Andrew Schlecht

And then you talk about him culturally, just as a guy.

There's nobody that fits the Thunder culture maybe better than him.

And so I think that he's a core foundational member of what they're going to do moving forward.

Now, the one thing that I do, the only hole that I can poke in AJ Mitchell at this point is that he plays a style of basketball that is really hard on his body.

which is like we've seen that over the course of this year, is that he can be a little bit reckless.

He can be like a bowling ball all the way to the rim, which is like part of his skill, but it's also part of the reason that I think that he's gotten hurt.

And so he's got to kind of figure that out.

But again, he's not played that many NBA games.

There was a reason that Mark Dagnall threw him into the game in the NBA finals last year.

Out of nowhere in game one, here comes A.J.

Mitchell into the rotation.

And there was a reason why, because like the belief in this guy is sky high.

So with that, I do think they can make a lot of different decisions off of that.

The only other one that you didn't say is case of Wallace and like, where do they go with case in as far as contract extension talks with him?

Um, I think that will be a really interesting one, but yeah, I can see a world where like both Joe and Wiggins are moved on from, you need to find minutes for Topich.

You need to find a bigger role for AJ Mitchell.

You'll have Jared McCain in tow for the whole season.

I think that they have the necessary depth and the guys that can fill in whoever they take at 12, or if they do move up, that guy will move into the rotation too.

Um, and then they'll move forward.

And the door one is, is a mystery to me.