J. Kyle Mann

There's a lot of variety in the league right now.

And I wonder if we have a little bit of a lag in terms of the way that some of these players are understood, how they might apply to your context when...

What CJ McCollum was doing for the Wizards is just not very applicable to any winning team because of the personnel that they had and the state that they found themselves in.

And I'm not trying to say scouts forgot about that, but I kind of wonder if they were indexing on some of the wrong things and missing the fact that this is a guy who can, in a very tense situation, put the ball on the floor, wiggle his way around a defender, and through several lines of defense to actually make something happen.

And how many teams in the league could use a guy like that?

How do you feel about the death of the middle class, JV?

I'll be honest.

This is not an ivory tower, my friend.

That's not how this functions.

But if you want to build me a tower, handyman that you are, you and the carpenter can team up on it.

I would trust you.

Well, plus the movement shooters who actually work right now are like Nikhil Alexander-Walker.

It's like you're a movement shooter, and even then you're bothered in the playoffs, but also you might be the best defensive player on the floor.

So that's kind of what it takes to succeed in some of those capacities now.

Well, first of all, we didn't do that.

We didn't make those business decisions.

We just paid the subscription fees.

That is true.

Unwinning accomplices, perhaps.

But yeah, we were involved.