 After winning the opener they gave up a lot of points over 600 points in five games. That's not good They've got some work to do, but from whence they came I'll take the net season. I'll take the net season You know what makes it look worse is the fact that they won game one way they did Philadelphia mailed it in let's be honest watching that series Philadelphia just was not engaged in game one The Nets give them credit They took advantage they won the game and it sent out this false narrative that the Nets can play with them But when the Sixers were engaged and focused and cared they were way better But you look back and say that they blew it they won that game. They almost won game four and When Philadelphia had to they laid the hammer down and if it had been a sweep and all four games or blowouts You would say easily isn't that fan? All right? We just can't play with them We retool and go at it But I think that win it hurt a little more leave that they that they were in this series And just made it hurt twice as much. That's a that's a really a really good point And you do you wonder about how many changes come this off-season and how many people will Learn from this experience going into next year and also Michael. Here's the question. I ask Do you throw a max contract at Russell? or do you Kind of build this team is your foundational player that you have right now is carousel avert Who I think may be a better player than Russell are certainly close and go out and get somebody else Well, what I would do is I would tell everybody They've got to wait because they have to keep that Capspace open so that they could get a max player and then you have bird rights on all of the players that are already on your roster So Russell D'Angelo Russell is a restricted free agent So they could say go shop yourself get the best offer you can and we're gonna match it That's what being a restricted free agent is he wants a max which for him would be five years 158 million dollars for another team if he signed with another team it'd be four years 117 That would be the best case scenario for the Nets. Somebody offers him four years 117 They will match so I think he's a really good player. He's 23 years old. They developed him It's awfully hard to let him go now. You might look at him and say well LeBron and Durant those are max players. He's not a max player You are what you can get and there will be a team out there that will give him max money The Lakers gave up on him too soon the Nets developed them into this all-star It would be awfully tough to let him go of all the players that they have that could leave He stays Karris Leverts stays and then they take their chances filling in the rest of the roster Well, if you think you can replace them with a with a better body then I guess you go for it But do you take the chance in letting them go and then not being able to replace them and then miss having them No, it's all the time you sometimes you give players money more than they're worth just because you can't afford to lose that player I mean how many quarterbacks get more money than they probably deserve because that team doesn't want to have to go out and replace The quarterback they already have right? I mean that that's that's the situation here with Russell You'll probably have to overpay But if you get the money by not re-signing him and you can't replace them Then you can be kicking yourself or let them go you have to be able to replace them I just think and Chris Dudley said this yesterday Jared Dudley said this yesterday We all want to come back But we understand we have to wait online let the next do what they have to do in free agency Because you can't chew up cap space by signing people and getting over the cap and then not having that max slot available So get the max player if you can get it Maybe you've convinced somebody by the way you played in the season that you had and then you fill in the blanks I do think that you keep D'Angelo Russell bottom line. You have to I don't yeah You're not you're not going to go out and get a player better than him on the free agent market No, you're probably right by not bringing him back. You're not opening. Let me put it this way You're not going to get a player like him For the spot that he reserves On the payroll, so I think he would be reserved at about 20 million You're not going to get a player better than him for that. So just Wait have somebody off from the money and then match it. No, that's it. That's what you got to do