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Which is crazy, 'cause they went and got some decent people for that second unit.

You got KCP, Dean Wade, Anthony Simon.

They all gonna be playing with one of them stars.

[laughs] Like-

Like, you just didn't have the strength in reserves and the strength in your starters to be able to just throw stuff out there all the time.

I mean, even, like, KCP, who's someone we're gonna probably talk about a little bit later, having a veteran who cut his teeth on that end of the floor, like, that was his reputation early in his career and has put him on these contending teams is, that's a guy who gets after it.

When he might be, like, I don't know, like, your ninth or 10th man, maybe he gets as high as eight.

But when he's one of your reserves a- and deeper into the bench and you feel like, hey, I can go to that guy and ask him to play any scheme or any style I want, and I feel pretty confident he'll pick it up and he'll execute it, it just does open up the playbook a lot.

We saw, um, uh, we saw- Filan Simons

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Filan Simons, and we think it was KCP-

The fifth man was KCP

Um, and I think this team knows we n- we need him to do that.

He n- him and VJ are gonna cover, and, you know, Dean Wade I think also, and KCP sometimes, are gonna cover the best wing defen- wing, wing offensive players on the other team.

And, 'cause LeBron can't do it and V's not gonna do it, you know, VJ's a little, a little bit small for some of those guys, so it's gonna have to be Brown in the starting lineup.

And so that's like, he's g- that's, you're telling him, like you're projecting forward, like that's your, if everyone's sacrificing, that's where you're, you're doing the most.

Yeah.

He's like, "You know, the 2020 Lakers, we just had a lot of great perimeter defenders." And he put together, like, a highlight clip of, it was, like, Avery Bradley, KCP, Danny Green, and that's it.

Yeah, right.

THT, like, made one steal-

Yeah.

He's like, you know, the 2020 Lakers, we just had a lot of great perimeter defenders and he put together like a highlight clip of, it was like Avery Bradley, KCP, Danny green.

And that's it.

Yeah.

Good move there.

KCP got a buyout after he picked up his $21.6 million player option, gave back just under $4 million.

So the Grizzlies have $17.7 million in dead money on the books for this coming season.

And then lastly traded a Taj Gibson and AJ Johnson to the Pelicans for Micah PV, Jordan Hawkins, Toronto's 2031 second and a 2032 second round swap, which since we're just finishing this out is the most favorable of the Sixers and the jazz.

they've made this center and what i also like is that they have all these different looks they could throw around cam boozer at center zach ed quinton post and isaiah stewart are all very different types of players you could even get into some jumbo-sized lineups whereas do we dare play zach ed and stewart and cam boozer together sure try it i i don't know what they're what's there not to like about this offseason Uh, so the one thing I, man, I even like, I don't know if they're, he's going to make the roster, but like kind of like the Michael PV flyer.

And also you got Toronto second in 2031.

I don't know what a value seconds anymore, but give me the flyers on these distant seconds, the KCP buyout.

I respect that they're getting the dead money out of the way now rather than having waived and stretched.

Which is crazy, 'cause they went and got some decent people for that second unit.

You got KCP, Dean Wade, Anthony Simon.

They all gonna be playing with one of them stars.

[laughs]

My note for Dort's technique was physical, gets low to jam, connect, and blast.

By the way, KCP, Nikhil Alexander-Walker, Davion Mitchell, and Derek White, all very good ball screen defenders, were the next list of most moving screens drawn.

in the last four years.

Alice Caruso, last but not least, is absolutely amazing.