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Michael Pina

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
822 total appearances

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The Zach Lowe Show
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So I just think that right there, when you just look at kind of what the core is, if you even want to call that a core, it's really difficult to overcome and to get over, I feel.

The Zach Lowe Show
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So I just think that right there, when you just look at kind of what the core is, if you even want to call that a core, it's really difficult to overcome and to get over, I feel.

The Zach Lowe Show
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Well, they got Jake LaRavia, Zach. I like Jake LaRavia. I do, too. That's why I bring it up. He's the one part of my notes where I wrote I liked the Jake LaRavia trade. That was the one positive part of this organization right now. I mean, you have Keegan Murray, who's up for an extension.

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

Well, they got Jake LaRavia, Zach. I like Jake LaRavia. I do, too. That's why I bring it up. He's the one part of my notes where I wrote I liked the Jake LaRavia trade. That was the one positive part of this organization right now. I mean, you have Keegan Murray, who's up for an extension.

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

Well, they got Jake LaRavia, Zach. I like Jake LaRavia. I do, too. That's why I bring it up. He's the one part of my notes where I wrote I liked the Jake LaRavia trade. That was the one positive part of this organization right now. I mean, you have Keegan Murray, who's up for an extension.

The Zach Lowe Show
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who struggled a little bit this year trying to reshape his game a little bit to accommodate the DeMar DeRozan addition. I thought not having Malik Monk has obviously hurt them, but at the same time, Malik Monk, who I think is really good, does not fit at all at the same time with DeMar DeRozan and in particular Zach Levine. When those guys share the court, the defense is a total disaster.

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

who struggled a little bit this year trying to reshape his game a little bit to accommodate the DeMar DeRozan addition. I thought not having Malik Monk has obviously hurt them, but at the same time, Malik Monk, who I think is really good, does not fit at all at the same time with DeMar DeRozan and in particular Zach Levine. When those guys share the court, the defense is a total disaster.

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

who struggled a little bit this year trying to reshape his game a little bit to accommodate the DeMar DeRozan addition. I thought not having Malik Monk has obviously hurt them, but at the same time, Malik Monk, who I think is really good, does not fit at all at the same time with DeMar DeRozan and in particular Zach Levine. When those guys share the court, the defense is a total disaster.

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

So going back to your point earlier about Sabonis and the conversations that he should rightfully have with whoever is making decisions for the Sacramento Kings, like what is his market even? And that's why I go back to just the, how troubling it is to have these three on your team, because what is the value? What is the market?

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

So going back to your point earlier about Sabonis and the conversations that he should rightfully have with whoever is making decisions for the Sacramento Kings, like what is his market even? And that's why I go back to just the, how troubling it is to have these three on your team, because what is the value? What is the market?

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

So going back to your point earlier about Sabonis and the conversations that he should rightfully have with whoever is making decisions for the Sacramento Kings, like what is his market even? And that's why I go back to just the, how troubling it is to have these three on your team, because what is the value? What is the market?

The Zach Lowe Show
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Even if you wanted to shed one of them, shed multiple this summer and try to start over and build around Jake LaRavia and Keon Ellis, like, I don't know what,

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

Even if you wanted to shed one of them, shed multiple this summer and try to start over and build around Jake LaRavia and Keon Ellis, like, I don't know what,

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

Even if you wanted to shed one of them, shed multiple this summer and try to start over and build around Jake LaRavia and Keon Ellis, like, I don't know what,

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
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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.