Dan Le Batard

Well, they'd like you to be good, but I understand that he's playing with some fear.

It's very hard to play basketball looking over your shoulder thinking your coach doesn't have confidence in you and is going to yank you.

That'll affect your jump shot.

If you feel like you're going to get yanked, this is a complaint I hear all the time from NBA players.

This is not something that is developmental.

You will fold under the pressure of... The thing that got Max Struess...

playing time in Miami over Duncan Robinson.

And the thing that made Duncan Robinson improve as a player is that Duncan Robinson was taking four shots and then afraid looking over his shoulder and Strews is like, I'll take 10 of them.

And like, that's the fire.

That's, that's what they do to make these guys better is yes, you're playing times on the line.

There are other people here who want your, your time and your money.

You got the money though.

You,

The thing about that contract that is so strange is they weren't giving that money to anybody.

They let all their guys go because they had to have thought this was going to be a special player.

They had to have thought that.

It's multiple things here.

He's a first-round pick who, in terms of talent, had a higher upside.

He actually started Game 1 of this season, if you look all the way back, and then never started again.

But he actually compared his own situation to Duncan Robinson's.