Paulo Alves

It's just that you're facing Raymond Green, who was a great defender, and they were walling up and...

It was hard, and Jalen Green was thinking it up so bad.

A lot of the times, Jalen Green was being forced to do things by himself.

Gavarison Thuner was obviously a playoff riser, just look at his stats.

But going into the... Like, if Shingun ends the regular season like this, I would be confident going into the playoffs that he, you know, was going to perform well.

And if he does compile a good playoff run on top of going the rest of the regular season like this, which is not a long time.

It's, what, eight games left?

Whatever it may be.

it will help you in the sense that it will buy you way with the fan base to just running it back with Fred and Steven Adams, which is pretty good.

It might buy you chemistry within the team and, you know, openness to running it back and being fully invested next season and hoping that with Fred, with Steven Adams, that you're just that away from, you know, potentially being a much better team, which is, you know,

Pretty fair argument to make.

Those guys are really good, high-impact players.

As far as, you know, what you said about, you know, for some of the young guys to be the first time they go through this sort of little slump after last season was such a, you know, world-beater type of season from a morale standpoint.

I mean, it might have some impact.

Not sure it's needle-moving, although vibes are really important, and young players can very easily spiral, and careers are altered based on the team atmosphere that they are dropped into.

Besides Jabari and Shingun going into the playoffs...

you know, reads really interesting for both the good and the bad.

Like, is he going to be a playoff riser as far as making shots goes?

Is he going to be completely exploited on defense in the playoffs because of his size?

And then, you know, obviously the playoffs, he raised a lot of regular season struggles, especially for Tyrese and going into a contract here.