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WrightAnd, you know, there's a lot of talk about like, okay, with Fred back, a lot of guys can naturally or slide back into their natural positions. And I was thinking about that. I'm like, well, Amin is the only one that really played out of position last year. But I think what he's saying is that they tried the whole offensive facilitation by committee.

WrightAnd so you had Alper and Shangoon.

WrightHow'd that go? It did not go well. But you had the offense running through a bunch of different people. now with those guys adding responsibilities in some ways they grew from a developmental standpoint some of those guys grew and so the hope now is that okay everybody gets back into their natural positions and they don't have to do as much because we got Fred Van Vliet you know sort of running the show but the extra skills that they learned

Wrightover the course of last season going through all that will only help them to be better and let's be real they also added a couple pieces. You know, Marcus Smart, who was disrespected, apparently, in L.A. with that contract.

WrightYou know, he's got experience with Ima Udoka from going back to Boston.

WrightAnd I know Amin Thompson was talking about how, like, he hopes to learn some tricks from Marcus because he's like, oh, and isn't Marcus Smart from your neck of the woods, Tim? He's like, y 'all went to the same high school, right?

MacMahonFlower Mound Marcus High School. He was so good there, they named the school after him.