Larry Harris

And so, yes, we did.

But we didn't think that.

it was enough to take it to, you know?

And so it's a self-evaluation.

I do it every year myself just to say, hey, is the process we're doing right?

I think, Ryan, for most assistant GMs, GMs people on the front office side, I think you need to take

of four or five years, you need to wait to see, is it a success or is it a failure?

To do it every year and go, hey, you know what, did I get Cooper Flagg right?

Or, you know, yeah, or where did it, or where was, you know, did we have Conepple at four?

You know, why did he pop and why is he, you know, why is he better than we thought?

Did we have him at eight or what was our board looking like?

And so I think that's where you start building some of the data and some, you're looking back and saying, hey, where did I miss

would that guy have worked in our system or not?

There's some players that just, they were drafted high that probably the way we were structured was not going to work for Steve and his system and where we were because we weren't ready to give him the ball and go do his thing.

Yeah.

I think the biggest thing, Ryan, for us is especially when you when you talk about those two players in particular in James and

and in JK is that we were, as we talked about earlier is we're trying to win championships and Steve realized what players can help me on my roster to get there.

And these two young guys, not, not yet.

And so the development path for them was a lot different than say a Will Richard today, who's a little more mature, a little bit older, and like, I can trust him in a game.

And so we, Steve didn't feel like, Hey, I don't, I just don't, I don't have enough of a rope to give you