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And they both said he's very special.
And so talking to Cooper, I had him over for dinner and I said, hey, when you were Team USA, who were the hardest to guard?
And he brought up Curry and LeBron.
And so I was just like, yeah, those two are hard to guard.
But he goes, they just knew exactly what was going to happen before it happened.
And I said, that just takes time.
But those two are the ones that stood out.
He said those were the hardest to guard.
And I asked those two about Cooper.
And they said that he's very special.
And I thought, you know, listening to those guys.
But once I gave him the ball, you know, early on, I knew that this young man was going to do something special.
Yeah, I think when you look at, you know, sometimes we get caught up in the titles, point guard, point forward.
It becomes basketball.
Can you bring the ball up?
Can you make plays, decision making?
And I thought for him, you could see that he understood the game at a very high level at the age of 18.
But understanding guys were going to target him and pick him up full court.
And so we wanted to kind of look at speeding up the process.
If there's a big game coming in the future, playoffs or play-in, will we have another ball handler if they took the ball out of Kai's hand?