James Nnaji

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And so I think that that competitive spirit from top to bottom, um, you know, a, a healthy James Nnaji, we, we've got a little bit of everything.

Mm-hmm.

Um, you know, how we're able to piece that together, obviously, you know, that's the question that every coach in America-

Now, last year if you remember, we had a couple of guys who were either... who had signed contracts or were drafted.

You had James Nnaji, who was part of the Karl-Anthony Towns trade, was the 31st pick in the NBA.

He played at Baylor.

Frankly, didn't really matter.

Unfortunately, I think we might see some of that.

Yep, and I wanna bring this up as well because we saw this with Baylor last year when they brought in James Nnaji.

I didn't think that they were gonna be in for some sort of amazing season, but I could tell they were not the same team after they brought him in.

I think with everything that's happening this year, we could see guys either be ineligible to start the year and then become eligible or vice versa, go from being eligible because they get one of these temporary restraining orders.

Like, it, it's not going to be very big in the front court.

They got James Nnaji, which is really funny.

I, I don't really know what that's all about.

Um-

And I know this is probably just a recency comparison.

I saw James Nnaji look good in that same role.

I've seen Dame Sarr look good in that same role with Barcelona.

In their limited minutes, they can be overvalued.

James Nnaji was good in the limited minutes he played for Barcelona.

When I watched James Nnaji, I wanna say it was 2021, I watched him play in a, in, like, a game against his peers.

He was bigger, stronger, I mean, he was just physically more gifted than everybody on the floor.

But they were trying to feed him post touches and he, he looked, he looked bad.

I thought Jalen Pickett could be all right.

I thought James Nnaji was gonna be good.

He was playing for, like, what, Baylor this past season? Hmm.

I like Colby Jones a lot coming out of Xavier.