Michael Porter Jr.

A bunch of interesting young players, but none of them are like, wow, prospects that you view as foundationally good.

And then you have these two mercurial mercenary forwards and Julius Randall and Michael Porter Jr. around them.

It's a tough spot because they've taken like, what, seven first round picks in the last two years, but there's always...

this like kind of void in terms of just the one guy that's like, Oh, we can build around this dude for the future.

And your options are, wait, I can take a shot that I will probably make, or I can pass it back to Nikola, who always makes it, who's the best player on earth, and he's open.

Why would I not do that? And Michael Porter Jr.'s answer is, because I'm going to shoot.

That's what I'm going to do.

He mentioned it.

A bunch of interesting young players, but none of them are like, wow, prospects that you view as foundationally good.

And then you have these two mercurial mercenary forwards and Julius Randall and Michael Porter Jr. around them.

It's a tough spot because they've taken like, what, seven first round picks in the last two years, but there's always...

this like kind of void in terms of just the one guy that's like, Oh, we can build around this dude for the future.

I think for the most part, players, or teams rather, are just going to play their players.

Now, if there are some nagging injuries or they're more older veterans, then we could see some, I'm sure we'll see some games management at the end of the season, because there's no point risking Michael Porter Jr.

And then that's the year in the season, right? March back to back game.

Yeah.

You know what? Michael Porter Jr.

takes a day off.

I'm sure that sort of thing will happen, but I don't think we'll get these large stretches of weeks where players just out at the end of the season.

So what

I don't think he'll be traded now.

I don't see a move at all for Michael Porter Jr. or anything like that making any sense.

And I don't really think the Pelicans are actually interested in a Michael Porter Jr. level player from my understanding.

I do think at the trade deadline, they might look to move him.

Maybe there is a competing team that has fallen out of it and they want to clear their books.

Yeah, he said that.

Can we just get Tyler Hero, Kyle Kuzma, and Michael Porter Jr. to believe that they are on a podcast together? You just put microphones.

You don't have anything actually recording.

And then you get AI bots chat and be like, oh, this was so great and insightful.

Zion and Queen.

probably

on par uh some of the other teams that we'll we'll talk about shortly like the brooklyn nets uh julius randall and and michael porter jr

this is probably a better top two if cam boozer has any growing pains they're going to start like 1 and 17 yeah it's so we kind of have to like be he's so ready but we just have to be there but yeah i think you know they're heading in I meant this due for a rebuild.

Yep.

followed by Michael Porter Jr. and Jaden McDaniels to Matty G. I think he's taken Jaden McDaniels multiple times in mock drafts, and for good reason.

I think there's some upside there.

Jaden McDaniels, I think it's a good pick there.

I feel like there's kind of a separation from the top 12 in the Eastern Conference to these bottom three.

So it makes me want to go with these three on the same tier, even though I don't think any of these teams again are untalented with Brooklyn Jordy Fernandez is just such a good head coach like even though they're not the deepest team in the world like right now it's Julius Randle Michael Porter Jr.

I do think Yegor Doman could have a really good second season and I like Mike Cal Brown Jr. a lot the main thing is I just trust Jordy Fernandez to get more wins out of the team than you would expect otherwise so I think I'm kind of right now at least to me let me know your thoughts I kind of have these three teams I think on a similar tier

Yeah, no, I mean, that's totally fair.

But, yeah, I mean, he's got a tall order, you know, ahead of him, you know, employing the new GM's slap.

What is it? Mantra, I guess, in that team.

So that would be interesting to see the Nets like the Nets could get really bad if they do end up trading Michael Porter Jr.,

Yeah, that's the thing that worries me a little bit with them is, I mean, the depth chart, like, right now, they've got, like, maybe Ben Serif or Nolan Traore playing minutes, and neither one of them were great at all last season.