Oh, he's gonna have a huge impact.

Look, I know everyone is, you know, saying that the Nets don't need Kyrie.

They could make it out of the East and and that's right, right?

I get that.

But that's not the next goal.

James Harden wanted to get traded to Brooklyn not just to make it to the Finals, but to win the championship.

And guess what?

They're not doing that without Kyrie Irving, the guys averaging 27 points on 50% shooting, by the way.

So when I look at Kyrie, Irving and I look at James Harden and Kevin Durant, this could be the most explosive offensive five power that we ever seen in league history on one team.

So when you add Kyrie Irving toe with James Harden and Kevin Durant already showed us in a small sample size, he's just gonna add to this.

Now.

The pressure is gonna be on Steve Nash and how he staggered eight minutes and what type of position he's gonna put these guys in.

If I'm the coach I'm using.

Steve Nash has 1/6 man type I mean, Carrie has 1/6 man type player and not me not starting them and bringing them off the bench.

But I would say I would I would sub him out, you know, early in the first quarter, probably six minutes to go in the first.

And I will bring them back to start the second and get the ball to him and let him just rock out.

James Harden and Kevin Durant also is gonna have to sacrifice to Kyrie Irving, meaning they're gonna have to let him be who he is.

And that's the guy that gets buckets.

And I think Katie and James the way the energy that I see them playing with the joy and I know that they wanna win the championship.

They're gonna have no problem with doing that now, Kyrie.

He's gonna have to be mentally, they're mentally focused, and we just hope that he is.

I mean, you just never know with him.

But at the end of the day, he's still a God has given you 27 tonight on 50% shooting and still one of the best one on one players that this game Hell, yeah.

I mean, you can't disagree with any of that.

I don't think that they're Kyrie obviously isn't gonna make them any worse offensively.

But that's not the question, like they don't have any problems scoring.

You talk about them being maybe one of the best offensive teams we've ever seen.

I'm not sure they surpassed the K D Warriors because that team fit together a little better.

Offensively.

I don't think you need another ball handler in Kyrie.

Obviously, that's true.

They've got two guys that can handle the ball quite well.

I think what they need is defense, and I understand the stagger, the minutes idea like it sounds good and it makes sense all the way through the regular season.

Maybe it makes sense through most of the postseason, but no one's going to stagger their minutes in closing time and closing time.

It's gonna be hard to get defensive stops with Kyrie in um Harden and Kevin Durant without having a really a really RIM protector like they had in Jared Allen.

So I understand that Kyrie talent is immense, but we can't pretend like this is some sort of perfect fit, like he's not Clay Thompson.

He's not a guy that's gonna get you 40 points on 10 dribbles like Kyrie is gonna get you 40 points on a couple of 100 dribbles, and that's just not, ah, perfect fit for this offense.

So I don't see them having any problem integrating Kyrie right now.

But in the playoffs, when they need to get a stop at some point, they're obviously not gonna put Kyrie on the bench or Durant or Harden on the bench at closing time in the game.

I worry about what happens to that defense when that kind of was DeAndre.

Jordan is the defensive stopper in that unit.

Yeah, but But But Dominic, listen, This is what people don't give Kyrie enough credit for.

Kyrie is a guy that could play off the ball.

Matter of fact, he's not Clay Thompson.

Nobody in the league is Clay Thompson, but Kyrie could play off the ball.

He's actually a better spot up shooter than what he gets credit for, and I get it on the defensive side of things.

They may need stops and, you know, down the stretch, but to be honest with you, I don't know if it's gonna be a down the stretch because if you have this much offensive firepower the league might.

The lead might just be a 10 or 15 point lead where it might not be predicated on the defensive end of the basketball.

And by the way, when you have when you have a team like this that have one goal of winning the championship.

Kevin Durant, Kyrie, Irving, James Harden went locked in, they could play defense well enough to get stopped because they're gonna put up 130 plus points tonight, period.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that if they're gonna win, they're gonna have to win by outscoring people because I don't know about the defensive side of ball and no one disagrees with you.

I know Kyrie can play off the ball.

We saw him.

Obviously with LeBron.

I know he can shoot, he can handle the ball.

He could do everything and they have.

Uh I mean, they got so much offensive firepower that they can do without any one of those guys and just be fine on offense.

That doesn't change the deep inside the ball, and I know when is when is time is gay?

It's time to close the game.

They're gonna put their best effort forward defensively.

But it doesn't change the fact that they traded away Jared Allen.

And so, like, they're close the games with Joe Harris, Kyrie Harden and I guess Jordan and that to me, that's the biggest question is who's gonna protect the rim?

Maybe KD goes back to doing it like he did at times with the Warriors.

But to me, that's the biggest question is when they go and face the Lakers, what they gonna do with a D?

And they don't have an answer for a D on that roster right now.

And I guess the answer is just keep scoring.

Just gonna have to keep scoring.

You have to have all your trips down the floor, gonna have the end and buckets because they're not gonna be able to stop a D.

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Dominique, listen.

Oh, brother, What I'm trying to explain to you to also is that who said that they're done, you know, making changes to their roster.

You know, the trade deadline is not till march, so they still could be in the process of making moves.

I strongly agree with you that they have to upgrade.

DeAndre Jordan is not to DeAndre Jordan that we saw with the Clippers.

I get that and they do.

And they did lose, in my opinion, by losing Jared Allen.

But if you got to give up a Jared Allen and the trade to get back of James Harden, you doing that any day of the week?

Hell, he said.

He said it himself.

So I don't think that that Song Marks is done.

And I think he's going to make other moves.

Are acquired some more players at that center position to help them out and some more defendants.

By the way, the kid Brown.

He's been playing phenomenal on the defensive end when you get a chance to play minutes.

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