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And if you need to size down, if you really want to Jack the offense, all of a sudden Jaron can play five closing minutes at the, at the five and then Lori slots back into the

Now, I do think it's incumbent upon them to find a true blue like perimeter stopper because that spot at the two is going to be absolutely critical.

And I do think like Ace, like we'll see how he kind of fits into all of this.

But Ace himself is huge.

He's like, what, 6'10", 11?

And so like they have like not only like a vision for who they are, they also have a flexibility, which is what we've seen in the regular season is more paramount than most things.

Yeah, I heard some quibbling over whether or not Jaron, like how good of a player is he ultimately, especially because next season is when the extension kicks in.

He's getting paid $50 million.

I do think there are some long-term concerns because both Lowry and Jaron Jackson were overpaid specifically by their teams, Lowry by Utah.

in order for them to stay put so that maybe down the road they could figure something else out.

And so I think by 2027, this is going to become a very expensive team all of a sudden, which makes next season competing immediately more paramount.

It also speaks to the NBA just making

way too difficult for NBA teams to build a collective like this.

If you were to find like one sort of like way to poke holes in it would be, they basically waited four years in the wilderness after getting, giving up the Mitchell go bear combination to ultimately end up with a team.

That's pretty similar where it's like, we don't have the true blue superstar.

Maybe they look into that end of the draft and this is all different by the time like that rolls around in six months or so.

But they're kind of like similar teams.

It's like a good bi-collective team that maybe doesn't have the ceiling when you go up against a Webenyama, a Shea, a guy that could be just like a queen on the chessboard.

And I do wonder how Utah fans feel about that.

And it kind of speaks to our overall conversations about like, oh, we're tanking, but what do we get in the end?