Raja Bell

To Howard's point, I generally think that if you are a player, which I was, that was never going to be primary, you benefit from having more playmakers on the floor, provided those playmakers are unselfish and willing to give you the ball when you're open.

that only helps them, right?

Because now your defender's got to stay home, creates more space for them, right?

So you're adding another playmaker, which I would say unlocks everybody.

Like, I think that's good for everyone.

But I would say that in the space that I've watched LeBron in recently,

James Harden might be, I mean, I don't know where you put him in the pantheon of pick and roll players, but of all time, like he's a, he's one of the highest level pick and roll players of all time.

If LeBron is now playing as a playmaker and finisher out of the role in a pick and roll.

Yeah.

I don't know what it could look like.

Like I haven't seen a large sample size of it, but I would, I would simply say that's, you have two of the best players of all time running pick and roll.

And one is, is now coming downhill at you.

I mean, you see the lobby call last night.

That's like out of the horns.

You see the lobby caught like that's nuts.

I mean, it's still bananas, but then,

A step further into that, he's a player that doesn't have to always finish on the pick and roll.

He could catch out of pick and roll and play make out of that spot on the floor.

There's just a lot of things you could do.

I don't have a great answer, but I think everyone benefits from having another guy with a brain like LeBron's, provided he's still playing at a level similar to the one he's playing at right now.