Garrett Crochet

It started, I mean, when was I traded?

Like December 11th?

I think that it's like the first offer in the negotiation process was like Christmas Eve, December 23rd.

Yeah, so it started pretty early.

So it wasn't, and like you said, it was...

To clear the air, I felt like it was pretty open across the league.

I was open to an extension, and wherever I was being traded, I assumed going into it that those talks would be had.

It was expected.

And then coming into camp, trying to make the opening day...

roster but really trying to be the opening they started was like my goal at the time there was really no pressure there in terms of uh you know worrying about the numbers that were being talked about because it was like if you guys are trying to uh sort out an extension then there's some value that i'm bringing to the team like yeah you were pretty confident i felt comfortable i felt confident yeah but

No, yeah.

I felt like I trusted the process.

I felt like, you know, there was good dialogue between, you know, not only us in the front office.

When I say us, I mean my representation in the front office.

But between my representation and me.

So I felt like going into it, I knew what my value was.

And I knew what it would be on the free agent market.

And I knew kind of...

You know, doing it on a contract extension when you're limited to talking to one team only, you know, how that kind of evens itself out.

And so I kind of knew what to expect.