Bill Simmons

Or modest upgrades on the bench, I think, would be nice.

But otherwise, see if you can string together some of these contracts to make a meaningful deal.

The defense is really bad.

It's awful.

There is not one move or one series of moves, I don't even think, that fixes all that this season.

To me, the framework is, can you hit a solid double?

Can you find a contributing perimeter player who will be a part of this team next year who will make some of this make sense?

And I'd be calling every day about Tari Eason, about D'Anthony Melton, about Keon Ellis, about maybe if the Bucs go to shit and they start fire-sailing guys off, like Ryan Rollins, someone like that.

Who can you get in on that can give you

Honestly, the skill is great and you want guys who can contribute offensively, but they just need somebody who is a dynamic enough athlete that when they try to get back on defense, it doesn't look like they're running a sand dune.

They just don't have anyone who makes getting up and down the court look easy right now.

And that feels like a huge problem every time they bump up against any young team, any athletic team, any team that likes to run.

They just work them because of that.

And so they just feel like they're stuck in the mud because that's where a lot of their guys are athletically right now.

I mean, why wouldn't you?

Like that opportunity is there for you.

And again, it's like there isn't one silver bullet solution to that problem.

But you need somebody who's going to make sense longer term or at least medium term.

With Luka and Austin Reeves, if that works.

With LeBron, if you want to consider him part of the mix beyond this season.