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Trae Young Is Getting Traded Soon... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: It seems like it's happy ladies and gentlemen. It seems
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Speaker 1: like Trey Young is gonna get moved from the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Hawks sometime soon. Mark Stein put together report in the
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Speaker 1: substack that says the Hawks are open the trade and
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Speaker 1: tray Young. There's a growing belief league wide that the
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Speaker 1: Hawks are more open to trade in him away than
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Speaker 1: they ever have been. But what happens to their payroll
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Speaker 1: if no such trade materializes and Young winds up exercise
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Speaker 1: in that option. Next one comes from Tim Bond TIMPs
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Speaker 1: that says the Hawks are looking for ways to get
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Speaker 1: rid of Trey Young. The Hawks certainly are indicating that
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Speaker 1: they're looking for an exit rep with Trey Young. Now,
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Speaker 1: few things here, Tim Bond TIMPs. If I'm not mistaken,
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Speaker 1: he said this on the podcast, And as someone that
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Speaker 1: talks for a living, I know that sometimes you are
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Speaker 1: in the moment and you may not use the right
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Speaker 1: language right. So to use the word get rid of
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Speaker 1: or use the word exit rep, it flares my Tennan's
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Speaker 1: just a little bit, but also Mark Steyn's a little
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Speaker 1: bit different. Mark Steine, as I said this on the podcast,
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Speaker 1: these are carefully curated words on a substack and he
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Speaker 1: used the idea of Trey Young taking on a player
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Speaker 1: option as a negative thing for the Atlanta Hawks. Just
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Speaker 1: lets us know every thing we need to know about
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Speaker 1: what the Tree Young market is right now and when
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Speaker 1: he does or if he does get traded, how little
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Speaker 1: purchase of tickets. Now, the season as a whole has
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Speaker 1: been an interesting one for the Atlanta Hawks. It reminds
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Speaker 1: me so much of Chicago Bears years of the past, where,
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Speaker 1: for what feels like the third time in four years,
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Speaker 1: I looked at the Atlanta Hawks as an offseason winner.
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Speaker 1: I said, hey, this is the year they gonna look
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Speaker 1: pretty good. Now. Thank god, the Bears have killed that kurse.
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Speaker 1: They were off season winners for so long, and now
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Speaker 1: we finally in the playoffs. Baby. But the Atlanta Hawks
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Speaker 1: ended up picking up for his Zingers, who was dealing
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Speaker 1: with the health stuff. But a lot of us believe
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Speaker 1: that he was gonna be able to get past that
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Speaker 1: because he played so overseas this summer and he looked
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Speaker 1: good and that so Boomedy, that's that should be overweight. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: as we know right now that is not the case.
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Speaker 1: They bringing the Kire Eliza the Walker who was really
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Speaker 1: good for the Minnesota Timbles of the last couple of seasons.
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Speaker 1: But I mean that will added like a dove right now,
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Speaker 1: so like he really has been as good as it gets.
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Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson coming back from his injury. Even Lukenard, who
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Speaker 1: I swear I've watched him for twelve years and he
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Speaker 1: still don't shoot the ball. You know, he's one of
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Speaker 1: the best three point shots of all time. These guys
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Speaker 1: coming into the locker room of the Atlanta Hawks, in
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Speaker 1: my mind and them a winner. And before the season
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Speaker 1: started with Halliburton being down and Jason Tatum being down,
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Speaker 1: majority of people looked at the East and said, it
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Speaker 1: is open. We got the Knicks, we got the Calves
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Speaker 1: as the first tier and then not that you can convince
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Speaker 1: yourself of the Orlando Magic, you convince yourself of the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks, and the Hawks are what a five hundred
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Speaker 1: team for the one hundred ye in the row, them
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Speaker 1: the Bulls in the Miami he gonna compete again for
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Speaker 1: another play in spot. It's crazy, y'all. Trey Young gets injured.
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Speaker 1: What's six to eight games? Yeah, yep, I skipped that
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Speaker 1: number because I'm tired of it's almost twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: six to eight games to the season. Trey Young goes
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Speaker 1: down an injury, right, and then the Atlanta Hawks go
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Speaker 1: on the West Coast road trip, and they start with
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Speaker 1: the games Yachacagu cannot miss. Jalen Johnson continues to look
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Speaker 1: like a superstar, the Kels of the Walkers, putting up
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Speaker 1: twenty balls, thirty balls, and it always becomes a conversation,
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Speaker 1: could this team be better without their star player. It
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Speaker 1: happened the same season with Palo and Carol, Right, Palo
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Speaker 1: goes out Fronz Wagner and the Magic going a little streak,
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Speaker 1: and the question was are they better without Paalo? Same
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Speaker 1: thing happened with Trey Young. And they're on this West
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Speaker 1: Coast rod tri and I vividly remember a specific game
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Speaker 1: where they played against the Phoenix Suns, and this is
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Speaker 1: one of the times where Yaka Congo could not miss
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Speaker 1: for like a month, strake he was sent every single
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Speaker 1: three and that Ka Congo has say huge three and
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Speaker 1: I look over to the bench, and like, is tregon
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Speaker 1: over there? First of all, is he there? He was?
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Speaker 1: And second of all, is he celebrating as if like
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Speaker 1: this is still his team? Because we knew all the
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Speaker 1: conversations going to the season about how he won an
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Speaker 1: extension and the Hawks weren't giving him an extension and
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Speaker 1: that could potentially put a wedge between him and his teammates,
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Speaker 1: him and the organization. But he was on the sideline
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Speaker 1: celebrating as if he was the one that hit the shot.
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Speaker 1: You look at his Twitter account and the entire time,
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Speaker 1: and the team is rolling. He's got vic Cregie tweets.
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Speaker 1: He's tweeting about just wait time, come back, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: be even better and so on. And then he came back,
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Speaker 1: and then they gave up one hundred and fifty points
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Speaker 1: per game to the Bulls in the two game stretch.
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Speaker 1: He came back, and they continued to lose basketball games. Now,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to put all of that on Troy Young,
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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, because there was a ramp going
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Speaker 1: down before Troy Young came back where it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that team was frisky and fun for a few weeks,
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Speaker 1: but the last week or so they're giving up a
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Speaker 1: ton of point doing this, they're doing that. So though
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks defense has been cook since Treyyng come back,
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Speaker 1: he's just part of the problem. If maybe he is
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Speaker 1: towards the top of that problem, but he's just part
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Speaker 1: of the problem. And that team was slowly going downhill
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Speaker 1: before he got there. And not only have they not
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Speaker 1: won that first game he came back. Actually, where's my notebook?
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Speaker 1: Let me see if I can show you. I was
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Speaker 1: gonna make an entire video about what the Charlotte Hornets
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Speaker 1: were doing to Trey Young in his first game back.
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Speaker 1: We all know Trey Young is not gonna be a
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Speaker 1: good defender, right he is damned in my height, damned
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Speaker 1: in my weight. I don't stand a chance against some
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Speaker 1: of the people at the YMCA, So I definitely don't
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Speaker 1: stand a chance in the NBA. And we see teams
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Speaker 1: try to pick on Trey Young all the time. Right,
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Speaker 1: Trey Young led the league and picking rolls defended last season.
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Speaker 1: Every team is gonna put him into the action. But
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Speaker 1: I remember watching his first game back, and the Charlotte Hornets,
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Speaker 1: who was not a notoriously amazing team, they've been frisky.
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Speaker 1: They've been fun this season. Really made it a point
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Speaker 1: to be like, this is Trey Young, for one, and
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Speaker 1: he's just coming back, so let's put him in every
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Speaker 1: single action we can and let me go get my
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Speaker 1: notebook because I'm gonna sho y'all some of the players
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Speaker 1: that they put t's for Young game as some time
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Speaker 1: for me to flex my my cool notebook and then
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Speaker 1: spot that one of them got stolen. Sony only got
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Speaker 1: one left. There's somebody out there that has an NBA
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Speaker 1: on NBC notebook with a bunch of notes from the
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Speaker 1: start of the NBA season for me. You could probably
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Speaker 1: sell it. Actually sell it to me, sell it back
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Speaker 1: to me because I like keeping my notes. Bro somebody
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Speaker 1: stole it. Let me find the game. So it's not
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Speaker 1: just about putting Trey Young in every single action, just
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Speaker 1: making him work and not being able to hide him.
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Speaker 1: It's also the lack of communication, and I tried my
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Speaker 1: very best to give players and coaches and all these
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Speaker 1: people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to
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Speaker 1: some of the stuff. Tryon's first game back, hasn't played
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Speaker 1: with these guys for a few months now. Miscommunications could happen,
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Speaker 1: but this one's like so Egregious called Brenda cessa screen
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Speaker 1: for Brandon Miller and Dyson Daniel's Entray Young goal to
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Speaker 1: follow him instead of and nobody picks up LaMelo, who
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Speaker 1: I think in this game hit seven threes in the
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Speaker 1: first half, and a lot of them looked exactly like this.
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Speaker 1: I'm not want to tell you that I know more
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Speaker 1: basketball than the people on the court of the coaches,
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Speaker 1: but that seems like something that shouldn't happen in the
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Speaker 1: NBA game as often as it did in this one.
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Speaker 1: Last one I really show you, But here's one where
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Speaker 1: this is semi transition off of make and then they
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Speaker 1: get mismatched. He's guarded to John Salon here. In the
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Speaker 1: entire game, the guy that was defending the picker was
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Speaker 1: hedging these screens. Trey Young here, Yeah, you see what
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Speaker 1: I see. So it has not been good. This just
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Speaker 1: full stop. It has not been good. It's been so
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Speaker 1: bad it gets called out on the broadcast. This is
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Speaker 1: not a home broadcast. I'm understanding, this, says MSG in
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Speaker 1: the corner. This is Alan Hahn. But let's just run.
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Speaker 1: The Hawks have a strong finished here. Now watch Trey
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Speaker 1: Young here. This is again by quit even plays. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so you try to draw the foul. Is there any hustle,
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Speaker 1: any effort there whatsoever. It's the face of your franchise.
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Speaker 1: So all of that is going on, and the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Hawks are over it because they don't want to be
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Speaker 1: the team having to pay Treon next season and then
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Speaker 1: eventually once his current contract is up. I do want
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Speaker 1: to public say my grievances with Jalen Johnson's amazing season
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Speaker 1: so far and how little he has given effort on
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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball on the nightly to
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Speaker 1: play back play basis. And I understand that when your
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Speaker 1: offensive log goes up, that mean you got to sacrifice
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Speaker 1: your energy somewhere else. And it happens to be the
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Speaker 1: defensive side more more times than now for breakout players.
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Speaker 1: But one of the reasons I was so high in
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta hawss is I thought that with Jaylen Johnson's
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Speaker 1: defensive fertility, when Dyson Daniels and Porzingis and the Yachacago
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Speaker 1: in the back end, they should be enough to cover
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Speaker 1: up some of the Trey Young stuff. And because Jalen
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Speaker 1: Johnson just isn't the defender that he was, let's just
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Speaker 1: say last year two years ago. They haven't been able
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Speaker 1: to compensate for Trey You, speaking of conversation for not compensation,
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Speaker 1: but compensa team. Trey Young has never been a good defender. Spoiler.
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Speaker 1: This is not something that just started in twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: He never has been able to be a good defender.
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Speaker 1: There was a time where his effort levels were extremely
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Speaker 1: high compared to previous seasons, but again, when you're my
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Speaker 1: size and my weight or whatever it really ends up being,
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Speaker 1: it's just gonna be tough to guard at the NBA level.
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Speaker 1: The difference was his offensive output was so great that
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Speaker 1: you felt like it was worth it at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day. The guy who was one of the
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Speaker 1: best offensive engines in all of basketball the Atlanta Hawks
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Speaker 1: for years, We're a really good to great offensive team
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Speaker 1: with Trey Young on the floor. That just has not
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Speaker 1: been the case as of recent. Part of that is
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Speaker 1: he just is not a great three point shooter, even
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Speaker 1: given the difficulty of his shots, and overall just been
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Speaker 1: a poor efficiency player for I don't know what two
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Speaker 1: years now. So that goes back to the original thing
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Speaker 1: of the trades, right, the Atlanta Hawks trying to get
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Speaker 1: an exit remp for Trey Young because they don't want
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Speaker 1: him to take on that player offs. And then you
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Speaker 1: look across the association and you ask yourself, who could
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Speaker 1: use Trey Young Because though we have been talking about
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Speaker 1: the bad parts of Trey Young's game, he is still
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Speaker 1: a good NBA player, right, so you would expect seems
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Speaker 1: to call. But also we've had these Trey Young rumors
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Speaker 1: for over a year now and it feels like nothing
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Speaker 1: has we know, nothing has ever materialized because maybe a
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Speaker 1: the market just not there, or the players and the
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Speaker 1: teams that would want Trey Young are not willing to
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Speaker 1: give up as sets if you think about it, if
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Speaker 1: you think about trying to trade for all star level talent,
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Speaker 1: and that's what Trey Young still is at this time.
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Speaker 1: Teams that are trying to acquire that are usually trying
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Speaker 1: to compete, but because of Trey Young's big old contract,
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Speaker 1: it's hard for a team that's trying to compete to
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Speaker 1: put together the assets to go get Trey Young without
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Speaker 1: mortgaging what they have right now. And also, he's at
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Speaker 1: a position where it feels like a lot of teams
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Speaker 1: that are trying to compete have that position locked down.
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Speaker 1: Just look at the Association, from the cad to the
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Speaker 1: Brunze Sins to the Celtics don't have anybody in that role.
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Speaker 1: But like they're doing okay. If we go to the
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Speaker 1: other side between Shay and then all of the guards
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Speaker 1: over there, the Jamal Murray, they don't really have guards
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Speaker 1: over here. But like some of these teams that don't
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Speaker 1: have point guards, A don't have what it would take
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Speaker 1: to go get Trey Young or B. I just feel
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Speaker 1: like they just don't need them, even if they need
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Speaker 1: a point guard. So it only leaves us with a
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Speaker 1: few teams that would be in the Trey Young sweepstakes.
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Speaker 1: One of them is the Sacramento Kings, who I think
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Speaker 1: my boy Derek may have said it the best on
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Speaker 1: yesterday's episode of the Numbers on the Board that the
10:52
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings are going to have to try to end
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Speaker 1: up running their show like the Raptors in a sense
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Speaker 1: that they have to trade for what would be their
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Speaker 1: free agent. And if the value of Trey Young is
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Speaker 1: really low, then that would be a team that should
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Speaker 1: be trying to get in on that conversation. But the
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Speaker 1: problem with that is when I think about again the
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Speaker 1: words that are used to describe what a Trey Young
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Speaker 1: Trey would look like, the exit ramp and so on.
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Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm thinking about getting back. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: maybe expiring deals and the Kings can't really provide that
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Speaker 1: a King's trade would be like the Marty Rolls and
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Speaker 1: Malik Monk, which could potentially help the Atlanta Hawks today,
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Speaker 1: But is that really an It's an exit unt from
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Speaker 1: Trey Young, but it doesn't leave you with the flexibility
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Speaker 1: that I feel like they're trying to look into. It
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Speaker 1: seems like the Hawks are interested in Anthony Davis, but
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Speaker 1: they don't want Trey Young back. They'd rather do a
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Speaker 1: deal revolving around Zachary Reize, I say, which is a
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Speaker 1: whole conversation for a whole another date. But it feels
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Speaker 1: like the team that might eventually trade for Trey Young
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Speaker 1: are is going to be like a super duper desperate
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Speaker 1: team like the Milwaukee Bucks, or just trying their very
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Speaker 1: best to try to keep Yonnas happy, or a team
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Speaker 1: that's not good right now but trying to use this
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Speaker 1: as their free agency, trying to use this to bridge
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Speaker 1: the gap between a super young core and what's gonna
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Speaker 1: happen soon and I keep trying to convince myself that
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Speaker 1: that one spot is the Washington Wizard. Let me give
12:07
Speaker 1: you the reason why. And I'm not saying it's a
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Speaker 1: perfect fit or anything, but the Washington Wars have been
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Speaker 1: in their rebuild for three to four years now, and
12:14
Speaker 1: he before that, they weren't good anyway. Right Like the
12:16
Speaker 1: last couple of years of the Bradley Beal stuff is
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Speaker 1: like thirty five wins, thirty six wins, missing the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: So their franchise has been deprived of posting success for
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Speaker 1: some time, with postseason appearances for some time. And you
12:27
Speaker 1: look at that core over there, and you've got some
12:28
Speaker 1: buch Just stuff, Alex Hars having an amazing sophomore season,
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Speaker 1: Keyshawn George, the guys I think a lot of people
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Speaker 1: in the NBA really really love. We got Trey Johnson
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Speaker 1: who's been playing really well as of late as a starter,
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Speaker 1: But that one position that they really do need is
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Speaker 1: a point guard. Right right now, it is like a
12:41
Speaker 1: lot of Sez McCullum and some Bob Carrington who has
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Speaker 1: his moments but for the most part is not having
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Speaker 1: an amazing season. And I can look at it and
12:48
Speaker 1: I can squit and say, like, hey, Trey Young being
12:50
Speaker 1: there kind of makes some sense as a bridge to
12:52
Speaker 1: help some of the guys that we care about, the
12:54
Speaker 1: young guys we care about, get better. But it also
12:57
Speaker 1: would require Trey Young to kind of shift a lot
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Speaker 1: of his game instead of it being me, me, me,
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Speaker 1: high screen and row to be more past centric and
13:03
Speaker 1: we know You're Young is an amazing pastor. We just
13:06
Speaker 1: need him to kind of be that full time. But
13:08
Speaker 1: it turns a Wizards team that like, it's just not
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Speaker 1: good to like a more intriguing team. And it also
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Speaker 1: kind of gears them up because I don't think if
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Speaker 1: they add to Young that they're about to go out
13:16
Speaker 1: there and now could be for a playing spot right now,
13:18
Speaker 1: so they can still end up with one of the
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Speaker 1: top picks in the draft. We're also having a guy that, like,
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Speaker 1: if you put him in a different system, maybe it
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Speaker 1: can be the change that he needs to go back
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Speaker 1: to the guy that he was in twenty twenty one
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Speaker 1: or twenty twenty two. I feel like you can get
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Speaker 1: that done without giving up any of the things you
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Speaker 1: really care about. Again, exit ramp is what I'm thinking.
13:37
Speaker 1: You got two of the bigger expiring contracts in all
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Speaker 1: the basketball between CJ. McCullum and Chris Middleton, you have
13:42
Speaker 1: a guy like Corey Kispert, who is good, but like,
13:46
Speaker 1: do you really care about Corey Kisper if you're the
13:48
Speaker 1: Washington Wizards and his contract is not too crazy, and
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Speaker 1: maybe that is a type of player that the Atlanta
13:52
Speaker 1: Hawks could look for as another shooter off the bench.
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Speaker 1: And then they also have a pick that is not there.
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Speaker 1: It's just one of them super crazy protective picks from
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Speaker 1: like three different playoff teams. So you can in the
14:02
Speaker 1: world have it so that you still retain your own
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Speaker 1: first round pick this season, give up a first round
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Speaker 1: pick that doesn't have a ton of value to you,
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Speaker 1: and getting a guy like Trey Young, and then because
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Speaker 1: I mean, the real Trey Young life of your team
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Speaker 1: is like this season and potentially next season when he
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Speaker 1: takes that player option, there's not that much of a commitment.
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Speaker 1: In the situation where you do win a lot and
14:21
Speaker 1: you get Darren Peters, you're like, oh my god, Trey
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Speaker 1: On and Deren Pison. First of all, they probably could coexist.
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Speaker 1: But if you wanted to say, hey, Trey Young, thank
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Speaker 1: you for your two years of service to help us
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Speaker 1: at least learn a little bit. We could just let
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Speaker 1: it go, like there's kind of like a no strains
14:32
Speaker 1: attached to this hypothetical. And then if you are able
14:34
Speaker 1: to turn it around for Trey Young, like boom, we
14:36
Speaker 1: got another star. And now we look at the Wizards like, man,
14:39
Speaker 1: they got a better cord than this team, this team
14:41
Speaker 1: and this team. And I think one of the reasons
14:42
Speaker 1: why this works is because with the flat and odds,
14:45
Speaker 1: there really is no incentive to being the literal worst
14:47
Speaker 1: team in the NBA. And right now the Wizards are
14:50
Speaker 1: second to worst, so like they're very close to worst,
14:52
Speaker 1: but there's no real incentive. And as we continue to
14:54
Speaker 1: see between the Hawks who did it or the Mavericks
14:57
Speaker 1: who did it, you could be a team that was, like,
15:01
Speaker 1: I don't know, the eighth best odds and still win
15:03
Speaker 1: the lottery, not even just win it. The seventy six
15:06
Speaker 1: ers just jumped into the lottery last season, even the
15:09
Speaker 1: top four, I mean, and even the Spurs jumped into
15:11
Speaker 1: the top four just last season. Even if you don't win,
15:14
Speaker 1: you can jump up and still walk away with something great.
15:17
Speaker 1: I'm also I know that this draft class at the
15:19
Speaker 1: top is really potent and I don't know much about
15:21
Speaker 1: these dudes, let me be honest with you. I know
15:23
Speaker 1: their names, I haven't watched much film of it. But
15:25
Speaker 1: we can't just say that in order for our rebal
15:28
Speaker 1: to be successful we need a top three pick, you
15:30
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Maybe this the year. That's not
15:33
Speaker 1: a good even thing for me to say, because maybe
15:35
Speaker 1: these top three dudes are really as advertised. But like
15:38
Speaker 1: I feel like if you got the fifth pick or
15:40
Speaker 1: the sixth pick, you should still be able to pull
15:42
Speaker 1: off some some interesting stuff to be a part of
15:44
Speaker 1: a successful rebual, Like if the Wizards traded for Tray Young,
15:49
Speaker 1: and let's say Trey Young helped them end up having
15:51
Speaker 1: the sixth ho almost dated again the seventh or eighth
15:54
Speaker 1: best odds six, that still gives you a one fourth
15:57
Speaker 1: of a chance and a little bit higher than that
16:00
Speaker 1: to potentially still end up in the top four. I
16:02
Speaker 1: think there could be some value there, especially if we're
16:04
Speaker 1: buying in extremely extremely low. But that's just my pitch. Obviously,
16:08
Speaker 1: I don't know who the Wizards heads are really at.
16:10
Speaker 1: And then I look at some of these other teams.
16:12
Speaker 1: The Bucks is the other one that kind of makes
16:14
Speaker 1: sense from a desperation standpoint, because they could kind of
16:17
Speaker 1: get their relatively easy again. I think about the language
16:20
Speaker 1: of exit ramp. I think about the language of Trey
16:22
Speaker 1: Young accepting his player option and the guys they would
16:24
Speaker 1: be giving up in this hypothetical, and the Bobby port
16:27
Speaker 1: Is and the Kyle Kuzma. Neither of them are expiring deals,
16:30
Speaker 1: so you kind of have to accept that they're going
16:31
Speaker 1: to be on your team for the next season. I
16:32
Speaker 1: don't know if that's where the Hawks head it really is,
16:35
Speaker 1: but Trey Young being on the market, I mean it
16:39
Speaker 1: might be the biggest name traded because the Joannis things
16:41
Speaker 1: feels like it's died down at least a little bit.
16:43
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis might still get traded. I mean, hell, he
16:45
Speaker 1: might get traded to the Hawks, but it feels like
16:46
Speaker 1: Trey Young might be the biggest name on the market.
16:49
Speaker 1: Were not scaring ourselves out for a really good trade season. Regardless,
16:53
Speaker 1: it's not a lot of other teams that's interested. I
16:56
Speaker 1: feel like I've seen some tweets from Heat fans that
16:58
Speaker 1: would like a Tyler here and stuff for Trey Young.
17:03
Speaker 1: I think that could be interesting. I would love to
17:06
Speaker 1: kind of see what Trey Young would look like in
17:08
Speaker 1: a no ball screen offense. But I'm a little bit
17:11
Speaker 1: skeptical that it would be as nice as some people
17:14
Speaker 1: may anticipate. I saw Raptors fans that say that they
17:17
Speaker 1: would potentially be interested, but it's a similar thing. If
17:20
Speaker 1: I'm the Hawks, I don't want you Manual Quickly's money,
17:22
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I know we need some
17:24
Speaker 1: center play, but I don't want Yakaperlo what it's bad back.
17:27
Speaker 1: I even saw some Celtish fans be interested, but I
17:29
Speaker 1: don't think that's realistic from the Celtis, as they traded
17:30
Speaker 1: away so many things to get under the second apron.
17:32
Speaker 1: A trade like that would get them right back into it,
17:34
Speaker 1: so I don't see that either. But if it's like
17:36
Speaker 1: some Super Minnesota as a team that people have thrown
17:38
Speaker 1: around a little bit, and I've mentioned on small Ball
17:41
Speaker 1: that I'm a little bit more open to them breaking
17:43
Speaker 1: up a few of their core pieces in that front
17:45
Speaker 1: court in order to make something like that happen. I
17:47
Speaker 1: just don't know if if they trade away let's say
17:49
Speaker 1: they have trade away Julius Ron, if they trade away
17:51
Speaker 1: Julius Randall and it's some three team, because I don't
17:53
Speaker 1: think Julus Rand in Atlanta makes a lot of sense.
17:56
Speaker 1: I don't know. If I look at the Timberwolves's like, yup,
17:58
Speaker 1: they'dout to do it now. If that makes I would
18:00
Speaker 1: have to see it on paper. Obviously. The Suns are
18:02
Speaker 1: maybe an intriguing one as they continue to bring on
18:04
Speaker 1: these reclamation projects and say, hey, they didn't love you
18:07
Speaker 1: on your last spot, come to our city and we're
18:10
Speaker 1: gonna turn some things around. That would kind of just
18:12
Speaker 1: be a few different players, like revolving around Jalen Green,
18:15
Speaker 1: Jalen Green going to in Atlanta. That's kind of interesting.
18:17
Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of it. I can't see the
18:19
Speaker 1: Trailblazers being in even though they desperately need point guard play.
18:22
Speaker 1: But I feel like they're just gonna wait for a
18:24
Speaker 1: Dame to come back next season on a lesser scale,
18:26
Speaker 1: wait for Juilly to come back this year. But like
18:29
Speaker 1: they do have Jeremy Grant's money and that's like a
18:32
Speaker 1: lot of money. That's kind of it. I don't see
18:34
Speaker 1: the Rockets doing it. This just don't make sense for
18:36
Speaker 1: what they're going, what they got going on re Shepherd,
18:38
Speaker 1: it's just been good enough as a back. I don't
18:41
Speaker 1: want to stunt re Shepherd's development, and I don't know
18:43
Speaker 1: if that raises they're sealing too much if they had
18:45
Speaker 1: Trey Young instead of some of the guys that have
18:46
Speaker 1: right now. So here we are Trey Young on the market,
18:49
Speaker 1: but maybe no true true suitors, So be prepared for
18:53
Speaker 1: when that trade breaks to be like dang, that's all
18:55
Speaker 1: they got. It might be all they can get.