Welcome on to the last Hollinger and Duncan of 2023.

John, we have much to discuss.

You went to the G-League Showcase.

We're going to talk about everything that you heard and saw there.

And then we got to talk the topic du jour Detroit Pistons.

And hopefully we can get into a little bit of trade stuff as well.

So let's begin, John.

You know, you wrote a column.

Maybe you can summarize it for our listeners and just be careful what you wish for on a

rebuild because you might lose 27 games in a row and counting.

Yeah, I think people tend to underestimate how long of a wander through

the desert, so to speak, is involved in a typical down-to-the-studs rebuild, because we tend to focus

on the ones that worked either relatively quickly or with almost no time at the bottom at all.

And especially the ones where you're talking about a team that, because a lot of fans tend

to be in this mindset where, okay, if we're not, if we're not going to be awesome,

let's just blow it up and that there's no point in winning 46 games,

which I push back on that a little bit just because you need this incredibly fortunate

set of circumstances to end up with a great team, almost no matter what. And so you're kind of scenario where you end up with a middling

pick and end up with, with Janus or Curry or even a late one with Yokic. Like, I don't know if you

necessarily have to go all the way to the bottom to pull that off. Now, there are advantages to doing a

full on tear down in terms of what you can do with the

cap and, you know, taking a picks from other teams. And then obviously your own pick should be

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