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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, everybody. I hope all of you guys are
Speaker 1: having a great week so far. Today we're going to
Speaker 1: be covering the epic showdown last night in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Between one of the most exciting NBA prospects ever in
Speaker 1: Victor wemban Yama out of France and Scoot Henderson another
Speaker 1: in a long line of undersized but frighteningly athletic guards
Speaker 1: that have come up in the n B A he's
Speaker 1: playing with the G League. I Knight right now. I've
Speaker 1: seen highlights of these eyes, but this was my first
Speaker 1: time getting to watch a full game of them. You
Speaker 1: guys know the deal. I don't focus too much on
Speaker 1: pre draft or or or you know, NBA prospects because
Speaker 1: I focused most of my energy on the league. But
Speaker 1: I've always um I had a great interest in players
Speaker 1: skill sets and strengths and weaknesses, as you guys know
Speaker 1: when we talked about NBA players. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: share about fifteen twenty minutes today on on the things
Speaker 1: that I saw and learned last night from that showdown.
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Speaker 1: hoops tonight. So we're gonna keep this very simple. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Victor talk about what I liked, what
Speaker 1: I think he needs to work on. Then we'll go
Speaker 1: to scoot that I have one larger point I want
Speaker 1: to make about just player development in general. Then we'll
Speaker 1: get out of here or keep it nice and easy today.
Speaker 1: So already, right now, before he gets any better, before
Speaker 1: he puts on any muscle, before anything, he already today
Speaker 1: would be the best rim protector slash stretch big that
Speaker 1: we have in the NBA. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: players in the league that kind of fit that archetype, right,
Speaker 1: Like we look at Carl Town's who can shoot the
Speaker 1: ship out of the basketball, but he's not a very
Speaker 1: good defensive player. Or Kristaps porzinga same type of thing,
Speaker 1: can shoot the ball pretty well but just has never
Speaker 1: really amount to two as good of a defensive player
Speaker 1: as we hoped he would. Or have guys like Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: who in theory should have been that type of guy
Speaker 1: but never really materialized offensively consistently enough and was one
Speaker 1: of the worst volume three point shooters in the league
Speaker 1: last year. Right, And then we have guys like Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant who kind of are like that but are more
Speaker 1: like a wing and once again never really impacted the
Speaker 1: game enough defensively to fit that mold. We don't really
Speaker 1: have a guy in the league who's truly elite at
Speaker 1: both like, truly dominant around the rim as a rim protector,
Speaker 1: rim deterrent, and knockdown three point shooter who's going to
Speaker 1: make more than one three point shot per game. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, if we go back to last year,
Speaker 1: there were only two players in the entire n b
Speaker 1: A who averaged at least one block and at least
Speaker 1: two three pointers made per game. Take a wild guess
Speaker 1: who you think that is? Carl Towns and Lebron James.
Speaker 1: I was stunned by that for two reasons. First of all, Lebron,
Speaker 1: that's just ridiculous. How how is it that he keeps
Speaker 1: being on all of these weird lists that I that
Speaker 1: I formed by just adding a couple of simple qualifiers.
Speaker 1: And then Carl Town's. I mean, he averages a block
Speaker 1: per game, but he's not known as a good rim
Speaker 1: protector around this league, which tells you it confirms our
Speaker 1: suspicions that he might very well in terms of a
Speaker 1: role player, a guy who just screens and dives to
Speaker 1: the rim, or screens and pops to the three point
Speaker 1: line and protects the rim. On the other end, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure there's a player as good as Victor right now,
Speaker 1: and that instantaneously before we go any further, makes him
Speaker 1: an extremely exciting prospect. The most important thing that I
Speaker 1: appreciated about his shooting display last night was the array
Speaker 1: of footwork. You know a lot of players work on
Speaker 1: catch and shoot shooting. That goes without saying. It's one
Speaker 1: of the easiest things to do. It's easy on your legs.
Speaker 1: You can go up to the gym and you can
Speaker 1: shoot five shots and it's not gonna wear you out
Speaker 1: because you're just stationary, right. And so one of the
Speaker 1: things that I work on a lot with my high
Speaker 1: school kids is all of our shooting drills have some
Speaker 1: sort of complication. So I have a pivot drill where
Speaker 1: the guy the kids on the catch are always facing
Speaker 1: away from the basket and they have to reverse pivot
Speaker 1: with their right foot, reverse pivot with their left left foot,
Speaker 1: pivot over the top with their right foot, pivot over
Speaker 1: the top with their left foot, jump and spin and
Speaker 1: face the rim and a jump stop. I do that
Speaker 1: so that they get used to different footwork, because when
Speaker 1: you're playing a basketball game, especially if you want to
Speaker 1: be a volume three point shooter, meaning you want to
Speaker 1: take more than a couple of game, you need to
Speaker 1: be able to be adaptive with your release, meaning all
Speaker 1: of them are gonna look different. Sometimes you're gonna be
Speaker 1: coming over the top of the screen and curling, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to plant really hard with that right
Speaker 1: foot and elevate up into the shot, or plant really
Speaker 1: hard with that left foot and elevate into the shot.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the the uh, the guy chasing you over the
Speaker 1: screen is gonna go under the screen, in which case
Speaker 1: you need to kind of flare back. Now, it's a
Speaker 1: different type of footwork. It's more of like a shuffle
Speaker 1: step right. If you're shooting off of the drib well,
Speaker 1: there's different footwork that you get to your shot from.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna take volume three point shots a lot
Speaker 1: of them in a game, you have to be comfortable
Speaker 1: rising up out of any footwork. And so almost every
Speaker 1: shooting drill that I do with my kids is based
Speaker 1: on stuff like that. Even when I'm trying to work
Speaker 1: on catching or like shooting form in a stagnant environment,
Speaker 1: I'll have them do it on the move so that
Speaker 1: the they get used to establishing a base quickly. And
Speaker 1: if you looked at that game last night, Victor had
Speaker 1: a movement shot going to his right where he planted
Speaker 1: his left foot first and then planted his right foot
Speaker 1: and elevated into the shot. He had a similar one
Speaker 1: off of a dribble handoff in the second half where
Speaker 1: he planted his right foot first and then planted his
Speaker 1: left foot and elevated into a shot. He had a
Speaker 1: jab this first three, the first three point shot he
Speaker 1: made early in the first quarter on the left wing,
Speaker 1: jab step, right slide step with one dribble with his
Speaker 1: left hand, elevate up into a shot. Every conceivable type
Speaker 1: of three point shot he took last night. And that's
Speaker 1: what's so exciting about him, because there's really a ton
Speaker 1: of work to do elsewhere in his game. He gets
Speaker 1: pushed off of his spot way too easily. He's not
Speaker 1: very strong with the basketball, so when he catches in traffic,
Speaker 1: guys just take it away from him. Guys are constantly
Speaker 1: going to try to disrupt his base. My guess is
Speaker 1: because he's so tall and no one's really gonna be
Speaker 1: able to bother his release, You're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: of teams go with a kind of like a p. J.
Speaker 1: Tucker type of defender on him, Somebody that's a little
Speaker 1: bit more of an undersized wing but that's very strong,
Speaker 1: that will try to disrupt his base for the purpose
Speaker 1: knowing that they can't bother the top of his shot,
Speaker 1: so they'll try to bother the bottom of his shot
Speaker 1: by knocking him off balance. Rule Number one was shooting
Speaker 1: if you're off balance, it's just way more difficult. That's
Speaker 1: why all of the best step back shooters and fade
Speaker 1: away shooters are actually very balanced. When they're going up
Speaker 1: and down. It's not much of a dramatic fade. It's
Speaker 1: more of like physicality getting to a spot and then
Speaker 1: going straight up and down. Even when you see steph
Speaker 1: take wild step backs and you see James Harden take
Speaker 1: wild step backs that usually if you if you highlight
Speaker 1: just the end of the shot, they're going straight up
Speaker 1: and down. So attacking his bass is going to be
Speaker 1: the best strategy with which to try to stop him.
Speaker 1: So everything with him is going to be working on footwork,
Speaker 1: in fluidity in his release. You know, when I look
Speaker 1: at comps for Victor, I keep coming back to k
Speaker 1: D and I know that sounds insane. Victor is gonna
Speaker 1: be playing the five for basically his entire NBA career.
Speaker 1: But Kevin Durant, you know, Kevin Durant has one weakness.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of wild to even consider because we
Speaker 1: always think of him as like the perfect basketball player.
Speaker 1: But Kevin Durant doesn't get to the rim very well.
Speaker 1: He only averaged one point seven restricted area makes per
Speaker 1: game last year, and one of his peers who's considered
Speaker 1: and criticized frequently for not getting to the room enough
Speaker 1: is Paul George, and he averaged two point two restricted
Speaker 1: area makes per game last year. Guys like Lebron and
Speaker 1: Janice are up at like seven restricted area makes per game.
Speaker 1: I think Kauai was around five. Like so many of
Speaker 1: the bigger wings in the league, they get to the
Speaker 1: basket a lot, Katie does not, and the reason why
Speaker 1: is with his upright frame, he's not actually overly quick
Speaker 1: compared to the other wings around the league right, and
Speaker 1: then in addition to that, he's not gonna win physical
Speaker 1: confrontations going in a in a straight line. If Katie
Speaker 1: drives in a straight line and the defender bumps him,
Speaker 1: he's gonna give ground before the defender does in most cases.
Speaker 1: So k d smartly takes advantage of his physical advantage
Speaker 1: over those defenders, which is height and an extremely high
Speaker 1: release points. So even when he gets to the rim,
Speaker 1: a lot of times he stops short and takes Kevin
Speaker 1: Duran is one of the best short range jump shooters
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, Like he can make five foot jump shots,
Speaker 1: six foot jump shots. The vast majority of perimeter players
Speaker 1: if they tried taking those shots which shoot them over
Speaker 1: the rim because they just never practice them, they go
Speaker 1: all the way to the basket. That's kind of the
Speaker 1: way I see Victor women Yamas shot profile developing a
Speaker 1: lot of like the Katie stuff where he starts on
Speaker 1: at the block and kind of sets his defender up
Speaker 1: and then just kind of runs up to the top
Speaker 1: of the key and catches and shoots like an eighteen
Speaker 1: foot or twenty foot or you're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: of pick and pop. You're gonna see a lot of
Speaker 1: moving like dribbling the ball up at the floor and
Speaker 1: transition and pulling up a three. Or he Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: has made a living out of that what he calls
Speaker 1: that tween has he I can't remember exactly what he
Speaker 1: calls it, but where he has the ball in his
Speaker 1: left hand and he basically just does a dramatic hesitation
Speaker 1: and then rises straight up that move. The defenders almost
Speaker 1: always right up right up on him, but he's got
Speaker 1: a quick enough release and a high enough release point
Speaker 1: that he just shoots it over the top and he
Speaker 1: can knock it down. Those are the kinds of shots
Speaker 1: that I see Victor woman Yama taking. The reason why
Speaker 1: I pulled that original stat that to three pointers made
Speaker 1: in one block per game. I think right away, when
Speaker 1: he comes into the league, Victor is going to be
Speaker 1: attempting at least six threes per game, if not seven
Speaker 1: or eight, because that's the best shot profile for him. Like,
Speaker 1: for instance, a Carl Towns takes about five three point
Speaker 1: attempts per game, but he's big and strong and has
Speaker 1: a quick first step, so like he can physically impose
Speaker 1: his way to the rim. And while Victor, if he,
Speaker 1: if he gets better at fighting for a position, he
Speaker 1: will have some stuff around the rim. He's just not
Speaker 1: gonna be slashing to the basket the way Carl Towns does,
Speaker 1: or slashing to the basket the way so many of
Speaker 1: your more athletic wings do. I think this is a
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant type of shot profile, a ton of off
Speaker 1: the catch shooting, a ton of off the dribble shooting,
Speaker 1: a ton of pick and pop shooting, a heavy jump
Speaker 1: shot profile. And he's already one of the most proficient
Speaker 1: big men shooters that we see around the world. So
Speaker 1: I I I find that to be really, really, really exciting,
Speaker 1: and then on the defensive end of the floor. You know,
Speaker 1: so many of these guys that we talked about that
Speaker 1: are proficient from the perimeter, guys like Katie, guys like
Speaker 1: Carl Town's, the guys like Christaps Prezingis, they aren't as
Speaker 1: good on the defensive end as Victor already is. And
Speaker 1: he's got a long way to go. Like he still
Speaker 1: gives up position a little too easily. He committed some
Speaker 1: fouls when he got out of position last night. But
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is is his length covers
Speaker 1: up for most of his young guy mistakes. At this point,
Speaker 1: he's impacting shots at the three point line when he's
Speaker 1: standing four ft back. When a player decides to shoot
Speaker 1: and he raises up his hands, it's just a difficult
Speaker 1: target to shoot over. There was a early in the
Speaker 1: game Scoot Henderson made a really nice step back three
Speaker 1: at the top of the key. He got a ton
Speaker 1: of separation and Victor still almost blocked it because of
Speaker 1: how long his arms are. So his combination of like
Speaker 1: that potential KDE shot profile plus defensive impact, he could
Speaker 1: I I want to see more. It's early. I don't
Speaker 1: like being hot take guy. It's I feel crazy saying
Speaker 1: this after one game, but he might be the best
Speaker 1: prospect at his age that I have ever seen because
Speaker 1: of the combination of shooting ability height that gives him
Speaker 1: the release point over everybody in his defensive impact at
Speaker 1: this point, very very exciting stuff from Victor wemban Yama.
Speaker 1: We got a lot more UH to watch of him
Speaker 1: over the course of the next year, and I will
Speaker 1: make a point of making some time um to watch him.
Speaker 1: But it's truly exciting stuff. I used to joke all
Speaker 1: the time that Kevin Durant, if he had ever committed
Speaker 1: to the defensive end of the floor, he could have
Speaker 1: been the goat. You guys have seen me say that
Speaker 1: on the show before. Well, I mean, obviously Victor's got
Speaker 1: a like miles and miles to go in terms of
Speaker 1: offensive fluidity to get to where Katie is, But defensively
Speaker 1: he's got the ability to be many many times as
Speaker 1: good as Katie ever was on the defensive end of
Speaker 1: the floor. It's all very very exciting. So Scoot Henderson
Speaker 1: um very undersized six to even though he's built well,
Speaker 1: he's undersized, but he's frightening lye athletic, just like that
Speaker 1: dunk he had in the first half where he took
Speaker 1: off just inside the free throw line. That's that's athleticism
Speaker 1: you only see from the very top, top, top tier
Speaker 1: athletes in the league. So that means he's the next
Speaker 1: in a very long line of hyper athletic guards. Your
Speaker 1: Derek Rose, your Russell Westbrook, your John Wall, your John Moran. Right,
Speaker 1: We've seen this type of player in a bunch of
Speaker 1: different iterations. So we talked about this archetype. If you
Speaker 1: guys remember over the summer when we did our superstar archetypes,
Speaker 1: and if you remember when I was talking about this
Speaker 1: superstar archetype, I had it at the bottom of my
Speaker 1: list because of the fact that they frequently have glaring
Speaker 1: flaws that kind of cancel out some of their great strengths, Like,
Speaker 1: for instance, Russell Westbrook never became a great defensive player
Speaker 1: and never became a great shooter, and so his freakish
Speaker 1: athleticism combined with strength and an ability to knock people
Speaker 1: off of their line, that just never amounted to the
Speaker 1: type of deep playoff impact that the bigger Wings did
Speaker 1: because he never figured out the defensive end and because
Speaker 1: he could never shoot. John Wall, same type of thing.
Speaker 1: Never quite became the type of defensive player you needed.
Speaker 1: Jump shot never was consistent enough. You know, Derek Rose
Speaker 1: injuries did him in, but it was a lot of
Speaker 1: jump shooting stuff with him and defensive stuff with him
Speaker 1: as well. Looking at John Moran, it the jump shot,
Speaker 1: it projects to be better than any of those guys,
Speaker 1: But defensively he might be worse than all of them
Speaker 1: right now, and worse than all of them ever were.
Speaker 1: So all of them have these glaring flaws. So what
Speaker 1: I look at with those, with those that particular archetype
Speaker 1: is how old do they pass the ball? How old
Speaker 1: do they shoot the ball? What is their physical presence
Speaker 1: like are they a short, super athletic guard that's super
Speaker 1: thin and can be knocked off his line, or does
Speaker 1: he got some you know size to him that makes
Speaker 1: him a little bit more physically imposing in the last
Speaker 1: but not least defense. And so looking at Scoot already
Speaker 1: passes the ball super well. The announcers were raving it about,
Speaker 1: raving about it last night, but it actually reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of Westbrook. A natural feel for where open
Speaker 1: shooters are in the corners and then um at the basket,
Speaker 1: he's really good at drop off passes and pocket passes
Speaker 1: and things along those lines. Obviously, just one game, so
Speaker 1: I want to see a lot more, but the natural
Speaker 1: passing feel is there. Shooting, the release looks good. It's
Speaker 1: really really quick. Another thing that reminds me a lot
Speaker 1: of Russell Westbrookie elevates a lot and has a very
Speaker 1: quick release. But he's already a much much, much better
Speaker 1: shooter than Russell Westbrook ever has been. And then his
Speaker 1: handle looks pretty good looking at his physical presence, he's
Speaker 1: built like a truck already that will only get better
Speaker 1: as he gets older. What I like about that is
Speaker 1: that's what made uh, That's what made Russell Westbrook so
Speaker 1: dynamic getting to the basket is he was also bigger
Speaker 1: and stronger than most cards that will open up post
Speaker 1: up stuff. Now scoots a little bit shorter than Russ.
Speaker 1: It looks like he's at least an inch and not
Speaker 1: an inch and a half shorter, but he does have
Speaker 1: that good, strong base, low center of gravity, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of that stuff. Um On the
Speaker 1: defensive end, lots of bad. There were some exciting moments though.
Speaker 1: Treemott waters as a pro that dude has played in
Speaker 1: the NBA before, He's been overseas for a while now.
Speaker 1: He's not very quick, not very big, but he's a
Speaker 1: very smart guard and he's gonna know how to attack
Speaker 1: young players. And he got several straight line drives on
Speaker 1: Scoot catching him. Like Scoot would kind of be a
Speaker 1: little hoppy with his defensive stay ants, and he would
Speaker 1: like catch him as he was hopping and hit the gap.
Speaker 1: So as he's off the ground, he obviously can't move,
Speaker 1: and so he would just kind of take advantage of
Speaker 1: little body positioning tricks. Those are little things Scoot's gonna
Speaker 1: have to get better at. You always want to be
Speaker 1: um in your stance, and you want to be careful
Speaker 1: with chopping your feet or jumping side to side because
Speaker 1: it leaves openings for guards to attack you. But then
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, right about mid fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: about five minutes left, there was a play where uh,
Speaker 1: he kind of cut off Tramont Waters a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and then Triuma had to create at the end of
Speaker 1: the shot clock, and you actually saw him get in
Speaker 1: his stance, slide his feet, stay disciplined, and he really
Speaker 1: swallowed him up on that play and and and and
Speaker 1: I think he ended up jacking up a very very
Speaker 1: difficult three that he ended up missing. So again, he
Speaker 1: has the potential to be a very good defensive player.
Speaker 1: It's just a question of whether or not he ever
Speaker 1: gets there. Um. His short range game reminds me of
Speaker 1: Colin Sexton. This is like where the differences are the
Speaker 1: similarities of Russell Westbrook kind of disappear. He stops on
Speaker 1: a dime instead of like sometimes will go directly to
Speaker 1: the rim and finish. And he was able to finish
Speaker 1: over Victor several times, which was really impressive. There was
Speaker 1: one where he went down the lane and got Victor
Speaker 1: pinned on his backside and kind of jumped back into him,
Speaker 1: so he had a little bit of separation. And then
Speaker 1: you guys saw the the lanky right handed finished on
Speaker 1: the left side of the rim where he just extended
Speaker 1: out and beat Victor to the spot. So he can
Speaker 1: finish over the top of shot blocking. But he also
Speaker 1: had a really impressive short range game. There was a
Speaker 1: really nasty move in the third quarter, I believe, where
Speaker 1: he drove hard and just stopped on a dime and
Speaker 1: Victor and one other shot blocker went out of bounds
Speaker 1: and then he was able to kind of shoot a
Speaker 1: little short pop shot. That kind of stuff reminds me
Speaker 1: of Colin Sexton the below the rim game from a
Speaker 1: great athlete close to the basket, push shots, floaters, short
Speaker 1: jump shots, a little bit of that Alan Iverson type
Speaker 1: of feeld. Lots of good stuff there with Scoot Henderson.
Speaker 1: That's exciting again. With this archetype of player, there's lots
Speaker 1: of good sides and bads. None of the none of
Speaker 1: those guys who came before were able to race all
Speaker 1: of the bad sides. Like Russ never figured shooting in defense.
Speaker 1: John Wall we'll see this year because I've heard some
Speaker 1: good things about his shooting, but he's never really figured
Speaker 1: out shooting in defense. You know, Derrick Row has never
Speaker 1: figured out shooting in defense. Uh, it looks like John
Speaker 1: rant might figure out shooting, but he's got so far
Speaker 1: to go on the defensive end of the floor. With Scoot,
Speaker 1: is he going to be the first guy who figures
Speaker 1: out how to be an impact defensive player and has
Speaker 1: the consistent shooting touch. If that's the case, he could
Speaker 1: be the first one of this archetype to reach the
Speaker 1: heights that like a Steph Curry has, as in a
Speaker 1: undersized player in the NBA that truly can hang with
Speaker 1: the best big wings and bigs around the league. He's
Speaker 1: a high risk, higher reward pick Um definitely projects to
Speaker 1: be something like a star, but he's definitely behind Victor
Speaker 1: woman Yama in my in in my opinion, the last
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to say today um mentality ends up
Speaker 1: playing a bigger role in all of this than anything,
Speaker 1: then the physical tools, than than really anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is look at the top
Speaker 1: of the league. Look how good Steph is, Look how
Speaker 1: good Nickela yoke it is. And you know, look how
Speaker 1: good Luka don Chich is. And you see that the
Speaker 1: freak athlete type doesn't necessarily run the league. That's three
Speaker 1: of the top six or seven players that are not
Speaker 1: exceptional athletes. And it's because that mentality ends up control,
Speaker 1: like really controlling your destiny. There are tons of freak
Speaker 1: athletes that come through the league. You know, like, uh,
Speaker 1: how many of these six six super athletic guards turn
Speaker 1: out to be like a Terence Ross or a Ben
Speaker 1: McLemore instead of a Zach Lavine or a James Harden.
Speaker 1: How many of your big wings that are versatile turn
Speaker 1: out to be like a Jeff Green instead of a
Speaker 1: Paul George or Kawhi Leonard. Right, Like, all of it
Speaker 1: comes down to, are you willing to dedicate your life
Speaker 1: on a daily basis to working harder than all of
Speaker 1: the other pros around the league that are also working hard.
Speaker 1: That will be what determines whether or not Victor becomes
Speaker 1: the guy, or Scoot Henderson becomes the guy, or an
Speaker 1: of the other young prospects that were looking at around
Speaker 1: the league. I'll give you two examples to kind of
Speaker 1: drive this point home. After everybody said Anthony Davis might
Speaker 1: be the best player in the world, I had him
Speaker 1: I think fourth if I remember correctly, um after that
Speaker 1: playoff run and then what happened. He lost his drive,
Speaker 1: showed up in the camp out of shape two seasons
Speaker 1: in a row as a result, dealt with injury problems
Speaker 1: and inconsistent shooting, and never has been the same player.
Speaker 1: I had him eighteenth in my player rankings. ESPN had
Speaker 1: him like his mentality is just not the same. We
Speaker 1: sat there and we looked at Anthony Davis and thought, Hey,
Speaker 1: this guy might rule the league one day. At one
Speaker 1: point in time, he was considered in the same conversations
Speaker 1: as Janice, that's how good he was, but it just
Speaker 1: never panned out because he didn't have it up here.
Speaker 1: Same thing goes with Carl Towns. There were some moments
Speaker 1: in early in Carl Town's career where everyone talked about
Speaker 1: him is potentially one of the best forwards power forward
Speaker 1: to ever play the game in the future, but he
Speaker 1: just never figured out the defensive end of the floor,
Speaker 1: and he just never was consistent enough in his night
Speaker 1: and night in and night out approach. And now both
Speaker 1: of those guys are kind of just like out of sight,
Speaker 1: out of mind when we're having best player in the
Speaker 1: League discussions. So all of this stuff with Victor is exciting,
Speaker 1: all of this stuff with Scoot is exciting, But it's
Speaker 1: really up to them and how much they care. Obviously,
Speaker 1: luck plays a role to in terms of health and situation,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, only they know
Speaker 1: deep down when it comes to their love of the
Speaker 1: game of basketball and how much they hate losing basketball games,
Speaker 1: how much they hate not being the best version of themselves,
Speaker 1: yet how much that drives them on a night in
Speaker 1: the night out basis that's gonna be what determines their
Speaker 1: outcome more than anything else. All Right, guys, that is
Speaker 1: all I have for right now. We'll be back either
Speaker 1: later tonight or tomorrow with the video with me and Carson.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be going over um NBA futures, so bets
Speaker 1: that I like based on like over unders championship favorites,
Speaker 1: things along those lines, and as well as the annual
Speaker 1: GM Survey, which always has a bunch of interesting stuff,
Speaker 1: some interesting um similarities between the way GM see the
Speaker 1: game and the way we see the game, like we've
Speaker 1: talked about on the show so much over the year
Speaker 1: or so that we've been doing this. All right, As always,
Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate you guys to support and I'll see
Speaker 1: you next time. The volume