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Michael Pina

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588 total appearances

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The Zach Lowe Show
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what you do there, because as we saw with the Chicago Bulls, and I know that's a different front office with a different point of view and mindset and approach, but they couldn't get off of Zach Levine or they couldn't get value back for him. So that's kind of where I'm hung up on when I say that this team is just kind of in such a dark, dark place right now.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

what you do there, because as we saw with the Chicago Bulls, and I know that's a different front office with a different point of view and mindset and approach, but they couldn't get off of Zach Levine or they couldn't get value back for him. So that's kind of where I'm hung up on when I say that this team is just kind of in such a dark, dark place right now.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

what you do there, because as we saw with the Chicago Bulls, and I know that's a different front office with a different point of view and mindset and approach, but they couldn't get off of Zach Levine or they couldn't get value back for him. So that's kind of where I'm hung up on when I say that this team is just kind of in such a dark, dark place right now.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

It has. And I don't mean to denigrate, for the record, Sabonis as a player. I love Demonta Sabonis as a player. I love that type of skill set, and I think you can win with it. But it's just very expensive, and it's hard to kind of plop that into a different environment if you don't have the pieces around it, as you alluded to, if that makes sense.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

It has. And I don't mean to denigrate, for the record, Sabonis as a player. I love Demonta Sabonis as a player. I love that type of skill set, and I think you can win with it. But it's just very expensive, and it's hard to kind of plop that into a different environment if you don't have the pieces around it, as you alluded to, if that makes sense.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

It has. And I don't mean to denigrate, for the record, Sabonis as a player. I love Demonta Sabonis as a player. I love that type of skill set, and I think you can win with it. But it's just very expensive, and it's hard to kind of plop that into a different environment if you don't have the pieces around it, as you alluded to, if that makes sense.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

Bringing up Dale and Terry was funny because you're right that him and and Julian Phillips are very anonymous. And to the point where last night kind of marrying the thing you were saying about Josh Giddey's three point shooting.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

Bringing up Dale and Terry was funny because you're right that him and and Julian Phillips are very anonymous. And to the point where last night kind of marrying the thing you were saying about Josh Giddey's three point shooting.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

Bringing up Dale and Terry was funny because you're right that him and and Julian Phillips are very anonymous. And to the point where last night kind of marrying the thing you were saying about Josh Giddey's three point shooting.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

I mean, last night, first of all, the Miami Heat, despite Giddey making 45% of his threes over his last 25 games, they completely ignored that number and treated him like someone who cannot shoot three-pointers. They put Bam Adebayo on him. They sagged off.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

I mean, last night, first of all, the Miami Heat, despite Giddey making 45% of his threes over his last 25 games, they completely ignored that number and treated him like someone who cannot shoot three-pointers. They put Bam Adebayo on him. They sagged off.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

I mean, last night, first of all, the Miami Heat, despite Giddey making 45% of his threes over his last 25 games, they completely ignored that number and treated him like someone who cannot shoot three-pointers. They put Bam Adebayo on him. They sagged off.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

And Giddey lost all of his confidence as that game went on in his outside shot to the point where Dale and Terry passed him the ball in transition. And Giddey looked at the rim and did not shoot it, passed it to Vooch. Vooch passed it to Terry on a cut, and Terry got his shot blocked.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

And Giddey lost all of his confidence as that game went on in his outside shot to the point where Dale and Terry passed him the ball in transition. And Giddey looked at the rim and did not shoot it, passed it to Vooch. Vooch passed it to Terry on a cut, and Terry got his shot blocked.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

And Giddey lost all of his confidence as that game went on in his outside shot to the point where Dale and Terry passed him the ball in transition. And Giddey looked at the rim and did not shoot it, passed it to Vooch. Vooch passed it to Terry on a cut, and Terry got his shot blocked.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

And I put this in my notes, but Dale and Terry then looked at Josh Giddey and clapped angrily at Giddey for not shooting the ball. And that was the most emotion and I guess just the most notable thing that Dale and Terry has done this season when I watched the Chicago Bulls play. But... I think just for me, it's a question of like, what is the strategy for this organization?

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

And I put this in my notes, but Dale and Terry then looked at Josh Giddey and clapped angrily at Giddey for not shooting the ball. And that was the most emotion and I guess just the most notable thing that Dale and Terry has done this season when I watched the Chicago Bulls play. But... I think just for me, it's a question of like, what is the strategy for this organization?

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

And I put this in my notes, but Dale and Terry then looked at Josh Giddey and clapped angrily at Giddey for not shooting the ball. And that was the most emotion and I guess just the most notable thing that Dale and Terry has done this season when I watched the Chicago Bulls play. But... I think just for me, it's a question of like, what is the strategy for this organization?

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

Do you seriously want to build from the middle and make the plan every year? Resign Giddy, give Kobe White the extension, have that be your very pricey backcourt. Hope Matas-Bouzelis evolves into someone who I think can be an all-star type of player. I really love everything that I see out of him.

The Zach Lowe Show
Play-In Reaction, More Playoff Previews, and Final Awards Ballots With Michael Pina

Do you seriously want to build from the middle and make the plan every year? Resign Giddy, give Kobe White the extension, have that be your very pricey backcourt. Hope Matas-Bouzelis evolves into someone who I think can be an all-star type of player. I really love everything that I see out of him.