Martin Natchez versus Miko Ranton. Who won the trade? Obviously, there are other pieces involved, too, but those are the two biggest names. Let's be honest. We are, in Natchez's case, eight games in to this trade. It's impossible to tell you who won this trade, and it will be impossible to really come to that conclusion, at least until the end of this season. With that being said,

has Chris McFarlane pulled a fast one here? It sure seems like NACIS is a perfect fit in Colorado,

and there could be long-term success to this, too, E. Yeah, and I do believe in, I think when it

happened, you know, people are all upside down, for all the reasons.

I think that as players, as management, as coaches, you know, you're like, I can't believe it's come down to this.

You know what I mean?

Now, with that said, you know, I think they did say, we're not going to let him walk for nothing, Miko.

But what's our target meaning date? What's the target date? Obviously, we're not privy to those conversations, but I'm pretty sure that with the agent, there were conversations saying, okay, well, if this doesn't happen, then I might have to pull the trigger. And I'm sure one side said, well, then you do what you gotta do. And then we'll do what we got to do but I do believe in the Ave's case and Chris's case

and this and staff and Joe everybody behind it was more there was some targets out

there and Marty Natchez being one of them and I think at some point when the last

few weeks or a few months or whatever it is that this is coming down to

if martinace is available we're pulling the trigger you know i mean and and again this is nothing to

do it's in in the sense that they didn't feel miko was going to resign with them obviously it all

stems from that but if Marty Natchez is

available we're pulling the trigger and I do believe that's what prompted that you

know okay we're doing it because boy oh boy is he fun to watch oh my Lord oh my

Lord is he fun to watch and and what a fit he's been with Nate and it gives the abs a a little bit of different look, you know, from the last few years. And again, I'm not crazy. I'm not a coach right now because coaches can be coaches sometimes. But the lefty-righty thing is it gives the abs a different look. And I think we've seen it. You know what I mean? People have been so used to defend a Nate with a lefty and in in in Miko and now you're getting a righty and in Marty

Natchez it makes a big difference and I do believe in that and especially on the power play as well

and so I do believe that targeted Natchez one of them I'm sure wasn't the only guy you know

I mean but if we're getting this we we don't want futures, we want this.

And once they got it, once it was on the table, it was like, all right, let's make this happen.

You've talked about his combination with Nate.

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