J. Kyle Mann

Plus Jalen Duren, that's as much non-shooting as you can probably put out there against a real playoff defense.

And yes, I know that they make up for their lack of shooting, their 28th and three-point rate, and they don't shoot it all that well.

I know they make up for it with offensive rebounds, cutting.

Forget the defense.

free throws, like all the stuff they do on offense to compensate for their lack of shooting.

Even the connecting passing too, I think for both of those guys is really important.

not only the connecting passing, but like, you know, teams toy with, or we're going to put our centers on a star Thompson and try to muck up your spacing that way.

And jail endurance, like, Oh, I'll just mash your poor overmatched wing and dunk on his face or get 15 offensive rebounds until you start a fight with me.

And like now the three point shooting, they're also 22nd in turnover rate.

That's a little bit worrisome too, but I just think,

They are inexperienced and young, but they also made the playoffs last year and felt like this is a real... We played a conference finals team pretty toe-to-toe and lost.

You can take something from that.

But to the point about the offense, now that Herter is there, Kevin Herter, I think the last game I saw them play was actually the Brawl game.

Maybe there was one after that that I saw.

And you could see JB Bickerstaff figuring out like...

What lineup do I want to close with here?

Well, okay, let me put Karras in for Duncan Robinson because we need a little bit better defense.

But you know what, though?

Our shooting quotient is pretty low.

Asar, you're coming out.