Justin Verrier

But then he hasn't been as good.

And how much does being good ultimately, like for the entire body of work, matter when we're trying to reward someone who's changed who they are?

Does that make sense?

Yeah, I had Kate as my last cut for all the reasons Kyle laid out there.

I wanted to get him on there, but ultimately I leaned Ryan Rollins for that last spot because this is a similar thing.

The zero to 60 guys, I think are just going to pop a little bit more than some of these other ones who are a little bit more subtle.

And to go from a player who's just cycling through teams, both of these guys were.

I mean, Rollins was on the Warriors.

He was on the Wizards.

And then ultimately actually found himself not only as just a player, but all of a sudden a very good player.

I think he's been on our top 100 list practically the entire season.

That's significant.

And so I wanted to reward them.

But ultimately, for me, it was Denny or Nikhil.

I went Denny overall just because...

I guess I'm a fucking Homer, but I just, I just think the jump that he's had from role player to the guy he is now is just like something that like we haven't seen, like in terms of like the biggest jumps between who you were to like what you became, like we're talking Siakam, we're talking Kawhi, like he is on that level and to not reward that in some way, just because he's been hurt down the stretch to me wasn't enough of a reason.

I think he could also quibble with the fact that maybe he should have won this last year,

But honestly, the difference between numbers and production specifically with playmaking and foul drawing is way more significant from last year to this year than it was three years ago to two years ago.

So I went Denny, Nikhil, Rollins.

All of my Blazers takes have been normal.