Ray Ferraro

My guess is that Patrick came kind of from left field here, and that's probably...

To me, it feels like a possibility.

It would, but just think of this, Brian.

He gets Matthew Schaefer last year, and so he's just done the same thing.

A number one overall pick.

Schaefer was playing a pretty hefty role almost immediately.

in New York and we had him, it was in October and I asked him, I said, who does he remind you of?

And I think this is where I sense that he's changed.

He goes, I want you to watch and I want you to decide yourself.

He goes, I don't want to put any more pressure on this kid.

And I think in the past he might have said, you know, pick a guy, whoever, you know, like Quinn Hughes or McCartney, like somebody of that nature, if that's who he would have thought.

But he didn't say that at all.

And I thought he kind of quietly protected Schaefer.

And then pretty soon you're watching.

He's like, oh, he's 24 minutes again, 23 minutes again.

He wasn't protecting him, playing him.

He was playing him, but he didn't.

He didn't overhype a young kid who was just getting going.

And obviously, Schaefer took the minutes and ran with him.

The kid's amazing.