Justin Verrier

He's immediately the best screener of the Tyrese Halliburton era in Indiana.

And I think his ability to just kind of like catch in the middle of the floor and do a variety of things, right?

He's not like a natural facilitator, but because of his size and because of his comfort with the ball on the move, you can kind of set him up for like a higher post-up than you might expect or that kind of like roll into a short roll post-up off of Tyrese Halliburton and get something really good out of that kind of action.

Like I'm already so curious to see what Rick Carlisle does with him because there's just like a lot of skill you can tap into in addition to just being a big hulking man with Avisa Zubats.

Can we just say on that front, Justin, he's right.

Like they should not have waited to the offseason to change this around.

Like I, I,

I like this trade, not because James Harden is like a super perfect fit for everything happening in Cleveland, but pretending that the status quo was okay, wasn't going to be good for anyone involved there.

I don't mind.

I'm a little flaccid on this becoming a recurring audio drop for us.

If we just want to clip and stamp that thing right now.

Who's the Ben Affleck?

Is that like the Rockets taking another swing and just seeing how it goes?

Love waited, right?

I mean, look, I have a hard time squaring the part of me that loves Darius Garland, the basketball player, and the part of me that is freaked out by the fact that he just can't seem to stay healthy basically ever.

That's what I was googling.

It's both.

It's both feet.

In addition to some other random freak injuries along the way, which is always like, I don't know, makes my alarms go off a little bit.

You don't want to over-index on the chaotic stuff where a guy just breaks a jaw or something.