Tim Legler

And the metrics pointed out the data shows them that that stuff matters in terms of attrition over the course of a game, right?

and pressuring up on these guys, particularly guys that are constantly initiating and always have the ball first in the backcourt.

It's going to, it's going to affect guys less.

If you have a secondary ball handler that could do that at a high level, or if just these are some guys, you know, that are really high level players, they'll, they'll run up the floor without the ball, you know, a good amount throughout the game.

And then they get into action from there.

But there are guys in this league, if they're on the floor constantly,

it's almost always in their hands coming up to court, particularly after made baskets or dead balls.

And they're seeing on film and just the numbers bear out, it matters over the course of a game and it wears guys down a little bit.

In the case of Cooper Flagg, the thing that I really loved about him when I saw him in Vegas...

And I know he wasn't playing against NBA rotational players for the most part, but he was able to handle the ball against smaller, much quicker players who could beat him to the spot, but he didn't have any problem manipulating the ball up the floor against that.

And that really stood out to me.

Like, man, I didn't know he had that kind of command of his handle where he was not affected by the pressure of some of these guys that were in that 6'4", 6'5 range that were really quick picking him up.

Didn't seem to faze him at all.

I agree with you, Bill.

I think it's too much to ask out of the gate for a guy that's trying to find his confidence as a player at this league, a lot of pressure, a lot of eyes on them to now say, okay, can you also please like help facilitate and coordinate and orchestrate where guys are going to be and get guys shots?

It's not that natural to them.

There's a big difference between being a ball handling forward and

and a point guard.

Those are two entirely different things.

So when I got D'Angelo Russell, I said, hey, this is a perfect pickup to buy time until Kyrie comes back.