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Couple draft observations that still you know it's Tuesday it's after it bill and I did a ton on Sunday and by the way on Sunday. The pod the Rodman stuff got way more attention than anything else that we did which is just whatever that's the way it works.

But I was really proud of the information that he and I both had just talking to different people around the league about all the different philosophies and everything that's going on into these practice facilities and what was really happening what wasn't and I think the NBA was trying to do the right thing here.

And that's that's I'm very.

I'm very anti everybody that immediately does the you know the well actually guy or what about guy where all you're doing is trying to find a problem with everything anyone's trying to do is the NBA goes to this I don't I don't understand that energy.

I just don't I refuse to put myself in that category even though I've done it with other stuff with this I don't and the NBA goes okay look.

We want to open up these facilities so the guys are kind of freelancing on their own if states are opening up this weekend and we want to get in front of this oh wait now it means so I just I can understand owners being mad about it and being competitive with each other because that's what they do and that's why it's so hard for 30 guys to get on the same page with any decision.

But I really think the NBA was trying to do the right thing be like all right limited numbers of players in a practice facility no team workouts with with multiple people in the group like one and oh stuff.

And maybe that helps us you know protect this or keep it under our umbrella and instead it just turn this thing and I don't think it was this massive massive controversy I'm not making out to be that but I did see the.

Circling of of the vultures of well that's what they're going to do okay here's here's my problem with their decisions and just all right here we go and it also happen with the NFL draft and this is just a real quick thing that I want to do on it is that leading up what NFL reporters everywhere saying talk to this guy talk to that guy.

And they said the mocks are terrible the mocks were right on this thing went shock and I really felt like the first 12 to 13 players maybe it's a nine to 14 for you depending on what you think that first tier of talent is in this draft.

I just I didn't realize like I just had a hard time believing that we're going to have like three guys going in the top 12 that belonged in the 20s in the mocks and I did think the lack of information.

Was something rare where you didn't have the lower level guys who are in team facilities for weeks leading up to the draft leaking information because that's usually how it works.

You didn't have that happening this time because no one was meeting at these team facilities so a lot of the lower level scouts the area guys.

Even if they were part of the day to day for an office and they're at the team location and that's where they live.

There just there's just wasn't this meeting or these meetings there wasn't the flow of information going around so that information isn't legal we can't help ourselves it's human nature sapiens read it.

It's just we love to talk we love to gossip we love to talk about different things and that's that's how all this information gets out so even though I believe that theory that maybe there's going to be some stuff that happens here.

That we don't expect because it's just the lack of information compared to other years I thought the talent at the top of the draft made a heart for me to believe that all the summer we're going to have these guys going that we didn't think we're going to go I mean Judy in.

And CD lamb going later than rugs Judy going after rugs I don't think is actually the most shocking thing it's just that Judy months and months ago in the beginning of the real post college football season.

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