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But over the last month and a half, it felt like there were times, right, to maybe try it.

And, in fact, this year he's had some utility in those moments.

But David Adelman just seems to have gone completely away from Zeke Nagy here.

And yeah, it's different now that Spencer and Peyton and Aaron are back.

Maybe arguably if you go small in this game, you could have gone with Zeke still, but yes, it just felt like there was a while there with no Aaron or Peyton or Spencer and they still didn't go to him.

So it seems Zeke is, is really just not in the conversation right now at all.

I'm with Dev that I still wonder if Jonas Valanciunas is gonna be situational.

I don't know that we don't see him at all in the playoffs, but I would think that we're gonna see a lot more of this look, especially depending on the matchups.

And, you know, I think the guy that really got squeezed

is Jalen Pickett, who just doesn't play at all now.

He's squeezed out.

And those minutes go to Tyus Jones.

And a couple of quick thoughts on that.

A, you never know what promises were made to go get a guy in the buyout market.

My guy has to play if you're signing him, et cetera.

B, if you're going to do this, you probably do want to get a look at it before the playoffs start.

I just think if I'm Jalen Pickett, I'm going, who is that guy?

He just got here.

I know all the plays.

And by the way, that 10 and 6 January we had,