Ryan Smith

you know, have done that in the past, just given our market, given our luck, given where things are, it's like, you know, you've got to start.

And that starts with our front office and our coaching and like how we're going to go through this.

And we've been close.

I mean, I took over that Donovan and Rudy team, you know, where Trey Mann destroyed us in the corner there.

And it staples at the time.

And

man, that was a helpless feeling because that was kind of ours to have.

And then, you know, kind of had to make some decisions after that.

And so, you know, here we are.

Like, I like where we're going.

I like the assets that we have going forward.

We have all of our picks, plus plus, and a lot of young talent.

And honestly, I think every team's going to have to do this.

You know, I think this is a lot of my point around the lottery reform and everything else is like,

We're going to have a certain number of teams that are going through the rebuild process and the rebuild experience and all have different sizes of markets.

And I think as a league, which I love, we'll ask ourselves really hard questions around what do we want that rebuild experience to be?

Well, I think first of all, I don't think there's an ownership group that wants to go through this, right?

I think that's first of all, no one in the league wants to do this.

Especially like you look at our situation when we're taking over, right?

I mean, you want to do the opposite.