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This Miles Bridges Trade Is Confusing... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Miles Bridges is on the move, y'all. Now, No, Normally,
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  Speaker 1: when we do these type of videos, these reactions, it's
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  Speaker 1: big trades. It's it's Gianni's, it's Lamello, it's Kevin Urrant
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  Speaker 1: every time he gets traded. But sometimes a smaller trade
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  Speaker 1: is so triud and I gotta fire it up that
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets are tradeing Moles Bridges in a twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine first round pick in a twenty twenty seventh second
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  Speaker 1: round pick to the Phoenix Suns for Grayson Alan Roys
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  Speaker 1: O'Neill in a twenty thirty three first round pick. The
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  Speaker 1: Sons acquire a starting pound four in age twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: in Bridges, whom they've targeted recent years. I remember, like
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  Speaker 1: two or three years ago, it was some real big
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  Speaker 1: buzz about the Sons trying to get Miles Bridges, and
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  Speaker 1: they finally get it done. Plus a twenty twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: least fable first rounder in the twenty twenty seventh least
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  Speaker 1: favorable second round of a while getting twenty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in savings while opening up a roster spot ahead of
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  Speaker 1: free agent, Charlotte picks up two playoff tested role players
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  Speaker 1: and receives a valuable further out unprotected let me say again,
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  Speaker 1: unprotected Sun's pick. Are you kidding me? The Sons basically
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  Speaker 1: get rid of all of the good will that they
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  Speaker 1: had gained over the last year. Last year, they were
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  Speaker 1: one of the surprise teams of basketball. I know, I
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  Speaker 1: was a guy that looked at their over under number
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  Speaker 1: last year and said, under, I mean that don't look
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  Speaker 1: like a team that can make some noise. And they
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  Speaker 1: made a lot of noise. They were way better than anticipated.
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  Speaker 1: Guys like Colin Gillespie jump on to the scene, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, when he was healthy, Mark Williams looked pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And then they start this offseason by resigning a lot
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  Speaker 1: of those guys. Mark Williams on the seal of a deal.
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  Speaker 1: Colin Gillespie deal is so good that people on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: were saying that he should fire his agent, and they
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  Speaker 1: back all that up by trading away. I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 1: it again, a completely unprotected first round pick in twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirty twenty thirty three from Miles Bridges. Now, there will
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  Speaker 1: be people to tell you that in them trading away
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  Speaker 1: this pick opens up an opportunity to move other picks.
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  Speaker 1: They normally wouldn't be able to move. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: guess sure, but twenty thirty three is so far away
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  Speaker 1: that I can't even imagine what the hell is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be going on league, and neither can they. Hell, the
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  Speaker 1: league don't even know what's gonna be happening in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: The current lottery structure they given in a three year
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  Speaker 1: window to test it out. We might be under a
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  Speaker 1: whole new circumstances when it comes to the lottery and
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  Speaker 1: you're trading away pick steph are out, not for Gianna's,
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  Speaker 1: not for Jokic, not for Shade, not for Luca, but
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  Speaker 1: for Miles Bridges. Well, now, I mean noo. The Suns
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  Speaker 1: are a team that, because of they didn't have the
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  Speaker 1: access to a lot of their own first round draft capital.
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  Speaker 1: Has to be a team that is building from I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, picking up the ragtag group of guys that
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  Speaker 1: may have started in some place and then succeed and
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  Speaker 1: they can come to Phoenix and buy the boom by
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  Speaker 1: the bam here I mean colleague Lastie's a perfect example
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  Speaker 1: of this, where he was a backup on a championship
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not a back up, a third string on
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  Speaker 1: the championship team, and then he finally gets a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of burn, and then he has a breakout season
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  Speaker 1: that was something they had done so well just last year,
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  Speaker 1: and then they do this. And I will say that
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  Speaker 1: now that the LaMelo Ball trade has come and gone,
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  Speaker 1: I still don't love it. From Charlotte's perspective, I am,
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  Speaker 1: at the best luke warm with the idea. I understand
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  Speaker 1: the risk and the potential war for trading a way
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  Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball, but a trade like this I absolutely love
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  Speaker 1: for the Charlotte hornis Let's let's start there, because they
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  Speaker 1: truly are acquired one of my favorite role players in
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  Speaker 1: all the basketball and mister Royce O'Neill. Now, I will
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  Speaker 1: say right now, Roys O'Neil was thirty two years old
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  Speaker 1: last season and he had a career year. The reality
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  Speaker 1: is he probably won't be as effective next year as
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  Speaker 1: he was last year, Like how many people have a
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  Speaker 1: career yet thirty two and continue to be that good.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the things I really loved about where
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  Speaker 1: Roys O'Neil was able to do last season because we
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  Speaker 1: all know Roy's O'Neil is a plus defensive player even
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  Speaker 1: in this older age and can hit threes. But last
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  Speaker 1: year one of the reasons why the Suns were so
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  Speaker 1: good is the empowered so many players on the roster
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  Speaker 1: to create for themselves and shoot off the dribble Roys
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  Speaker 1: O'Neil for the entire of his career. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: can I bring up some numbers to back up my claims?
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  Speaker 1: I bet I could. I absolutely love when the iteests
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  Speaker 1: matches the analytics or the statistics, if you will. So
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  Speaker 1: let's go back to twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: right now, I'm using Synergy this season, Royce O'Neil on
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  Speaker 1: the attempt at twenty five dribble jumpers. These are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not catching shoots. But he put the ball at least
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  Speaker 1: one on the floor one time and took a shot right.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty five total in the entire season. Now I can't
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  Speaker 1: see how many games he played in this season, but
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  Speaker 1: just wrong with me. This is twenty twenty three, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty five. The number goes up to sixty four,
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  Speaker 1: which is a lot more then last year. That number
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  Speaker 1: goes up to almost one hundred and thirty one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty nine, double the amount of the previous season,
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  Speaker 1: and if I go over here and I show you
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  Speaker 1: some of these plays, it's exactly what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: where he was used as a as a screener and
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  Speaker 1: opportunities like this because he had been such a great shooter,
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  Speaker 1: he can get get big clothes outs like this one
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  Speaker 1: dribble to the side, pull up three. He missed that one.
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  Speaker 1: But these are just the attempts. These aren't the max.
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  Speaker 1: But he was really good in these attempts as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's very far away from Desmond Bain as a
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  Speaker 1: flyback king, but he'll definitely use that one dribble step
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  Speaker 1: to the side to take a three even deeper than that.
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  Speaker 1: The suns allowed him to do some some pick and rolls,
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  Speaker 1: some hand more than any time in his career. So again,
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  Speaker 1: even though he is thirty two years old and the
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  Speaker 1: reality is he might not be that good for that long,
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a really good pickup and actually
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  Speaker 1: saw nickayas Duncan tweets something out that I think was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: He says, you lose LaMelo's three point value and immediately
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  Speaker 1: trade for Grayson Allen and Royce O'Neil. I'm nodding. I
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  Speaker 1: think that really does sum up this trade pretty well
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  Speaker 1: because Grayson Allen, even though boyd it part of him
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  Speaker 1: grinds my gears after some of the stuff he did
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  Speaker 1: to Alas Carusso, I mean, he is coming off also
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  Speaker 1: a career year, not even a career year, and shooting
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Actually, his three point percentage was down compared
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  Speaker 1: to seasons where he remember two years ago he shot
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  Speaker 1: forty six percent from three on six attemptsye. I remember
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  Speaker 1: that his overhall three per percentage went down from last season,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not thinking about that because, just like I
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  Speaker 1: talked about with Royce O'Neil, the Phoenix Suns allowed Grayson
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  Speaker 1: Allen to be way more involved with the ball in
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  Speaker 1: his hands this year. And I'm not saying that these
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  Speaker 1: guys are going to get to Charlotte and now Charles
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  Speaker 1: Lee is about to draw up a thousand picking rolls
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  Speaker 1: for Grayson Allen. It does give them some extra optionality
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. Again, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they're gonna be able to replicate the playmaking the
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  Speaker 1: passing from LaMelo, but they have more offensive weapons, which
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  Speaker 1: I think is a is. It can't counteract that passing,
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  Speaker 1: but it does make them a harder team to defend
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  Speaker 1: than they were just two days ago before this strade happened. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: these numbers are crazy. Hold on, hold on, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: hold on. These numbers are crazy. So okay, boom, this
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  Speaker 1: is last year's grace and mat matter of fact, let's
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  Speaker 1: go two years ago Grayson Allen, when he led the
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  Speaker 1: league in three point shooting percentage. He did most of
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  Speaker 1: his damage in as a spot up shooter. As you
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  Speaker 1: can see, we saw that he only did he only
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  Speaker 1: ran sixty four pick and rolls last year. Don't break
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  Speaker 1: on me, now, that's one thing about synergy is gonna
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  Speaker 1: break I promise you was better than zero presents. Hold
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  Speaker 1: on last year. Look at this. He ran pick and
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  Speaker 1: rolls almost two hundred and fifty times. He had just
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  Speaker 1: as many pick and roll opportunities then he did spot
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  Speaker 1: up opportunities. And guess what, he was good. He was good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe not the greatest. He wasn't excellent like
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  Speaker 1: he was a spot up, but like good and pick
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  Speaker 1: and roll. And this is a team that, again without
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  Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball as a individual creator, they're going to need
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  Speaker 1: other guys. They're gonna have to run out four man
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  Speaker 1: units or full out of the five man units that
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  Speaker 1: can create for themselves and can make an extra pass,
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  Speaker 1: and I think Roy O'Neill and Grayson Allen can help that.
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  Speaker 1: So again, I think this an a plus type of trade.
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  Speaker 1: Miles Bridges. I've never been a fan of Males Bridges.
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  Speaker 1: That is very public and I'm not even just talking
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  Speaker 1: about the other stuff. I'm actually just talking about the
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  Speaker 1: basketball portion, because the other stuff is the other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The basketball portion, I've never been a huge fan. I
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  Speaker 1: remember in the playing game he did have a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of defensive stops that were really important to what they
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  Speaker 1: were trying to do. But I don't see him as
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  Speaker 1: a I don't know, a irreplaceable type of player on
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  Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets. I always felt like his individual countess
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  Speaker 1: stats over talked of but overstated. I don't know his
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  Speaker 1: actual impact, and I mean, I guess time will hell.
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  Speaker 1: It is interesting to see that that five man unit
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  Speaker 1: of LaMelo con, Brandon, Miles and Moosa be the best
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  Speaker 1: five man unit in all of basketball last season and
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  Speaker 1: two of those guys get traded already. Wn't gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in the SAR player so time will tell. Again, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm luke warm on the LaMelo trade. But
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  Speaker 1: this trade, like a trade like this make me feel
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better about it all things considered. Now
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  Speaker 1: Brett has this trade. As I mentioned, Brett has his
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  Speaker 1: tweet I'm sorry that I mentioned earlier. By sacrificing the
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  Speaker 1: future twenty thirty three first round pick for a twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine first round pick, the Suns that have access
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  Speaker 1: to all draft picks twenty twenty seven through twenty twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: opening up a potential trade avenue for Phoenix. Smart front
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  Speaker 1: office maneuverability. Oh my god, the first time ever seen
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  Speaker 1: that word maneuverability. God damn, it's a long world. And
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  Speaker 1: while I can I can see why that would be,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know smart front office maneuverability. It still leaves
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  Speaker 1: a bad taste in the mouth to give up a
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  Speaker 1: completely unprotected twenty thirty three when again, you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the hell the league is gonna look like in
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  Speaker 1: twenty What year we in? Are we in? Twenty twenty six? Bro?
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  Speaker 1: What hold on hold on, hold on, hold, on, hold
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  Speaker 1: on hold on. Devin Booker right now is a twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be thirty years old the start of the season,
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  Speaker 1: So twenty twenty seven twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: thirty thirty one, thirty two, thirty three. Devin Booker's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be thirty seven years old when they pick conveys. Devin
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  Speaker 1: Booker's gonna be what that's a that's nuts. And again
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  Speaker 1: I understand opening up now you can move these type
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  Speaker 1: of tray, these type of picks. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: worth it. I don't think it's worth it. Tip of tail,
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  Speaker 1: tap of tail, but I don't think it's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: It also begs the question, what's gonna happen with with
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  Speaker 1: with with Jalen Green this offseason? Right? People are speculating
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  Speaker 1: that them getting those extra first round picks that they
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  Speaker 1: opened up, and you trade twenty twenty seven and twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine, then the Suns are gonna use those to
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  Speaker 1: acquire a different guy outside of Jalen Green, And maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's what they're working towards. Hell free agency starts in
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  Speaker 1: about two days or so, so I'm sure we'll learn
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  Speaker 1: sooner rather than But as currently standing, I really dislike
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  Speaker 1: this trade for the Phoenix songs. I just I just
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  Speaker 1: really dislike this trade. Maybe that means John Morant's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be coming to the team somewhat soon. And now you
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  Speaker 1: got John Morant, Devin Booker, Miles Bridges, and Mark Williams.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I got my attendants up. Hold know,
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  Speaker 1: let me let me do some quick googles. Matt Ishbia,
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  Speaker 1: matt Ishbia College. Let me see something real quick. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what I thought. Matt ishbiam went to Michigan
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  Speaker 1: State University. Isn't a surprise. How about I do Miles
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  Speaker 1: Bridges College. Won't you look at that? Won't you look
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  Speaker 1: at that? And all I know is that one thing
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  Speaker 1: about matt Ishpia is he love. He absolutely loves. Michigan
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  Speaker 1: State Genial manager Brian Gregory was an assistant coach at
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  Speaker 1: Michigan State. Jordan I started his coaching career as a
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  Speaker 1: video student. Video coordinated at Michigan State Player Development and Motivation.
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  Speaker 1: Matteen Cleves hired to manage it. It was a Michigan State legend.
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  Speaker 1: I actually remember you and not I said your name aloud.
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  Speaker 1: See oh, Josh Bertolstein, Michigan graduate. Ooh, Michigan's graduate and
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  Speaker 1: form a walk on for the Spartans. So now we
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  Speaker 1: just got to look out and say, h Jace Richardson
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  Speaker 1: get ready to end up on the team, Max Christie,
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  Speaker 1: Xavier Tailman, Cassius Winston, jaren Ooh, they probably upset that
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  Speaker 1: they could pull off of Jaron Jackson junior trade. This
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  Speaker 1: Valentine got to be out there hooping somewhere. I just
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's got a type. He's got it tight,
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  Speaker 1: He's got a type. Y'all. The Hornets are operating differently
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  Speaker 1: than most teams in the league right now, and I
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  Speaker 1: love that there's something different going on. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: it with the LaMelo Ball trade, being proactive rather than reactive. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this team was one of the darlings of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: last season. That they've traded two of the starters in
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  Speaker 1: that unit, we'll see what ends up happening. They now
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  Speaker 1: acquired two twenty or twenty thirty three first round picks,
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  Speaker 1: And it's always interesting when when the front office acquires
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  Speaker 1: picks that far out, because I guess anything can happen
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  Speaker 1: in the front office. But part of me is like,
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  Speaker 1: do you even know if you're gonna be still in
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  Speaker 1: this position in twenty thirty three to make those picks
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  Speaker 1: look good? You know, like you you could the LaMelo
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  Speaker 1: ball trade in backfire so bad that in three years
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  Speaker 1: the god is making decisions right now might be gone,
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  Speaker 1: and then it turns into the good old Sam Hanky
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  Speaker 1: type of thing. But Sam Henky ended up getting fired
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  Speaker 1: before he really got to see the fruition, the fruits
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  Speaker 1: of his labor and the trust. The process era twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirty three is so far away that the two picks
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  Speaker 1: they acquired over the last seventy two hours could be
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  Speaker 1: the first pick and the second pick, and the guy
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  Speaker 1: didn't make the trade to get the picks may not
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  Speaker 1: even be the front office GM to really draft with
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  Speaker 1: those picks. Could they be building to do something else
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  Speaker 1: with them? I don't know, I don't know. It's just interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It's just interesting. The Hornets have now done a rebuild
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  Speaker 1: within a rebuild like three times in my life. Uh so,
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  Speaker 1: let's see if this is gonna be the one that
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  Speaker 1: brings them a true playoff series or not. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know last last thing, because I'm kind of rambling as
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  Speaker 1: new thoughts come to my mind every day. I question
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  Speaker 1: what the hell we know as NBA fans, Miles Bridges
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  Speaker 1: was worth a first round pick. I would have never
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  Speaker 1: guessed that in a thousand years like solid ball players, sure,
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  Speaker 1: but first round picks feel so unattainable at times, especially
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  Speaker 1: picks this for hour. Again, we don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: lottery's gonna look like in three years. One of the
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  Speaker 1: major questions that we were asking ourselves that when this
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  Speaker 1: new system, a three two one system got put into
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  Speaker 1: to action, were front office is be more stingy with
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  Speaker 1: their draft capital? What would they not? And the answer
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  Speaker 1: seems to be I don't. I mean, I guess nobody knows.
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  Speaker 1: Miles Bridge went for a first round pick, y'all. Miles
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  Speaker 1: Bridges went for the same amount of draft picks, unprotected picks,
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  Speaker 1: as LaMelo did two days before. All right, this is
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  Speaker 1: a disingenuous argument considering all the picks around, But you
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  Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. The Hornets are doing great things
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  Speaker 1: and terrible things all in the same week. Basketball is back, baby,
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  Speaker 1: love it.