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The one thing I would say is I agree with you that not all these kids coming over are created equal.

He wasn't playing in the Adriatic League against a bunch of skinny white guys that want to space it.

He's playing EuroLeague against guys that have played in the NBA, guys that were stud-stud college players.

And the evidence in the exhibitions was good stuff.

Calderon, another Brazilian kid, this time from Kansas, is a total lottery ticket, but... seemingly has the size and athleticism to play at the high major level.

Jordan Ellerbee from Florida Gulf Coast is another kid that can shoot it and score it.

And their real lottery ticket is the Asim Zulevich, who they're bringing over from the Adriatic League.

Six foot nine, kind of combo forward, not much of a shooter, but he's been a good scorer and rebounder in a somewhat highly thought of league over there.

Again, all indications are that he's awesome.

A lot of good experience in the Adriatic League.

Looked really good against Georgetown.

And I think this is a good time to sort of bring this up, but I've been having this sort of a bit of a concern with GW.

Obviously, in this situation, it's Greece.

I think there was a referee in the Abba League last year that got arrested for the same thing.

So, I just...

It just...

Yeah, yeah, we have to wait and see.

But I guess that given the fact that Motley is still out, Zundu came back this weekend in the Adriatic League, he'll be on time for the game.

But I don't think he'll have a significant role in such an important game as a Serbian derby, especially since Zvezda won two games last week and they're on a roll, right?

Yeah.

I mean, the playmaking just so smooth on the ball.

How valuable is it to have a guy come in who has that experience in a league like the Adriatic League and has that pro experience? And sort of what does that bring to the locker room to have someone with that sort of unique background?

Yeah, I think what's important to note is like, you know, he really was, he went to college.

Yeah.

He was playing sort of like what I would consider to be like semi-pro basketball while he was in college, sort of working his way up at a pretty low level.

And really only last year, you know, gets the opportunity to go play in the Adriatic League and has some success.

He's really kind of a, I'll say a late bloomer for one of these international players that's as good as he is.

And that that's it's pretty cool, but he does have a lot of experience, a very smart player.

games in...

Liga ABA, the Serbian archaic up in KLS.

So he's playing for Mega Baymax, which is the famous developmental club that has the pink and neon

jerseys.

So I think either of Jericho Sims.

Honestly, Boguju Markovic, one of the biggest things he provided during summer league and something that I thought he did real well even in the, uh, in the, uh, Adriatic League was rebound the ball.

So one of Khalil Ware, Boguju Markovic, or Jericho Sims should be on the floor next to Miles Turner in any situation where Turner is on the floor, um, to protect him from a rebounding perspective.

Number two, um, is that this team still probably needs to lean a lot more into the idea of Jaime Jaquez as an off-the-bench player, um, even more so based off games like this where the team struggled to score off the bench.

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Um, and if you're co- I mean, I've talked about this on some episodes, but if it, it started with them announcing they couldn't afford to stay in Euroleague, so they were gonna drop out of Euroleague.

Um, but then, uh, they couldn't prove their books were good enough to stay at the top tier of the French league, so they were g- got sent down to the third tier of the French league, and there was apparently some time when they were going to, um, try and play in the ABA League.

Uh, but now they just announced like, "Nah, it's just a wrap." All right? And I will say, now, if I were a billionaire, and, and who says I'm not? Lots, [chuckles] lots of billionaires live in ADUs and have payment plans with their hospitals, um, just to stay connected to the common, common man experience, you know? But anyways, if I was a billionaire, and I may be, uh, buying and reviving AS Monaco would be fun as hell.

Way more fun than cobbling together an insane ownership, ownership group to try and buy an NBA team just to run that into the ground, you know? Uh, I still think I...