Welcome to the BS podcast. I'd like to dedicate this to Sam Hanky, who's 13

Page Manifesto was the weirdest thing I've read I've read all year. Tate, is

your mic on? Yes. Tate, how long did it take you to read the 13 Page Manifesto?

It was just more like a... I'm a skimmer, I'm a skimmer. Yeah, I tried to skim it,

but I found myself so fascinated by the weirdness of it that I just kept reading

and reading. It was just incredible. He bragged about how great his plan was, and yet at the

same time left out all the reasons the plan didn't work, which in my opinion came

down to the fact that he created a losing culture. He put players in position to fail.

He antagonized GMs and agents. He made it a place that a free agent would never want

to go. And on top of everything else, he didn't really do well with the draft picks. And

yeah, it comes down a little bit to bad luck, but at the same time, if you're throwing away

three solid years, and that's your plan. It's just just bottom out and be terrible and

build for the future and try to find assets. Then why would you take Michael Carter Williams,

who was 22 years old at the time, over Janus, the Greek freak? Why not take a fire in the

Greek freak freak? Why not instead of taking Joe LNB, which I thought was the right pick,

but if you think you're going to suck for three, four years, why not trade backwards with

the Celtics who were offering the six pick and one of the Brooklyn picks and just try

to add assets. And last year, why would you take Okafor instead of Porzingus, who had

the highest upside or trade backwards in a really deep draft and try to pick up more

assets? Why are you trying to build a team around Okafor, Netherlands, Noel, and Joe LNB

when they're all big guys in a league where everything is drifting to small ball, why aren't

you using all your cap space to make deals to add assets from other people like the way

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