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Is the reunion between Derrick Rose and Tom Thibodeau with the New York Knicks.

What are your thoughts on this?

I find it interesting, First of all, I don't know.

Will we have Bart?

Will we not have Bart that welcome to welcome to my world, By the way, he's check.

Engine light is constantly on with our show.

But to answer your question, though, uh, it is interesting to see how this is gonna fit.

We all know what he is.

Now.

He's, you know, he's a score now.

He still has always been a score, but limited minutes kind of score under 2025.

It will be the max for him.

I think I don't think he can play more than that, but he certainly can score.

This team is the best defensive team in the league, and they're one of the worst offensive teams in the league.

So they need offense.

He provides that it'll be off the bench and as I think, there'll be more moves to come.

But this is the very first very interesting first move that they made Alan.

Every time I watch the next game, I'm getting blitz with texts from friends and I feel the same way.

Emmanuel quickly.

It just feels like Wow way have it to a degree.

Does this hinder his growth by bringing Derrick Rose back to New York City, a city by the way he did disappear from this team last time.

He was here for a while and nobody knew where he waas d Rose did go back to Chicago, actually contemplated quitting the game for a while.

Uh, here, I think, the second time around.

He's got a lot of people he trusts with Tom Thibodeau.

Obviously, three times they've now been together on and Tom wanted him and then Leon Rose in West.

You know, he's known them since he's a teenager.

So if there's anything, at least he's got to trust you that I don't think he had the first time around here in New York, so I would think that he should be a little bit in a better place.

But when it comes to quickly, no, I actually think this is going to help him.

I actually think this now affords them the opportunity to move him into the starting lineup at some point because, you know he is a score and they lack scoring at the starting point guard position.

They need somebody that can do that.

He can.

Is he ready?

That's the question.

And can he be a playmaker?

That's the other question.

Right now.

He's trending right now as a Lou Williams type, which is a great type, tohave, but they hope he can do a lot Mawr, which is B'more of a creator and a guy that can run on offense.

He's still young.

It's still early, but obviously they love what they have in this player.

I mean, Alan, we talked about this a little bit because it looks like quickly, it's a really saving the draft for the Knicks.

As why are we seeing Maura Obey topping?

And how does he get on the on the court to justify his draft?

He kids on the court.

If Julius Randle ends up somewhere else, I don't think they expected Randall play like this.

He did.

You know he always put up numbers in his career, but he's a guy that you felt like was mostly high usage, high volume and and it didn't contribute Tau winning.

All that is out the window.

He's still high usage, still high volume and still scoring and putting up the numbers.

But he's also helping them win, and that's a huge part of this.

So he gets the bulk of the minutes.

I don't know if you know you wanna go forever with him as the main focal point of your offense, but because he's playing so well, it keeps obey topping from getting the the extra minutes that you would expect a top 10 pick would get on a team that is under 500.

But I'll tell you what, though, when he does play, you see there's something there defensively.

He's got a lot to learn, but I still think there's something for him here.

It's just a matter of time.

Let's go to the team.

Across the East River in the Brooklyn Nets, they picked up a huge additional rotational peace and Noah valet, uh, you know, a bigger player to help them with no real pellet pell to give them sides right?

That's what they need download.

Is this enough to get them over the hump?

In your opinion, think they're already over the hump.

J E.

I didn't think they needed to do anything.

I feel like it's so overstated that some people want to make this a case that they have to get this and they have to get that.

All they have to do is get on a string defensively.

They they don't need to rebound.

They shoot so well.

That stuff is so overrated, like we're trying to find something wrong with the Nets.

There's nothing wrong with them and you don't know of only brings.

He brings a guy that can stretch.

He brings some toughness.

He can play.

He's not going to come in like he's not going to give you Charles Oakley.

You know, some people think that's what the That's what the Nets need.

I just think they need to get it right defensively as a as a five man unit.

Their problem is that point of attack defensively.

That's their problem.

The problem is it in the back end.

So I just feel like okay, it's a couple of pieces.

They add to the team, give him some depth in the front court, a little bit toughness and I like I like Vaughan Lee a lot as a player, but I just feel like J.

We're almost trying to find something wrong with them, where I feel like when we get to the playoffs, the wrong.

The only only wrong you'll have is how do you guard all three of them?

Because when it's winning time, I imagine they'll all be locked in.

They just gotta get.

I gotta figure out who they are Defensively.

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