Here's what you're missing.

You're not highlighting how bad co y is in terms off leadership.

See it be one thing if you were just some normal dude, you know, and you just didn't happen, You know, you didn't have that rye rye personality, but you went out and you played is exceptionally well as he plays, for the most part.

But when you are the complete antithesis of that where it's national news that you actually laughed at a press conference actually left because you laughed.

It was national news because they've never seen anything from your personality.

Because your particular you know, you have a pension for giving one liners and being gone because even when you're a star, people barely talk to you because you pretty much have nothing to say.

You literally could work for the CIA.

I mean, they look at you like that.

It's a different animal with koel in it.

And when you are that extreme with your willingness to be, ah, little bit not extremely quiet noncommunicative no rah rah and stuff like that.

That's where it's taken to another level because it goes in the opposite direction When you play a guy, when you pay a guy superstar dollars and pay him max dollars, it's not just because of his ability to perform on the court is because of the ability he has to galvanize the folks around him.

Tim Duncan, with his quiet personality, he was quiet to the media.

He wasn't quite to his teammates.

He was a jokester.

He played around.

He had a great personality.

You look at stuff, you look at LeBron, you look at others.

There's a difference that ain't quiet.

That's a problem.

I'm not.

I'm not disputing that, guys.

I'm saying who would be the better leader?

In other words, do you have a chance?

That championship with Paul George is the leader of your team.

I think the answer is no.

But co wise won two championships, and both times he was the M V P.

And whether or not he was the leader, he wouldn't have to be a leader on that Spurs team they get.

They gave him the M V P on the Toronto team, who was the leader?

You want to say Kyle Lowry, at the very least, Coop, you say If you say Oh, I lead.

If you said co I led the Raptors to the championship, that wouldn't be a lie.

If Paul George ain't gonna lead you to a championship like if he's the leader, you're running up the white flag so far in his career.

Maybe it can change, but it hasn't been the case so far, and it's been largely a result of his play in the playoffs.

I take no pleasure in saying that.

I love Paul.

George love watching him play, but they went down three wives.

They were down 31 Paul George had 26 33 before the game.

Seven.

You talking about one game?

Well, that same one game.

Your leader didn't show up, so I landed this job.

Either I'm talking about, by the way.

You're right.

Although co I wasn't hitting the backboard from the corner three.

But you're right, so I had a bad Game.

Seven.

There's so few bad performances from Kauai throughout the years in the playoffs.

Paul George.

There are many games, including in these last playoffs, where he wasn't he didn't show up.

But Max, you keep talking about what's going.

You keep talking about what's going on on the court.

Ah, Leader is more than just playing basketball, Max.

Ah, leadership is everything.

The whole is making everybody feel comfortable.

Everybody feel whole being able to address situations when things were not going well for you.

But things were going well for the team.

That's a really leader.

Kawhi Leonard is not pulling no one toe the side.

If Reggie Jackson is having a bad is going through a shooting slump or having a bad 10 games, you think Kawhi Leonard is pulling Reggie Jackson to the side and having a conversation with him?

Hell, no, Paul George is Max.

That's the leader is certain is only one way to paint a leader is not just show up and produce 25 9 and everybody else do What the hell you all got to do?

Just follow my lead for is my skill set, because everyone is not skill like a while, but the leader has Toby.

Vocal has to be vocal.

If you ask anybody around the NBA, their leader in the locker room, what's their?

What's their leader in the locker room?

Just like in Golden State, Steph is not their leader Draymond Green is their leader.

He's the one that's doing all the talking.

He's the vocal guy.

He's the one that we hear all the time.

Although stuff is the culture, he's the franchise.

But he's not the leader.

It's a difference.

What I would point out is teams where the leader is not the best player are in a tougher situation than teams where they are This, by the way, Steph Curry is not the leader on the team.

They were lucky to win one championship against the Cavs before K D showed up and created a power imbalance in the MBA, where it was impossible for them to lose.

Maybe that has something to do with it, But besides that, this is not a great choice.

A dilemma is not just a tough choice.

It's a choice between two bad options.

These if you want to paint co I that way and you may be right, he's incapable of doing it based on your experience perk just showing up in leading by example, he has to be more vocal.

It's not in him.

Well, then, Kawai is not a good choice, but neither is Paul George, the question is, who is the way lead you to a title?

Who?

It's that Maybe that's why I thought, I think we all thought they should have gotten Rondo.

They needed a guy like that and maybe neither one of these guys are If I had to choose between the two.

Give me the guy with two Finals MVPs.

Not the guy with a reputation for going away in the playoffs.

Well, let's go to your guy, man.

Let's go to your guy because the same coalesce question the same co.

I let it.

You ain't never heard those complaints about LeBron.

You ain't never hear those complaints about other leaders.

You see guys complaining about him all the time.

You know privately, you know, you know, off the record and all of this other stuff.

Why are they doing that?

Because apparently outside of his game, he's having a negative effect on the franchise.

Or at least he did last year.

Could you can you could argue he had a negative effect, although he get thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube for live streaming sports and premium content.