 to see the project. Look Mavs lost OK to the Kings. It was an overtime there. But we got to see Luca and Kyrie. Everybody is waiting on that. Luca afterwards said it's only our first game together. But it's so fun to play with this guy. He's an amazing basketball player and I think it's going to be really fun first game. It was really fun. Mark that quote down for months from now. I just want to make sure we remember all those words. It's only one game Chandler. Have you seen enough. Is this thing going to work. Listen I think it's a one game process but I do think these guys understand what has to be done. They're both smart enough players are both so advanced and so good offensively that this should be able to work. And I think when you look at where they are they're right there in the thick of things in the Western home court advantage. They got better. They definitely they got better Kyrie Irving especially I went to the game against the Clippers and it seems very positive. Everyone's excited. Obviously it was the first game but there's a lot to go with this and I think they know this is this is kind of a this is a trial period and everyone's kind of on their best behavior. Everybody's trying to do the right thing here. But I think offensively this is a perfect match. I think these guys know how to play with other stars. They know how to shoot the ball and how to play make the know how to space the floor. They've done a good job kind of adding shooting around these guys but to me the Mabs that Josh Green and Jaden Hardy these are two guys that have gotten no love all year long and when I went to that game and I watched them these guys can really play. They play hard. They can score the ball. These are two guys that they're going to need to kind of have the impact off the bench moving forward but there's holes defensively there's holes with their size. I think they need to get Maxi Kleber back. He's going to be big for them but I do think this will work and I do think there's going to be a lot of challenges throughout the rest of the season but this was to me was a great move for Dallas and again it's the same thing with Phoenix you want to go get a Kevin Durant. You're going to have to give up some stuff and it's going to be some sort of a risk. He's 34 years old etc. Same thing for the Mabs you had a chance to go get the best player available at the time. They did it. Yeah look they're they're going to be an absolute monster on offense and you can just see the struggle with guarding that team and those two guys. What I wonder going forward is how they work them together. You know when when Kyrie played with LeBron he was a screener a lot for LeBron at the point of attack and and like Chandler mentioned he knows how to play with other stars he's done this and he's he's thrived in this role and I wonder when they get into that when they get into that plays like that and pet actions that will make them better. There was a lot of hot potato a lot of your turn my turn and a lot of and they ultimately lost so their defensive struggles were persistent and they do at the bend quite a bit to cover for a Luca who kind of just doesn't defend and Kyrie who has his struggles on that in his will but they're they're good enough to talented enough offensively and and like like Chandler mentioned the young the young boys they got waiting in the wings those are snipers out there who can make some stuff happen so this is going to be a very incident team watch going forward and they're going to be dangerous out in the playoffs. All right Chandler I have a question for you you're a fan looking for a team right now are you picking the Mavs with Luca and Kyrie or are you picking the Suns with Katie. To me I'm a homer I'm going with the Mavs. They have the same record the same record at home the same record on the road so we'll see which trade kind of work better from this moment forward but to me it's the it's the depth of the Dallas Mavics and the two kids I just mentioned they have they still have guys like Christian Wood Tim Hardaway Junior Reggie Bullock to me they have more outside those two stars and that's huge to me obviously they have their holes with depth they have their holes with defensive defensively size etc but when you look at this team this is going to be an offensive jug or not and Kevin Grant is older and age Chris Paul is older and age Deandre let's not forget about all the issues he's been through in Phoenix so to me I think this pick is Dallas but man it's hard to bet against Kevin Durant. That's that's crazy yeah four or five is a man let's start to let's start him today might as well we know where everybody is going to be not this year Shams look for those of us who are not capable of living in the now and we just want to look ahead this time next year Kyrie will he be in that Mavs uniform what are we thinking here I think if everything goes well the rest of the season and then in a summertime listen he's going to be a free agent he's going to be going through another free agency process take meetings that's something he did not do last go around in 2019 when him and Kevin Grant went and went to the Brooklyn Nets they didn't really meet with Sean Marks and Kenny Accus and meet with other organizations before they made that decision so now I think him having a actual free agency as long as everything goes well the remainder of the season the Mavericks were one of his preferred spots we saw at the end at the end of it it was Lakers sons Mavs I don't think Kyrie had a problem going to either of those teams and I really think in Dallas he has a great fit with Mark Cuban as the owner Nico Harrison who him and his family know Jason Kidd vouched for him heavily throughout this season this is something that's been in play for the Mavericks ever since really November ever since that tweet went out with the anti-semitic material movie and everything that happened that kind of thing. But then the. Kassid Kyrie's future up in the air and now he is the Dallas Maverick and I think we'll see how the remainder of the season goes. Yeah I agree I mean this again this is a wait and see kind of thing and hopefully this goes well for the for the Dallas Mavericks but. He has to be or this is a very very very bad trade for the Mavericks and you would think there would be some sort of deal here in place but he's going to go through free and see he said I'm not talking about free and see I'm not talking about extending my contract. You know tell the summer after seeing Kyrie talking to him in LA, he seems happy and he wanted to go to Dallas. Like Sharps just said, he had a couple of teams, but he was open to going to Dallas. He has a great relationship with Mark. He's got a great relationship with J-Kid and Nico. It seems like a good fit. Obviously, a lot of things can happen throughout the rest of the season. But yeah, I'm with Sharps. I think if everything goes well and they make a nice little run there, I can see him getting, you know, three to four year deal extension and for a max in Dallas. Eddie. So the options are he either stays in Dallas or he asks for another trade. How shocked would you be? Listen, if it doesn't work in Dallas, no one else is paying him. So if I'm Kyrie... Oh, please! Yes, somebody will pay him. They're not giving him multiple years. Chandler, sports are stupid. That's why, that's why. Somebody will. It's like we fall for it every single time. So if somebody falls for it, right? Like he's not us. What do you think, Eddie? Would you be shocked at all? I wouldn't be shocked at either direction. I wonder what works is like, are they, they win a playoff series? Does that works? If he shoots bad in the, you know, the conference semis, is that, that linger into his free agency? If he's taking 10 meetings, is Mark Cuban sitting there a little miffed about that? Like, hey, I really went out on a limb for you. I wouldn't say anything is a sure bet with Kyrie. I think the safest bet is a little bit, you know, a little bit of dysfunction and a little bit of uncertainty when it comes to Kyrie. I think he means well. I think he's a great guy. I think he's an incredible player. And I think he wants to stay in Dallas as of right now. But what is this? February, March, April, May, June, just five months is a long time. Five months is a long time. That's forever. That is a really long time. It's like, this is why you don't mention divorce and wedding vows. It would be a little awkward, but I feel like that's Kyrie Irving in a nutshell.