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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Cvinjurylaw dot Com. That's Cvinjurylaw dot Com. As we get
(00:40):
you all ready for a lot of going on this weekend.
Panthers and Rams are count on the kickoff at ten
o'clock on Sunday for the Panthers and the Rams. Of course,
we also have Hornets basketball tonight on our air six
thirty pre Games, seven thirty tip time as the Hornets
take on the Chicago Bulls final Emirates NBA Cup game.
For the Hornets, who are basically eliminated from coppet or
(01:00):
contention in that competition, will find out when the two
games that they are going to play in place of
any knockout stage games will happen here and occur over here.
Of course, over the next couple of days. But as
we get ready for tonight, team has lost seven in
a row. We'll get the pulse of what's going on
in buzz Nation with our good friend Rod Boon, who
(01:20):
joins us from the Charlott Observer and joins us on
your home for the Hornet Sports Rady on ninety two
seven WFNZ.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
What's going on, Rod, Hope you had a good Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
What's happened? Well? How are you doing? Man?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
That's good man, everything's good here.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Unfortunately, nothing over at the hive is going as well
as we thought that would be four and fourteen is
the record. I understand that we all kind of looked
at this as still part of a slow build, but
I guess how much has it looked disfunctional, disconcerting, unappetizing.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How would you characterize the start for the Hornets?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I think all of the above you pretty much hit
on all the adjectives trying to describe what's happened with
the team right now, because you go from a two
and one start to as you mentioned, being four and fourteen.
I mean, if you can do the math for those
who are myself like a math minor, that's two and
twelve man excuse me, two, two and thirteen of your
last few games here. So it's not been very advertising
(02:17):
in terms of just thinking that you're going to have
a team that's going to be in contention for we
minimum a playing spot this year. You know, when you
have the NBA's longest playoff drought, that's going to be
a decade at this point, let things change. It just
felt like it was gonna be a little bit of
a different atmosphere this year. But over the last two
(02:38):
weeks just a raveled with injuries. As we've known, the
last couple of years has been the man Anchillies heel
and it just hasn't gone well for them, and it's
been the obviously just disappointing because you figure out this
team has enough talent to compete each night, but when
you go out there and get beat by the digits
in your you know, a cup game leading to Thanksgiving weekend,
(02:59):
it was not a good look for the Honus.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
On Wednesday, they've gotten Brandon and LaMelo back, but both
of them have been on minutes restrictions. Brandon looked good
the other night, LaMelo unfortunately has not looked good. Do
you feel like these things are becoming somewhat limiting for
getting themselves back into a flow. Or do you feel
like it's just kind of this is what the organization
(03:21):
is laid out and they have to deal with it.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I think the main thing is it's not an excuse
because we know that your professionals. At some point you
have to go out there and just play bet at
least give effort if you don't win games. But when
you look at this roster, essentially for the outside of
the first game and quarter when b Miller was out there,
(03:44):
they haven't really been the whole other than the last
game or two. So that being the case, you have
to have practice time, You have to have time on
the court together figure out who does what best win.
And when the guys like Ben and Miller were out,
the mellow was out, it's like you had a people
step up in their place. But when those guys come
(04:05):
back and know your main stars, you have to figure
out how you know, five guys who essentially can score
the basketball, how can they all share it and be effective?
And until they figure it out, it's going to be
an issue. And right now you have to help, you know,
just just actually see it in game action because they
haven't been able to do it in practice time. At
this point in season, you're cant get much time to
(04:27):
do things off the court, so it's got to either
be in shoot around actually game actually you actually go
out there and improve yourself as so as you can
be a better team moving forward.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
LaMelo Ball has, as I mentioned, not looked the part
really at any point of this season other than very
much early before he got hurt, and then since he's
been back.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
His shooting has been inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
He's been turning the basketball over and like we also
said just previously, he's been limited to around twenty six
twenty seven to twenty eight minutes per contest. How concerned
about his productivity are you?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's definitely concerning right now because he had a really
good start to the season and then he missed those
five games, came back for a game, said I look
back to back, so he makes six six games and
then a couple of weeks there. So to me, he
hasn't got his rhythm back since I'm not sure, but
there's just a health thing or just not being the
flow because you haven't had the same flow you were
(05:20):
into the preseason and training camp everything, But right now
you have to be concerned because he's, let's be honest,
he's the engine for this team. Whether or not they
win with at him, at sometime it becomes irrelevant because
when he's on the court, you have to win with
him as so as you can actually go out there
be a competitive team and be a playoff team with LaMelo.
(05:41):
So until they can show they can do that, that's
obviously a major problem. And the last five games, six
games or so since he's come back from injury, he
hasn't been himself and he had twenty points at least
just once in that stretch, which we know is about liking.
You mentioned turnovers, and then after the game, when Charles
Lewis asked about a specific you mentioned the teammate overall
(06:02):
is playing better at defense. So I think Dallas can
includes the mellow if you want to see a better
affor for him on that side of the court. Until
you get that going forward from everybody, the Hornets aren't
going to win games.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And in the seventeen he's played, at least, when it
comes down to it, sixteen games he's played, he's only
had twenty or more in five of his opportunities. So
from that's percent from these eleven games, I should say
he's played. He's only gone over twenty points in those
six opportunities in that regard, so definitely not what we
are used to seeing from LaMelo ball. Start with Rod
(06:34):
Boone from the Charlotte Observer. Of course, we're a week
or move Rod from all the kerfluffles, surrounded by the
kellieco report and obviously the quashing by not only LaMelo
but by Charles Lee of anything involving that report being
somewhat true. But it does happen to at least perpetuate
a larger discussion surrounding Lamelow do you believe that his
(06:56):
future is still tied to the Hornet's long term or
do you feel like they're looking for a way out.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I don't think anybody has tied for the Honer's long term,
other than maybe a couple of players like maybe Brendan
Miller in some regard. Because LaMelo, the Hornets obviously in him.
I think they wanted it to work. I think the
Melo wants to be here. I don't think he really
wants to go anywhere. I'll be honest with you, I'm
not sure his regard of why he would want to
because you know, I think this market for him is
(07:23):
kind of like what he enjoys, what he likes. So
they have to get to be able to work. And
when you have your highest paid player and he's not
able to get you to the promised land, per se,
you have to be able to have a discussion with
yourself honestly and figure out the best move for both
sides is to move on. So we'll see if it happens.
(07:45):
I think in this business cover as long as I have,
I have never never say never, because even you think
somebody can get traded aka Luca, they still are moved.
So with LaMelo, I don't think they're trying to act
get him out of here tomorrow. But then if things
keep going in this direction, at some point you got
to look at both sides and say, what's the best
(08:05):
long term move for us is to try for one
more year? Was the part ways and until the Wholeness
actually have the team healthy on the court for a
number of games, they don't have the real true answer
about how this team should be built moving forward. If
LaMelo is the guy, you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Don't think Charles Lee's in trouble, do you.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I don't think so, man. I think I see stuff
out there on social media about people saying fired Charles
Lee and he should be out of here. I mean,
you got to really think about that from a perspective.
This new ownership group bought in Jeff Peterson to run
the organization, and they, in concert with Jeff Peterson, bought
in Charles Lee. So you're not just going to all
(08:44):
of a sudden say, after a year and change, hey,
this guy ain't the man for the team anymore. He's
out of here. That's not happening. Man. They as ownership
and as new you know, president of basketball operations, they
essentially saying he's our guy. So so to me, Charles
Lee is not going anywhere. He's at least have been
another year minimum, in my mind, to kind of figure
(09:05):
out how to get it going in the right direction
and then maybe kind of say, okay to get to
the next level. Is he the guy we need leading
our team? But right now I don't see him going
anywhere because these guys are joined at the hit. He's
known Jeff Peterson for a while and they talk about
how they're aligned all the time. I don't see Jeff,
you know Chrunkley being in trouble at all.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Rob boon CHERLD observed joining us here on Sports Reready
on ninety two seven WFNZ. I want to ask you
about the front court because I think we saw basically
in the game against the next this was a matchup
nightmare for them. They ended up going a lot of
the match up with you know, some of the four
starters and see on look and kind of going without
a big after Musa got foul trouble, and obviously they
(09:48):
didn't want to completely push Kalkbrenner out there, you know,
first game back after the ankle injury, So it was
something where they didn't want to go further into the
bench and tax Mason. Which makes me ask you, you know,
where do you feel like maybe their trust is a
cal Brenner because it seems like after a good start,
it's gotta tapered off a little bit.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well, he's a rookie, you gotta remember that. I mean,
just eighty one games and he's still trying to figure
out how to play back to back. So I spoke
to him a couple of days ago just about it,
and just these are the kind of things as a
rookie you trying to figure out when you come from college,
just a really different game. God, the more physical, whether
there's you're when you're college or high school. Maybe you're
just better than a guy who you're guarding up against
(10:28):
and going up against. So if you're better than him,
you're gonna go out there and just dominate without even trying,
maybe as hard as you have to. In the pros,
it's different. Everybody as good as you are, not better,
and nine time out of ten, you're gonna have nights
where you struggle and maybe you're shot or something is
going the right way. You got to figure out how
to still help the team. So I'm not really worried
about Ryan. I still think the long term is fine
(10:49):
for this team. He's just a rookie, man, you gotta
remember that, and he's playing a lot of minutes. He's
also being after a lot of stuff for team. That's
again being banged up. If the team was healthy as normal,
number five option minimum. But when you have to go
out there and do more things because you know you
miss him too, your top guys, that's when you see
(11:11):
rookie mistakes and rookie flaw So I'm not worried about
Ryan whatsoever. The team is still confident in him. I
think anything else, he's just again playing a lot of
minutes and just a rookie.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I feel like I'm the last person in town who
stands for Miles Bridges on court basketball prowess because more
than you mentioned social media, I feel like people are
wanting Miles Bridges out of town yesterday for various reasons.
Do you feel like his long I went in long
term viability Maybe isn't the right way to phrase this,
but do you feel like he still has a presence
(11:42):
on this team that is valuable?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I do personally because I'm like you, you know, I
see obviously as well sometime the groundswell of people saying,
you know that Miles isn't this, Miles of this and
Miles of that, and he shouldn't be heated game off
my team. It's like, it's crazy to me because he's
one of a few people I've heard in my eight
years covers team who says repeatedly, I don't want to
(12:08):
go anywhere, like, why would you want to get rid
of somebody who's a consistent? Essentially, it could be a
third or fourth option. We've got to be number one
or two guy on a team. He's gonna struggle because
he's playing a power forward spot against people that usually
are better than him. Not time out of ten, he's
got to regarded our team's best player sometimes. So I
think Miles is fine. To me, he's part of the
(12:31):
people you want here because you want people to actually
again be in a certain spot to show that you
want to get this thing going in the right direction.
So I'm with you. Maybe we're just one of the
last two guys left because we've been on our team
for a while, But I think Miles still has value
on this team. It's just more about again has to
(12:52):
be in the right spot. You can't. I think it's
that one thing about basketball is it's almost in those
sports where you can't have guys move up a seat
all the time a you're going to actually win and
be a good team because the number one, two and
three and four guys are there for a reason. The
number six seven guys gotta be the number one, two
and three and four, you're gonna have problems, man. So
(13:14):
to me, that's part of the thing also with Miles
is if he's in this normal slot, be like the third, fourth,
fifth option out there. He's fine, just don't have him
try to do too much. And that's when it become
a little bit of a there's she read time.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'll ask you this one on the way out because
of the fact that I feel like I have to
ask you a continental question that's legally required when it
comes to talking to the Hornets now. But but what
seat do you feel like he occupies and how many
more seats do you feel like he can go up
based on his rookie performance.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Well, from my perspective, again, I don't have time to
watch everybody play, so I don't have a really good
feel for all the rookies of the entire class, just
from the top few guys I've seen. From what I've
seen obviously from the guys leaving the team and scoring
almost every night, it feels like and that what's not
supposed to be the case. We just talked to about that.
In my mind, his seat is like number two or
(14:04):
three on the team, like at the highest level when
you have Lamello and Brendan Miller out there, So when
those guys are hurt and he's playing the level he
is when Brendon Miller and Lamello can get healthy, maybe
get back to the level they were at the first
three games of the season. If you have come out
there scoring twenty plus points a game, to me, the
(14:26):
guy is rookie of the year, you know. Right now,
I have him as my number one rookie of the
year in terms of the bowling because I just I
get a little bit biased right now. I don't usually
go that route because I see guys all the time,
but from what I've seen from him, he's really really productive.
I think that the Hornts have a really good fine
at him. You know. They sometimes in these drafts you
(14:48):
wish that you got the number one, two, three, four player,
number five, maybebe one of the top three of this
class when it's all said done, if not top two.
So the Hornets have a pretty good gym Konker Nipple,
and it's up to them to make sure that they
just keep having in the right direction in terms of
developing the right way and assume that he's not trying
to do too much out there in the basketball court.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Seven thirty to night, Hornets and the Bulls final NBA
Cup game for Charlotte were on the air at six
point thirty with the coverage there, Rod Boo, and I
know you have some family in town. I know you
want to get us some more, more time with them.
Appreciate you squeezing it's mints with us man. Appreciate you.
I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
You gott it will anytime, buddy,
You were listening to The Kyle Bailey Show powered by
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Happy Black Friday to you and yours. It is the
Kyle Bailey Show Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ,
coming to you from the Chandler Volta Studios and Chandler
Volta Injury Lawyers sponsoring our building. One call that's all
Cvinjurylaw dot Com. That's Cvinjurylaw dot Com. As we get
(00:40):
you all ready for a lot of going on this weekend.
Panthers and Rams are count on the kickoff at ten
o'clock on Sunday for the Panthers and the Rams. Of course,
we also have Hornets basketball tonight on our air six
thirty pre Games, seven thirty tip time as the Hornets
take on the Chicago Bulls final Emirates NBA Cup game.
For the Hornets, who are basically eliminated from coppet or
(01:00):
contention in that competition, will find out when the two
games that they are going to play in place of
any knockout stage games will happen here and occur over here.
Of course, over the next couple of days. But as
we get ready for tonight, team has lost seven in
a row. We'll get the pulse of what's going on
in buzz Nation with our good friend Rod Boon, who
(01:20):
joins us from the Charlott Observer and joins us on
your home for the Hornet Sports Rady on ninety two
seven WFNZ.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
What's going on, Rod, Hope you had a good Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
What's happened? Well? How are you doing? Man?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
That's good man, everything's good here.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Unfortunately, nothing over at the hive is going as well
as we thought that would be four and fourteen is
the record. I understand that we all kind of looked
at this as still part of a slow build, but
I guess how much has it looked disfunctional, disconcerting, unappetizing.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How would you characterize the start for the Hornets?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I think all of the above you pretty much hit
on all the adjectives trying to describe what's happened with
the team right now, because you go from a two
and one start to as you mentioned, being four and fourteen.
I mean, if you can do the math for those
who are myself like a math minor, that's two and
twelve man excuse me, two, two and thirteen of your
last few games here. So it's not been very advertising
(02:17):
in terms of just thinking that you're going to have
a team that's going to be in contention for we
minimum a playing spot this year. You know, when you
have the NBA's longest playoff drought, that's going to be
a decade at this point, let things change. It just
felt like it was gonna be a little bit of
a different atmosphere this year. But over the last two
(02:38):
weeks just a raveled with injuries. As we've known, the
last couple of years has been the man Anchillies heel
and it just hasn't gone well for them, and it's
been the obviously just disappointing because you figure out this
team has enough talent to compete each night, but when
you go out there and get beat by the digits
in your you know, a cup game leading to Thanksgiving weekend,
(02:59):
it was not a good look for the Honus.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
On Wednesday, they've gotten Brandon and LaMelo back, but both
of them have been on minutes restrictions. Brandon looked good
the other night, LaMelo unfortunately has not looked good. Do
you feel like these things are becoming somewhat limiting for
getting themselves back into a flow. Or do you feel
like it's just kind of this is what the organization
(03:21):
is laid out and they have to deal with it.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I think the main thing is it's not an excuse
because we know that your professionals. At some point you
have to go out there and just play bet at
least give effort if you don't win games. But when
you look at this roster, essentially for the outside of
the first game and quarter when b Miller was out there,
(03:44):
they haven't really been the whole other than the last
game or two. So that being the case, you have
to have practice time, You have to have time on
the court together figure out who does what best win.
And when the guys like Ben and Miller were out,
the mellow was out, it's like you had a people
step up in their place. But when those guys come
(04:05):
back and know your main stars, you have to figure
out how you know, five guys who essentially can score
the basketball, how can they all share it and be effective?
And until they figure it out, it's going to be
an issue. And right now you have to help, you know,
just just actually see it in game action because they
haven't been able to do it in practice time. At
this point in season, you're cant get much time to
(04:27):
do things off the court, so it's got to either
be in shoot around actually game actually you actually go
out there and improve yourself as so as you can
be a better team moving forward.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
LaMelo Ball has, as I mentioned, not looked the part
really at any point of this season other than very
much early before he got hurt, and then since he's
been back.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
His shooting has been inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
He's been turning the basketball over and like we also
said just previously, he's been limited to around twenty six
twenty seven to twenty eight minutes per contest. How concerned
about his productivity are you?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's definitely concerning right now because he had a really
good start to the season and then he missed those
five games, came back for a game, said I look
back to back, so he makes six six games and
then a couple of weeks there. So to me, he
hasn't got his rhythm back since I'm not sure, but
there's just a health thing or just not being the
flow because you haven't had the same flow you were
(05:20):
into the preseason and training camp everything, But right now
you have to be concerned because he's, let's be honest,
he's the engine for this team. Whether or not they
win with at him, at sometime it becomes irrelevant because
when he's on the court, you have to win with
him as so as you can actually go out there
be a competitive team and be a playoff team with LaMelo.
(05:41):
So until they can show they can do that, that's
obviously a major problem. And the last five games, six
games or so since he's come back from injury, he
hasn't been himself and he had twenty points at least
just once in that stretch, which we know is about liking.
You mentioned turnovers, and then after the game, when Charles
Lewis asked about a specific you mentioned the teammate overall
(06:02):
is playing better at defense. So I think Dallas can
includes the mellow if you want to see a better
affor for him on that side of the court. Until
you get that going forward from everybody, the Hornets aren't
going to win games.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And in the seventeen he's played, at least, when it
comes down to it, sixteen games he's played, he's only
had twenty or more in five of his opportunities. So
from that's percent from these eleven games, I should say
he's played. He's only gone over twenty points in those
six opportunities in that regard, so definitely not what we
are used to seeing from LaMelo ball. Start with Rod
(06:34):
Boone from the Charlotte Observer. Of course, we're a week
or move Rod from all the kerfluffles, surrounded by the
kellieco report and obviously the quashing by not only LaMelo
but by Charles Lee of anything involving that report being
somewhat true. But it does happen to at least perpetuate
a larger discussion surrounding Lamelow do you believe that his
(06:56):
future is still tied to the Hornet's long term or
do you feel like they're looking for a way out.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I don't think anybody has tied for the Honer's long term,
other than maybe a couple of players like maybe Brendan
Miller in some regard. Because LaMelo, the Hornets obviously in him.
I think they wanted it to work. I think the
Melo wants to be here. I don't think he really
wants to go anywhere. I'll be honest with you, I'm
not sure his regard of why he would want to
because you know, I think this market for him is
(07:23):
kind of like what he enjoys, what he likes. So
they have to get to be able to work. And
when you have your highest paid player and he's not
able to get you to the promised land, per se,
you have to be able to have a discussion with
yourself honestly and figure out the best move for both
sides is to move on. So we'll see if it happens.
(07:45):
I think in this business cover as long as I have,
I have never never say never, because even you think
somebody can get traded aka Luca, they still are moved.
So with LaMelo, I don't think they're trying to act
get him out of here tomorrow. But then if things
keep going in this direction, at some point you got
to look at both sides and say, what's the best
(08:05):
long term move for us is to try for one
more year? Was the part ways and until the Wholeness
actually have the team healthy on the court for a
number of games, they don't have the real true answer
about how this team should be built moving forward. If
LaMelo is the guy, you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Don't think Charles Lee's in trouble, do you.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I don't think so, man. I think I see stuff
out there on social media about people saying fired Charles
Lee and he should be out of here. I mean,
you got to really think about that from a perspective.
This new ownership group bought in Jeff Peterson to run
the organization, and they, in concert with Jeff Peterson, bought
in Charles Lee. So you're not just going to all
(08:44):
of a sudden say, after a year and change, hey,
this guy ain't the man for the team anymore. He's
out of here. That's not happening. Man. They as ownership
and as new you know, president of basketball operations, they
essentially saying he's our guy. So so to me, Charles
Lee is not going anywhere. He's at least have been
another year minimum, in my mind, to kind of figure
(09:05):
out how to get it going in the right direction
and then maybe kind of say, okay to get to
the next level. Is he the guy we need leading
our team? But right now I don't see him going
anywhere because these guys are joined at the hit. He's
known Jeff Peterson for a while and they talk about
how they're aligned all the time. I don't see Jeff,
you know Chrunkley being in trouble at all.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Rob boon CHERLD observed joining us here on Sports Reready
on ninety two seven WFNZ. I want to ask you
about the front court because I think we saw basically
in the game against the next this was a matchup
nightmare for them. They ended up going a lot of
the match up with you know, some of the four
starters and see on look and kind of going without
a big after Musa got foul trouble, and obviously they
(09:48):
didn't want to completely push Kalkbrenner out there, you know,
first game back after the ankle injury, So it was
something where they didn't want to go further into the
bench and tax Mason. Which makes me ask you, you know,
where do you feel like maybe their trust is a
cal Brenner because it seems like after a good start,
it's gotta tapered off a little bit.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well, he's a rookie, you gotta remember that. I mean,
just eighty one games and he's still trying to figure
out how to play back to back. So I spoke
to him a couple of days ago just about it,
and just these are the kind of things as a
rookie you trying to figure out when you come from college,
just a really different game. God, the more physical, whether
there's you're when you're college or high school. Maybe you're
just better than a guy who you're guarding up against
(10:28):
and going up against. So if you're better than him,
you're gonna go out there and just dominate without even trying,
maybe as hard as you have to. In the pros,
it's different. Everybody as good as you are, not better,
and nine time out of ten, you're gonna have nights
where you struggle and maybe you're shot or something is
going the right way. You got to figure out how
to still help the team. So I'm not really worried
about Ryan. I still think the long term is fine
(10:49):
for this team. He's just a rookie, man, you gotta
remember that, and he's playing a lot of minutes. He's
also being after a lot of stuff for team. That's
again being banged up. If the team was healthy as normal,
number five option minimum. But when you have to go
out there and do more things because you know you
miss him too, your top guys, that's when you see
(11:11):
rookie mistakes and rookie flaw So I'm not worried about
Ryan whatsoever. The team is still confident in him. I
think anything else, he's just again playing a lot of
minutes and just a rookie.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I feel like I'm the last person in town who
stands for Miles Bridges on court basketball prowess because more
than you mentioned social media, I feel like people are
wanting Miles Bridges out of town yesterday for various reasons.
Do you feel like his long I went in long
term viability Maybe isn't the right way to phrase this,
but do you feel like he still has a presence
(11:42):
on this team that is valuable?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I do personally because I'm like you, you know, I
see obviously as well sometime the groundswell of people saying,
you know that Miles isn't this, Miles of this and
Miles of that, and he shouldn't be heated game off
my team. It's like, it's crazy to me because he's
one of a few people I've heard in my eight
years covers team who says repeatedly, I don't want to
(12:08):
go anywhere, like, why would you want to get rid
of somebody who's a consistent? Essentially, it could be a
third or fourth option. We've got to be number one
or two guy on a team. He's gonna struggle because
he's playing a power forward spot against people that usually
are better than him. Not time out of ten, he's
got to regarded our team's best player sometimes. So I
think Miles is fine. To me, he's part of the
(12:31):
people you want here because you want people to actually
again be in a certain spot to show that you
want to get this thing going in the right direction.
So I'm with you. Maybe we're just one of the
last two guys left because we've been on our team
for a while, But I think Miles still has value
on this team. It's just more about again has to
(12:52):
be in the right spot. You can't. I think it's
that one thing about basketball is it's almost in those
sports where you can't have guys move up a seat
all the time a you're going to actually win and
be a good team because the number one, two and
three and four guys are there for a reason. The
number six seven guys gotta be the number one, two
and three and four, you're gonna have problems, man. So
(13:14):
to me, that's part of the thing also with Miles
is if he's in this normal slot, be like the third, fourth,
fifth option out there. He's fine, just don't have him
try to do too much. And that's when it become
a little bit of a there's she read time.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'll ask you this one on the way out because
of the fact that I feel like I have to
ask you a continental question that's legally required when it
comes to talking to the Hornets now. But but what
seat do you feel like he occupies and how many
more seats do you feel like he can go up
based on his rookie performance.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Well, from my perspective, again, I don't have time to
watch everybody play, so I don't have a really good
feel for all the rookies of the entire class, just
from the top few guys I've seen. From what I've
seen obviously from the guys leaving the team and scoring
almost every night, it feels like and that what's not
supposed to be the case. We just talked to about that.
In my mind, his seat is like number two or
(14:04):
three on the team, like at the highest level when
you have Lamello and Brendan Miller out there, So when
those guys are hurt and he's playing the level he
is when Brendon Miller and Lamello can get healthy, maybe
get back to the level they were at the first
three games of the season. If you have come out
there scoring twenty plus points a game, to me, the
(14:26):
guy is rookie of the year, you know. Right now,
I have him as my number one rookie of the
year in terms of the bowling because I just I
get a little bit biased right now. I don't usually
go that route because I see guys all the time,
but from what I've seen from him, he's really really productive.
I think that the Hornts have a really good fine
at him. You know. They sometimes in these drafts you
(14:48):
wish that you got the number one, two, three, four player,
number five, maybebe one of the top three of this
class when it's all said done, if not top two.
So the Hornets have a pretty good gym Konker Nipple,
and it's up to them to make sure that they
just keep having in the right direction in terms of
developing the right way and assume that he's not trying
to do too much out there in the basketball court.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Seven thirty to night, Hornets and the Bulls final NBA
Cup game for Charlotte were on the air at six
point thirty with the coverage there, Rod Boo, and I
know you have some family in town. I know you
want to get us some more, more time with them.
Appreciate you squeezing it's mints with us man. Appreciate you.
I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
You gott it will anytime, buddy,
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