Ryan Anderson

Roni Cycley.

And then, surprising to me, Ryan Anderson.

What? He was

sneaky.

That is also incorrect.

I mentioned him earlier, and this season he won Most Improved Player.

It was Ryan Anderson.

Ryan Anderson.

And this type of archetype does not grow on trees, right? Six foot nine floor spacer does not grow on trees.

I compared him to an OG Ryan Anderson for those who are familiar with him.

Used to play for like the Houston Rockets.

I believe he might've played for the Orlando Magic as well.

Sounds about right.

yeah I was watching this video and it's Harden running and pick and roll Eric Gordon shooting threes I'm pretty sure he won the three-point contest that season and then uh you're right and then it was Ryan Anderson that was like the guy that like I loved because that's kind of how at the time that's how I would like player comp myself I was kind of just like tall-ish but I couldn't really do anything but shoot so I'm like this guy's kind of like me and then From there, I kind of started following the team really through the Mike D'Antoni era, like ever since he left and Harden left, I haven't really cared.

So I'd say nowadays my favorite team is probably the Chicago Bulls just because my favorite player in the league is Josh Giddey.

If you look at my Twitter header, you see that? Like even in the pre-draft of that 2021 summer, I was like, I feel like this guy plays like me because it was kind of like, Before I learned how to dribble and move, I was like a Ryan Anderson.

But then I think I kind of like felt like I played like Josh.

And I'm like, you know, this guy's sick.

yeah it's really just a matter of being in shape for it or not you know you get one down and back uh up the court and you're like oh i'm gonna get a sub

yeah you you look like you're an athletic guy though you look like you're in good shape you look like you're in much better shape than me so uh and like i said i did point out that you are definitely much younger than i am and uh so yeah dude go get them In high school, did you play like on varsity? And what would you say was like your player comp? I know you mentioned you were kind of a shooter.

So he-- They've both, they've both been around.

Dagenhart, taller, bigger, maybe like a Ryan Anderson type of power forward.

You know, uh, obviously not that athletic, but have the skills to, you know, be able to obviously shoot from the outside.

But even small stuff like him driving and being able to stop on a dime and then, you know, uh, fade away from a mid-range, like stuff like that.

And typically in the last decade or so, it's not these role players who go from like pretty good player to solid role player.

You know, you saw like Aaron Brooks, Ryan Anderson, guys like that, when it back in the day, it's now a already established good player who becomes a borderline great player.

who typically makes their first all-star game when they win this award.

And I think Brandon Miller for me checks the most boxes, you know, Charlotte sending out lamella ball, sending out miles bridges.

Yeah.

And you know, there was a run like 15 years ago where you would kinda see a guy who would go from like an okay role player to a really good role player win this award, like Ryan Anderson, Aaron Brooks, Hedo Türkoğlu, guys like that.

Y- you could pretty much project out the exact type of player that it is now.

Like we said-

But, uh, every team we'd come up against seemed, seemed to have someone, um, who was getting drafted the next year.

Arizona State had, uh, James Harden playing for them at the time, and Arizona had Chase Budinger, and California had Ryan Anderson, and Stanford had the Lopez twins.

It was like every other game you came up against someone who was gonna get drafted in the, in the, in the first round the next year.

So, you know, a pretty incredible environment.

Yeah.

I remember the good old days when it was Ryan Anderson who-

Sure

... we were talking about wasn't a good locker room guy.