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Oh, it's basketball. Very good. Always good. You're round. There's always something to talk about. And I, you know, there's no person that I'd rather talk about basketball with than Jonathan Charx. John, how are you doing? I'm not doing as well as you with your beautiful tie. I sure I'll tell you that. Yeah, tie. I sure.

Blue J's hat. I'm kind of, I got it. It's Groovy and funky over here. This is upside high, by the way. My name is Jay Kyle man. If you want to just call me Kyle man, you can do that as well.

This is a show where we talk about the youth movement in the basketball world on all fronts and the front that's most interesting to us at this time of the year is the NBA draft.

We're going to be talking about a specific player group and a portion of the draft like in the draft order before we do that. John really quickly. Have you been watching the finals? Did you have any quick kind of fly by thoughts on that?

I mean, of course, you know, we're running running low on basketball Kyle. We got to make the most for this long off season. You know, got to store away all these basketball games, start memory.

Yeah, well, maximum two games left. We got game six. I watched game five with our esteemed podcast guy been cruise the other night. I was the good luck charm. I talked all through the game. I'm sure that they love that because I didn't have a rooting interest. I was that guy, you know, are you like that whenever you're rooting for Texas?

Like do you need to be around people who have the same interest level as you? You know what I mean? Because if it's a big game, if there's somebody next to me that's just talking about God knows what during the game, I, I have considered strangling those people in the past. Are you are you picky about your like viewing experience for your team?

And we're talking about a championship. Yeah, I guess is serious business for sure. Like the season first couple rounds the playoffs, you know, adults, but I'm talking about a championship.

Right, I'm pretty picky as well. We're going to mainly focus on the draft here. You can get this all kinds of incredible finals coverage. I know we've had people up there at the games.

Bills been at the games and done some really incredible vulnerable post game shows. Kudos to him for doing that. I don't know I would have done that every single one of them brought back some painful memories of bad losses in my lifetime.

But let's let's focus on the draft today. So we want to talk about the forwards basically at the top this year we've kind of had big. This is kind of a big big forwards who can create.

How would you describe is their commonality between the top three guys we're not going to go into into depth, but it seems like at the top that that type of player is what is being valued the highest in this draft.

Yeah, we're just talking this draft is a very unusual level of skilled six foot 10 plus players who kind of been highly viewed this whole time obviously, Chech of Ari and Paulo.

And then so we've got we've gone through them a lot. You know, pod last week about the two guards the most upside up.

J and I V and Shane sharp and now I'm moving more into the forwards and this is kind of I think where the draft gets really, really interesting kind of guys being projected into the five six seven 10 later lottery range.

Because I was going over the last few like if you take out 2021 look at six through 10 in the last couple drafts. There's some absolute crime scenes happening. It's unbelievable some of the level of I guess the poor play that's in the late lottery a lot of times what's your favorite chit-chow six through 10 range. Do you have one that's particularly because I I'm looking at 2019 and you're going.

Jared culvert Kobe White Jackson Hayes really hot summer a cam reddish. I mean that's tough. There's still hope for Jackson. I mean Jackson has as young number one and has shown a lot of glimmers that have people really interested.

I know his upside but the other guys yeah absolutely red is is sort of a reclamation project at this point so is culvert Kobe White came on a little bit really similar.

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