Andrew Schlecht

You're trying to stretch Isaiah Joe and see what is he fully capable of.

You use Isaiah Hartenstein, who's another guy who's been a good passer for them, as this screener, passer, a guy that can initiate offense for you.

So they're trying all sorts of things.

Even Nikola Topic, he played eight minutes today.

They weren't particularly impactful minutes, but you're just kind of seeing what you have.

And when you have everybody healthy, I don't know that there's minutes to do that.

You're probably using those eight minutes for Jared McCain.

you know, to see what he's got there.

So it does like allow for them to use everybody on their roster because you look up and down the roster, go look at basketball reference.

One through 15 are all guys that can play.

They would probably play on almost any team.

And so it is good for them to figure it out.

And especially, like I said, with Shea off the floor and you have the two bigs, that's going to be a lineup that they'll use in the postseason.

And if they can figure out what's efficient, what's not, it could really pay some dividends come like round two and three if they get there.

uh some of it is that they have a type and they have a personality type that fits in well i mean and there was no question that jared mccain was going to fit with the personality of the locker room i mean i talked to guys just a few days after the trade and they were like oh yeah like he he fits in here well um he's always smiling he's kind of life of the party kind of guy he's

incredibly friendly, incredibly kind, and he just fits in really well here.

You can tell that he feels welcomed by his teammates.

And then basketball-wise, he's somebody that doesn't have to have the ball in his hands.

He likes to relocate, which is something the Thunder love to have and don't really have enough of.

And so his unselfishness gets in here.