Jamal Collier

I think that mostly the fact that, you know, him and Bryson, I think several times talked about basically in, I believe in these exact terms, they had to build an organization, you know, that they were on the same page as far as trying to sort of build this thing.

And Bryson has been pretty upfront about that, that they're starting at the ground floor.

So I think even thinking about the way that the team made the playoffs, the playoffs is not going to sort of be the objective or shouldn't be the objective for

for this team next year.

Like there's a possibility that things sort of break, right.

Um, I guess it gets to the playoffs, but even sort of thinking that far ahead, like this is a team that really needs to start development, developing its players, uh, trying to find a sort of a central focus for their roster to be around.

And that obviously comes pretty easily with the draft coming up next week and the draft pick that they have.

But, uh,

You know, it just it's going to be hard to judge exactly where Splitter, you know, I don't think his record is going to tell the story here in these next couple of years based on everything we've heard so far from Bryson and based on what we've seen from this team the last few years as well.

I mean, we you can just see the state of the roster, the state of the team, just, you know, looking at it.

So I think things that will fit out to me, as I said, it's just those guys being upfront about that.

They know they have to build an organization and

almost retrain everybody in the habits and try to find an identity.

I think he taught him and Bryson both talked about the fact that this team, you know, they talked about it'll be work hard and show up with your hard hat or whatever, but there needs to be an actual identity and play style on the floor that they are building toward and trying to find places on the roster that actually fit that.

I think it's too early to tell.

Um, I think that there's certainly upside there and certainly things to be excited about from what you've seen from modest so far, but I would not call him, uh, based on what I seen, like a singular focus of, of what they're building around.

Um, and I would also say there was not really a lot of evidence that he should be, you know, you build around stars and build around a guy who sort of had the, the, uh,

I think Muzalas has some ceiling and has some runway to potentially get there, but it just is, I think, too early to put that kind of expectation for him to be a one or even a number two on a championship-level or contending team.

He's just not there yet as a prospect.

I think there's a much better chance that whoever they draft on Tuesday night will be more of the focus there.