Kelly Iko

For what this team needs, no.

I think he's more effective as a change of pace guard.

Now, if you're looking at a situation where, and this has been something that's very confusing to me, since Steven Adams went down, they've only played, like their small ball group, the most minutes they've played is like 35 or 36.

And I thought that because he may have said that he was going to lean more on small ball, you know, in the wake of Steven Adams' season-ending ankle injury.

We haven't really seen that much small ball from this group since then.

I mean, there was a couple games early on after Stephen got hurt where you kind of saw, you know, KD and Jabari at the four and a five and Josh and the man and Tari and the balls moving.

But we haven't really seen that much since then.

So going back to your earlier point about

another way to pivot or another wrinkle in their offense, potentially, I think going back to small ball could be an option.

It's always there.

I know Jabari has always talked about why he can be effective as a stretch five.

He can handle the ball a bit, shot create a bit.

You pair that with a KD and a smart player in the, in the back roller, like in a man or a read,

and Tartt now you might have you know optionality versatility on both ends of the floor so for Reed he's more effective coming off the bench being aggressive going back to what Dave said if he's taking six threes a game that's not really why you're there that needs to be close to the ten the double digits to at least force the defense to have to react like if defenses know that

You're going to be passive and you're going to try and defer to Alper and Akiti.

That's not why they drafted you, brother.

Like they brought you in to shoot the leather off the ball.

So I think just him being more aggressive and confident is what can be a real bench weapon.

And that could be really effective in the playoffs.

To come out of the Western Conference?