Dave Hardisty

But I think another thing that goes into the bucket of reasons for running Reid and the men is that there are certain things that you're only going to find out once you play in playoffs.

Even regarding, we said this before last season about the guys last season, without that series, we would not have seen that Penguin seems to be a playoff rise or someone who's not afraid of the spotlight.

Jabari Smith Jr.

doesn't think.

That stands true for a man on a bigger role and for Reed on a bigger role at all that he didn't have last season.

So seeing how those guys play in those situations is also something that, just from a data collection standpoint, is very important.

as rough as, you know, I'm going to say this, but it's not the nicest thing to say.

It does give the front office some comfort in the sense that it was a lot easier to move on from Jalen Green last season after the playoff series that he had.

If those guys have the... I mean, it's obviously untradeable, but if we go into the playoff series and we see that he's unplayable, or that he's having a really tough playoff series offensively, which is less likely than him being unplayable defensively, but could still happen, that does give the front office cover in case they want to include him in a trade cover with the fanbase.

That's what I mean.

Because he's one of the most beloved guys, right?

And...

Once you see how it looks in the playoffs, I don't think that's a factor in the way they are making a decision.

But I do think it's something that's going to happen.

And when we see them play, we'll see all of those untested, I guess, skills or lack thereof that these guys may have.

Yeah, I do agree with that.

Regarding potential guys that we could trade for, I'm actually looking at it a slightly different way.

For example, a guy like Kawhi, right?

To me, it's not as enticing because I think the most meat on the bone that there is for this team, as I've said plenty of times, is defense.

And Kawhi is a good defender, but I don't think what we're missing on defense is individual good defenders.