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questions today. So first question is from at Bangelope, and she asks the number of games that I think

Darius Basley will play this season. I have no idea. I mean, it really, everything this season to me hinges on

whether or not Danilla Gallinari is on this team for a majority of the season. If he plays

for most of the season hangs around until February, this team has a chance to be pretty good.

Now, they've released the schedule, and we'll talk more about

that on Wednesday with Alex, kind of go through that, but it is really tough to begin the season.

And so they're going to need everybody healthy if they're going to have any sort of success.

And so it's good that they'll have those guys to begin with, but also their record may,

it may not matter because of the strength of their schedule to start with is just crazy.

But to have Gallinari will help.

And if they trade him early on, it's going to be a bloodbath, especially in November. And so if that happens,

if he gets, let's say that somebody's already dissatisfied with their team three weeks in,

they need to make a move, gala's out there, they do something stupid and trade two first round

picks for him or something like that, boom, Darius Basley minutes immediately available. And so

I would be surprised if that happened. So I would put maybe the over under like 20 and a half

games for Basley. It could be way under. He may just be a G-leager this year. Or he could

surprise. I don't know. I'm not going to claim to know, but that's where I'm going to put that number.

From at Benelephant King, is Billy in a lose-lose situation this year?

The story seems to be that he finally has a coachable team.

Is that really the case?

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