Ryan Poles

You have certain plans.

There's guys that you would like to have back and kind of seeing how the landscape's going to

you know, set up and you do your research.

When we watched Kobe's tape, he was a guy that got us excited because, again, he played our style of ball.

He played fast.

He played physical.

Those are the things that D.A.

is looking for, that we're looking for.

We thought there was leadership there.

He's young.

And, you know, we had to kind of adapt to that.

And we had an opportunity to bring a really good player in.

And that's the decision that we made.

It's really difficult.

I talked about this earlier, but especially when you win games, you create this really deep relationships and you see guys help you get to the next level.

So when you have to pick and choose and really try to live in different spaces cap wise, it can be really difficult and it's hard to turn the emotional side off of it.

But at the end of the day, we got to do what's best for our organization.

I'm really fortunate to have Matt Feinstein.

I think he's one of the best cap guys in the league.

He gives us a lot of different scenarios for us to operate in, but also showing us the short-term and long-term effect of each one of those decisions.