I mean, you know, is this? Is this the beginning of him being still good, but maybe not at that al mba level that he he had been at? And really the foundation of any hope for the blazers was of liller just being absolutely awesome offensively, and just bending the defence so out of whack that it allowed other guys to thrive. And and they could be a below average defense and, oh, well, we're number two an offence, so it doesn't matter. And

that's just not the team they are right now. And moreover wants this two year excension. The party line right now, he can get that in the off season. The party line right now is that they want to maybe make some moves, but still continue to build around dame. What do you make of that idea?

Ah, i understand the motivation to try to, to try to try to play this out. I meann they don't have a lot of other cards two play. The problem that they're ing on is that if they are going to, like, they have to renegotiate the protection with chicago just to be able to trade another first. And really their only way of improving the team on any kind of meaningful scale is probably to include a first, at least one, in a trade like c j mc collum and multiple first for ben simmons, right? Like, that's, that's the trade construction that every blazer fan dreams of. Rit now, i think, ah, that that's, that's probably the one sort of really interesting thing that could move the team forward. And you could say, if it doesn't work, we'll just turn around and trade dame and simmons, cause they both have years on their deal.

I don't think philly wants you.