J. Kyle Mann

And they were on that scent early.

We get to Orlando, for whatever reason, I think some of this can spin into, is Orlando sort of a pit zone?

a Bermuda Triangle for basketball value because it's kind of starting to feel that way based on the way the team is built.

Cole Anthony, another guy that just has bounced around, ended up getting waved by the Bucs, who we'll talk more about.

And then, yeah, so...

I guess let's just, where do you want to, do you want to do just like the basketball fit?

Start wherever you want to with Desmond Mayne.

What was your first impression how we, and then leading to where we are now?

Yeah, there's a symptom disease thing going on here where, you know, I think that they were attacking.

They brought him in, and I don't think that Bane has necessarily cured the disease.

What I was going to ask you, which is, I think, a little bit more deeper with their stars, which has been well documented, you know, people have wondered about Franz and Paolo together, Paolo by himself, any iteration of their stars is like, is it going to work?

Can it be calibrated?

I was kind of wondering too, though, like, you know, thinking back to the summer, what types of

We were thinking about the hypothetical magic from the standpoint, from the summer where we were sitting.

We were like, this is what it's going to look like.

What kind of shots did you think, just thinking about it on the court, envisioning what it was going to look like, what kind of shots did you think he was going to bring to their offense and how did you think it was going to change?

Because just speaking for myself,

I think some of the miscalibration for me in the way I was thinking about Desmond Bain was kind of maybe thinking about 2021, 2022 Desmond Bain, where it was more of him flying off of down screens or coming off of double staggers, moving flares, whatever it was.

More off-ball movement, catch-and-shoot type stuff, which to me, I thought, okay, that would add some...

a wrinkle to Orlando that would make them more difficult to deal with.