Speaker 1: Just real quick about the Nets, Like I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be books written about the Nets, Like, for sure,
Speaker 1: I think maybe you write.
Speaker 2: A book about the Nets.
Speaker 1: Do you think like there was any other way? Would
Speaker 1: you say? So?
Speaker 2: It'd be an interesting endeavor, right?
Speaker 1: I do think there was any other way out of
Speaker 1: this situation, like a series of unfortunate events around injuries
Speaker 1: and like a weird pandemic happening once in a lifetime.
Speaker 2: So yes, But also like that's what happens in every
Speaker 2: big stakes environment in this league, and it's why people
Speaker 2: are looking at the Kyrie Luka Dontrich pairing as like
Speaker 2: a potentially combustible situation, right, I mean you do you
Speaker 2: trade for the superstars every time in this league? That's
Speaker 2: just kind of them around front offices because worst case scenario,
Speaker 2: typically you can be where Brooklyn is right now, where
Speaker 2: they are at a hell of a better starting point
Speaker 2: in this moment than they were in twenty sixteen when
Speaker 2: their asset Copverard was dry and you know they screwed
Speaker 2: the pooch with the KG Paul Pierce, you know, deal
Speaker 2: because those guys were well past their prime and whatever,
Speaker 2: Like if you do it with guys who are ready
Speaker 2: to play right now and at the peak of their powers,
Speaker 2: like Brooklyn did. If it doesn't work out, you'll be
Speaker 2: able to get a pretty good return back. That being said,
Speaker 2: like when you do mortgage young players and first round
Speaker 2: picks in the moment, it's hard to continue to add
Speaker 2: anslar pieces. The Bucks just had to send out five
Speaker 2: second round picks to add Jake Crowder to this team.
Speaker 2: And when as the Lakers have seen, especially like when
Speaker 2: your roster is so top heavy with salary and so
Speaker 2: much of the success is dependent on just a couple
Speaker 2: of guys and a couple of guys getting along an
Speaker 2: environment that is pretty self centered and ego driven and
Speaker 2: a competitive, you know, small sphere where your contract and
Speaker 2: your riches and your fame are all dependent on how
Speaker 2: could you perform on TV in front of millions of
Speaker 2: people every night. That's a conflicting idea to the essence
Speaker 2: of basketball, where you share it amongst your teammates to
Speaker 2: try to be a collective other. So there's just a
Speaker 2: natural situation where these tensions and these pressures can can
Speaker 2: blow up, And I think it gets so much easier
Speaker 2: for things to fail when the stakes are that high
Speaker 2: and there's such a pressure cooker and you are in
Speaker 2: an environment where you put the onus on yourself to
Speaker 2: be championship or bus so, whether it's you know the
Speaker 2: Celtics Big three KG and Paul Pierce that we just
Speaker 2: talked about, you know, Ray Allen left and there was
Speaker 2: an emotions there and he goes to the heat and
Speaker 2: the heat thing crumbles with Lebron. You know, everyone talking
Speaker 2: about that locker room when they lost this. There was
Speaker 2: some exhausted and they were just glad it was over.
Speaker 2: And KD and Golden State and like these marriages, the
Speaker 2: honeymoon period always always ends. So I don't necessarily think
Speaker 2: it was like doomed to fail from the beginning or
Speaker 2: like how could they have avoided it? But like to
Speaker 2: for any team build to be successful, it's going to
Speaker 2: take so much luck and so many circumstances. I just
Speaker 2: think the odds are are more against you to sustain
Speaker 2: it long term, just because of the ultimate stakes that
Speaker 2: come in those situations.
Speaker 1: I actually like Brooklyn now more than I did last year.
Speaker 1: I did like, I think this trade's going to go
Speaker 1: down to me as an incredible opportunity for Micheale Bridges
Speaker 1: to prove that he can be an offensive power as well,
Speaker 1: Like he was a defensive specialist for the Phoenix Suns
Speaker 1: and that was his role, and he was never going
Speaker 1: to be the guy with the ball in his hands
Speaker 1: at all times. And I was curious to see how
Speaker 1: the ball sharing would go between him and Spencer Dimwity,
Speaker 1: because Spencer doesn't like to share the ball with anyone
Speaker 1: unless their name is Luca. And he's like, that's his role.
Speaker 1: But Michale already putting buckets up at forty five the
Speaker 1: other night, shows that he was sort of underutilized in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look, there's a situation where the Nets
Speaker 2: put together a fun little run down the stretch and
Speaker 2: they make some noise in the playoffs, take a team
Speaker 2: to seven or something, and then there's a star that decides,
Speaker 2: you know what I want out of my team this summer.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at Brooklyn because they got a bunch
Speaker 2: of picks they just got from Phoenix and a bunch
Speaker 2: of players I want to go there, Like mckelberd just
Speaker 2: could be my number two, Cam Johnson could be my
Speaker 2: number three, like the Clason's our defensive anchor, Like there's
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's going to happen. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that's absolutely what Brooklyn wants to do, but they're excited
Speaker 2: that that's a possibility. So it is an interesting place
Speaker 2: to be in.
Speaker 1: If I was Sean Marks, I would say no to
Speaker 1: any star that wanted to go there. Again, I think
Speaker 1: that's the only way you build the fan base to
Speaker 1: some level of real loyalty, because the one thing that
Speaker 1: I realized from being on the fan was the fans
Speaker 1: just don't care because they feel no connection to these players.
Speaker 1: And Brooklyn's never been really the place for New York
Speaker 1: fans to like clamor around. It's always been the Knicks.
Speaker 1: And so unless they figure out some way to organically
Speaker 1: build something, buying stars I don't think is a really
Speaker 1: great And I don't think Sean Marks does well with
Speaker 1: stars truthfully, Like I don't think that's his forte.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I mean, the track record
Speaker 2: has not been exemplary so far.