Dan Le Batard

My point is that the self-analysis and self-awareness of many of these teams is wrong.

They all think they can do it.

They all feel like the self-assessment is if we just get all our draft picks for Gobert, we're going to win the championship.

And then you're not, if we just get three points shooting from Bain, we'll be, we'll get better.

We won't be an eight seat anymore.

If we just give up the, if we,

get the perimeter defensive bridges, we'll stop the Celtics.

We'll be able to slow the Celtics.

Let's play the sound here of Pat Riley going back and forth with Barry Jackson on the subject of BAM on a bio.

Who's he?

I'm not going to make fun of anybody getting names wrong, but that is what happens with age.

And he also said flatly, and he's not wrong, that Bam's better than all of those players that were mentioned.

I do believe the fairest criticism, though, is just the general inconsistency of what do you mean you were going for it this year?

Why didn't you trade for KD then?

What are you holding on for the young players for if you were going for it all this year?

They're going to reinvent it from here.

This.

is unusual, though, because there's less faith in them to do it than at any time that I can remember this management team being in place from the very beginning.

And and you've got your mythical icon at the top of the franchise.

People are reacting to him like he's Joe Biden.