Jake Mintz

Massive example, along with not doing business with the Pelicans, trying to acquire a high, high unprotected first round pick in the next year's draft.

One of the best the NBA has seen.

And then you decide no.

And your your draft lottery pick goes to Noah Essenge, who is years away from possibly seeing the NBA.

That's the one for me is Jose Alvarado.

It's also just the ways that these talented players were acquired, too.

It's not just a one-process guy.

These are all these different ways of being able to not only acquire but develop talent.

And that's part of it, Marshall, too, that I think was pretty evident when we heard the reports surrounding how the Bulls wanted to hire Bryson Graham.

That talent, not just acquisition and evaluation, but development mattered.

And, you know, for our who's owed an apology award when we say that, I'm looking in the direction of Peter Patton.

You've got to have guys like that on your staff.

And if they may disagree at times with other people in a regime, in sports, whatever, on how somebody's going to become their best selves, and I'm not saying that necessarily occurred here, but I want to qualify it by saying that those people need to be in a front office to help guys where you do see guys like Io DeSumo and Kobe White flourish and you see Io score 43 and help the Timberwolves advance.

The Spurs!

Who looked unstoppable.

But that's the point.

Okay, it looks so much easier when somebody who knows what they're doing knows how to put it together.

And that's what, this is not an unsolvable problem.

And I feel like there are so many times where we think it is because we didn't have the right people showing us how to solve it.

Those are the reports that we seem to get from guys like Joe Calley and others, yes.