Team preview time. I've been waiting to do this. I am back in the Bay area. Gonna start banging these out here

and this is just such an informative process an essential process for me to go through what a team did last year.

Really start to think about what these rotations are going to look like and

when we can find a good one bring in a local expert and there's no one a greater expert on them walkie-box in my

opinion than one Frank Madden how you doing? I'm doing great Nate. Good be back. It feels early. We were joking before the pod that

you know we we always sort of have this like outline of questions, which I know pretty well now are nice enough to have me back

the last few years, but yeah, it was weird. I almost like kind of put aside sort of my my 18-19 buckstarts for a couple months

but we actually had this conversation last year actually before the end of August.

So I guess it was it was high time we kind of started thinking about the the 2019 20 bucks and I guess what a difference a year makes

not that not that we we didn't expect good things from them last year, but certainly a

very different

state of the universe from a from a box fan perspective coming into this year versus pretty much any other season that I can think

in the past two decades. So yeah, so pretty fun time. Well, and we we talked about this a little bit off air

But you know this is a team that for the second year in a row really has a fair amount of continuity

I mean we didn't know it as we spoke at this time last year how transformative Mike Boudinosa and Brooke Lopez would be

I think we were both higher on the bucks perhaps than the consensus that when we talk last year and of course the the reality far exceeded that

But of course there was the extremely disappointing loss in the Eastern Conference finals and what is the zeitgeist now

Just around this team with you know

Malika Andrews report that hey, you know getting to the NBA finals could be important for Janus

Resigning then Malcolm Braugden is not brought back. They had the means really to bring him back to elected not to do so pick up a first and second round pick from

Indiana

Is there a feeling that this team just wasn't good enough? Is there a feeling that they blew it against Toronto last year?

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