Joel Lorenzi

And what the Billy sentiment say to me is like, you are while Michael says, yeah, we want somebody who's going to push back.

Like,

When you're saying that you need them to have this sort of understanding with Billy, it makes me think you're like bathing in comfortability.

I don't know.

We're going to go in circles here on this.

But yeah, you're handcuffing yourself, man, for this pool.

And to me, why I say the Dallas gig is sexier, it goes beyond Cooper Flagg.

First of all, they got an ownership.

While flawed, they're willing to spend.

They're willing to spend.

People, like, when I talk to decision makers around the league, they don't care about, like, Modest Buzz and Josh Gideon, this cap space to, like, all this.

You know, they don't care about the current situation.

They're thinking about ownership, resources, authority.

The real appeal is not tap space or that you might have another first round pick in theory and Noah Senge when he comes back.

The real appeal is that it's in the East.

The expectations are low.

Michael let this last regime go for six years without really stepping in, which I also think there's a balance.

And I asked him this yesterday.

There's a balance in.

letting basketball folks make basketball decisions and giving them full autonomy and understanding when to step in and pivot.