Justin Verrier

He'll catch some better luck.

Everything will turn out.

I just get from a Cleveland perspective why they would be nervous given the stakes, given the pressure, given all that desperation to say like, are we absolutely sure he's going to be one good enough and two healthy enough to be what we need him to be in this exact playoff run, which is going to determine the future and the fate of our team.

It's a lot to put on Darius Garland's shoulders.

Do you have another decade of...

a small guard who's already at this age.

I think a great case for Darius Garland is he has like six good years left.

That would be a great career.

That's still pretty good.

That would be amazing.

Again, that's like a 99th, 100th percentile outcome for him.

I think there's a lot of range in between those things where you get a year or two of star level play and then a lot of mystery box is he going to be healthy enough questioning.

Yeah, I mean, Garland has great vision for a point guard, but to what you're saying, Kyle, it's like vision on the move.

It's like a more of a kinetic read of the floor and not a Chris Paul, I'm going to move the chess pieces just so, and then throw this like crazy baseball style pass.

Like that's just not really the way he operates.

Well, especially if the alternative was James Harden declines his player option over the summer and leaves leaving you with nothing.

I would sure rather have Darius Garland than absolutely nothing to show for James Harden bolting out the door.

I mean, clearly they took notes, you know, they saw the photo shops are like, but why not us?

Why not a slick Wizards jersey instead?

And I got to say, I don't hate it.