Rafael Stone

I just, I think I try very hard to not, I try to take a very long view on everything.

I think that that's like,

that's the difference between a GM and a coach.

A coach is like grinding hourly, daily.

A GM has to like always be thinking about like the very, the long-term.

And so I do.

And then I think it's just like, you talked about the emotions and like, yeah, like, and that definitely affects me too.

But like, yeah, I think maybe just naturally I bounce out of that quicker more than most people or whatever, but like,

Dylan's, I mean, I don't want to talk about another team's player, but it's like, I love Dylan and I will forever.

And the way he plays basketball, anybody who plays with that amount of intensity and aggression and kind of constant focus can be on a team I'm on for eternity.

And I saw that before we got him and then we got him and we were super happy.

And I've seen that afterwards and he's, yeah, I have nothing but positives to say there.

So I, to me, we just won.

I do think, I think the James trade was a big pivot because as so long as you have him on your team and he was at the time worse, the second best player in the world, he was so good and still very good.

But, but we were just win, win, win, constantly trying to churn through it.

And obviously that was my first year as a GM and the organization was going through enormous changes.

It wasn't, you know,

new GM, new coach.

Right before we traded James, we traded Russ.

So that was an enormous pivot.