Eric Nehm

That's really hard.

The whole thing this year was this an undermanned team built around Giannis.

Giannis is going to go for his third MVP.

He's going to try to win the Jokic MVP where Jamal Murray was out and Aaron Gordon was out and all these guys were out and Jokic dragged them to whatever it was, the sixth seed or whatever it was that year.

That was the plan.

That was the plan to get through this season because of Damon Lillard's Achilles injury and

It just didn't work out.

Giannis wasn't able to stay healthy.

And they've just struggled in a way that put him in a really difficult spot.

And why I say it's unlikely instead of impossible is with the current lottery rules and the current lottery odds, you don't really know.

how high a team can jump up you don't totally understand exactly how this could all go and this is a year where uh the bucks don't have a whole lot of picks um but this year they are in a pick swap and they have a first round pick and they're very lucky because the team that they're swapping with is the new orleans pelicans and the new orleans pelicans are currently second in the box

So if in some world all of a sudden the Bucs jump up to number one, all of a sudden the Hawks are going to take that pick from the Pelicans because the Pelicans traded away last offseason.

Then the Bucs are going to have the number two pick or the number three pick or whatever it might be.

And all of a sudden you're in this world where

you now have the the bucks if they get to this off season without trading us they would have three first round picks including a top five pick and i understand that people are screaming from the outside john horse please stop mortgaging your future how many more mortgages can you take is like how is this possible how many loans do you have you get you got to stop at some point but

But I think to your point, Dave, one of the endearing qualities of this Bucs team is that there is no doubt whether or not it worked.

And to be clear, it's not working this year.

It didn't end up working with Damian Lillard.

They've had a bunch of injuries.

They couldn't find the chemistry, all those things.