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Like, you know, the, the Wizards, Indiana, Brooklyn, those are, like, bad teams, but punking bad teams is like, that's part, that's part of the gig, right? And then when he got to the playoffs, Donovan Klingon had a bit of a sobering experience in his first postseason action.

Down the stretch of the play-in game with three minutes to go, trailing the Suns, they pulled Donovan Klingon and went small.

It changed the game, and it was a precursor of things to come because he struggled once they got to the playoffs playing against the Spurs.

He was 14 of 46 overall from the field, including 5 of 25, uh, fr- from three.

Mm.

But I don't think the Bulls are in this situation, but if I'm one of these like competitive teams, like the Timberwolves, and we saw this already with them, the Suns, I don't really care about my pick.

Okay.

I have zero chance to control it.

We didn't talk about this yet, Keith.

The Phoenix Suns, they just lost Mark Williams today.

Yeah.

Uh-

Yeah.

Um, do, does...

How much of the Suns' success this season now hinges upon the, uh, step forward of Kamari Watch?

Yeah, big time, right? 'Cause this is a team that intends to be good and continuing to, uh, move forward and, and upward in their team arc.

We have people that still hold it against people for being on that team.

Certain people dislike members of their own team because that member was on That Suns team.

There's people that don't like Cam Johnson because he was on that Suns team.

You mean fans of the team that don't like Cam Johnson? Yeah.

Yeah,

One of those pieces is not available and it shifts because he's not available from the onset of the season, even before that, shifts the dynamic of everything.

Kamau Malawach is the X-Factor for the Phoenix Suns this

season.

Full stop, full stop.

Like, there's been, there's always gonna be some GM that maybe wants to make a big move.

Like in the Mark Williams trade for the Suns was interesting at that time.

But to ge- at least, like, Mark Williams didn't, didn't even get the $20 million.

Not that he's better than Derek Lively.

Kind of.

I mean, Josh Hart, whatever he is.

He, and he played power forward for the, uh, Suns, right?

No.

So like I think I think like there's been so much stuff about Bradley Beal like just how like he lacks real self-awareness and it's just like kind of a guy that just doesn't seem to read the room very well like.

When he got traded to the Suns, of course, that was a disaster.

They ended up not winning a single playoff game and then not making the playoffs the next year.

And a report came out that he didn't get along with Mike Boonholzer, who wanted him to be Drew Holiday.

Yeah.

kind of had a tough time just being the number one player on a very shitty, on a pretty shitty Washington Wizards, and, you know, miscast as a number one option.

But it's clear he seems to think he is the dude, right? He comes to, you know, the Suns and doesn't really, like, take a step back, still wants to be that dude, still wants to play like that dude.

And unfortunately, he's just been derailed a lot by injuries and age catching up to him.

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So I think that's why he snuck into the top five this time around.

Then at number four, we have Devin Booker from the Phoenix Suns.

Booker's always been solid, but I just feel like he's been a bit overrated recently.

in comparison to what he's actually doing on the court.