, actually, another guy from Alabama there.

964
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:27,280
I'm really intrigued by Noah Clowney.

965
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:31,200
This center class this year is pretty barren

966
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:34,800
and Clowney might not be your most traditional five.

967
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:39,800
He's pretty slight at about 210 pounds, 610.

968
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:44,800
But his ability is incredibly impressive.

969
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:46,360
I love to watch him jump.

970
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,240
He's also kind of unafraid to take the three pointer,

971
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:52,280
though he hasn't been hitting very many.

972
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,520
His touch doesn't look excellent

973
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:56,640
on the three pointer and free throws.

974
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:01,000
Numbers are both a little below average.

975
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:06,000
Though if you could see that form clean up a bit

976
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,880
and he's starting hitting a couple more shots,

977
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:14,800
I could really see Noah Clowney having a huge tournament

978
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:19,400
and working his way into that lottery definitively

979
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:21,040
with this weak center crop.

980
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:25,440
I'm gonna click the reverse curse on somebody.

981
01:09:25,440 --> 01:09:28,960
Because I don't want him to have a good tournament

982
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,520
for specific reasons.

983
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:36,360
My guy, Hood Schifino, out of Indiana,

984
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,320
I'm kind of hoping that he doesn't have a good tournament.

985
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:41,760
I think he's going to.

986
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:44,320
I know, stop, stop yourself.

987
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:46,600
This is what happened to Chris Duarte

988
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:50,320
and my dreams of that falling apart.

989
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:55,320
But if we can get Hood Schifino to like the 19th pick overall.

990
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:01,880
Oh man, I might be looking at him

991
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:03,640
with that Clippers pick we have.

992
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:07,040
I like him quite a bit.

993
01:10:09,480 --> 01:10:10,800
That's an impressive kid.

994
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:15,120
I thought you were gonna say even more self-interested.

995
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:17,600
You were hoping that our guy, Amari Bailey

996
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:19,040
doesn't have a big tournament

997
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:23,480
because then he might just go instead of coming back.

998
01:10:23,480 --> 01:10:27,080
Oh no, I'm fully aware that Amari Bailey

999
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:30,200
is about to punch his ticket to the NBA.

1000
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:32,880
Because you didn't see the first game.

1001
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:34,440
Yeah, yeah.

1002
01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:35,840
Oh, okay.

1003
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,600
He said, oh, okay, okay.

1004
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:40,120
Are we here now?

1005
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:41,480
Oh, okay.

1006
01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:43,320
He is a complete NBA player.

1007
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:45,160
Because he went like this.

1008
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,280
All right, wake me up when the Pac-12 tournament starts.

1009
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:48,640
Oh, we here?

1010
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,120
Okay.

1011
01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:50,960
Yeah.

1012
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:51,800
Yeah.

1013
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:56,800
This Death Star is fully operational.

1014
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:58,280
Yes, man.

1015
01:10:59,480 --> 01:11:01,960
Getting to the free throw line nine times

1016
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,160
in a game like that, incredibly impressive.

1017
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:06,800
Especially from a guy like him

1018
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:10,240
who hasn't really shown much this year.

1019
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:13,080
Well, he's shown a decent amount as a player.

1020
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:16,000
Just he hasn't shown a tendency to get to the line.

1021
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:17,960
I mean, I.

1022
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:21,040
What actually happened was, if you want to know,

1023
01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:26,040
is that he, the whole time this year,

1024
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:29,080
and they started to do it last year, and I saw it.

1025
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:31,640
And I think I mentioned it to you,

1026
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:34,600
but I noticed that Tiger started taking

1027
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,760
corner threes last year, like towards the late end

1028
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:39,720
of the year and into March Madness.

1029
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:44,160
And I said, I bet you he plays off ball next year a lot.

1030
01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:45,920
Oh yeah, I remember that.

1031
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:49,240
And I said, he didn't shoot really well,

1032
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,040
but I noticed that he started to shoot them.

1033
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:57,280
Little did we know that Tiger was going to learn

1034
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,560
how to pump fake and then go to the rim

1035
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:04,200
and then like create more like chaos with that action.

1036
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:05,040
Yeah.

1037
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:07,880
But the whole pre the whole premise of it was

1038
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:12,560
is that Amari Bailey needed the ball in his hands,

1039
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:16,560
and they weren't able to do it this year early

1040
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:19,280
because he did the one thing that you can't do

1041
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:24,280
as a freshman for Mick Cronin, and that's turn the ball over.

1042
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:25,280
Yeah.

1043
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:28,880
But they kept trying it and they kept giving it to him.

1044
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,880
And if I worked in the Pac-12 tournament.

1045
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:40,360
Where do you think Amari Bailey will go?

1046
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,640
What range are you thinking for him now?

1047
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:46,440
You think back end of the first?

1048
01:12:46,440 --> 01:12:48,800
He still has to put more on tape

1049
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:55,160
to levy that type of excitement, honestly.

1050
01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:57,040
And to tell you the truth,

1051
01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:02,920
I mean, if you want to talk about my own selfish thoughts,

1052
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:04,640
I would love for him to come back

1053
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:07,200
because I think if he came back, he would be a lottery pick.

1054
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:08,840
And I'm talking about a high.

1055
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:09,680
Yeah.

1056
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:11,240
High guy.

1057
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:14,280
He'd be looking at a situation similar

1058
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:16,880
to what Ivy was in last year, I think.

1059
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,080
But if he continues this,

1060
01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:27,480
I think he would be around where Peyton Watson went last year.

1061
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:32,640
He would be in the 26 to 25 to 30 range.

1062
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:36,280
I think he's shown a little more

1063
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,680
than a guy like Peyton Watson.

1064
01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:40,080
The problem is just-

1065
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:41,400
It's the class.

1066
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,200
Yeah, it is deeper,

1067
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:48,200
but I'm not sure it's deeper at that specific area necessarily.

1068
01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:54,680
I thought last year's class, the strength of it was

1069
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:59,680
as soon as you got to like 20 or 21,

1070
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:02,440
and then you looked at the next group of guys,

1071
01:14:02,440 --> 01:14:06,920
I could go to like 45 with a guy that I liked quite a bit.

1072
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:10,000
This year, it's a little bit less that way.

1073
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,880
There aren't as many guys I can justify

1074
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:15,720
as first round picks as I could last year.

1075
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:18,520
So that being said, David Roddy,

1076
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:20,520
I'm thinking of first round pick anyways.

1077
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:25,840
So I'm a little more concerned.

1078
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:30,840
I'd say that he ends up just looking at a situation

1079
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:35,840
and maybe he gets a promise at 18 that comes up.

1080
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:40,280
Oh, if he gets somewhere in the teens, he's gone.

1081
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:42,120
Yeah, definitely.

1082
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:45,920
I'm just saying I'd be a little more concerned

1083
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:49,160
that that might happen just because I think the depth

1084
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:51,720
might be a little tested at that range.

1085
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:52,560
I don't know.

1086
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:55,840
I mean, I still think that we haven't seen

1087
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:58,520
like the mid-major guys really,

1088
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:01,920
and the scouts haven't seen the mid-major guys at all.

1089
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:07,080
I mean, not the scouts, the GMs haven't really seen them.

1090
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:12,080
So, and we don't know about a couple of the,

1091
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,120
a couple of the international kids.

1092
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:16,960
Yeah.

1093
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:20,840
Yeah, there are some international guys

1094
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,200
who are undecided in this year's class.

1095
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:28,200
That being said, I'm not sure there's a lot of guys

1096
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:34,120
who are currently expected to go within that range.

1097
01:15:36,480 --> 01:15:39,160
I think it's more of like the backend

1098
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:41,720
of the second round stash guys we're looking at.

1099
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:44,800
I'm trying to,

1100
01:15:47,480 --> 01:15:50,640
I don't think I've seen him that high anywhere.

1101
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:55,640
He would really have to, like he'd have to be

1102
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:05,080
the second leading scorer on the UCLA team

1103
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:10,080
on a final four march for him to get to 18.

1104
01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:14,200
I think he'd need a good combine to be honest.

1105
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:19,560
He's shown the ability to flash here and there

1106
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:22,160
and he's playing on a team like UCLA,

1107
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:24,360
which is at such a high level.

1108
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:29,040
There's so many guys demanding minutes that like,

1109
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,680
the fact that we've seen him show up

1110
01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:33,160
and show out a little bit,

1111
01:16:33,160 --> 01:16:36,480
I think there is a distinct possibility

1112
01:16:36,480 --> 01:16:38,400
we could end up with him in that range.

1113
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:41,600
I'm calling my shot with this one a little bit,

1114
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,480
but I see it in the cards.

1115
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:48,040
If that happens, yeah.

1116
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:51,240
I mean, that's what is supposed to go down.

1117
01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:54,480
So I don't mind if he leaves,

1118
01:16:54,480 --> 01:16:57,000
he was supposed to be one and done anyway.

1119
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:00,480
Having him as a second year is more of a greedy thing

1120
01:17:00,480 --> 01:17:01,300
or whatever.

1121
01:17:01,300 --> 01:17:05,200
I want him to absolutely live out his dreams

1122
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:10,200
and if he can get to that right after the lottery

1123
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:16,400
type of hemisphere, then yeah, go.

1124
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,400
Somewhere like Utah, I think would be a really good.

1125
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:20,760
Please don't go to Utah.

1126
01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:24,520
For the love of God, if,

1127
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:28,200
just come back home.

1128
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:30,720
Just come back to UCLA, man.

1129
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:37,640
If you, listen, you end up somewhere like,

1130
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:39,240
okay, see, okay.

1131
01:17:40,440 --> 01:17:42,240
Don't end up in Utah, man.

1132
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:43,920
Don't do it.

1133
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:45,160
Don't do it.

1134
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:48,280
I just, the on-court fit, I think would be.

1135
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:51,280
Toronto, that's where I want him.

1136
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:52,840
Yeah.

1137
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:54,780
Lice-skinned brothers with Drake.

1138
01:17:56,320 --> 01:18:01,320
Yeah, he could hang out with his new dad there.

1139
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:06,420
He would be talking about his woes.

1140
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:12,360
The guy who I'm really worried about wasn't Bailey.

1141
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:15,040
It's Bona.

1142
01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:16,840
That's who I'm really worried about.

1143
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:18,600
Yeah, no, he's gone.

1144
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:23,240
I'm trying to replace that guy.

1145
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:26,320
I thought we were reserved to that.

1146
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:30,240
I think Bona is a really intriguing prospect.

1147
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:31,480
Bona is my guy.

1148
01:18:31,480 --> 01:18:35,840
So yeah, he's doing freaky, athletic things.

1149
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:39,520
Especially considering what I was saying

1150
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:41,800
about Noah clowning earlier.

1151
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:46,000
Just we have a particularly sparse big class this year

1152
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:51,000
with guys like Lively and Khalil were really disappointing.

1153
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:55,360
So teams are gonna be looking at Bona

1154
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:59,120
and saying like, what other centers are there

1155
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:02,560
if they don't like Clowny or Klingon,

1156
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:07,560
I guess a little later, or Edy in the second round maybe.

1157
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:11,400
Like those are the only other centers

1158
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:14,440
who off the top of my head are even gonna like

1159
01:19:14,440 --> 01:19:16,160
garner draft interest.

1160
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:21,160
So I think Bona is definitely a guy I'd try to make a move on.

1161
01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:24,880
Go 100%.

1162
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:29,880
Is there a guy that is going to shoot up draft boards

1163
01:19:31,440 --> 01:19:33,280
that shouldn't?

1164
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:38,000
Who's the guy, who's the Adam Morrison of March Madness

1165
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:38,840
this year?

1166
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:42,280
Or who was the other guy?

1167
01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:44,760
Who was the other guy that everybody loved?

1168
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:45,680
Was it Napier?

1169
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:46,520
Napier had one.

1170
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:48,080
Napier had a good year.

1171
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:49,080
He had a good year.

1172
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:52,160
He did.

1173
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:57,160
I'm not sure if we have an obvious candidate for that.

1174
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:01,200
A guy I'm hesitant to say

1175
01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:04,720
because I think he could be a good pro still

1176
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:06,480
is Marcus Sasser.

1177
01:20:06,480 --> 01:20:10,280
I could see maybe he just goes nuclear

1178
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:13,840
and ends up getting drafted at like nine or something.

1179
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:15,720
And that would be crazy.

1180
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:18,760
That would be more similar to a guy like Babyon Mitchell

1181
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:21,400
in my mind.

1182
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,320
Another dude, he's a little older

1183
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:28,720
and he's been around the block.

1184
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:33,560
So maybe not, maybe teams will smarten up

1185
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,160
but Kurt Carissa is another guy

1186
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:41,040
who I could see just getting irresponsibly hot from three

1187
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:43,640
and then all of a sudden he goes at 28.

1188
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:46,160
And then a few years from now,

1189
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:48,640
he's like struggling to make the team

1190
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:52,240
on the Edmonton Stingers or something.

1191
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:59,240
But those are a few of the guys I could see making a run up.

1192
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:02,040
The one guy that I'm really scared about

1193
01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:06,840
is the guy from Creighton, Hawkins.

1194
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:08,440
Yeah, that's the guy

1195
01:21:08,440 --> 01:21:11,040
because I think that he has the ability

1196
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,200
to have the ball in his hand, score a lot

1197
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:15,920
and get if he got hot.

1198
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:20,920
Mm hmm. Yeah, I see him moving like to like low end lottery,

1199
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:26,880
like, like low end lottery.

1200
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:30,760
He need to. I don't think he should.

1201
01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:32,560
I don't I don't think he deserves it.

1202
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:33,680
That's my yeah.

1203
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:34,520
That's what I'm saying.

1204
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:37,200
It's like something falls in love with him.

1205
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:38,760
He's Eddie. All this other.

1206
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,240
We hear all the stuff that we normally do.

1207
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:44,960
And it's like, no, no, no.

1208
01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:47,040
That dude should have went twenty two.

1209
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:48,080
Yeah, that's it.

1210
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:49,480
He should have went twenty five.

1211
01:21:49,480 --> 01:21:52,840
We we we we cloud ourselves.

1212
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:57,280
He'd need to go pretty nuclear, I think.

1213
01:21:57,920 --> 01:22:00,560
And like, sure, sure, it's possible.

1214
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:04,560
But I I'd have a hard time seeing it.

1215
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:09,600
I guess you could also say something similar about like Kevin McCullar from Kansas.

1216
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:13,400
He's another guy who if he gets incredibly hot

1217
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,360
and all of a sudden Kansas wins the national championship,

1218
01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:20,560
maybe there is a team in like that that late lottery.

1219
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:24,640
Well, that might be a bit too much of a reach, but like that 20 range

1220
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:27,480
who looks at Kevin McCullar really interesting.

1221
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:30,440
Man, it could even be Grady Dick.

1222
01:22:30,440 --> 01:22:34,680
What happens if Grady Nick just gets like scorching hot

1223
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:38,000
and shoots like 60 percent three throughout the tournament

1224
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:40,520
and all this, I think, just happened six overall.

1225
01:22:40,520 --> 01:22:45,040
I I don't know. It's always possible in March.

1226
01:22:45,480 --> 01:22:47,280
That's that's where my money is.

1227
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:52,200
This Grady Dick is a Grady Dick somehow becomes a top five guy.

1228
01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:56,960
Oh, man. And and like, I don't want it for the kid

1229
01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:59,680
because I actually really like them. Mm hmm.

1230
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:02,480
I think I'm higher on them than you are, actually.

1231
01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:05,560
Yeah, I'm not the highest, but I do like him.

1232
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:08,840
But if that dude went like five.

1233
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,600
Yeah, yeah. All the time.

1234
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:15,280
You. But, oh, yeah.

1235
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:18,360
You basing reputation on your situation, huh?

1236
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:24,120
So, yeah, so that's the primer for the March madness.

1237
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:27,400
I think we are pretty much done here

1238
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:33,080
for the Canadian bomber, for the Canadian Shaman,

1239
01:23:33,440 --> 01:23:37,120
for the Canadian Bill Simmons and for.

1240
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:40,520
The Canadians that glow, Nico Miotolo.

1241
01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:43,600
Do you have any other words

1242
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:48,800
as we go into the madness after this weekend?

1243
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:54,120
No specific words, just I'm I'm excited for the brackets

1244
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:58,120
to come out and to get ready to go.

1245
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:03,840
Give us a follow at Front Runner PC on Twitter at Nico F.R.

1246
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:07,560
PC on Twitter, and we'd love to have you.

1247
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:16,080
And we have a really exciting Monday football podcast coming.

1248
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:20,120
So all the names are out there.

1249
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:25,000
If you are a football fan, be on this feed Monday.

1250
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:28,760
I don't think we have to hit any kind of emergency pod

1251
01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:32,960
between now and then, unless some Lamar or Jeff

1252
01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:35,520
and Lamar Jackson news breaks or.

1253
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:38,680
Yeah, you never from Aaron Rogers news breaks.

1254
01:24:39,440 --> 01:24:41,440
We might have to be on that.

1255
01:24:41,440 --> 01:24:45,440
So but yeah, I can't wait for that discussion on Monday.

1256
01:24:45,480 --> 01:24:48,120
And we will see you then.

1257
01:24:48,120 --> 01:25:05,600
And you guys have a good weekend.