Elias Schuster

But they don't even have to worry about the fines, in my opinion, if they wanted to just lean on these young guys because they have enough of them.

And that's still an OK process.

You're not saying like, oh, we're playing to lose.

We're just playing Rob Dillingham a bunch because we need to see what we have in him and he can grow more.

And so, you know, I think.

So if I'm in the shoes, that's already the messaging.

And I don't know if that, you know, maybe over the next few weeks we see a little bit more of that.

But we do know that that front office and Billy communicate a lot.

They're very close.

So, you know, they also obviously have a lot of trust in Billy Donovan.

They've kept him around this long.

He's, what, the third longest tenured head coach in the league.

And so if he's pushing back on that, I don't know how if they push back again.

It's hard to say.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's like, obviously, the goal is to be picking in that in that top four.

But I think something they've benefited from in recent years has been, you know, the guys falling, you know, kind of into their lap that happened with modest Bruce Ellis, he was somebody who was expected, I mean, for a lot, a lot of time was talked about as a potential number one overall pick.

he stumbles a little bit because it's a three-point shooting and Geely Ignite ends up at the 12 spot.

Noah Senge, he was somebody that was a little bit all over the board, and I know people have been frustrated this year by him not playing, but there's a case you can make that he was still available there when some people didn't expect him to be.

I think this year, like, you're hoping for that situation to potentially play out again if you're around that 10 spot.

I know one guy that was obviously used to be seen very highly who slipped a little is, like, Maeda Mett from Tennessee.