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How do the moves that were made this offseason make you guys a better team for the playoffs
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I think, you know, the shooting obviously is a big difference for us
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You know, when you've got guys that have proven in this league that they can, you know, carry weight and carry gravity
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You know, you think about John and Isaiah just in general, like being 40% three-point shooters
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You know, the gravity that they carry, you know, people are going to have to play them differently than they did in the past for us
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I think also guys that have been there, Isaiah's won a championship with a really good team
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So bringing in that experience, a playoff experience. I believe John was on the team that went to the finals with Atlanta
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Eastern Conference Finals with Atlanta, if I'm not mistaken. So you've got guys who have been there
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I've been with Torian before in Cleveland, so he has an understanding of what it is that we're trying to do
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And so I think that experience along with their skill set is going to be helpful
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Their ability to move off the ball also and carry gravity and make teams have to chase
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us and not just kind of sit and pack the paint. I think all those things are going to be helpful
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JB, how much of kind of just anticipating Asar having an expanded role with the ball
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in his hands as an offensive initiator, how much of that kind of factored into the decision
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to get guys who can continue to pace the floor? Again, like the conversation about player addition, obviously there's a lot of conversation
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between myself and Trajan and what the vision is for this team moving forward
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And obviously, Asar is a huge part of what we're going to do
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and his growth is going to be extremely important and necessary for our growth as a team
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So what Trajan has always done since we've been together is he does a phenomenal job
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of finding people that help your best players, and I think he's done that this summer again
