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BillAnd I... It spurts? Yeah, I wonder, like, how much they're going to stagger these guys and not have them out there, but I've talked myself into it because I thought he was really good in the playoffs last year, and that was coming off a 25 -game break for whatever he tested positive for, and then he came back for 10 games, and then the playoffs.

BillBut he was really good in the playoffs, and we've seen these NBA guys as they hit their mid -30s, they only need one good year from them. Next year, he's an expiring. And they have Hugo and they have Shireman, who they're going nuts about.

BillAnd to me, it reminds me a little of the Philly situation where you have these other options if somebody doesn't play, right? It's like, Paul George isn't playing tonight. Well, we're fine. We have Shireman. Walsh played 1,200 minutes last year, Harper, and then Hugo, and they'll patch it together.

Billbut I think the ultimate goal would be what does this look like in the playoffs in a series can you count on him every other night things like that that I have no idea but I do think they can get 55 games 1600 1500 somewhere in their minutes and I think that fans are going to like him I can't believe I'm saying that but I just think he's an additive player you like him less if he's one of your

Billtwo guys that are going to decide whether you win the title or not, but he's like not one of their five guys. So we're going to decide whether they're a title team. He's in a much better situation. So I fully drank in the Kool -Aid. I poured it all over myself and I don't, I think he's going to be additive for them.

I think, I think he's regressing a little bit into like overqualified role player status a little bit. 100%. Totally. And, and, but, and I, but I think that's okay. And I, you're thinking about like the best basketball situations he's been in. This'll probably be the best. I just keep thinking about cumulative passing when I think about the Celtics.

You think about Derek White. You think about Jason has always been a little bit better at that. Not that everything's about Jalen, but he's always been the better of the two about getting off the ball. I just think they're going to have a lot of good passers on the floor where it's not going to bottleneck.