The Most Confusing Teams in the NBA!

MahoneyI just have like the visions in my head of Derek Jones Jr. you're turning back into a pumpkin because Luka Doncic isn't out there to turn him into a threat. And then you look out here and you see Zaire Williams or Matisse Theibel, or like, are they going to try to squeeze Jared Vanderbilt into the rotation?

MahoneyWho is Walker Kessler as an offensive player without Luka Doncic on the floor? We really have, I mean, we're trying to figure out who he is as an offensive player period. And so I think all of it makes total sense to me as constructed. It just feels like linear in a way that maybe they run into their ceiling quickly, or maybe they don't but I both get what they're trying to accomplish and I'm not sure where it takes them

Loweare you more or less confused about the Lakers than Dalton connect was when he failed to run the play that JJ Redick called out of a timeout and forced the anger number one angriest time out of the year and I think both the end of Dalton connect and the really the end coda of the two weeks when the Lakers were hailed as geniuses for quote stealing Dalton connect in the draft

LoweI'm not confused about the Lakers I just think they're going to be really good not good enough to make a finals run too good to be out of the top six I just think Luka's that good look, if he misses a ton of games it's obviously a game changer I think he's that good I think Reeves is that good I think the ecosystem makes sense Kessler's going to have a big year I was going to say by his standards

Lowehe didn't play last year and has played no meaningful games in his entire NBA career but I think he'll be good I just think they're gonna be what they always are which is like a 50 win team who isn't good enough to challenge the Spurs or the Thunder and that's totally fine like they're still kind of in phase two of a three phase plan to reorient around Luka although they've used almost all the assets that that they have I

Lowelike even like Colin Sexton is a third ball handler I do like in there yeah I just don't yeah I I had something else to say about the because I forgot what I just don't have a lot of mystery about them I guess

MahoneyI think some of my mystery is like how these combinations of supporting players work like of you know in the Quentin Grimes, Colin Sexton, Zyre Williams, Jake LaRavia, Sandra Mamuchelishvili like cohort just naming some guys baby I mean this is what we do but like who are the two three four or you know I guess you know Austin's gonna be plugged in at the two but like who are who are the forward tandems or the wing tandems that actually