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Hey, how are you guys doing?

So Andrew, just kind of following you on social media. I feel like and you can correct me from wrong. I feel like you weren't a fan before you get to the draft of the deals that the new front office

the Wizards did to move, be ill and move for Zengus. Can you kind of sum up your thoughts on the deals?

Yeah, you know, it's a complicated spectrum of emotions right now because with this new era for the Wizards, I think relative to the last 10 years or so of the decisions that have been made by this team.

Certainly like the last five years where I felt like every year we were competing for ninth place.

Wizards fans should be ecstatic with the shift. And so I don't want to bring the party down too much.

But relative to some of the national people and local people who were acting like the past week of trades with some brilliant masterstroke, I'm a little bit more underwhelmed than the rest.

Like I just, they kicked off the new era by getting basically nothing from the first three trades that they made.

And the thing that kind of left me confused is there was nothing out there forcing them to do these deals now. And it sort of felt like with deal in particular, they let his agent treat it like free agency. And there was no attempt to go back to deal and say, look, you can give us five teams that you'll consider.

And we'll create a bidding war among those five teams that it was basically just like let Mark Mark Bartolstein do whatever he wants.

And so I think in the big picture to the team is moving in the right direction. But with the last week in particular, I mean, there's an alternate timeline. I wonder about where we trade Christap's porzingus, make it clear that we're rebuilding.

And then go back to be able and say, look, we're willing to move you if you're willing to work with us.

But if you're just going to wave your, if you're going to use your no trade clause to go to one team and one team only, and it's the Phoenix Sun, so have nothing to trade for us, then we're not going to move you.

It's a no trade clause. It's not a must trade clause. And for whatever reason, the Wizards didn't want to go that direction and negotiate it all.

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