Rafael Castro

Because you have to think about how many teams in the NBA are so desperate and thirsty for big man right now, backup big man.

Christian Koloko, we just signed Rafael Castro, the Philadelphia 76ers lost Ariel Hukporti.

Like, so many teams across the league are thirsty for competent big men.

And you'd have to imagine, even if the Lakers gave up a second for Jericho Sims right now, we'd probably, we'd probably be able to get a second round pick back for Jericho Sims at the trade deadline if it, if we needed to.

And so I do think if the Lakers were to trade for Jericho Sims, it wouldn't be the end of the world.

If they gave up a second round pick, it would be close to the end of the world, but I would still hold out hope that they have some contingency plan in place to recoup that second, and maybe they even flip Jericho Sims at the trade deadline for another second because, again, as I mentioned at the top of the show, NBA teams are in very much want of any sort of competent big man at this stage.

And if you're saying, "Oh, Rafael Castro and, you know, Christian Koloko is better than this guy," I think you're galaxy braining things a little bit.

Like, Jericho Sims is not, like, a world beater by any means, but he has shown flashes every step along the way of being a competent big man who has very specific strengths, and if you can hone and channel those strengths to meet particular needs of your team, of which the Lakers do have a real need at the backup center position, then we're at least plugging a hole.

NBA debut, but it, it was certainly a rough shooting performance, and then I feel like he didn't impact the game the way that I, I think he'll need to to earn more minutes.

Uh, Rafael Castro made his debut Two points, three rebounds.

It was, I would say a mixed bag in, in some ways, in my opinion, where, like, you see... 'Cause especially when it's, it's a guy like this who, at least with Kaluuma, he's been in the system.

Right? Like, he was with South Bay.

And when you look at the rest of the West, when you look at, [sniffs] um, how, you know, the top teams in the conference, the top teams in the league are kind of built out their rosters, you, uh, in this apron world where teams are a little bit more resistant to just keep throwing money on rosters because there's the second apron that, you know, we've been through this, right? Like, the, the limits that puts on roster construction.

You just need to have young guys and, you know, hopefully Cameron Carr, you know, for the Lakers' sake, hopefully Cameron Carr and Adu Thiero and, you know, um, uh, who, who's, uh, Rafael Castro.

Like, I'm-

Sure, sure, sure

I mean, I'm sure tomorrow will be more stories coming out.

Right now it's still a lot of teams, um, talking about potential uh potential Kyrie trades potential Durant trades I mean I thought we were kind of over all that not the Kyrie trades I still want a lot of traction on those you guys know I'm kind of a big fan of these talks so um but I mean you know big shout out to to Rafael Castro the guy got signed by the Lakers um so good for him I mean there's that that's kind of good news so at least the Lakers you know saw some potential in this kid um but let's see man let's see let's see what's gonna happen with this kid how he's gonna do if if the Lakers end up even keeping him but currently our roster stands at um you know should definitely do some some roster comps with the Rockets and OKC um I don't think they release the I don't think they release let's see if they'll release the yeah they haven't released the training not training but they haven't released the the starting lineups or anything yet but you know as of now we have Durant LP a man Fred Marcus Smart Reed Stephen Adams Tari Bruce Thornton Bogdan Klinkebella Jabari Oscar Shibue Isaiah Crawford Kadrio Copeland Julian Phillips Sean Padula and Jay Sean Tate okay so that's three six nine 12 15 18 man roster all right so that that's pretty good I'm pretty okay with that um again young hungry team uh we have a lot of potential here a lot of of room for growth a lot of development and I mean OKC they have shade they have this kid man this kid this kid can ball man I don't know if you guys have watched a lot of this kid but I'm really impressed with him right I mean they played last night with with the Pacers um and you know it was the first time these guys are meeting with with a full full staff um in a long time I mean they got this kid A.A. Mara OKC I'm talking about but the Pacers finally got Halliburton back and Hallie is looking great man I don't know about you guys but Hallie is looking incredible and I'm I'm ready for that man I'm ready for Hallie to come back um you know he was gone most of last season uh currently OKC's roster A.A. Mara Jalen Williams Chet Holmgren Jared McCain Jalen Williams Hardenstein um Shay Cason Wallace Thomas Sorber uh Bennett Stints AJ Mitchell Alex Caruso Ortega Owe uh Kendrick Williams Brooks Bomzer Nikola Topic Josh Dix Christoph Tilley Tyler Smith Anthony Pritchard and Andrew Holyfield so I mean OKC is equally stacked especially this kid this kid A.A. man like that guy is he's gnarly so let's see what happens tomorrow tomorrow's gonna be an interesting day it's gonna be an interesting uh matchup and I'm gonna try to watch it I think I leave the office what's tomorrow Thursday 15th yeah I'll be leaving the office kind of early so I may come home early but you know I think I tell you guys Toyota Center is not far from my office so I could even watch watch the game downtown so let's see let's see what's popping um but yeah man I mean you know news around the league it's all it's all basketball and you've heard me say this in in episodes past um before I do I mean please drop your comments hit the likes hit the subscribes you know we're right there at the start of the season and it's gonna be fun man my takes are gonna get even hotter as we go along hey yeah what's happening my takes are gonna get even hotter as we go along and it's gonna be it's gonna be insane man I'm I'm ready for it I'm definitely ready for it um MJ possibly joining the NBC training staff or the TV staff Peyton Pritchard just got a contract extension uh salary to jump from 8.3 million to 21.3 million so good for him um I don't want to talk about the Lakers because bond the Lakers as my wife would say uh heading into their title defense season the Knicks have provided key roster updates regarding Bruce Brown and adjustments from head coach Mike Mike Brown uh definitely some things to talk about later this week um the Blazers uh Shaden Sharp is expected to miss a massive portion of the season following surgery on a torn right meniscus oof yikes we we wish you a speedy recovery brother I mean no one should ever have to encourage any sort of injuries let alone ACLs and and those the like so that's a massive that's a massive massive blow for for um the Blazers but good luck to the kid good luck to the guy hopefully he recovers soon and you know he just he just recovers man because I've like I said I've been there uh you guys have heard me talk about my ACL woes many many times so good luck to him man um Spurs.

The Spurs are looking like they may be the favorites this year.

Uh, Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs entered the season with heavy expectations.