Bill Simmons

What I liked about him, Bill, is I don't know, and I always talk about that one year we had with him in the first half of the year, he literally was a scoring point guard, and we were amazing.

And then that second half, he wanted to start scoring again, and it kind of upset the rhythm with Joel and all that.

If he stays in that role,

where he's going to be a scoring... Facilitator.

But man, I'm telling you, his passing is so underrated.

He's one of the elite passers in our league.

And when he plays at that, where he's still aggressive scoring, but really setting people up, they have two rollers.

James Harden plays well with bids that roll.

where he struggled with Joel, is Joel would roll.

Joel was like, I don't need to roll.

I'm Joel.

Just give me the ball.

But he has two bigs that roll.

And so it's going to be interesting.

I was surprised when I heard the press conference about their defense.

I hadn't noticed it because we hadn't been watching them.

And I still haven't seen them enough to tell you

How much worse is it?

I don't know that.

But if they don't play defense, you're not winning, period.