Just how do you feel... his presence will help open things for Washington's shooters and spacing-wise, but also for bigs like Sar and Anthony Davis.

Yeah, I think having a true pure point guard is my second reason of optimism heading into this year.

It truly makes a difference, Greg.

You haven't had a guy like Young, his caliber, since John Law.

I mean, he had Russ for one year in 2020, but his ability to have all – Defenders eyes on him draw so much attention and you saw in this limited sample size last year and five games I mean it truly made a difference in the half-court offense.

So having a guy in young defensively, I understand the narrative liability the size I i don't care greg what he gives you offensively it overshadows any defensive liability talk on from on his end and i think when you have i mean outside of him everyone else is six four plus greg so you have the size and then at the two whether it's keshawn the law i i'm not worried about this the wizards were already a bad defensive team greg And when you add Trey Young and the people that didn't like Trey Young, it's like, oh, he's bad at defense.

The whole team is bad at defense, Greg.

Who would you start in that fifth spot on offense to kind of counteract some of the potential maybe spacing issues?

AB, is there a specific target that you think they should go after in terms of bigs?

If we're talking about ideally or realistically...

Realistically, I'm assuming Nurkic.

The offensive game is there.

Defensively, he is limited.

And 31 years old, younger than Anthony Davis.

I like his game.

He's going to really have a big year.

So why the Wizards ultimately go with AJ?

I think to answer the DP situation, the s- st- strategy ultimately was that he knew he was gonna be a top two pick, so there was no point of working out with Utah, 'cause if he didn't go to Washington, he was gonna go with Utah.

But the Wizards take the 6'9" four out of BYU.

The potential, the upside is truly superstar-like, face-the-league potential.

Led the league in scoring.

In his first March Madness game, had 30-plus points, double double.

Texas head coach l- legit had no answer for the kid.

Sure.

So why the Wizards ultimately go with AJ?

I think to answer the DP situation, the s- s- strategy ultimately was that he knew he was gonna be a top two pick, so there was no point of working out with Utah, 'cause if he didn't go to Washington, he was gonna go with Utah.

But the Wizards take the 6'9" four out of BYU.

The potential, the upside is truly superstar-like, face of the league potential.

Led the league in scoring.

In his first March Madness game, had 30-plus points, double double.

Texas head coach l- legit had no answer for the kid.

Sure.

So why the Wizards ultimately go with AJ?

I think to answer the DP situation, the s- s- strategy ultimately was that he knew he was gonna be a top two pick, so there was no point of working out with Utah, 'cause if he didn't go to Washington, he was gonna go with Utah.

But the Wizards take the 6'9" four out of BYU.

The potential, the upside is truly superstar-like, face of the league potential.

Led the league in scoring.

In his first March Madness game, had 30-plus points, double double.

Texas head coach l- legit had no answer for the kid.

Sure.

I mean, AB, do you buy this report at all? What percentage are you buying of Fisher's report that it's possible that Young gets dealt in this offseason?

I definitely think it's unlikely.

I don't put too much stock into it.

I just think it's the offseason.

A lot of rumors are being thrown out there.

I just feel like it's the same situation with the Wizards trading down.

Didn't see likely that happening.

Bottom line by October, AB, is Trae Young the starting point guard of this team?

But I feel like the top four, you can feel the most confident in one of those guys becoming a franchise player.

I 100% agree, guys.

I think those guys are in their tier of their own.

And I'm more high on Wilson than Boozer.

But don't get me wrong.

I'm not going to say you're wrong if you have Boozer over Wilson.

I just think Wilson's athleticism and his two-way potential is very, very impressive.

But what does that change about what you're looking at with Anthony Davis? What does that change about your front court outlook for the future?

Is anything stopping the OKC Thunder this year?

Yeah, I don't think so, Ryan.

And as great as Victor Wembanyama is, he's an alien, this Thunder team from top to bottom is very stacked.

And hey, they just added the 2024, or supposed to be Rookie of the Year, he got hurt though, but Jeremy Cain can ball out and the fact that he landed on this squad, it's a perfect place for him.

I mean, Lu Dort, Cason Wallace, Chet Holmgren, all of these guys can be really good pieces on all these different types of franchises in the NBA.

And I know people were questioning them when they went on a skid, they lost to San Antonio, and everyone was like, "Oh, they didn't get the regular season record." It doesn't matter.

They're still gonna win 55 plus games.

Uh, [laughs] your, your thoughts, Abdullah, on Julius Randle as the second option on a title contender?