Andy Johnson

There's no doubt about that.

But I also think it was uniquely exhausting, you know, from a level of him having to deal with two deaths in the family and his father being one of them.

And then what happened regarding the trade deadline and Jaden Ivey and the like.

This is not a season you can replicate, so therefore it is unique.

But at the same time, once again, he's finding really graceful ways to describe what I can only imagine is incredibly trying.

He deserves some time to rest.

But were you happy that at least, and the bar is in hell, but that at least they got draft capital back for some of the expiring contracts?

And they hadn't in the past.

I don't know.

I mean, I feel like the trade deadline became the search for the nine or 10 very good players that Arturis Karnasheva spoke of.

Like, we're just going to take flyers on all these guys.

A lot of them we've scouted previously.

And that's what became the idea.

We know that it wasn't executed to its finish.

That obviously happened when they decided to fire Karnasheva.

Arturis Karnaschovas and Mark Eversley.

But Billy Donovan, when he talked about this, I think he translated to me what was what I gathered, which is the organization wanted to compliment him.

They don't want to punish him for what happened around him.

It's just procedurally, this is not usually how it goes.

And that's the disconnect.