E'Twaun Moore

You know, part of that is you have Derrick Queen here too.

You have E'Twaun Moore.

Those are guy, both guys that were kind of coming off the bench.

So I think when you look at what his role would be, it's probably the four.

Okay, so s- so surely their young players, they should be moving them to get better, right? No, no, no.

E'Twaun Moore is also not available.

Like, what? Okay, that's fine.

E'Twaun Moore's, like, talented and young, but you can't do this.

You can't go, "Here's our starting five.

It has Zion, and Herb Jones, and maybe Sadiq Bey, and Trey Murphy, and DeJounte Murray." How good is that? And then your bench has E'Twaun Moore, and Derek Queen, and Jeremiah Fears, and here comes Ben Mathurin, who's a good talent play.

But, like, what, what are you doing? W- right? Are you trying to be good now, or are you trying to build with these young pieces? And this two timeline stuff just never works.

And Jamal Mosley, the coach they hired, is good at building, like, young teams into a culture team.

I, and-

You know who's the guy to actually bring them all together though is E'Twaun Moore.

Just a real, like, comradery, bring everybody together guy.

They, they might just be embracing, like, yeah, our vibes are terrible, and that's just the way it's gonna be.

And I think this is, like, what's the direction for them? Because right now they have Jeremiah Fears and they have Derek Queen.

They got E'Twaun Moore.

Like, you have a future, like, you have the ability to get better obviously, but you need to let these players work out what they're doing, which we've got Dejounte Murray and Jordan Poole on the roster.

Like, you have so many veterans, it's like, well, are we competing? Are we trying to make the plan? Are we trying to make the playoff? But you're also not good enough to do that either.

So I just feel like they're a team that it very easily should be hitting the reset button right now and just saying, "We're gonna build completely for the future.

We're gonna...

Fears and Queen, E'Twaun Moore, y'all are the core right now," And if Zion wants to be there, let...

You want Zion to be a part of that, then let Zion be a part of that.

And they do some of the dumbest things, and really, like, fucked up...

Like, I think one of the reasons Anthony Davis leaves Ne- leaves New Orleans is they lost guys, but ended up replacing them with Solomon Hill and E'Twaun Moore for four years and 82 million.

And you go on and on, it's just, it leads to Brad Beal signing his first extension, which leads to the second extension.

It leads to the Lakers, Clarkson, Dang, and Mozgov, four years, 188 million combined.

And I wanna say it was, oh, it wasn't, it might've been 2009, I believe, but they were really good.

They had a stretch, some people remember these names, it's been a while, but Robbie Hummel, JaJuan Johnson, Keaton Grant, E'Twaun Moore, great teams.

And then he had a period when those guys moved on that he and the staff, they kinda started focusing on more top 50, top 100 ranked guys.

And for a three or four-year period, they didn't have great success, and he finally got it, got to his staff and said, "Look, fellas, let's go back to who we are.

No, we're not gonna start Derrick Queen.

We're not gonna start E'Twaun Moore.

We're gonna start De'Andre Jordan some games.

He shot 65% from the field, averaged about 16 minutes per game, four and a half points, six rebounds.

Do you switch? Do you stay home? They're gonna not run the same defensive scheme that they have run over the past, you know, four or five years under former head coach Willie Green.

Is Zion engaged defensively? How do you use Zion defensively, right? You know, is E'Twaun Moore, assuming they don't add a center to this team, like a guy that's capable of, of anchoring all of those things, right? Everything I just said is gonna take repetitions that you don't just get in training camp, that you don't only...

You know, and preseason is preseason here.

It's entirely possible that a messy October, November, December, you know, leads to a January where things are different.