Could the Portland Trail Blazers trade Jerami Grant to the Dallas Mavericks?

Could the Portland Trail Blazers trade Jerami Grant to the Dallas Mavericks?

You good yeah three two on today’s show should the Dallas Maverick’s trade for Jeremy Grant what does he bring to the table and let’s talk about the Mavs and the Blazers as they play again in this Mavs Blazers crossover version of locked on Mavs Blazers let’s go you are locked on Trailblazers your

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Blazers Mavs matchups actually I we kind of agreed to not talk about basketball which thank you for agreeing to the plan because we don’t need to re we don’t think we need to relive last night’s Blazers Mavs meeting it wasn’t fun for anyone nobody had fun or the second

Matchup or the first matchup where they were all cursed in some way shape or form literally starter has been injured in each game yeah Derek Lively Kyrie Irving Derrick Lively again throw in Grant Williams uh you know Blazers getting their backup centers kicked out of the game it’s been it’s um let’s just

Wrap this up okay they play they play for the last time on Friday evening and I think every W and both fan bases ready to get this thing over with we’ll talk about both these teams we’ got questions for the Blazers Mike Rich’s got questions about the Mavericks we’ll do

That uh we also want to talk about how much coaching matters I uh I think both fan bases would would agree that that is a conversation that we both need to have about these teams but let’s start here Mike Jeremy Grant is a name that’s been

Brought up a bunch when it comes to you know fake trades that people have put out I’m sure there’s a 100 fanso trades that that been made to send Jeremy Grant to the Mavericks he does represent a type of player that I think the Mavericks do need they need some more

Size on the wings they need just one more scorer like one more guy that can get a shot that’s not just Tim Hardaway you know it’s not obviously Luca and Kyrie so I’m gon to ask you a couple questions about Jeremy Grant trade we’ll

See if we can come to some kind of an agreement here but first let’s start what do you think he brings to the table like what would he if going to the Mavericks let’s say they do come up with some kind of deal what does he bring to

The table at this point in his career incredible fashion sense I think he’d immediately be the most stylish player on the MAV I don’t think it’s close honestly I don’t think the Mavs are particularly stylish team I think it’s who would immediately jump to the CH top

Of the charts take that um Lucas Tech fleece no chance no chance um but I guess Kyrie dresses pretty well just fashion forward it’s like his own thing though yeah he’s he’s a he’s a really good catch and shoot shooter um he’s not really hasn’t been in that role this

Year but he’s he’s having back-to-back his first his two two seasons in Portland OR season and a half in Portland he’s shooting as well as he has in his career the best shooting the best shooting run of his of his career um he could score in isolation he takes really tough shots

And he’s a tough shot maker but if you’re a tough shot maker it also means you’re a tough shot taker which is can be pretty frustrating um he’s not a great passer he’s not a great rebounder and he’s not a great point of attack Defender but he can shoot and he can

Score he can drop he can um he can get himself to where he wants to go and get him to his spots and he can he’s he’s shot it really well um he’s he’s like a offense first forward who doesn’t rebound um I don’t think he checks a lot

Of boxes for the Mavs but I will say this if you just plug him into What airplane mode does you just you just plug him into the derck Jones Jr role upgrade massive upgrade massive upgrade so like I think in and of itself if if

The the Mavs what they need to do is get more better more and better players on the roster and I think Jeremy Grant certainly would check that box for him yeah he’s he’s in that mold where you remember him some people remember him from the Denver we like oh he’s a

Scrappy Defender that’s this three and D type of guy like he’s not really that that type of player anymore right like he’s kind of he signed this semi Max like semi max deal and he’s you know now like the go-to scorer for the Blazers at this point yeah he’s you know he last

Year when when Damien Lo was still on the roster he was like a secondary scorer and he was pretty good in that role this year he’s taken on more of that primary role but he’s not a primary Creator like you can’t like he’s not going to like bring the ball across the

Court and um and run pick and rolls also like with the Mavericks you’re not allowed to do that that so like it would’t matter you’re good you’re good baby just like you can hold on you can bring the ball across the court this year you just can’t do anything with it

Once you’re it’s you know what if you’re passing to like the best scorer in the league it’s fine um it’s it’s okay it’s okay if he dominates a little bit but like he’s he is was tasked last year with being this point of attack Defender and

He was totally it was just at out of his depth and he got exposed a little bit but he could be an okay help Defender I think where he’s best is guarding like sized guys in isolation like he’s not this Elite weak side shot blocker and

He’s not this great like point of attack navigating screens type of Defender but like you get him in an ISO spot against another big guy who’s wants to like who wants to try to get past him Jeremy Grant’s long he’s competitive he’s strong he’s Scrappy like he’ll he’ll

He’ll make those plays if he’s your fourth best player you’re pretty good like I think you’re pretty he’s like has the perfect skill set to be that I don’t know if he wants to be that but I think that’s what he’s perfectly tailored to be you descri defensively when you’re

Describing him I just couldn’t stop thinking about that’s exactly how we would describe Christian wood as as a as a Defender like pretty good in isolation he could better than Christian he’s better than Christian Wood on defense but he’s he’s also smaller he’s also smaller so it’s a little bit different

Like he’s more you know he’s more 34 than four five for sure do you think right now he has positive trade value he’s he’s getting paid a lot of money it’s tough because he he is his his contract is a lot right now he’s getting paid 27 yeah 27 million this

Year 29 million the next year 32 after that 34 the year after that and 36 in the 2027 2028 season that is like a fake year number like but I mean so he’s got five more years left with that player option yeah yeah so so four after this

Season at like aund whatever 125 million 130 million bucks left um it’s he’s you know he he’s I don’t think the salary like the individual year salary is crazy for what he brings um I know I know my man John Hollander does but like I I don’t think it’s crazy but

It’s it’s a kind of what you would pay for a guy who could go score 20 a game on relatively good shooting um it’s just it’s just four years of Jeremy Grant it’s a lot it’s a lot of years and particularly in the modern NBA where

Teams don’t want to lock up salary deep into the future it’s a lot um I don’t think he has negative trade value I would imagine that the salary is relatively neutral considering that you would have to take back 30 million bucks to make a to make a Jeremy Grant trade work

But they’re not looking to just dump him right like that’s that’s I don’t I don’t I wouldn’t I would I do not think they will trade him at the trade deadline because they don’t have a bunch they don’t have like plug-and andplay power forwards behind him they don’t have like

A young prospect that he’s in the way of Malcolm brogon is the guy that they’re much more likely to trade because they have a bunch of good young guards or at least young guards uh that like they would need to get playing time for it’s not like they’re they’re like pining to

Get tumani Kamar and Jabari Walker playing 38 minutes A Night Like that’s just like not their pth so I don’t think they need to trade Jeremy Grant I don’t think they’re motivated to trade Jeremy Grant but if the Mavs were to blow them away with an

Offer I think you they AB it’s not like they would hang up it’s not that they’re not in that situation they’re a bad basketball team if they can improve their future by making a trade I’m they certainly certainly would um the Mavs don’t have a lot of ammo to trade is the

Problem like the the obvious name is Tim Hardway Jr right he’s the guy who would pop up but I don’t think that that makes sense for either team I think the Mavs weirdly enough sort of need Tim Hardway Jr they need the offensive pop they do

They need it now now you I think that Jeremy Grant could replace what Tim Hardway Jun does c because I mean you’ve seen it in these games Tim Hardway gives it back and it spades on the other the other end as well but they do need that

Like that volume shooting for sure sure and and and they like they you know I I think he fits well with kind of what they want to do and I wonder if if Grant could you could just plug him in there and it’d be fine I bet you could he’s

He’s probably um a little bit better better if if not a lot of bit better than thj um so but I don’t think the Blazers are pining to have Tim Hardway Jr so I think it would be if I were to crafting the perfect trade it’s something

Like it’s like the money from the Mavs with all due respect to your listeners it sucks no the listeners know the listeners are well aware of sucks uh like clba and ran Holmes and then I and then you want a young guy and I know that omx is off the board for you

Personally and I would he’s off the board for the Mavs as well because they believe in what Olivier maxon’s Prosper is going to become and he’s like this big interesting multi-positional Defender that teams want and if he was good like they were they were flirting with starting him at one point this

Season so I think you would ask I think you would ask for my man Joshy for for uh for Josh Green I I think it has to be him right I I think that has to be the like the sweetener piece because the Mavs so don’t you know it’s like you’re

Getting a 2026 first round pick or whatever lightly protected and and Josh Green for for Jeremy Grant is that is that like is that too much for in your opinion is that too much no I I it’s hard because that one of the reasons why I asked if he had positive or negative

Trade value I like all right how much can he just dump how much do they just want to like dump him right because that’s the question but coming up let’s talk about what a trade package would look like does it have to include one of those young guys does it have to include

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Trade potential for for the Mavericks and before uh we stopped we wanted to talk about that I think that they do have to I think they would have to add one of those young guys right and so the contracts I’ve been throwing together are the Tim Hardaway ran Holmes

Contracts I’ve been been kind of putting those together because that equals 29 million which is just about what Jeremy grants make it a 27 if you threw two seconds in there that’s where that’s where you start wondering all right to me the motivation for the Blazers would

Be we’ll take a couple of second round picks and we’ll also get off of this Jeremy Grant contract three years earlier because next season Tim Hardway and ran Holmes will both be expiring contracts and so to me if the if you could if the if the Mavs can get in that

Kind of a deal then I’m really interested in it because then all of a sudden your your wing depth is really good you don’t lose Maxi even though he’s only played like five games a season uh you don’t lose any of the young guys and Josh Green is kind of a

Little difficult to trade because he has that extension so he’s got that weird poison pill with his contract so like if it was just ran Holmes Maxi and Josh Green you try that all of a sudden the Blazers are taking in seven million where the Mavs are are not so I don’t

Know where I don’t where they are in the the a yeah the Blazers could send back some have to send back some money to make it work it’s not perfect uh blaz is only three and a half million below the uh tax line they are not going to become

A tax team they’re not going to become a tax team uh to make it happen so it gets it gets a little bit dicey um I I just don’t think the Blazers would be incentivized to dump Jeremy Grant for a couple seconds like if they’re going to

Dump for a couple seconds just wait wait like you know if that’s the if that’s the going if that’s the going race right so it’s like a first round pick in a young person if that’s if you end up there and I like Josh Green I I don’t

Know if Mavs fans do do Mavs fans still like Josh Green were we they’re split they’re split on him he’s he had an elbow injury this year and so like it felt like before that he was disappointing and then I don’t know he’s only played a couple games since then

It’s split I I still believe in him especially they got him for like 11 million a year to me that’s that’s not a good good contract can really pass really good athlete I I I um he’s only 22 so yeah and he he doesn’t know how to

Dribble yet at some point he’s going to learn how to dribble and he’s going to be he’s going to be good I I believe um that might he might not some players never learn how to dribble I’ve watched a lot of this league um there’s some

Guys who who that fourth bounce is real gets real dicey Jaylen Brown’s making 50 million dollars a year what he’s a freaking all-nba player he’s one of the 25 best players in the NBA he can he can he could dribble in One Direction um

Yeah I I I would want that like I don’t think I would assume omx is is a is no chance um it depends on how like I feel like if you get to the trade deadline and the Mavs are the fourth best team in the west and it’s like oh oh we have

Like we have to get better immed yeah we have to get better immediately because I think um I think there is sort of that existential pressure around this Mavs team where it’s like we have one of the five best players in the world which is literally the market inefficiency on on

Winning championships and when you have one of these dudes you got to go for it um so if like you know if they’re eighth maybe they don’t feel it but if they’re fourth or if they’re a game out of fourth it’s like all right maybe we do

Maybe we cash it in maybe we say omx will come and haunt us in 2026 but we can’t worry about that now yeah because LCA could be gone by then uh I’m G to go the opposite on that I think if they’re eighth they’ll look at last season and

Go oh my God we missed the playoffs with a top five player we’ve got to like I think they get more desperate the farther they they drop down and look at their schedule like this they’ve got this home stand where they got this next game against the Blazers at home they

Got five more games at home but Derrick livley may be out for some of those games and then after that it’s brutal like it could it could be really bad by the time the trade so you don’t you don’t think Fridays is a big a big test

A big tough test against it when I when I previewed this slate of games I did not put it under the big test category let’s just say Okay Timberwolves game went under there yeah okay we’ll see we’ll see uh yeah so it it doesn’t seem like a a

Jeremy Grant trade is like but it’s it’s possible like some of those things some of those trades we just came up with I think I think you could see them happening because every once every once in a while you get a trade where you go really like that like that’s all they

Gave them up for uh and teams seem to want to save the money now with uh with the you know this new apron new CBA and all that kind of stuff so who knows with it but Jeremy Grant doesn’t exactly fit I think what the Mavericks need like you

Said earlier he could fit he could fit offensively and he would help them offensively a lot but the problem is they need another Defender they they need one Elite Defender and I think they’ll wait to do that this summer they’ll have after the draft they’ll have three first round picks they can

Trade and so I I think they’ll wait to do that cuz they they owe pick to the Knicks is that right they owe that Nicks pick the Knicks pick from the porzingis trade the first time fun okay that’s fun from Lucas’s rookie year that pick that they that’s a

Fun that’s a fun thing to have to revisit on the Nelson oh my goodness yeah so so then they’ll have a little more flexibility to like to really cash it in so that maybe that’s why they can convince luuka but o there’s an existential crisis okay real

Quick can I ask you a question before we we we kind of talk coaching stuff you’ve seen the Blazers play three times um what’s your perception of their young guys because we’re kind I’m kind of joking about how this is in a hard game or whatever and like the Blazers are bad

I’m not like I’m not I’m not confused I know the score of the game like I I know the score of the game but like what’s your perception of scoot and Shane sharp specifically yeah well I texted you in the middle of the game the other day I’m

Like why is shayen coming off the bench because I thought Mo their most like promising young player so far I was I was surprised how he’s able to create his own shot a little and I was surprised that he’s really taking that step up this season

Uh but yeah it just seemed weird to me that they they’re not pushing him forward and instead they decided to put scoot who I think has been pretty disappointing I don’t think I’m I don’t think I’m to ruffle any feathers by saying that that he has been uh the

Rookie that has not really stood out whereas you’ve had like the Hae hwz is and the obviously Chad and wemy you can’t mention Hae hawz on a Blazers podcast are you trying to go to jail should they have picked him instead of scoot is that what no Should have

They have traded for with the Miami Heat when you know and Damen Lord and all this stuff it’s listen it’s this is a dicey area anyways scoot hasn’t been good he’s been better his last 10 games he was awful against the mths on on Wednesday it’s awful um so yeah like I I

Think the the the thing you look for in a rebuild is like you get a star you get that foundational piece and then you say okay here’s what else we need and I think that the Blazers still seem to be hunting for that um you know it scoots

19 Shan trap’s 20 maybe that changes in the next couple Seasons but I would say 33 games into this 39 games into this thing um they’re still hunted the Mavs front office this is this is reported was split down the middle on whether they wanted to trade for DeAndre Eden or

Not and it to me at this season so far it feels like the the one the side that said do not trade for him are right your thoughts on that yeah he’s all of the things all the criticisms that that Suns fans and and Brendan clean over at

Locked on suns and and I’ll say Brendan not a fan of De raen um uh like non- depreciator all of the the criticisms they they sort of lob lobbed his way and sent his way they’ve all come they’ve all come up at the beginning of the year

He they couldn’t figure out how to use him offensively and he was still playing his ass off on defense and it was like awesome but that hasn’t stayed there like he hasn’t he has not stayed there not a great hasn’t been really really good as a rim protector although he is

Averaging career high in steals um he hasn’t been much of a of a pick and roll threat like he just he they haven’t figured out how to use him and then because of that I think some of his frustrations the energy effort just like the the sort of

Physical give a heck minutes have not been there and and that’s and that’s that’s been the knock on him right is that he doesn’t bring it with the physicality and he doesn’t bring it with with sort of the intensity the force he doesn’t play with force and he hasn’t

After starting pretty well the first 15 games he hasn’t played with force and it’s just he’s he’s to me watching him every night he’s frustrating it’s frustrating um I can see why other fans bases were frustrated with him he’s got 24 dunks in 24 games is that good for a

Center um no I don’t think I don’t think it is you know the players have some spacing issues but yeah he’s he’s a little bit allergic to dunking a little bit allergic to dunking and I thought he was going to be more ambidex he’s really right-hand dominant which is um limits

What you could do if you’re always turning over that shoulder to get that right hook and and I think the and the coaching staff we talk about this a little bit I I think they were like okay well amrey Simons and him will figure it out and then anre Simons Miss 18 games

And it was like all right well hopefully an comes back soon and it’s like okay well it’s so they didn’t have a very good plan B with him so I would say did the Mavericks dodge a bullet I don’t know they they the contract is a lot

That that’s one of the lot it’s a lot of money it’s a lot of money uh it’s um do is a combination of players who don’t play making about $35 million worse than a combination worse than one player who makes $35 million and doesn’t play

Well hard to say hard to say yeah yeah you figure that one out at home like is is ran Holmes and and and and clba and and uh you know yeah and it’s like the the sort of the mixture of Mavs bigs who are like well we don’t we

Don’t really want to put them out there we’d rather go small versus likeon who’s just like frustrating making the same amount of money but would play because he’s making that money and he’s 24 or whatever 25 it’s like I don’t know I don’t know if the Mavs are in a better

Spot but I know the Blazers are not in a great spot having DeAndre uh speaking of not being in a great spot let’s talk about the coaches of both of these teams and let’s talk about how coaching can affect the N can be effective in the NBA and uh how much

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Mavs verus blers where at least one game one Maverick goes down at some point but let’s talk about the coaches of these two teams because there’s some you know there’s been some some question about each of these coaches can they take their team to the next level can they

Get them over the hump for the Mavericks it’s been strange because the first year Jason kid comes in they go to the Western Conference finals and all of a sudden you’re going all right well they can win in the playoffs with Jason kid as the coach because they just did it

And then the year after that they they don’t make the postseason at all none of it 10 spots they don’t make it and they tanked the last two games and now I feel like we’re back down to zero with Jason kid as the Mavs coach like all right now

You’re back down to zero all the Goodwill that you gained in the first year you lost in the first one where are the Blazers at with chony Bops we’ll talk about coaches well first off I cannot believe the Mavericks would lose games intentionally I cannot believe an NBA franchise would come out and

Intentionally lose basketball games in fact hold out starters players Stars lie about injuries in order to lose games intentionally I cannot believe an NBA franchise would do that that is disgusting to me and I’m just so thankful that the Blazers have only done that for 30 Games over the last two

Seasons you know and if it had been 31 I would be I would be pissed no they only the first year they only tanked 10 okay no no last year excuse me last year only 10 the first year 20 some um um Jeremy Grant doesn’t even have to

Play after L sub break well he has a great life um send him to the Mavs for free just don’t even need don’t even take but he would have to play he maybe doesn’t want to play maybe he’s like hey I don’t really I don’t really do March

Um but but I don’t I don’t do March you know bips was dealt a difficult hand because the first year Damen L was hurt um he just he needed surgery he was never right but that team was good they were like that’s that roster was totally fine um they they

They shouldn’t have been as bad as they were last year um you know they were they tore it down they drafted Shaden sharp they were not supposed to be good again but they thought they would be competitive and then once Dame got fully healthy because he missed some

Time with a calf injury in December they were bad they were bad and they were bad with Damen Lord and he had one of the great offensive seasons in the history of the league he was perhaps the best offensive player in the NBA last season

Like he was awesome he was so so so good and they lost like uh they were like eight games under 500 with him in the lineup um that’s that’s hard to do that’s that’s hard to do I think you should probably win about half when you

Have um the best offense in the league from December to March but you know it’s anything’s possible if you truly believe I I think bips has had bad rosters and I think really he has gotten the exact sum of the parts like he has never gotten

More than the sum of the parts from the roster when when they give him a bad roster they get a bad record when you give him a worst roster you get a worst record when you give him this year a super young the worst roster he’s

Coached well what look what you get baby you get the worst that they’ve been this has been his best year coaching by a lot um he’s coached he’s he’s gotten more out of the young players I think the young this group has responded to him and yet they’re like you know they’re

They’re going to lose a bunch of games again and on Wednesday night against the Mavericks they started the game out N9 nothing and it was over he took a timeout down N9 nothing and they were never back in the game they were as close as eight they got they were down

Nine nothing they took a timeout they the closest they got for the remainder of the game was within eight points so um you know that’s not all on him but certainly is a factor i f famously maybe not famous to you but famously for my listeners on the show think that

Coaching is certainly not half of the equation probably something in the a third of the equation maybe even less like Talent is the thing that matters in the league what what is your feeling on that like how much you think a coach can impact how much could a good coach

Impact a team yeah watching watching a Jason kid coach team go to the Western Conference Finals solidified this for me is that I think that there are five coaches in the NBA probably maybe a little bit more than that but like like five that matter where you look at them

And go Rick Carlile can take a team like the Pacers and the some of their parts can be better because of what he does the you know uh Eric spol like you have to you have to believe that that matters because of what the Miami he have done

The last couple of years losing players and then going to the finals and all that so I think that there are coaches that do raise it up and then I think there are some coaches that are detrimental I think Lakers fans may think that Darvin ham is one of those

Coaches right now uh because I see all the thumbnails on all the Lakers the Lakers like YouTube videos should they fire Darin ham right now and so I think that there are coaches that are down there like that and then there’s just a bunch of guys that are in the middle

That sometimes help their team and then sometimes you know but like it is about Talent like you said it’s it’s mostly about talent and just can the coach it’s sort of like this is going to be a weird analogy but this is my audience is going to understand this I don’t know you

There’s this thing I so I went to school to be like a worship leader like in a church and the whole thing is like you’re supposed to play music but you’re supposed to get out of the way it’s not supposed to be about you it’s the one weird like very odd you’re performing

For a bunch of people but you’re not supposed to like take in any of the like the like accolades or or cheers or anything like that and I feel like that’s what coaching is in the NBA it’s like you you go there you set everybody up for success and then you’re supposed

To like get out of the way because like I’m I’m going back and doing a project to watching the 2011 like uh like playoffs and Phil Jackson man like I don’t think we talk about Phil Jackson very much at all but sure we sure talk about LeBron talk about Kobe and we talk

About Michael Jordan and Tim Duncan like we talk about all those guys so much and so that’s what I feel like coaching is and so I think it’s still possible to win with coaches like like chony bips and with and with Jason kid but to take

This team to another level to like make them better than the some of their parts you have to have like a special coach who’s the M’s third best player honestly very honestly it’s Derrick Lively right so like how good are you gonna be if Derk Livy is your third best

Player that’s the problem Dante has made a case in a couple of games here and here and there but yeah like I I don’t yeah I don’t think Jason kids is that good of a coach um you know I think he’s better probably been better in Dallas

Than his first couple stops in the league coaches get better he spent more time around in the league and all things like that they were a top 10 defense the year they made the Western Conference Finals that’s 82 games of being good um you know I but at at some point if how

Derrick ly’s 20 19 20 19 yeah a a teenage rookie that you just draft you know is is a however 20 months removed from high school if he’s your third best player on the team there is a ceiling on how good you’re going to be like it’s I

Think would the Mavs be better with an elite coach absolutely but how much better how much better we talking would they be a championship level team with the exact same roster and you drop Eric spoler in there I don’t think so I don’t think so I think they would

Be they’d be good they would be improved because I believe in like sort of the the power of SPO but it’s it there is there is a limitation on what you can do um and I think I think a lot of what coaches do is that they manage Egos and

They manage personalities and I’m not sure Jason kid is really good at that he seems to be he has a unique approach so maybe he he works with some people but he is I will say one thing I do like about kids I’ll say this to your listeners one thing I legitimately like

About kid is he will sometimes come in press conferences and act like he has no impact on the game and I will say hell yeah cuz you don’t dog you don’t you didn’t what are you going to do you called up you called a play and and Luca

Just hijacked it and did whatever he wanted and you were like well well shoot well shoot it didn’t work he says what I’m not playing I’m watching just like you guys I I like like I know that if you’re a fan of the Mavs you’re like that

Probably drives you nuts but as like a third party viewer I’m like I’m like yeah I like that I like that he’ll sometimes I that he’ll step up there and be like dog I’m I’m just doing with I’m just trying my best I I told him what to

Do and they didn’t do it and then at that point we’re just playing basketball and they play and I watch bless God bless him and I think chn bips does that sometimes too he’ll be like so a reporter asked him if like you know the Blazers have seven of eight games

Against teams with losing records this is a chance for you to like climb up in the standings and he was like we’re not good enough to worry about winning and I honest about Stu yeah and that honesty I like I I appreciate that but I um but like it’s hard to it’s hard

To look at the success that these two teams have had and the person in charge of that you know task with making them better and think like no one could improve this this is as good as it gets because I don’t believe that I just think um I just think there’s a ceiling

To how much the Improvement how much improvement you could have cealing to both of these teams different places they’ll play One More Time hopefully not another Maverick starter gets hurt in this and and uh we’ll we’ll get out of this unscathed go check out lockon Blazers if you don’t listen to lockon

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