Marvin

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?

And so we were trying to think a little bit ahead, and it worked out.

And it's all right to be critical of someone's decision, but I think it helped the process

for next season and years to come that we can rely on him getting us in an offense.

He, you know...

Kareem a little bit, a young Kareem at UCLA, being so dominant.

doesn't have the sky hook, but just the athleticism, understands the game.

Again, when you talk about these young players, their IQ of understanding how to play the game, and he's one that's playing the game at a very high level, shoots the three, puts the ball on the floor, doesn't have to jump to dunk, and doesn't have to jump to block shots.

And so just understanding, again, he's special.

And I think the league with these young stars are in great hands.

This season, this run, this playoff run, we'll be able to answer that question.

If they are the last team standing, I would say yes.