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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to hoops tonight. You're at the vall
Speaker 1: you happy Sunday everybody. I hope all of you guys
Speaker 1: are having a great football Sunday so far. But Drew Holliday,
Speaker 1: in the latest move in the arms race in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, is headed to the Boston Celtics. So I
Speaker 1: want to do a quick ten to fifteen minute breakdown
Speaker 1: of that to get you guys ready for this season.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So basic breakdown of
Speaker 1: the trade. The Celtics get Drew Holiday, the Blazers get
Speaker 1: Robert Williams, the backup center from the Celtics sometimes starting center,
Speaker 1: and Malcolm Brogden, the guard who was a little annoyed
Speaker 1: that his name was thrown around in trade conversations this
Speaker 1: summer even though he did not get traded. And then
Speaker 1: the Blazers get two more first round picks as well.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna go into further detail, much much further
Speaker 1: detail on everything involving the Celtics in the season when
Speaker 1: we do their season preview, which is coming up this week.
Speaker 1: But today I want to briefly hit what Drew Holliday
Speaker 1: will bring to the Celtics, what it means for the
Speaker 1: Bucks Celtics matchup and how they stack up with the Nuggets,
Speaker 1: and then what it means for the Blazer So we'll
Speaker 1: just hit three quick things. We'll just go for about
Speaker 1: ten fifteen minutes this morning. So what woul Drew bring
Speaker 1: to the Celtics. I look at it in three parts,
Speaker 1: what he can do on the ball, what he can
Speaker 1: do off the ball, and what he can do on
Speaker 1: the defensive end of the floor. Let's start on the ball.
Speaker 1: So last year, Drew averaged nineteen points, five rebounds, and
Speaker 1: seven assists per game on fifty nine percent true shooting.
Speaker 1: He was one of the best pick and roll ball
Speaker 1: handlers in the entire NBA. Last year. He didn't qualify
Speaker 1: for our high volume list because remember that was a
Speaker 1: minimum of one thousand, but he ran nine hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty six. So for all intents and purposes, he was
Speaker 1: a high volume pick and roll guy last year, one
Speaker 1: point one to one points per possession, which is outstanding.
Speaker 1: If I dropped the qualifier to seven to fifty instead
Speaker 1: of one thousand, we hit thirty four players who ran
Speaker 1: at least seven hundred and fifty pick and rolls, and
Speaker 1: Drew was fourth on that list out of thirty four players,
Speaker 1: behind only Damian Lillard, Luka Doncic, and Steph Curry. Now,
Speaker 1: what I noticed on tape this year when I was
Speaker 1: watching Drew really really nice chemistry with Brook Lopez, in
Speaker 1: particular on pick and pops and then little short roles.
Speaker 1: He was really active as a passer in pick and roll,
Speaker 1: which is what they needed him to be, right And
Speaker 1: he also shot really well on pull up threes thirty
Speaker 1: six percent on four point three pull up three point
Speaker 1: shots per game. He had a fifty two percent effective
Speaker 1: field goal percentage on pull up jump shots overall, So
Speaker 1: you get the idea. If he gets comes off that
Speaker 1: ball screen has tons of space. He's rising and firing
Speaker 1: is particularly from three, which helps him with his efficiency.
Speaker 1: And then he has really good because he's a bigger,
Speaker 1: stronger guard. He's really good at leveraging himself physically to
Speaker 1: create angles for pocket passes and behind the back passes
Speaker 1: and passes to the popping Lopez at the top of
Speaker 1: the key. Things along those lines. Just a good combination
Speaker 1: of passing and shot making. Now I expect him to
Speaker 1: run some pick and pop with poor zingis because that's
Speaker 1: kind of a natural kind of transition, right. But one
Speaker 1: of the things I'd look for a lot this year
Speaker 1: is Drew and Jason Tatum running pick and roll together.
Speaker 1: Tatum is one of the like underrated really good short
Speaker 1: role players in the league because he's actually really gifted
Speaker 1: passer and they don't do it that often. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see them do it more. But it's a great
Speaker 1: way to manufacture dribble penetration. Remember this is a driving
Speaker 1: kick team. They beat you with aggregate ball handling and
Speaker 1: shooting in a lot of cases, especially in the meat
Speaker 1: and potatoes of the season, right before we get to
Speaker 1: things when they slow down. So like, one of the
Speaker 1: great ways to manufacture dribble penetration is instead of having
Speaker 1: a dude dribble seventeen times and try to beat somebody, goes,
Speaker 1: set a ball screen and slip it and have Drew
Speaker 1: Holiday hit you on the bounce or on a lob
Speaker 1: over the top so that you can navigate a four
Speaker 1: on three and maybe make a play right, because those
Speaker 1: switches are so difficult to navigate, So look for a
Speaker 1: lot of Drew pick and roll to try to get
Speaker 1: them started offensively. And then he's also one of the
Speaker 1: better options in the league in switching schemes because he
Speaker 1: can attack matchups. He was one of the best post
Speaker 1: up guards in the NBA. Last year. Drew Holiday averaged
Speaker 1: one point one to four points per possession in post
Speaker 1: ups including passes. Ninety five possessions too, so that's more
Speaker 1: than once per game. Now, we heard a lot about
Speaker 1: this when Brad Stevens was talking about it after the
Speaker 1: season when they went after Porzingis. But one of the
Speaker 1: biggest concerns for Boston is, you know, their top tier
Speaker 1: ball handlers Tatum and Brown are still developing, right, and
Speaker 1: so sometimes they can struggle and slow down half court environments.
Speaker 1: And so one of the things that opponents will do
Speaker 1: is to start switching, because when you switch, it stagnates
Speaker 1: them and dares their primary ball handlers to make plays
Speaker 1: off the bounce right. And so they vastly improved their
Speaker 1: versatility in switching schemes offensively this year by adding Porzingis
Speaker 1: a bona fide post up threat, Andrew Holliday a guard
Speaker 1: who can punish smaller guards as well. So they just
Speaker 1: have more ways to attack switching schemes as currently constructed
Speaker 1: than they did last year. Drew also shot sixty eight
Speaker 1: percent in the restricted area last year, which is like
Speaker 1: off the charts good for a guard, and he's properly slotted.
Speaker 1: You got to remember in the Bucks offense, they needed
Speaker 1: him to shoot a lot. And that's not to say
Speaker 1: that he can't for the Celtics, but I think he's
Speaker 1: going to get to be like call it twenty percent
Speaker 1: more so, and how often he's going to be aggressive,
Speaker 1: and I think that's going to bump his efficiency even further.
Speaker 1: I'd expect him to be down around like sixteen seventeen
Speaker 1: points per game, but over sixty percent true shooting. That's
Speaker 1: what I see from Drew Holliday this year off ball, deadly,
Speaker 1: on catch and shoot, jumper sixty seven percent, effective field
Speaker 1: goal percentage seventy one percent when he was unguarded one
Speaker 1: point one five points per possession, and spot up situation,
Speaker 1: so that's including his ability to attack closeouts. That's in
Speaker 1: the sixtieth percentile, so considerably above average. He's also a
Speaker 1: good cutter. He's spend a decent amount of time in
Speaker 1: the dunker spot, specifically when uh Jiannis would be working
Speaker 1: from the top of the key in his you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of like barrel down the lane ISOs a
Speaker 1: lot of times, like Drew Halla would just kind of
Speaker 1: naturally end up in the dunker spot, and he can
Speaker 1: navigate as a cutter down there. He also will flash
Speaker 1: high a lot and try to get you know, release
Speaker 1: valve possessions when when the teams are loading up and
Speaker 1: pick and roll on Chris Middleton or something along those lines, right,
Speaker 1: the occasional even see a duck in from Drew Holliday,
Speaker 1: something that he can do. So he's a really really
Speaker 1: versatile off ball player as well. I think I think
Speaker 1: overall on offense, he's a perfect and natural fit next
Speaker 1: to Tatum and Brown. He already knows how to run
Speaker 1: pick and pop from Brook Lopez. That'll be a natural
Speaker 1: fit with Chris tops porzingis couple things. One, what did
Speaker 1: we say about Boston and ball handling? So if you
Speaker 1: remember after they lost to the Heat excuse me, after
Speaker 1: they lost to the Warriors in twenty twenty two. You know,
Speaker 1: Colin Coward and I had this long conversation after that series,
Speaker 1: like what does Boston need? Do they need a guard
Speaker 1: like that? Maybe they need to improve their aggregate ball handling, remember,
Speaker 1: And so they went out and got Malcolm Brogden, And
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, it's like because the idea
Speaker 1: was like Tatum and Brown are not quite ready to
Speaker 1: be like offensive initiators at the highest level. That was
Speaker 1: kind of the the takeaway coming from that twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two series, Right, So Derek White's already there but then
Speaker 1: you bring in Malcolm Brogden, you vastly increase the aggregate
Speaker 1: ball handling on the roster. Right, But then we find
Speaker 1: out they on into the Miami Heat and the conference
Speaker 1: finals and a couple of situations against the Sixers as well,
Speaker 1: when that series dragged on, and it's like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: Like the ball is still ending up in Tatum and
Speaker 1: Brown's hands and they're still struggling because like when it
Speaker 1: push comes to shove, it's like, Okay, is Tatum as
Speaker 1: good as a half court shot creator as the best
Speaker 1: guys in the league. Maybe not, but he's better than
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brogden, and he's better than Derek White. So like
Speaker 1: aggregate ball handling is great and all, but like you're
Speaker 1: not gonna pitch the ball to Derek White and just
Speaker 1: have him run all your offense down the end of
Speaker 1: the game, Like he's just gonna get beat by better players. Right,
Speaker 1: Like if I have a five minute stretch and a
Speaker 1: pivotal playoff game and it's Derek White trying to create
Speaker 1: shots versus Steph Curry, like it's not gonna go well
Speaker 1: for you. Steph's just better than Derek White, Right, So,
Speaker 1: like that was the big lesson I learned from the
Speaker 1: Celtics last year and something that I feel pretty passionately about, Like,
Speaker 1: really it comes down to Tatum. It comes down to Tatum.
Speaker 1: Drew's gonna help. We're gonna talk about him on the
Speaker 1: defensive end of the floor, and he's a huge defensive upgrade.
Speaker 1: That's what I look at this as as a defensive
Speaker 1: upgrade for the Boston Celtics. But when push comes to shove,
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum's going to have to out execute some of
Speaker 1: his peers. That's the reality. That is what I said
Speaker 1: after the season. I feel very strongly about that, like
Speaker 1: the ultimate ceiling of the Celtics comes down to Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum's development. Like you can have aggregate ball handling and
Speaker 1: that will certainly help you in the big picture, but
Speaker 1: your top end ball handling is what matters the most
Speaker 1: in these slow down half court environments. And we just
Speaker 1: have one of the best top end ball handlers in
Speaker 1: the league, and Nicola Jokicic just utterly obliterate everyone in
Speaker 1: the league. And these days it's like you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to beat to Jokics, You're gonna have to beat Luca.
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna date now in the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: because that was the thing. Is in the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: it was like, why does Jimmy Butler keep beating all
Speaker 1: these guys, And it's because none of them are half
Speaker 1: court surgeons, be honest. One of the very best players
Speaker 1: in the league, not a half court surgeon. Tatum one
Speaker 1: of the best half court players in the league, not
Speaker 1: a half court surgeon. Joel Embiid one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the league, not a half court surgeon. And
Speaker 1: so they get into these slowdown environments and Jimmy Butler's
Speaker 1: just better than them at that. And so that's the thing,
Speaker 1: is like, now you bring Damian Lillard into the equation,
Speaker 1: and now there's two guys in the Eastern Conference that
Speaker 1: you have to navigate through that are half court surgeons
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Butler and in Damian Lillard, and so like
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Like I love the Drew trade and
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna get a little bit further into it.
Speaker 1: But make no mistake, like Boston's not winning a title
Speaker 1: unless Jason Tatum goes up a level as a half
Speaker 1: court shot creator, and I believe he will. The question is,
Speaker 1: is it this year or is it next year or
Speaker 1: is it the following year. Is it gonna happen while
Speaker 1: this roster is so incredibly talented and put together, or
Speaker 1: is it gonna happen down the line when payroll concerns
Speaker 1: arise and they lose some talent. You know, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the ultimate kind of balancing act here. But I
Speaker 1: do like the idea of going all in on this
Speaker 1: particular right because at the end of the day, like
Speaker 1: if you get if Tatum breaks through, this team's winning it.
Speaker 1: They just have too much talent. This was already the
Speaker 1: most talented roster in the league before we brought Drew Holliday,
Speaker 1: before we brought Kristaps Porzingis into the mix. So like,
Speaker 1: Tatum just just has to make the lead, and if
Speaker 1: he does, I really do think this team is gonna
Speaker 1: end up holding the Larry O'Brien Trophy. Now let's move
Speaker 1: on to the defensive end of the four. Drew is
Speaker 1: one of the most versatile pick and roll defenders in
Speaker 1: the league. I want to emphasize versatile for a minute,
Speaker 1: because what does that mean to me? That has to
Speaker 1: do with scheme to scheme versatility. So, for instance, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of point of attack defenders who are
Speaker 1: really good at navigating screens and bothering ball handlers, but
Speaker 1: really struggle when they get switched onto bigger players. I
Speaker 1: just covered one of these guys with the Lakers. That's
Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder. Right, Like, there are a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that are small, quick, scrappy, can navigate screens, but god
Speaker 1: forbid they get switched. It's just a problem, you know.
Speaker 1: Or like a big man has to contain the ball
Speaker 1: handler because they get caught on a screen once and
Speaker 1: then they have to try to crack down on the
Speaker 1: bit on the opposing big man to try to box
Speaker 1: him out, and he just has no chance because he's tiny. Right.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of guys who are good at
Speaker 1: sliding their feet in an open floor situation and containing
Speaker 1: the ball, but struggle to navigate screens. Anthony Edwards is
Speaker 1: a guy like that. Anthony Edwards really really good on
Speaker 1: ball defender, but has to develop the ability to navigate
Speaker 1: screens better. That's something he'll figure out in the long run. Right.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of guys who can do everything
Speaker 1: on the ball but struggle off the ball. And that's
Speaker 1: what's unique about Drew Holidays. He can literally do it all.
Speaker 1: He can navigate, you can nagate, can't speak. He can
Speaker 1: navigate screens really well. He has the length and athleticism
Speaker 1: to bother players from behind with back pressure. He can
Speaker 1: contain the ball straight up in isolation situations. He can
Speaker 1: switch on to forwards and guard in the post. He
Speaker 1: can defend off the ball. He actually is a really
Speaker 1: good feel for defensive playmaking, which is like when you
Speaker 1: break off script to try to make a play like
Speaker 1: a random double team or jumping a passing lane or
Speaker 1: something along those lines. It's a major basketball like q
Speaker 1: thit and you can do some damage to your team
Speaker 1: if you're not careful. But Drew just has a really
Speaker 1: good feel for that kind of stuff. And famously, in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one NBA Finals, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: plays of the series was him making an impromptu double
Speaker 1: team of Devin Booker from behind when he had his
Speaker 1: head turn trying to isolate PJ. Tucker. So I think,
Speaker 1: just in general, this is a massive step forward for
Speaker 1: the Boston defense. This is the Boston defense that took
Speaker 1: a big step back last year from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: their effort and energy. I know a lot of Celtics
Speaker 1: fans are annoyed with me about this because I keep
Speaker 1: saying it, But like, go look at the numbers and
Speaker 1: then watch them on TV. Like the twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: Celtics were a frightening defense, the twenty twenty three Celtics
Speaker 1: were a good defense, and like they didn't lose any players.
Speaker 1: It literally came down to from the top down every
Speaker 1: single play on the roster. From Marcus Marto was Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year the year before and went down
Speaker 1: a level. Jason Tatum, who I said, what might be
Speaker 1: the best perimeter defender in the league this year year
Speaker 1: before locking down, he went down a level. Jayalen Brown
Speaker 1: went down a big level, Like everybody on that roster
Speaker 1: went down a level defensively, and so Drew Holliday is
Speaker 1: a good starting point there for them to try to
Speaker 1: get that identity back. Now, what does it mean for
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics Milwaukee Bucks matchup? To me, this is
Speaker 1: the super interesting part of this story. Dame is gonna
Speaker 1: have to overcome his demons because as we look back
Speaker 1: through Dame's career, it's kind of like if somebody asked
Speaker 1: you to tell me the story of of the Dame
Speaker 1: NBA experience, most of you are gonna say the same thing.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be like, really good player, bona fide superstar,
Speaker 1: but was playing for a limited roster most of his career,
Speaker 1: was mostly an underdog and didn't really accomplish much in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's what you'd say. And for the most part,
Speaker 1: it's true. Like Dame lost a lot of playoff series
Speaker 1: against teams where he was an underdog. We know that, right,
Speaker 1: But there was one in particular where he was not.
Speaker 1: In the twenty eighteen NBA playoffs, the three seed Portland
Speaker 1: Trailblazers run into the six seed New Orleans Pelicans. Now
Speaker 1: they were kind of bunched up in the standings, but
Speaker 1: they were favored, and Dame got his ass kicked by
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday, just got utterly locked up. Anthony Davis was
Speaker 1: awesome too, and the Pelicans swept the Portland Trailblazers, And
Speaker 1: so it's kind of cool. I always talk about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the beauty of the journey when it comes
Speaker 1: to basketball, right, like loss leading to scar tissue, scar
Speaker 1: tissue leading to better habits and better commitment. That the
Speaker 1: better habits and commitment leading to wins, right, Like it's
Speaker 1: a pathway. Right. I also talk about stars needing to
Speaker 1: dig deep and achieve things that they've never achieved before
Speaker 1: to get the trophy. It's why I don't like when
Speaker 1: teams are monumentally more talented than the rest of the league.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. The Bucks and the Celtics are
Speaker 1: really talented. They're not monumentally more talented than the rest
Speaker 1: of the league. Like they're just as Like Denver's right
Speaker 1: there with them, right, Phoenix is right there with them,
Speaker 1: The Lakers are right there with them. Like they're five
Speaker 1: teams at the top of this league that are all
Speaker 1: kind of on the same tier. Right, And so from
Speaker 1: that standpoint, like I like it that one of these
Speaker 1: teams is gonna require a star to rise above and
Speaker 1: achieve a level of play that even they didn't think
Speaker 1: they were capable of. Right. And that's the thing, Like
Speaker 1: Dame's gonna have to earn it. He didn't get traded,
Speaker 1: be honest and get to walk his way into a title.
Speaker 1: Not only is he gonna have to earn it, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to confront one of his demons and
Speaker 1: one of his demons is that Drew Holliday has his
Speaker 1: damn number, and Drew Holliday from day one of a
Speaker 1: Celtics Bucks playoff series is gonna be up in Dames grill,
Speaker 1: making it difficult. And so that's cool because that means
Speaker 1: if Milwaukee gets the trophy, Dame will have had to
Speaker 1: have overcome that. Now, as I look at the matchups.
Speaker 1: As I look at the matchups, there's a couple It
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of like transitive property stuff because
Speaker 1: in a weird way, I think the Celtic are built
Speaker 1: to beat Milwaukee, but I think the Milwaukee Bucks are
Speaker 1: built to beat Denver. But I think Denver's built to
Speaker 1: beat Boston. And the reason why is the strengths and
Speaker 1: weaknesses of all the rosters. Right, Like, Boston is uniquely
Speaker 1: equipped to give the Bucks problems on both ends of
Speaker 1: the floor. Drew Holliday is an ideal defensive matchup for
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, right and in general, that team on the
Speaker 1: other end of the floor doesn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: perimeter defense, and Boston's a team that's gonna stretch you
Speaker 1: out like Dame's gonna have to guard. Giannis and Chris
Speaker 1: are gonna have to guard They're probably gonna have to
Speaker 1: guard Tatum and Brown for an entire series. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to slide their feet on the perimeter, right, So
Speaker 1: like that's the thing is, like Boston is kind of
Speaker 1: uniquely equipped to force Milwaukee into playing a style that
Speaker 1: they're not good at. Right. But then as I go
Speaker 1: the other way, like if Boston beats Milwaukee and makes
Speaker 1: it to the finals, their front court right now, they
Speaker 1: lost Grant Williams, who's one of their bigger switchable forwards,
Speaker 1: and they lost Robert Williams, who's arguably the best defensive
Speaker 1: player on that roster. Right, and now your two bigs
Speaker 1: are krisps Porzingis, who's a very good player and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk a lot about him next week, but it
Speaker 1: has an injury history and Al Horford, who's pretty damn old.
Speaker 1: So like, the Celtics need a good amount of luck
Speaker 1: injury luck to get to where they want to go
Speaker 1: this year. And when you put krisps Porzingis and Al
Speaker 1: Horford in a front line, I don't know how much
Speaker 1: they'll play together. They probably will have to play together
Speaker 1: a little bit against Denver. But like if you put
Speaker 1: those two on the front line. That's just not that
Speaker 1: good defensively to handle a Jokic Gordon front line, So
Speaker 1: like in a weird way, they could run into some
Speaker 1: problems with Denver. Also, you need to be outstanding in
Speaker 1: your perimeter shot making to cause problems for Denver. And
Speaker 1: like Drew Holliday's a good pull up shooter, Jason Tatum's
Speaker 1: a good pull up shooter. But like Jason Tatum barely
Speaker 1: cracked thirty percent on pull up threes last year. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have trouble really stretching Denver's defense the way that
Speaker 1: they need to. Whereas Milwaukee has the front line to
Speaker 1: cause problems for Denver, Milwaukee has Dame who is such
Speaker 1: a high level perimeter shot maker he can really stretch
Speaker 1: out Yokichen pick and roll and cause problems and keep
Speaker 1: them in rotation a lot. So like it's interesting because,
Speaker 1: like I all three of these teams are good in
Speaker 1: different ways, But right now I think Denver would beat Boston,
Speaker 1: Boston would beat Milwaukee, and Milwaukee would beat Denver. So
Speaker 1: like it, And that's kind of like just the way
Speaker 1: these matchups are shaking out. So like this is gonna
Speaker 1: be really interesting year, and just as is always the case,
Speaker 1: matchups and luck and health is gonna play a huge
Speaker 1: role and has in how this all shakes out all. Right,
Speaker 1: last thing for today, Portland. I love this deal for
Speaker 1: Portland for two reasons. One, now you have two very
Speaker 1: different big men to evaluate to see who fits long
Speaker 1: term with your guards, right, because Robert Williams is like
Speaker 1: a defensive guy who's very willing to play a role
Speaker 1: like he doesn't need to shoot. And Robert Williams is
Speaker 1: actually a better short role passer than excuse me, then
Speaker 1: he's a better short role passer than DeAndre Ayton is.
Speaker 1: And that could be really valuable with a ton of
Speaker 1: really good guards, especially guards like Anfredie Simons that are
Speaker 1: good pull up shooters that are gonna pull the screen
Speaker 1: defender out. And so anytime team's put two on the
Speaker 1: ball against Portland, like Robert Williams is a great option
Speaker 1: there in a short role, right. But then Ayton is
Speaker 1: just a much much better offensive player overall. So you know,
Speaker 1: all of the dribble handoff stuff we've been talking about
Speaker 1: with teams like Miami and Golden State and teams like
Speaker 1: Sacramento and all the advantages of having a big man
Speaker 1: who can run dribble handoffs, like now you can really
Speaker 1: try that with Ayton and see if he's capable of it,
Speaker 1: you know. So they've got good you know, they've got
Speaker 1: a couple of options there that they can kind of explore.
Speaker 1: And then secondly, they got the Malcolm Brogden' contract back,
Speaker 1: which is going to be another player that everyone's going
Speaker 1: to want to trade for early in training camp. So
Speaker 1: like by the time it's all said and done, this
Speaker 1: is going to have broken really well for Portland. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: that is all I have for today. We will be
Speaker 1: hitting the Bucks and the Celtics each in season preview
Speaker 1: videos this coming week. As always, I appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: and I will see you on Monday. The volume