Amin El-Hassan
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That kind of footwork, which a lot of people did not, at the time, I think, appreciate.
He wasn't just big.
He had crazy footwork, and he was smart as crap around, I don't know why I edited this.
Smart as hell.
Smart as crap.
I've never heard that phrase.
Right?
And again, the explosion.
So most of the time, you think of big guys that size.
they're not, they don't have that kind of vertical.
They don't have that kind of first step.
So all of these things were combined that, oh, this guy's gonna be,
ringing up the rings over and over again.
And it started with that first finals loss.
It's not that they lost, it's that they got swept by a six seed.
I mean, his early years when he was young and dumb and didn't know any better, he was pretty good defensively.
And then as he starts to realize, I have, he got really scared over that.
We thought we were going to go.
Young and dumb and bad defensive player.
We talked about this the other day, Mike.