You can't.

You're gonna have to try to keep up with the offense.

If you have enough offensive firepower to do it, you can.

I just I just don't see how they can keep up with a team.

Like like l.

A.

With Harold and with with a D, they're just too tough.

Guys like that.

Hard screens.

Yeah, they'll kill.

They'll kill those guys on the boards, man, that says they're too big.

They got to go out and try.

It is crazy because the Lakers already have their marquees.

Morris and Clippers have the other one that goons tough.

They need a goon, and Tucker is a nice ghoul, but he's still short, and I know he plays and punches above his weight, But I just don't know, man.

I don't know if that's gonna be enough.

DeAndre is not gonna be on the floor late in games.

You could see it like that.

That's even though it's their story that will never be there finishing five.

And he's a poor free throw shooter as Well, so they're gonna go.

They're gonna play small.

And that's the same thing the Rockets did.

And it really The Rockets won a lot that way, but they never could get over the hump.

They came close and they missed 27 33 pointers, but they didn't have.

They did have scores like this, though.

No, no scores, just like a system that has never been successful.

Before that, we saw Don Nelson.

We saw that system and has always won a lot of games.

But when it came down to three teams, it was not good enough to win a championship.

If this system can't win with these pieces, it is not doable.

If you can't go with arguably two of the top 5 30 I know we're talking about LeBron.

We're talking about a D.

But if we were going five and six, but it's all said and done, I think is gonna be Harding.

I think it's gonna be It's gonna be Durant, and I think I really sitting there somewhere in 12 assed Faras.

You know, the best player in the league, 12 or 15, he'll make top 15, but I don't think that shouldn't matter to these guys.

Bar it doesn't.

And you know what else gonna happen to part of the conversation is gonna be for them.

The regular season doesn't matter, because for them, it will be.

We just got to get right in time for the postseason.

This feels so much like the first year of the Miami Heat when they first got together and they were out of the gate.

They were like, 500.

I believe it was, like somewhere around, like 13 and 13 or something that first year, and there was some thoughts about Is it gonna work?

And LeBron eventually with Dwyane Wade, they were having friction on the floor about both guys were used to being high usage players.

One of them had to give in and it was Wade.

Wade deferred toe LeBron's.

I had to step back.

I had to understand that.

Well, he's at his best with the ball in his hand and learn how to play off that.

And once they did, they took off from there.

But they still couldn't win the championship that year because they still weren't that team yet.

They were still missing a couple of elements, and that's why the Mavericks were able to beat them.

So I feel like the Nets are sort of in that stage, but they just got to get to the postseason, get their matchup.

But I'm watching them.

And if I'm again, if I'm the Celtics, if I'm like six sixes, especially, are gonna need a couple more pieces.

But the Sixers?

I don't know if the Bucks, they're gonna have enough firepower to keep up.

To be honest with you, I just don't see the bucks being good enough.

But anybody else in the East and especially in the West, if you're the Lakers, if you're Denver, you're looking at the Nets and you're thinking that's a beatable team.

We locked down defensively.

We play them physical, and we know we've got enough stars that can keep up offensively.

This in a seven game Siri's, they still could be a beatable team.

They've got a lot of work to dio and Mawr pieces toe add, believe it or not to this group and and that's what that's what.

That's what I see and that's what I'm saying.

Like if you're gonna get him, you better get him now because next year it's gonna be written in stone.

You can write that in stone that they're going to get what they need to go, because they're going to go and get those pieces in.

The difference that they between this team in that Miami Heat team is they had opportunity, have a training camp and figure it out, and it still took a while to figure it out.

So they're gonna have to figure out their roles, accept their roles, figure out, and that just takes time in chemistry.

And you know that a good thing in the East, nobody's running away with the conference.

So I mean, I think they want to take them at the time.

I don't think I don't like the that Durant is playing 50 minutes.

I don't like Well, I like that about it.

It's hard to harden is getting in shape, right?

He's not coming off injury.

They're playing, they're playing him into shape.

Yeah, and Kyrie has got to play into shape to because he's missed seven games, been out for a while.

So that and they just need that.

They need the I love referencing Malcolm Gladwell here.

They need the 10,000 hours, right?

They need that time together on the floor going through it where it good times and bad times And just just dealing with it going through slumps going through.

Mistake's going through, you know, misunderstandings.

If I thought you were gonna zig when he zags like all that stuff is gonna have to happen.

And they've got to do it in real time because there aren't practice scrimmages and a training camp to do it.

I mean, that's just gonna happen right now.

Who's the catch and shoot guy, right?

Who's the guy?

Have all pics without the ball.

I'm saying, Out of the big three, Who's the guy that could be catching up?

Shooting kind of run off.

Okay, well, KD somebody has somebody has to be rip Hamilton.

Somebody's gotta be coming off staggered screens.

Pin downs.

Come up and get easy buckets.

It can't just be pick and roll all the downtime, Like again.

You I'm surprised that you focusing on offense.

You and I both know what has to happen.

They gotta get private.

Well, they've got to get out, but they gotta get grimy.

They've gotta have one of them has got to decide that I'm gonna I'm gonna play not dirty.

But I'm saying I'm gonna get dirty like somebody has to be the one that's gonna have that other side of them where it's a little more sandpaper because right now they're both guys that there, three guys that like to play skill and don't like to mix it up too much like they like to play just more of a loose ST Paul kind of game where you I still think you need a few people on that team that are that are willing Thio scrap.

And I don't know if they've got that element on the team.

They're missing that somebody's got to lead the way when it comes to floor Burns.

Well, that's like said, That's the concern you have about this group.

But is there?

One of them is willing to do it, cause it was always Chris Bosch with Miami.

Box was the guy that was willing to do the dirty to me.

It has to be hard for me because he's the one physically that could match up piece of one guy that can't get body underneath the post.

He's a guy That's the uninvited guests.

He's like the guy that they added to the group.

He spend guerrilla, right?

You know, some Pepper was already together.

He spent as they expect you could be the deejay, but what I'm saying, but we know that he's one of the better people, but he'll never get feature like that because he's the third person to the party.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, it's true.

Right out of these three, they're all used to being Alfa, right?

But e always worry about Kyra because he always gets hurt.

K d is coming off an injury, so I don't wanna push him defense.

Hey, stressed it.

So?

So the guy that's healthy and the guy that should be hungry for a championship, the one without the rain got e o E.

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