Welcome on to a Friday edition of Hollinger and Duncan here from the great city of Utah,

Shah Dirt Novitsky. And so, John, you ready to do a good hour here on Hornets Jazz from last night?

Yeah, let's break it all down. You know, let's really get into the nuances of J.T. Thor's pull-up game.

Well, thankfully, J.T. Thor is no longer in the rotation, nor is Bryce McGowan's, nor is Nick Smith,

Jr. They have actual guys who at least used to be NBA players now in their rotation. They won four

in a row. Four in a row. Break up the hornets. I know, I know.

But sadly, perhaps a topic for dunked on rather than Holland June Duncan because we need

to discuss coach rankings here. And let's begin by talking about the criteria we use to evaluate

coaches, John? Yeah.

I think at the top level especially, you know, the ability to make adjustments and win playoff series and the games that matter the most, I think that's a big deal.

But I also think the ability to develop players and improve them during the course of the

season, the ability to not just make tactical

adjustments, but have commanded the locker room, get guys to play hard. I mean, it's a tougher thing

for us to see. But having been on the inside, like, it's a huge part of what a coach does, is just

get everybody on the same page and playing to their kind of maximal level.

And obviously strategy plays a part in that too.

But I think fans a lot of times only see the strategy or that coach is playing player X over player Y.

And the ability to get guys to play hard and compete every night is probably the more salient ability for a coach, especially in the regular season.

Yeah, this is going to be a difficult ranking again, I think, because some of the guys who

have more championship experience, more playoff experience aren't necessarily getting as much

out of their teams in the regular season, where some of the best regular season coaches,

we just haven't seen them as much at that playoff level in the crucible where some of the best regular season coaches, we just haven't seen them as

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