Raja Bell

It was a game against OKC, I remember specifically, because I text you guys and I was like, he doesn't look like he wants to do that.

It wasn't an issue of someone else was doing it and he couldn't get his hands on it.

It was more like they keep giving it to him, and he doesn't really want to do that.

And that particular game, it manifested itself in just shooting wide open range jump shots or getting to pull-ups if you didn't want to shoot it from 20 feet, just exploring that part of your game.

And he didn't look completely comfortable early in the season.

So to your point about KD, normally, yeah, he would infringe upon his ability to do that, but I'm okay with him just in this one-year sample size.

playing with KD and working on that behind the scenes, working with KD, who's as good as there is in the league.

I mean, if you're going to have to learn from someone to play as a rangy, long-wing defender offensively,

There may be nobody better than KD to learn from.

Yeah.

So like I'm okay with him taking another year of like apprenticeship, if you will, with KD offensively.

You know, if that's going to manifest itself in showing up on the court, you know, next year-

But you never know.

We think everyone has these skill sets and these toolboxes and we project what they should be.

And you never really know what's going on in someone's head, what they, you know,

I'm not saying that he has a mental hurdle at all, but we've seen people have mental hurdles.

You've seen people have issues developing into that which we think they should be because of all these physical tools that they have.

I don't think that's going to be the issue with Amen, but you can never predict it.

I think that's my point, right?

I didn't have a problem with him not fully taking all the jumpers and exploring his offensive repertoire this year if they were going to be in a quest for winning a championship, which I deemed they had the opportunity to do when healthy, right?