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I'm Andy Kemenisky, my brother, Brian, and co-host is still on vacation this week.

And as part of our rotating slate of guests, I'm going to be bringing you today

a scouting report on DeAndre Aiton, the Lakers New Center, going to talk with Mike Richmond

from Locked on Blazers, also Sean Heikin from the Rose Garden Report. Both guys provide great

Blazers coverage. They've been covering the team for a long time.

As always, going to ask some similar questions to try to see what type of consensus or disagreements

form. And that's what's coming up. We're going to begin with Mike Richmond from Locked on Blazers.

Before we get into the particulars of DeAndre Aiton, the

offensive strengths, defensive strengths, weaknesses, all that stuff, how would you describe

just the DeAndre Aiton experience in Portland? I mean, I would say he probably had the two

worst seasons of his career with the Trailblazers. So, like, part of that comes, like, part of it's like, he just wanted very good. Some of that is supporting cast. I'm pretty sure Luca Donchich will be a little bit better than the point guards he played with in Portland. I'm going to go out of limb and just, I'm going to say he's like a better pick and roll operator than 20 year old Scoot Henderson, among others. LeBron's not terrible at it either, for that matter. Oh, they still have LeBron James? Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah. Last I checked, he's solid at running a pick and roll. Yeah. And when, and when Aiton played with Chris Paul, he was fantastic, right?

He was an elite pick and roll guy.

So I do think some of my sort of, you know, I didn't love the D'Andrean experience.

I don't think it was very good.

But some of that is context-driven.

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