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Like, how are we going to maximize his growth in year one?

Where does Dallas go after that?

You know, I always said that his game was one that I thought might produce, you know, or contribute to winning really, really early.

But I didn't know what the top end, give him the ball, put a saddle on his back and ride him to victories as a primary scorer, what his top end level in that category would be.

I think he's continued to prove to me that like we are getting better

or we will get to that point with him.

He is going to be a very, very high-end number one, scoring the ball.

And I think, this is going to sound crazy.

I don't know why I'm doing this because I usually don't do it.

He reminds me of a Scottie Pippen type of talent, but without MJ in his way of growth, if that makes sense, right?

Yeah, but like, you know, when Scotty, when MJ left for those couple of years, Scotty, you got to see that Scotty could carry, right?

Like Scotty had a whole lot of stuff that he sat to the side because he had MJ.

And Koop reminds me a lot of that.

He's a Swiss army knife in terms of size, length, what he can do with that size and length offensively in terms of like handling the ball.

creating and facilitating scoring.

And so I, I mean, statistically scoring the ball, he's, he's number one in the race.

The platform is right for him in the absence of everybody else there in Dallas, but I think he's the rookie of the year.

And I'm just, you know, I think I really, I didn't miss cause I knew he was gonna be a great player, but what he could potentially be, I think I, I was a little short on that on an eval if, if, if that, if that's fair.

Sure, sure.

Yeah.