David Jacoby

If the young players, if the young talent eval, and that includes like Noah and, you know, even guys like Zaire, who is now no longer here, and Dayron, right? And hey, I like Minot.

But it's just, hey, as my boy David Jacoby shouted me out on the mismatch pod, Verno was saying, like, what are they? And I just think that if they're going to be bad this year, then like really bad and again remains to be seen then they really have to answer that question of like if you know these some of the sophomores are straight up out of the rotation and you trade mpj and you trade them for assets they have to have some really uncomfortable conversations about what this young talent pool looks like and what that means.

And if the goal really was to be feisty and competitive, why... have to evaluate those moves on that basis so like yeah mo wagner's a great locker room guy or whatever and like yeah i like keon and um randall and you know whatever you get out of mpj this year but if you don't even achieve that level of goodness and you didn't invest that much that's also like you have to ask tough questions about why that is and what your talent eval on like those margins are and like you're pro scouting.

And so I say all that to say, like, if they, like, if this is seemingly yet and yet again, like part of the longer rebuild year, like plan, right.

I'm Chris Vernon.

And joining me to see this every week from TheRinger.com is Dave Jacoby.

Jacoby!

It's late Monday night and we're taping this, meaning you'll be listening to this.

And before you go to sleep tonight, there'll be a banner.

No, you don't have to.

I just started writing down a bunch of crap.

And I was like, do I want to go with this? Do I want to go with this? I'll just throw them all at Jacoby.