Paulo Alves

Oh, Trey Murphy from the Pelican.

Yeah, Trey Murphy.

That's what I thought you said.

But yeah, your audio did break up very briefly then.

So glad you clarified.

Anyway, go on.

Yeah, I think it's tough, and I think it kind of ties into each other, which is, well, how much of a contender can you truly be when you have what's effectively now, assuming Friday doesn't come back, 40 million worth of guys that are not going to come back?

And to be fair, this team was built with a lot of depth and with the perspective that, well, perhaps not these guys.

These guys were not the ones that were expected to be injured.

Like, they built a lot of depth on the wings because, you know, KV is 37 and he has been kind of injury prone in the last few years.

Tari is obviously coming off of two rough years due to injury.

And they had a lot of, I guess, a bigger kind of security blanket when it comes to those positions.

But still, even as a deep team, right, the guys that they did lose are guys that bring stuff that nobody else could bring.

Like, if he lost, our Eason would have been rough, but starting with Vinny Smith, assuming he plays a little bit better deep,

I haven't shown it yet, but in theory, you could, you know, you know, you could get 80% of terrorism without Anthony Smith.

Stephen Adams to a lesser extent than Fred, but Capella doesn't give you 80% of Stephen Adams.

He gives you like 50, you know, on a good night, like Quint, just...

different type of player, you know, the offensive rebounding still, that he still gives you some of that, obviously not to the same extent, but the connective passing that Stephen Adams did, the insane screen setting that Stephen Adams gave you, that seemingly great touch around the rim that Stephen Adams seems to have, or seems to have now, the free throw percentage, you know, Clint's at a point that, like...

wholly unconfident that he can make any shot that's not a dunk at this point like he tries water sometimes he tries some cook shots layups or stuff but like that's not much there offensively and so he's very very much of a lesser version of Adams but way more than if we lost one of our one of our wings

And Fred, what we know Fred is, we don't have a replacement for him.