Elias Schuster

I mean, they just, they still have a lot of explaining to do with what this process is going to be, but in terms of the approach that they should take, I think going for that high draft pick this year is important.

Uh,

I still don't see them necessarily sitting these players, let's say, but they might just lose the amount of games anyway.

We've already seen these last handful of games haven't gone well.

When you welcome this many new players into the picture, it can be really hard to pull off wins, especially in the fourth quarter where they've crumbled four of the last five games.

Oh, no, I can 100% see that situation.

I think that's what's also scary about the way that they handled this deadline where you bring back someone like Anthony Simons and you bring back somebody like Colin Sexton.

Those are guys that a lot of people thought when those trades happened might be flipped, at least one of them.

There's conversations, not to say there's conversations with the team, but just among fans, among those online, like, hey, is someone going to buy out?

Are they going to buy out one of these guys?

These are guys that are not only,

can help them win over these next handful of weeks, but are also going to steal potentially developmental minutes from a guy like Jaden Ivy or from Rob Dillingham, who you need to evaluate.

So, um, it, can they fall flat on their face and this, with this situation?

Absolutely.

I still think they could end up in that play and mix.

Now, the only thing that's working in their favor, uh,

You know, we could talk about getting a boost with Josh Giddey coming back and Trey Jones, but they're still going to be playing with a very different group of players.

And it's very hard.

We saw this when they first traded for Nikola Vucevic even, and they were pushing for the play in that year or whatever it was in 2021, where they go get a guy like Vucevic.

They still weren't able to make the playoffs.