Zach Lowe

I don't think they were ever going to like sell, sell, right?

They told teams, if you want Zubats, you got to come with way better than you got to bowl us over because we don't want to trade them.

Harden, Kawhi, very complicated to trade, right?

But I think they were honest in the sense of like,

They don't really care about the picks that are going to Oklahoma city that trades ancient history to them.

It's a sunk cost, whether they're bad or good, the picks are gone.

It doesn't really matter sort of what they are.

If, if, if you get deals that make sense for your team.

Now I'm looking at them.

On the flip side at that time, it was like, are they the team that's desperate enough to package all their expiring contracts to get Anthony Davis or Trey Young or John Moran?

Now, I think we've landed somewhere squarely in the middle where one of those expiring contracts is John Collins, who suddenly looks like a really important part of their team.

They also have Bogdan Bogdanovich, $16 million expiring contract.

They also have some draft assets they can trade way out in the future.

I'm not sure I would touch those to prop this team up, but if I can turn Bogdanovich into a rotation player on a multi-year contract that the other team wants to dump,

I have to think about doing that because he's not playing.

I could use a little bit of a boost.

And my cap sheet is so clean after next season that I don't really care about taking on some money as long as it's not a gargantuan $40 million contract.

I don't think they're going to do anything nuts, but they could do something.

But beyond that, like what else have you, other than Kawhi being Kawhi, what else do you think has changed in these last 18, 20 games for them?

The two statistical changes that have happened are turnovers.