Will We Target LaMelo Ball In Fantasy Basketball? | Brandon Miller & Mark Williams’ Upside

Will We Target LaMelo Ball In Fantasy Basketball? | Brandon Miller & Mark Williams’ Upside

Now we get down to business. The young players for the Charlotte Hornets Ball, Brandon Miller, Tan Salan, Mark Williams, Michael Bolton. Thanks Josh. It’s Michael Bolton here and it’s time for another episode of the Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast. Let’s get to it. Let’s get to it in You are Locked on Fantasy, your daily NBA fantasy podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Hello and welcome to the Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster. My name is Josh Lloyd and I have misplaced my pants. I’m also the lead fantasy analyst at basketball.com. And today’s episode is brought to you by Monarch Money. Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use the code lockdown NBA at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. Thank you also for making lockdown fantasy basketball your first listen every day. We are free. We are available on all platforms. All right, we did the Hornets older guys, the 24 and overs, the Miles Bridges and use of Nurkishes. Now let’s do the younger guys, the probably more interesting players on this squad. We’ve got eight players to get into. Um I don’t even know when this show is coming out, but hope you’re enjoying it. Let’s get into talking about these Hornets players. And we are going to start with a player that remains polarizing from many different perspectives. And of course, it is LaMelo Ball who continues to have many doubters, not only from a fantasy perspective, from a real life perspective. You hear it all the time. he’s a non-winning player, which is just to me a lot of that time is it’s a nonsense phrase and I don’t think it applies to LaMelo. Um, you hear about the Hornets need to blow it up and move on from him. They need to lean into Brandon Miller as their best player. I think if you do that, well, you’re just making yourself worse. But who knows? Who knows? ball is an interesting case because again and one of the big themes I think of us doing these shows is going to be context because the thing is going to be LaMelo Ball can’t stay healthy when is LaMelo Ball going to play 70 games and I would say well apart from the time it already happened you mean like okay but he played 47 games there there’s no denying that there’s no denying he played 47 games there’s no denying that he hurt his ankle there’s also no denying that he played basically every game including shooting back to backs up until we got to January and Brandon Miller went down and he had a couple of little tweaks but then also the team took their foot way off the accelerator like they just took it off and Ball was playing he was playing in the fantasy playoffs which again everyone suggested I say everyone that is a a nonliteral term because obviously some people didn’t believe that but a lot of people were like he won’t be available in your fantasy playoffs and he was for a lo a large part of it. The Hornets also had this weird period post trade deadline because of postponed games where they their schedule was crammed in and that caused a lot of mistime but at some point and I I acknowledge this, you have to stop making excuses. I’m not quite there with LaMelo because it is pretty obvious what the excuses are and like bro’s not 24 yet. He hasn’t turned 24. He’s not there yet. He’s still pretty young and the the you know the he could have come back. Yes, he could have. He could have played through these games. Absolutely he could have. He could have done that last year or the year before. Maybe not the year before. There was another one of them, but he could have. Yeah, he could have easily. Was his wrist soreness and ankle soreness real? Yeah. Like I don’t I don’t doubt at all that due to surgeries on both those things that there was soreness there. I also am very much aware that he was very clearly their best player and they were in a very clear battle to keep themselves in that contention for that top three spot and they did it. So when you look at the start of the season versus the second half of the season, it’s a very different story. Even just in production per game fantasy production, LaMelo Ball pre-trade deadline, ninth best player. Post 50th ball averaged 25 points. He hit almost four threes with five rebounds and seven and a half assists. He shot just 40%. That’s bad. 34% from three. Also bad. 84 from the line. Pretty good. He ended the season as the 20th best player in points leagues and 18th in category leagues. He had 36 usage. Now I think the 36 usage will come down. I do think he was now he was taking some outrageous shots. He was shooting a ton. There were there were some things that was an obvious and I don’t think it was him. There was an obvious change in the way that uh coach Charles Lee wanted to run the offense and he was more empowered to take more threes and he did. But overall I think that those threes will come down a little bit. I think the usage will drop a little bit but I think the efficiency will rise and we are going to have I am very confident of this. We are going to have a season where LaMelo Ball is a top 15 guy and plays 65 plus games. It it will happen. I really don’t have any doubt about that. But given the fragile nature of his body and I don’t believe it’s shoes or anything like that. Given the the the fragile nature and the way this team is set up, we are going to need to see them start strong and be competitive. Otherwise, it’s going to go poorly. I am almost 100% certain that when I do projections for next season, LaMelo Ball will come out at very worst as a top 15 player. Without any question, broaged 25 points a game. Could easily be a 28 and N guy. Like easily. It’s not that’s not a question to me. He could have a 1.5 steals season. He could shoot 88 from the line in one year and get to 45 max from the field. There’s no reason he can’t get somewhat close, let’s say 90% to what James Harden has done in the past. But we need to see that and I will not take him in the first round because not because I think that Label Ball is a bum and he’s always hurt because I don’t but I don’t trust the Hornets to be good enough to not want to do the right thing and get another draft pick and protect them because when you are bad and they have been you should be doing that. I don’t the DPM delta number for LaMelo is a little concerning 9th percentile. So there was some e we’re not sure where this is going future wise and I I respect that part of it cuz he is getting to an age where you need to see more elevation but 100th percentile in load 98th percentile passing creation 99th percentile time on ball 77th percentile in in deflections which is part of why I think that that steel number could rise I do think the load will drop and again I think the reality for him is while he didn’t take the elevation forward you And there were some step backs in his game from efficiency perspective. I will still happily pull the trigger on La Ball. I just won’t do it in round one. I don’t know that I do it in round two. It is going to depend on how I view this Hornets team and I will admit a blind spot with them because a I think they could be good and I look at their players and go some of this stuff makes sense and then it all just falls apart and I look at their preseason overunder wins and I go well why can’t they win 30 games? They should. and then they don’t and the first half LaMelo is very different to the second half LaMelo and yeah I think part of that was triggered by a them being bad but also by the Miller injury and that made things worse and then more protective mode stuff. It is a very basic way of looking at things to say LaMelo’s always hurt. He’s soft. He won’t play. All he wants to do is Aaou ball or whatever you want to say. He doesn’t love the game. That is an easy thing to say which is unfounded in reality in my opinion. But the thing is that this team needs to be at least somewhat competitive. And part of the blame is on him for not making them somewhat competitive and I I understand that and that is why again while I was happy to take last year he started off the season uh with an ADP like in round three easy do that every day then it pushed way up and it got to the stage where he was like sitting at like a nine or 10. And I was like, I’m not doing it there and I won’t do it there again. But I will take him out to the top 20 without with no hesitation. None whatsoever because at some point it will get better and then he will be very good and then we’ll go, huh, that’s what we were missing. We’re going to talk Brandon Miller. We’ll get to him in a sec. Today’s episode though is brought to you by Monarch Money. Do you ever check in on your bank account? I know I know you do because we’ll do it. We look at it and go, “Huh, you sure? We sure about these numbers because that that’s gone down too much. But you’re dining out. You got entertainment stuff. You’re shopping online. You’re shopping in person. You’re I don’t know sending illegal bribes somewhere maybe. Who knows? Who knows? But it can be easy to lose track. That is where Monarch Money comes in. Your personal CFO giving you full visibility and control over your finances. Monarch Money isn’t just a budgeting app. It is a full complete financial command center. 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He ended up as the 28th ranked player per game this season. Well, okay, that’s high. I didn’t think that was going to be the case. He was 64th in points leagues. He had a 28 usage. He’s 22 years of age. He played 34 minutes a night. I think there was some skepticism with me on him in that a lot of his damage the season before was done when ball was not there and I was like, how does it all fit in? I did assume that he would be the number two usage player behind ball and well ahead of Miles Bridges but I didn’t go far enough on that because Bridges while he ended the season at 27 usage he was like 22 earlier on and Miller was the guy at 28 usage and then he played just 27 games and then he was done and then Bridges took up that mantle. I thought it might be more of a 25 usage role and yeah, keep him in that 60 zone, but he was well way better than that. Way better. Not points leagues, category leagues way better. Why was he way better? Cuz you look at his numbers, you go, what what is actually good about that from a category league perspective. And I understand the skepticism. Part of some of the skepticism you’re going to have is like he aaged 21, five, and three and a half. Like three and a half assists, not a big number. He had one steal, but he did have.7 blocks. He shot 86 from the line on three attempts, which is not a bad number. He’s at 36 from three, and he hit four threes a game. Now, when I’m we’re talking head-to-head leagues, you know that to me, we don’t need to value every player. It is a disingenuous way of valuing players by looking at the strength of every single category. Nobody views things that way. Nobody drafts that way. Nobody evaluates players that way. So yeah, his field goal percentage is pretty rough. Absolutely is pretty rough. But field goal percentage is one of those things that incredibly kills, same with free throws, somebody’s value to a degree that makes it completely unrealistic to look at those numbers. So not only do I punt that category, but the the impact of it is just shouldn’t be that high. Getting valuable points with reliable threes, solid rebounds, assists, and steals, and blocks, all of those around that average mark is good. and with a very strong positive free throws is all good. Now, I would never consider Brandon Miller as a top 30 player for drafts. I wouldn’t consider that. And I don’t think that he is a future multi-time allstar whatsoever. I think that his best comp, I know people have given Jason Tatums and that sort of stuff. To me, it’s still a Rudy Gay type of player, which again, Rudy Gay was a very, very good player and a very good fantasy player. a very good fantasy player, but never really was able to blow up in multiple areas or or take over things. And that’s sort of how I see Brandon. His advanced stuff is all pretty solid. Now, Darko is down on him, which is s somewhat similar to how I view him. Again, I the fantasy rank stuff is pretty good. If your team gets better, there’s either two ways it does. you get play players in who are better than Miller or he takes steps forward which both are possible. If they were to get the number one pick or the number two pick, Miller easily to me becomes the third option and that hurts and they are in position to get a really high pick. So he’s is we’re in that tough conundrum with Brandon where if you look at his production and the if you have some of the fears of what his role can be like his passing volume and time on ball they’re not super high on this team and I would go oh well okay he’s still got a lot of buzz he was the number two pick some people really love his game the aesthetics of it are great for some people and I would say that’s a great sell high chance before maybe pick one or pick two, Harper, Bailey, Flag, whoever it is, come in and maybe relegate him to a 22 usage role or 24 usage role and then he can’t do these things. But the problem is you how do you sell high if you played in the 30 games in year two and got injured? You you can’t. So, it leaves you in no man’s land. I would love to sell at the peak of what I think he can get to like a top 40ish player, but I can’t do that. So, we’re sort of stuck in the middle here. Now, maybe I’m wrong on him and he does take a big third year leap. Distinctly possible. What would it be in? Because his passing volume is highish. His deflections are fine. I don’t think he’s going to be a defensive player like that. His three-point volume is already there. His efficiency is already pretty strong. Now, he can be better on twos, but that was one of the drawbacks from him in college is he he couldn’t he wasn’t a finisher. He wasn’t that sort of a player. So like 28 usage, will he ever be higher than that? I I really doubt that a lot. So I have some concerns about Brandon Miller, but like I said, we’re in the spot where you can’t sell high cuz he didn’t play, even though there are a lot of indicators to me suggesting you should. So I think you got to ride it out and hope that things work in your favor. I’m a little skeptical of it, though. I’m a little skeptical of it. Speaking of skeptical, I like Mark Williams. I like Mark Williams as a fantasy contributor. I was not massively high on Mark Williams coming out of the draft. I think his defense is actually pretty bad. Obviously, a very spotty health record and while missing all of last season or basically all of last season with a back injury, he didn’t begin this season on time with a foot injury. And then, of course, he was traded to the Lakers and that trade was then rescinded. Now, you can wear a tin foil hat if you like. That’s okay. whatever head where you want is up to you and suggest that the trade was rescended because someone said to Rob Pelinka, “Bro, you gave up a little bit too much there and now we’re completely hamstrung in the future. Let’s invent a way to resend the deal.” And I wouldn’t say that you’re wrong because I don’t I don’t I don’t know that you’re wrong. I don’t know that you’re right, but I think there might be something to that. Now, I have been told I have been told that the the reason that Mark Williams’s uh trade was rescinded was maybe a little bit of that fear, but also nothing to do with his back and nothing to do with his foot injury. And it wasn’t, as we could tell, and I I preached this at the time, it was nothing in Mark Williams’ injury medical report that suggested that he couldn’t play this season. So, people were like, “Well, he’s not playing again. The trade was he can’t play.” The injury report was based on a long-term longevity concern based on another joint in the lower body that maybe big men require quite a bit. And that doesn’t mean that that will be a problem next season or the season after or the season after or the season after. Doesn’t mean any of those things. I mean, it could be, but I don’t know. Like, we had like a number one fantasy player who now is probably going to go in round five because of some body issues. And that that was that’s the concern with Mark Williams. Obviously, the Hornets were more than happy to get rid of him. Now, they’ve got some work to do to repair that relationship clearly. And I wouldn’t be shocked if he’s moved on from at some point. He played 27 minutes tonight. And let’s be very clear, he was unbelievably good for fantasy. Top 40 player post trade deadline, 57th overall, 35 fantasy points, 15 and 10, 1.2 blocks, 60 and 80. That’s an elite big man number. He saw some big delta improvements. He didn’t contest many shots cuz he’s not a good defender. His offensive load is not particularly high, but at 21%. Is that the best number he ever has in his career? Maybe. Cuz remember, Ball was out, Miller was out, and he was out when they were there. So, we didn’t really get to see much of do we even see a game with Williams, Miller, and Ball all playing together. We may not have. So, when we’re looking at the numbers with Bridges, with Miller, with Williams, remember that we didn’t really get to see these guys all together. So, while I like Mark Williams and in the right spot, there is real fantasy value there. I do believe that his future as Charlotte center is not it’s not there. He won’t be that player. That some of this usage stuff from this season is maybe on the high side and the defense is a real problem. It’s a real problem. I don’t think that he has got future 32minute a night starter for seven years player upside. He could do that for two more years. If he stays in Charlotte, he might be a 31 minute a night player. 32-minute and I player next season, 19 usage, averages 14 and 10 with 1.6 blocks and shoots unbelievable numbers and he’s a top 40 guy for two years. really easy to see how that can happen. But it is again we’re looking at bad teams and how does a player with significant deficiencies plus now at least three significant injury concerns and a lack of defense and not a passer and not a shooter. Where does it go? Again, he took steps forward. He impressed at times, but there are some big red flags to me about the long-term value of him as a let’s even say like a subgood team, a playin team level player. He can be fine. He can be okay. Like let’s use his current backup, Ysef Nerk. Will Mark Williams ever get to be as good a real life player as Ysef Nerk was? I think it’s debatable. I don’t know that he ever will. There’ll be some of you who say he’s already better than what Nerkich was at his prime. I 100% disagree with that. But I I as much as I think Williams is solid, I think that again we’re getting a bump based on the team specific context. Yeah, I think we’re getting some a bump based on team specific context that they’re the main they’re the main guys. B Miller, Mark Williams. We’ve still got some other young guys to talk about because yeah, this is a pretty young team. And who I want to talk about now is a guy that came sort of out of nowhere. He was a Clippers draft pick who was waved. He was signed to a two-way deal and then that was converted to a full-time deal and his name is Musa Diabate. Diabate played in 71 games. I believe he led the team in total minutes despite starting the year on a two-way contract which had never happened before. He played 17 minutes a night. He’s 23. There were times when he was a must- grab player. And yes, I was not as must on him as others were, but he was a must grab player at times because Mark Williams was out or Nerkich wasn’t there or Nick Richards was hurt. And he would come out there and he’d play big minutes and he’d have really high rebound numbers with solid steals. Look at those deflection and rim contest numbers. 77th percentile deflections, 85th rim contest. Great. He took massive steps forward from being a literal out of the league nobody to being a suitable rotation big man back up four five and he played a lot of four earlier in the season. Darko’s got him as the 95th percentile in terms of improvement. He never is on ball. He doesn’t do anything offensively. What he does is he steals and he gets rebounds. He can’t hit free throws. He’s a high percentage field goal guy. But I don’t think that this is the awakening of Musadate. I think there is under no circumstance is this team prioritizing him. We saw it like down the stretch. Michael Williams will be out and let’s go with Nerkage the 31y old and debate will get DMPed. Like remember that if he was a large large priority he’s not 19 he’s not 20. If he was a large priority we wouldn’t have been seeing DMPS at the end of the season. He is a I’ll say a onetrick pony but that’s not exactly fair cuz he he finished well. His steel numbers were solid, but he’s a rebounder. He’s an energy rebounder. I do not believe that there is a future starter in Musadate. I don’t believe there are untapped layers to things that he can do. I think again there was a large context portion that we loved earlier in the season when he came out of nowhere as a two-way guy when everyone was injured and stepped up and then disappeared. And while he will be on this roster next season, I’m certain they will keep that guaranteed or they’ll guarantee he’s non-G guarantee. He’s a backup 22minute a night big man at best. And you can see like look, he ended up with 17 minutes a night and was 261st in categories. And you’ll notice that post trade deadline he was worse because Mark Williams was back and Nerkage arrived and he just wasn’t that same guy. So, there was some buzz around him, puned. I’m not sure he’s good. Let’s talk about someone who was actually bad, and that was number six overall pick, Tah Salah, who ended up like playing more games than I thought. I didn’t know that he’d even be a part of the rotation to begin with because I thought he was going to be that raw. And he is still raw obviously, but this was like I I don’t think it could have gone worse to be honest. Yeah, there was some small improvement towards the end of the season, but this is like a man that’s six 69 610. He looks large, but even when I saw him at summer league, I was like, “This guy doesn’t know where where he is. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. What what’s happening here? He looks completely lost. Defensively, he’s got no idea what he’s doing. Offensively, okay, what’s what’s going on?” Again, this is a guy playing power forward and center. He shot 33% from the field. He shot 28% from three. Bro, what what are we what are you doing now? I know you’re trying to develop some things in him, but come on. I I don’t really get I wouldn’t have picked him here. I didn’t have him anywhere near this spot in the draft. He had some really poor fantasy translation numbers as well, but I I couldn’t have expected that it was this bad. Six and five he averaged. He hit a three a game somehow. 2 blocks. my guy, he contested in the 68th percentile, but couldn’t block a shot. His deflections are not that high. He wasn’t a high load guy. Drip Delta had him in the eighth percentile, so somehow got worse from the low starting point the rookies have. Darko’s got in 50th percentile. So like, yeah, in the middle of the pack cuz he did improve, but he started at a really poor level. And that efficiency, the lack of defense, even like a lack of rebounding prowess, it’s really concerning. I like he played just five games in the G- League and I would have thought for someone that was as bad as he was, you would have got a little bit more there. He played 32 minutes in the G- League and guess what? He shot like 37% again, 24% on threes. He averaged eight rebounds with zero blocks and 1.2 steals and 12 points in the G-League. Come on, man. I know he’s he’s officially listed at 6’8. He’s like 69, 610. I I don’t believe 68 at all. He’s a four/ball five, I would guess, moving forward. Um, now I would expect that he improves cuz honestly, I don’t think it can be worse than this. This is one of the worst for a top 10 pick. one of the worst rookie seasons you will ever see for a big man to be that inefficient and then also not provide anything defensively or be a what what is it that he did that was good? That’s what I what was he good at and what is he going to be good at? I’m not saying that they wasted the pick. They might have and it was a tough spot to be in considering where this draft was and maybe he does take a big step forward putting another like issue with what happens with Miles Bridges but we are so far away from that. So is this the absolute definition of a distressed asset? Yes. Do I care? I honestly not really. I I don’t I don’t really see it. That was as discouraging a first season as I can see. I can’t even look at like a a a part of this and go, “Yeah, I can I can see this being something that that he works on or this is where he goes from here.” I I don’t I I can’t see any of that. Honestly, this is not something that I’ve done for most players in this thing or any player really. But look at the similarity scores on crafted NBA of what this season was most like for other 18 19 20 year olds in NBA history and it’s like defensive Josh Giddy offensive Chris Humphre overall Xavier Henry what now to be fair the second most similar overall player is Aaron Gordon which is interesting but then it’s Alfuk Caminu Bilal Kuli Darius Basley Chris Humphrey’sWami Brown yeah that’s not very good at a peak projection of being a negative player is a terrible thing. I again distressed asset, sure, I understand it. Do I think it’s going to work? Not really. Really, really down on it. I actually think that their second round pick KJ Simpson despite them putting him on a 2-way, which is pretty weird. I thought he was pretty okay. Now, he really didn’t get any run. Again, they had to preserve his games played, but down the stretch, he did get some starts with LaMelo out. He ended up playing 23 minutes a night despite playing just 36 games. Again, they were weirdly keeping his games down because of the games played thing and then they probably kept it a little bit too low, but averaged three assists a game and one steal in 23 minutes. He was much better post deadline. You’ll see the delta numbers for Drip and Darko are pretty solid. His time on ball 90th percentile, passing creation 82nd, deflection 72nd, 77th, sorry. He came out of the draft as a an older smaller guard as a three-point shooting passing steals guy with a lot of similarity to Fred Van Vleet. And while Fred Van Vleet was very clearly not very good this season, if you can become Fred Van Vleet as a real life player and as a fantasy player, that’s really good. Like it’s it’s a really good um outcome to get to that number. Will Simpson do that? I don’t know. 18 points a game. He is 23 already. If you had to go into the season and convert him off his two-way, which you should, and he is your primary backup ahead of, let’s say, Trey Mann or Nick Smith, I I think that that would work. Okay. Now, I do think that Trey Man’s a better player than him at this point, but I think KJ is already a better player than Nick Smith. Now, the problem here is is some of these shooting numbers are like like they’re they’re terrible. Obviously, shooting 25% from three is not getting it done long term. Um, oh, we just I know this is not breaking news to you guys because you would see it, but Steph Castle won rookie of the year. That was not uh not a surprise. He was always likely to win. Was he the best rookie to me? I don’t think so, but that’s okay. Um KJ Simpson those two numbers are very clearly um terrible but as a rookie guard you expect some like that’s very different to Tan Sal right as a rookie big man you want some level of efficiency but Simpson’s getting deflections he’s playing on ball he’s passing he’s creating so to me there is some upside here to be best case a low-end starter worst case well this is worst case but otherwise like I think he can be a rotation backup point guard as early as middle of next season. So, yeah, some hope I guess with him. Nick Smith is bad. Nick Smith had some opportunities this season when Brandon Miller went down and he was the starter and we saw some okay games, but he he is he is bad. The 404th ranked player in category leagues. He was not a top 300 player in points leagues. He still played 23 minutes a night. He averaged 10 points, but he can’t shoot. He was at 94% from the line, but he doesn’t generate steals or rebounds or assists. He had 21 usage. He is 21 years of age, but like he doesn’t do things defensively. He was an out had an outsized offensive role for what he is as a player. And I just like while there was some improvement at times this season, I would say overall not really. He’s feels like he’s always going to be a bad decision-making, poor shot taking, poor shotmaking hybrid guard who doesn’t really defend. Look at the rim contest numbers. Look at the deflections. Second percentile. My guy, bro, can you like do something defensively? Even his passing creation volume is not that high. Are you a point guard? Are you a two? Yeah, he played a lot of two because LaMelo was there and he took over from Brandon Miller, but overall I don’t I don’t really see it with Nick Smith. The last guy we’re going to talk about is Wendell Moore Jr. who inexplicably started a game for Detroit earlier in the season and then JB said absolutely not. And he was cut almost immediately. Not not quite almost immediately, but he ended up uh getting some starts in Charlotte. He was a failed first round pick, older prospect. He averaged four and two with one assist. He shot 34 from three. that’s getting to be passible. But overall, this is not someone that you want as a part of your rotation. This is not a guy that you should be prioritizing bringing back. He I didn’t think did enough. Like defensively, there were some okay moments, but he’s such a negative on offense and you’ve already got Josh Green and Josh Aaki that I don’t think we need to worry too much about Wendell Moore. What we do worry about is that is the end of talking about the Charlotte Hornets. So yeah, LaMelo absolutely some concerns. Brandon Miller I’d maybe try to sell high on Mark Williams I’m worried. Tan Salan, I think it was terrible, but I’m not going to rule this franchise out entirely. I’m never going to go into a season with teams as a general or No, that’s not true. I’m never going to go into any sort of situation and say never will you draft someone from this team because that is an insane thing to say that I hear gets said a lot. Utah, easy fade last season. Charlotte don’t know if they’ll be a fade because again Mark Williams, Miles Bridges, and LaMelo Ball all played in the fantasy playoffs. They were all there. Miller wasn’t. And if Miller had have been healthy, they would have probably been better than this and we would have seen more of these guys. So, it’s all context dependent. It’s not as contextual as you hitting the thumb on this video, which is great, and leaving comments. Am I off on Miller ball? God forbid you have an opinion on TJ Salam, drop it below, guys. We are done here. Thank you so much for listening everyone. See you. [Music]

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