Laz, after you heard that news or saw that report, what is your feeling right now with this whole Jalen Duren situation? Where do you think it's at right now?

So my supposition, my imagination, I imagine that it's in the same position it was prior to the report, right? The real tell is that it's Jalen Duren and Peyton Watson are mentioned in the same breath, right? Like those dudes don't have the same agent as far as I know, not part of the same agency, like not on the same team.

So like who would benefit from such a report that both of the high pro, that two of the remaining high profile guys left in restricted free agency might play out the qualifying offer? Like, hmm, it might benefit those individual players and put pressure on the teams to come to deals with those individual players? Like I wonder.

And so like I don't think that this is, I think that this report is designed to put pressure on the front office.

But again, like I tweeted, like the due date for the qualifying offer is like October 1st.

That's two months from now.

The Nuggets are in a really hard place because of what Sam Pressley just did with the Spencer Jones contract, which was hilarious.

A- are you, are you worried now about the rest of the Eastern Conference because they've made moves? Do you think the Pistons are, are in a dangerous place?

A through F. Yeah, I think

currently.

OK, I'm going to be super pedantic and be like, technically, it's incomplete because they haven't figured out what's up with Jalen Dern.

But like if you just grade what they've done so far with the presumption that Jalen Dern resigns in some manner.

I think you give it like a B minus.

I think that the Pistons were very loudly rumored to be after more impact players than they are more like bigger names.

They didn't get any of those bigger names.

Yeah, you guys did this