J. Kyle Mann

I know you did your ringer championship pie.

I think you still gave them a strong 40% of the championship pie.

Do you stand by that?

Are they more or less vulnerable or same level of vulnerability?

I think they're the same level of vulnerable that I thought they were before the season, which is I think they're going to win the championship and get out of the West, but I think it's going to be hard, particularly in the West.

And that's always been my take.

I've thought Denver could go toe-to-toe with them from day one.

We're going to talk about Denver in a second.

I'm a little bit worried about them.

And I'm saying same level of vulnerability and not less because they just have had so many injuries individually.

And maybe I should say a little bit more because Shea and J-Dub are both being reevaluated for their various injuries after the All-Star break.

And this is Jalen Williams' second hamstring issue that he's had this year.

And so that's like a little bit of an alert.

So I'll change my answer to a little bit more vulnerable.

But they've had those two out.

uh hartenstein missed games caruso's missed a bunch of games aj mitchell's missed a bunch of games chet missed some games they've just had so many guys out that you look at the lineups they're playing like this is not even close to the real team now all that said the j-dub hamstring stuff is a little you know so it has to be noted yeah and i don't know man i as limited as they have been personnel wise

I do watch some of these games, and I'm curious for your take on this.

And I'm like, I come away thinking Chet had a really good game.

He was a no-brainer all-star for me.

He was not a no-brainer all-star for everybody.