J. Kyle Mann

Yusuf Nurkic, I can't believe I'm saying this, under slightly different circumstances, would be an incredible story.

That transformation and him kind of refinding himself, tapping into what he does best for a team if they were actually playing for something, I think a lot of people would be excited about it and talking about it.

Instead, it's just like, yeah, here's a backdoor feed going into the void and no one will ever speak of it again.

Well, to be fair, he had to get out of there.

He's not rap shooting on the Odyssey yet.

And they did a little bit, you know, like even just getting someone like Kevin Herter, I think is a nice kind of.

lower key addition for them that can round out their rotation a little bit, giving them a little bit more respectability in terms of their weak side spacing.

Hurt or can't hurt, I always say.

A little hurt or can't hurt.

You do often say that.

They probably could have done more.

I think the Knicks could have done more.

I think there's a lot of teams in the East that maybe could be kicking themselves if they run into the wall come like mid-May.

But ultimately, if you're Detroit, I get not swinging too hard under the circumstances.

I would even advocate for them welcoming the risk a little bit more.

But if you're already this good and you're this young, sometimes you just talk yourself into a more conservative outcome.

I don't agree with it.

I'm with you that I think that ultimately there are so many teams kind of like in it in the East, even though none of them is individually like exceptional right now.

Just like the sheer volume of teams that like could talk their way into being in a conference final at this point would make me a little bit nervous.

But Detroit is very good.