Justin Verrier

It's like a collection where I'm almost wondering like what's going on with the tall people in France?

Like did they all just get together and decide like we're going to take over basketball, but we're going to start from an early age almost like they do in China where they kind of really just like identify tall people and all of a sudden like you're a basketball player and that's it.

It's not the baguettes that they're all consuming?

I mean, I guess I'm not surprised because as we look across the best players now and a lot of the overseas influence that is matriculating into the league...

A lot of the best players tend to be big guys who are skilled.

Jokic, Wemby, Giannis, all that.

I mean, maybe they're just like getting the skill to these guys earlier than even America is.

But I was assuming that like at this point, all of the best bigs are coming already.

If not shooting threes, certainly getting on that path and like are going to get there eventually.

And so it's kind of remarkable to the point where like I have to stop and pause and think like something is going on here.

Do we need like Wright Thompson to go to France and just like start to go into the French countryside and like taste the grapes and tell us all about the tannins on them and like how they're affecting like the biggest people in France?

Do you want to go to France?

He is good.

His, he has a weird, like the way his body moves because he's incredibly long and athletic and,

But it almost seems like it's not synchronized so that his movements are a little stilted.

And he almost seems like a little too big for the playing style that he has.

But there's a lot of skill there.

And he's super young, even still.

I think he's one of the youngest players in his draft class.

The problem is the Blazers just have so many decent guys.