Mark Grote

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I definitely like what I'm hearing from both of these guys, from Graham, from Splitter.

It all sounds very good, but I don't know that it wasn't this similar when Arturis Karnaschovas and Mark Eversley were introduced and the hope and the fact that they were from outside the organization and the fact that they were going to be given resources and that they had foundational players on the team already.

And they started to add some more foundational pieces as time went on, obviously with DeMar DeRozan and Vucevic as well.

I think the biggest difference is that we've already been signaled this is a rebuild.

Our church kind of shows – I never heard him talk about a rebuild.

It's a good distinction.

He was like, I'm going to go ahead and add to what we already have on deck.

I'm going to make this trade for Vuce.

I'm going to – this –

Those aren't the types of moves that Bryson Graham is talking about.

He's talking about drafting and developing, and he's talking about taking on bad contracts from other NBA teams to get more of the thing that AK specifically seemed to be allergic to, which is draft picks.

More specifically, because I know I've got to be specific when it's AK, first-round draft picks.

The draft capital is what will open up the possibilities and keep you malleable and able to pivot defensively

On a dime.

You and I yesterday during the show challenged each other to ask what we would ask.

If we had an opportunity to ask Tiago Splitter a question, we named a couple of things, but a couple of the questions that we asked were answered.

I don't know if they were answered, but they were certainly asked last night.

The question I had asked, I wanted to know what he thinks about the individual players on the team, like Matas Bezelis.

That was the name that I kept on saying.