Welcome on to a yearly episode but one that any you and I have not been on at the same time since

2021 due to our respective familial obligations, well-time the last two springs.

So it's going to be good to talk about this stuff, get into it.

I also actually, if we had time, want to go back and look at our

rankings from the last time we did this together in

2021 see how prescient we in fact were but let's just start by telling people what

we're trying to accomplish here. This is a different filter and a different criteria than prospect ranking, the young prospect rankings and all that.

So first of all, the eligibility pool is players who this is their basketball reference age 25 season or younger so this is not you

know the the youngest of the young but there's still you know plenty of plenty of

players that are on the rookie scale contracts and everything like that.

And then the other one from a player by player perspective, and correct me if I'm wrong,

but the way that I generally think about it is this is more over the life of their career or at least like kind of their relevant career

so it's not just like the next two to three years it's it's kind of where things are

where things are going. Yeah and I think when you have guys 25 or under, the idea is kind of like, yeah, you know, you can,

this group could be kept together for five years at least.

You know, we're kind of looking at like that as our next time horizon. It's a young enough group where you're like,

yeah, none of these guys are going to age out. The ultimate inspiration for this was back

when I was actually a Bulls fan

when I was really excited about the Bulls Young Corps

and like the 20, the 2003, 2004 season

and then Jay Williams ended up getting hurt,

but oh man, they still have all these guys.

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