Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back today, kind of a follow-up to my latest YouTube video on the Thinking Basketball YouTube channel,

and that was about Devon Booker.

And what happened is I was making the video about Devon Booker is I ventured into this very nuanced sort of very murky and difficult space of young talented

scores and offensive players who live on

just bad teams.

Just there isn't a lot of great talent around these guys.

These are teams winning, you know, 20 or 30 games a year,

tops.

And of course, the offenses aren't very good either.

So it's not like you have these situations where guys are on

formidable offenses.

Maybe think the Wizards with Arenas and Karan Butler and Jamison, or when Milwaukee had Sam

Cassell and Ray Allen and Glen Robinson.

It's not situations like that that are challenging

because those situations there's sort of a hierarchy where we can see okay like

maybe Jayland Brown or Jason Tatum with the Celtics recently you can see where

those guys fit on higher quality teams. The challenging exercise is players like

Booker who live on teams where sometimes the surrounding talent

involves replacement level players.

The structure isn't crystallized,

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