J. Kyle Mann

It is.

Right.

You break up the step, Ian.

It just provides you more outs and more flexibility there.

I guess the question, if you're reading the kind of vibes of Mavs fans right now, when the dust settles, like let's say in a week from now, do you feel good that you've officially moved on from everything that happened last year?

Or do you look back on it and you're like, we got Chris Middleton too bad first and Max Christie for Luka Doncic?

Did they provide platoons or what are we doing here?

Yeah.

I agree with you guys.

I just think like just getting that weight off your back probably feels pretty nice.

You could enjoy flag without the encumbrance of everything else that's like been befallen this team.

So I get it.

Let's talk about Jaron Jackson who went to Utah.

Another instance of a team kind of turning the page here.

I love this for the jazz, a team that already looked in some instances to be too good to

in order to continue to bottom out.

I think we've been saying this about them for a little while now, but they did a nice job of making sure that their defense was just virtually unplayable on most nights.

And so they find themselves at the bottom here again, but yeah,

Laurie just seemed too good in order to keep him out there or to move on from him because he seems like a real foundational player.

Keontae George, as we've talked about several times this season, looks like a real player there.