Hello and welcome to the hoose collective podcast. We fuck about the NBA, which we're doing on Sunday evening. Joining us from Las Vegas, Nevada where he is still at the team USA training camp. I have the World Cup. They play their lone US exhibition on Monday night against Puerto Rico in Vegas. Tim Bond temps. Hello, guys. You are earning your salary out there this week.

Many stories. I try. I'll try a rarity, a rarity. Also earning his salary. Joining us from Dallas, Texas. It's been McMahon.

Howdy partners. How you boys doing? We're doing great. How are you doing? And I'm just hanging in there, hanging in there.

The IT department's on a business trip. So trying to keep the house from burning down and the good news is there ain't like I'm cooking anything. So probably won't be too big of a problem.

There's other. That's the list of things you're not doing at the moment. He's doing one thing though. Yes he is.

All right. So Bond temps, you've filed numerous stories from Team USA. There's been a lot of interesting things happening. The one that I read with great interest, however, above all the others was not even about Team USA roster. That was the story that you wrote.

After watching the select team play the senior team, I guess we'll call it. They let you see a couple of scrimmages. I think the second day of practice.

And you took away something from that and wrote about it. What was that?

The Kate Cunningham is back and looks really good. And I think we talked on the last spot about young players across the league.

And we didn't talk about Cade for good reason. He only played 12 games last year. He had to stress fracture in his leg, but he had surgery on cost of basically the entire season.

But being out here at Team USA camp, seeing him both Friday and Saturday in the scrimmages that the select team played against the senior national team. He looked great and looked like a guy that could have easily been on the senior national team.

But if not for the fact that he was dealing with the stress fracture, he hadn't played all last year. And I think they wanted to make sure he ramped up properly for the season.

But they had him in a Luca Doncic type role on Friday during the scrimmages. You know, the select team is basically here to mimic what the opposition is going to do during the tournament.

Kate Cunningham is essentially the same size as Luca. They had him playing the same way. And he was tearing Team USA apart.

He was getting Jaylen Brunson in the post doing whatever he wanted. He was hitting Jaylen Durin on duck in passes for laps and dunks. He was able to get wherever he wanted on the court.

And that was the case on Saturday, even when the senior national team throttle the select team in the scrimmages, which is sort of how this thing usually goes to select team plays well the first day and the national team comes back and takes care of business the second day.

But thought Kate looked really good. And if I'm a pistons fan, seeing him bulked up, but not in a heavy way, like just bigger and stronger and getting where he wanted on the court, I think he's got a chance to have a really nice year for them this year.

And it was just a reminder that this guy who was sort of out of our mind this past year, because he wasn't on the court is still very much in play and Detroit.

And I think it's got a chance to be very, very good.

Yeah, it's interesting. The Luca thing because that was the I'm going to say very optimistic comp for him coming out of college, just because you're talking about, you know, obviously a really big point guard.

I mean, he's a he's a small forward, even power forward sized guy like Luca, who is going to have the ball in his hands is going to play the point.

I think it's probably a bit much to think that he's going to, you know, be a guy who can average 39 and 9 like we've seen Luca do.

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