Jason Quick

It takes a special person, I think, and I do think Micah is that guy, to do the type of stuff that he's doing.

There was a great piece in The Athletic from the legend Jason Quick the other day, talking about how Denny Advia called Micah, and I think this is actually before the Ja Morant trade was official, but Denny knew it was coming.

And Denny calls his head coach, his new head coach, and I think Micah was actually visiting Ja at the time, And basically says coach, like, and I'm paraphrasing, but like no hate at all, but how the hell is this going to work? You know, we got Damian Lillard, we got drew holiday.

We got, you know, all these mouths to feed scoot Henderson to Monica Mara and, you know, Donovan Kling and all these guys.

He is managing egos.

Our Jason Quick at The Athletic just had a great piece talking about how in the off season when the Blazers traded for John Moran, that Denny Advia called Micah when he was actually visiting, uh, job back in Arkansas and, and called Micah and was just essentially like coach, like, how's this going to work? Like, you really going to run me out there with Dame and John drew holiday and, And there was nothing malicious, but it was their best player at the time, just having the same questions that the rest of us had.

So for them, as we sit here now, to be sitting there at five and one, their only loss is to the Grizzlies, who are the other success story of this season.

They look great, and they're offensively potent and defensively making it work so far.

But they got smoked, right? And I looked across the locker room, and Steph had a towel over his head, was kind of sitting alone, at his locker, nobody really around him.

And I just literally thought to myself, like, you know, my gosh, this guy, this is kind of his worst nightmare.

And I definitely overreacted to one night.

But to go from that to them not only winning, but like you said, him playing, it is early, but this is MVP caliber type performances.

And the leadership stuff, Like always, I'm not surprised, but to hear him analyze the game last night and analyze the early rollercoaster they've been through reminded you that he is just such a steady hand when it comes to being a guy who, yes, he always leads by example, but he does use his voice.

And I think we're already seeing the benefits of kind of his wisdom on this team.

So a hell of a start for Steph.

Then he turns around Sunday.