Bill Simmons

They just need somebody who fits better than what they have.

And they just don't have enough actual supplementary talents who fit that.

Been guilty on many such occasions.

I'm very familiar with this energy.

This is kind of one of the problems, though, is that one of the benefits of having Luka on your team is, in theory, it opens up room to do a lot of interesting things positionally.

You can mix and match guys.

You can play different sorts of skill sets.

You can move guys around the board in ways that they might not be able to on other teams.

But they're so locked in between when Reeves is out there and healthy and Luka and LeBron.

But really, it's a Luka and LeBron issue in terms of playing those guys together where you don't have that flexibility.

And that makes Rui less valuable.

It makes Jake LaRavia slightly less valuable.

You just feel so hamstrung by centering so much of your team around guys who don't open up the room for you to play more interesting combinations of players.

I mean, I'm not completely ruling it out.

I think Austin Reeves is awesome, but this is maybe a team that needs an awesome player who plays a slightly different position or could at least stand to go through the thought experiment of it.

Right.

I'm fully comfortable paying him at this point.

I don't really have doubts about him as a creator.

It's more like, is this the best possible use of all of that cap investment?

Is it Austin Reeves and Luka together?