Larry Nance Jr. scouting report, Atlanta Hawks 2025 player capsule series, future, NBA free agency

Larry Nance Jr. scouting report, Atlanta Hawks 2025 player capsule series, future, NBA free agency

On today’s show, it is Larry Dance Jr. It’s part two of our player capsule series with Glenn Willis, and it’s coming up right now. You are Locked On Hawks, your daily Atlanta Hawks podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Hello friends, welcome to episode 1978 of the Lock on Hawks podcast. I am your host Brad Roland coming to you on a Sunday evening into Monday. And I want to encourage you at the top of our podcast as I always do to make it your first listen here at Lon Hawks. Check us out and subscribe to the show anywhere you find your podcasts, Apple, Spotify, YouTube, etc. We’re going to be there all summer long. We’ll be there all season long. And we’re honestly going on 10 years now of this podcast. So hopefully you will keep it locked. Subscribe, tell your friends, and join us. And this is actually going to be part two of two with myself and Glenn Willis of ATL29. If you missed it, part one should be available in the same podcast feed right now. So, I would recommend strongly starting with part one. So, if you didn’t listen to that one already, go back to that one. Part one’s first, then part two, where we’re talking all things Larry Nance Jr. as the start of our player capsule series that we do each and every summer, talking about the entire Hawks roster, and Larry is up first this time around. So, again, part one’s available on the same podcast feed. And here we go with part two. So, speaking of the defense, we’ll go there now and we’ll maybe circle back to the more broad stuff at the very end of this conversation, but I’ll try not to keep you incredibly long on these shows if I can help it. Glenn, you have a life to lead that does not involve guesting with me too much. Um, but defensively, uh, it’s a mixed bag with Larry. I think that we’ve already talked about this a little bit on the offensive side. He will execute. He’s usually in the right place, but I think as a center, in particular, as an anchor, he is not great at this point in time. We’ll obviously get into more depth than that, but he’s he’s limited in some respects. He actually had pretty good um stock numbers, so steals and block numbers. Um more, you know, actually especially for his size, like pretty solid, like three per game. Sorry, I threw three per 100 possessions, which is totally fine for a big, but I gave a little bit of a broad number earlier. I’ll give the actual number now. Our friends at Cleaning the Glass had the Hawks with a 124 defensive rating in the in the minutes with Nance at center for the season. Now, that’s not again, it’s a pretty small sample size, but that’s a very bad number. And it’s not all on him. I’ll be the first to say like I I try to the samples got so small. I was trying to like wait out like removing guys like giving him better context. Like I won’t say the name of the player I was trying to remove from the context to improve, but it was uh the guy there. Huh? We know who it is. Uh he isn’t gonna be on the team anymore. He wasn’t on the team mid-season. Um but broadly speaking, the simple thing is the Hawks were not good defensively with Larry at center. In your mind, how much of that is that Larry can’t do that and how much of that is context? Because I’m sure it’s some of both. Yeah. So again, I’ll go back to the word template, right? So Anaka uh like the offensive template uh sort of a overlay, right? Defensively not the same thing, right? Anya um you know, someone will say is not a rim protector. And you know, we we’ve had conversations before like on ATL 29. The league is realizing that if you just have a center that you want to kind of rescue shots at the rim the whole game, he’s going to be in foul trouble the whole season, you know. So the the league is really trying to invest more in point attack defense and containing the ball, not letting the ball get metal, all this all the principles that they have. Larry Nance Junior, not not the defender in space he was when he was 25, 26, 27. Yeah. Right. You go back to that era, switchable one through five, you know, if he’s the four, switch one through four, whatever you wanted to be. And you know, big guys, you know, mileage, all that sort of stuff is kind of taking that away. So, so the defensive template does have to be adjusted I think um in some cases when you put N on the board now. But now you have to ask NBA coaches like is it worth switching up? Like okay when Yaka comes off and Larry goes on we’re going to go to a drop like and we’ve been switching one through five. We’ve been getting to the big to the level of the screen. We’ve been hedging whatever you know. Do you want to make that change in the middle of the game or do you just want to try to kind of survive, you know, the minutes that are there? That’s a philosophical uh decision that there’s a lot more people a lot of people more qualified than me that know what the right answer is is to that. But I do think they asked him at times to do things that he wasn’t, you know, physically u kind of ideal to to do. Um his technique, like getting to the level, for example, his technique totally fine. His athleticism to recover off of that hedge or off of that double or whatever, not what it was a few years ago. Just takes a little longer for him to get back. Uh and all that sort of stuff. Uh the other professional stuff on defense, communication, the organization, you know, all that sort of stuff. uh an anchoring in in the form of those things. Total pro does it all, you know, perfectly, you know, really knows what he’s doing there. But for me, you know, you’re on the floor with David Rody, like good luck, you know, there it is. Yeah. Um you’re on the floor, you know, in some cases when they had time like, you know, Nance at the I don’t I don’t I can’t even remember how much Nance and Yang played together if like it must have been like honestly even less maybe even less than that. like it was very very little I think but but but there were some because of the injury you Jaylen’s injury you know was a created kind of a a domino effect that led to you know some pretty tough kind of lineup choices uh to make and manage sort of stuff like that. So, you know, so for me, I do think that as we, you know, look ahead to next season, and I know we’ll talk about, you know, should they bring him back or not, but but for me, his greatest value is that every team when they’re playing down 8, 12, 8, 10, 12 points in the fourth quarter, wants to juice their lineup of shooting. And when you can put shooting at the five to help you generate more threes, uh, that’s something coaches, that’s a lever that coaches love to have. Uh, and that’s something that, you know, he can give them when they’re trying to kind of play from behind. Um, you you just like with, you know, you imagine like next season if he’s back and the Yang’s back and the Hawks are trailing, you got Nance at the five and Yang may be at the four, you’re they’re going to have be have to be scrappy on defense and whatever, you know. Um but but all co almost every coach when they’re playing from behind Juice’s lineup is shooting and that’s something that uh you know an and lineup can do even with the very obvious trade-offs on defense. Yeah. And look some of the numbers like the advanced numbers your EPMs your Raptors are not very kind as defense this last season. Again given all the context those are also um depending on what your formula you’re looking at like they’re based on onoff metrics and the Hawks were worse with him on the court defensively. But again, part of that’s context. Like I don’t want to say, you know, we do try to go a different uh to another level on this on these shows in general, but I wouldn’t just come on and say Larry Nance is a bad defender. Like I I don’t I don’t believe that to be true. Um is he limited defender at this point? Yeah, I think so. Like I think you need to have you need to know what you’re getting and not ask him to do things he can’t do. Um like you just got into like you don’t want to have him be a pure drop defender who’s like asked to be, you know, Rudy Gobear at the rim. like he’s not he’s not going to do that and you’re not going to put him on an island in space either and have him block up against guards like he’s not gonna do that very well but if you if he’s part of a he’s part of a scheme uh it can work and uh you know I don’t want to overweight this too much because um Jaylen’s really good but in I think it’s like a 100 minutes or so with Nance and Jaylen the numbers are pretty good because you give Larry at center it’s a smaller scale version of a of the thing we talk about with Kong Woo forever and we’ll talk about I’m sure when we get to him and his castle If you put a real four next to him, it’s a lot easier to get by with Larry at center on defense if it’s Jaylen Johnson next to him or if it’s Mo Gay. Like I don’t think Larry and Mo played like hardly at all together because Mo was in the G-League when Larry was healthy and vice versa or whatever. But I think if you played Mo Gay and Larry Nance, you could play with that group. Like that that’s a viable defensive group. I don’t know offensively. We we have to see. But um what I don’t think you want to do in big samples defensively is put Larry at center with like a small ball four option. That’s that’d be what I would say is I mean again that’s probably too broad but uh I think you get the point of what I’m saying. Like put it next to a real four and you could probably live with Yeah, that’s a that’s a break glass when you’re down by 12 15 points and that’s that really should be the only scenario that you’re there. You know, it’s kind of funny with the when I was kind of prep prepping here, the when I think back, the game that jumps out at me for people being frustrated with his defense was the the Spurs game when he was on Wimi. Yep. And and and I and I don’t want to say like I’m right, everyone else is wrong. I I have my p I I definitely don’t. Right. I don’t know what Quinn’s philosophy was, but for me, everybody was like, “No, what he did on Wimi was fine. Like, what are you going to do? Wim is making, you know, 32 foot, you know, three-pointers and all that sort of stuff. But it seemed like people wanted him to leave Wimby to go help, you know, and I’m like, in my mind, I’m like, okay, you leave Wimby, who’s going to keep him off the offensive? Like, you’re done. Like, he’s going to get every offensive rebound. I mean, you want to stay with him on the perimeter, keep a body on him. I I I’m guessing that’s what Quinn was emphasizing. I don’t know that, right? I don’t know that. But it’s one of those things. just like man like okay he goes helps and makes a shot harder and Wimpby just cleans it up because there’s nobody there to put a body on him you know uh and that was just that was one game where it felt like there was a lot more noise about you know whether it’s Twitter or wherever you know about his defense um but it was another example where it’s still but it’s another example one of those things like well what do you do you know yeah the leagues leagues have to figure that one out because Wim is a completely different kind of thing is brought to you by Car Gurus. Shopping for a car should be exciting and not exhausting, but between the confusing prices and the hidden fees, it can feel overwhelming sometimes. And that’s why I love using Car Gurus. They’ll be cut through all the noise and show you the best deals with full confidence. 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It was also a game that uh they lost by, I believe, one point. Yeah. And it was like, you know, one of those games and I think he played like 15 minutes or whatever it was, maybe 20 in that game. And wasn’t Clint? Somebody somebody was out. Was Clint out? I think it was Clint or either Clint or Neo. One of those guys was out for that game. He had played him more than he probably was going to play. We’ll get Yeah, we’ll get at the box score now. Um, yeah, no, no Clint in that one. So, I think they maybe had they had Nance on WBY at the end of the game sometimes, you know, all anyway. You don’t you don’t want to overweight that and it was also it’s such a unique case in prepping for this where I don’t know how much Hawks fans remember of Larry Nance like actually because it’s been so long. I mean all these they haven’t played in a month plus but he hasn’t he hasn’t played three and a half months as we’re talking like he was he missed the last two months of the season and also didn’t play so much so it’s like do people actually have a full idea of Valyan’s experience I’m not even really sure maybe that’s what we’re doing with this podcast but it is uh interesting to me um look we teased it already about him being a great locker room guy that that stuff matters uh Larry’s completing a multi-year deal where he was making eight figures per season I think if I had to guess Larry probably won’t making eight figures a season anymore in his career, but he’ll be in the league for sure and for a while, I would imagine. Um, and we should talk about the fact that he’s gonna be a a free agent at the what basically now he’s a I guess technically uh he and Clint and Garrison. Um, who else am I missing? Oh, and Caris, they actually they actually could all sign extensions right now. They don’t have to. They don’t have to hit free agency, but the assumption would be as most guys hit free agency when they’re hitting free agency, that he’ll be a free agent on July 1st. And he did. He’s expressed multiple times now, ex interviews, social media, all that stuff about how much he liked Atlanta, even with the challenges of the injuries. I think he likes it here. The team really likes Larry. I have said on the record and I’ll say it again now for people that missed it. Um, between Clint and Larry, I think Larry is much more likely to return than Clint. Um, just based on intel, that’s just my read. I’m not saying that Clint’s impossible to return. Never said that and won’t say that. But I think that the vibe I’m getting, what I’m hearing is that Larry has a clearer path. Um, maybe that part of that’s maybe what the salary might be. Part of that might be what the role might be. All those things. Um, every I mean Clint’s popular too, but Larry’s a popular guy in the locker room. Uh, before I get into like some of the Hawks options, because look, this is an interesting free agent center class. If you’re the Hawks and as we’re recording this podcast, the still unnamed president of basketball operations, how would you approach this? Like, obviously, you don’t want to give Larry Nets a blank check, but they have they have his bird rights. They could do whatever they want with him basically, as long as he agrees. They don’t have this they don’t have match rights, but would you proactively want to bring Larry back if the price was reasonable? I would um I would for sure. There’s one thing we haven’t we kind of touched on but haven’t talked about too is that um it’s gonna be interesting to see if the Hawks continue to do this but a lot of their transactions the last say 12 months maybe even more eight more than that are really have really been um they’ve really been leaning into culture fit. Yeah. Right. the the Reese Shay pick definitely was that guy who will just do what’s asked of him, embrace the role he’s asked to do. Nance is that kind of guy as well. You know, I know we’ll talk about Terrence man, but I know a lot of Hawks fans found that to be a frustrating experience. I didn’t I didn’t I wasn’t as frustrated, but takes the assignment, takes the assignment, takes the assignment, takes the assignment, and that’s really kind of one of the values of having a guy like Nance. So, I think I think he’s logical to bring back. The big question I I have is what happens on draft night? Do they take a young center with a 22nd pick, right? Y if they do, Nance is like a perfect mentor, you know, for a young center that’s that’s on the roster. Um really, in my mind, you couldn’t find a better one, you know, than him, right? Um uh or, you know, are they going to look for a more experienced, you know, backup uh that might be available and affordable? So to me like the draft what they do on draft night swings so many decisions of where they invest. Um I as I could I’m still um getting up to speed on the broader draft class but it does feel like there’s going to be some options at 22 some capable you know fourth combo four fives whatever and so for me if that happens I think he’s the perfect guy to kind of bring back and put into that spot. uh as you and I know like young centers easily find it rough early in their career and uh it takes some time uh and stuff like that. So even if he’s playing more than you would uh maybe maybe prefer uh um while you’re kind of getting a rookie kind of acclimated and stuff like that um I I think that’s the path to go. But draft is still what um how many six weeks six weeks away. So, yeah. So, yeah, we’ll we’ll see what happens. But to me, so much of the July 1 decisions, yeah, we’ll say uh really do kind of swing from what to do on draft night. Oh, yeah. And that’s the thing, like I wish it was easier sometimes to explain on all these decisions. Clint’s the same way to a different degree, but especially with Larry, like he is so versatile and that and look, I I don’t know what Larry’s market is. Like, he’ll have he’ll have one. Teams are going to want him. Like, especially veteran teams are going to want to bring him in as an insurance piece or a fourth big or whatever it’s going to be. I’m not worried about him getting a job. He’s going to have a job. It’s just I don’t know what his is it going to be the minimum. Is it going to be more than that? I I don’t know what he’s pri what he’s going to prioritize. He’s he’s made some money in his career. um all those things. So you have that aspect of it. Then you have the free agent market is not like crazy deep at center, but you got some guys like beyond your Miles Turner, Brook Lopez ties, which are in a different tier. Like those guys are starters still. Stephen Adams maybe, but you got like you got Capella, ironically, in the same class. You got Luke Cornett, Cavon Looney, like there are some names that are like backup centers and like which teams want to do what at center matters here. And then you’re 100% right about the draft. Having two first round picks, the Hawks could certainly take a big in this draft. If you were to just say, “Okay, if you guaranteed me they’re going to make both picks,” the chances of them drafting one of them with a big is fairly likely. I’m not saying it’s going to definitely happen, but it’s definitely there’s a lot of bigs in their range in 13 and 22. But also, what team do you want to be? And it’s something we’ll be talking about a lot the next six weeks and beyond is like, okay, if you’re really trying to push in, take the next step to win now, next year, do you want to have a backup center who’s a 19-year-old? I don’t know. Like, and if you do, do you want to have a backup center who’s actually your backup center like not be like almost have that guy be your third center for the season? You know what I mean? Like there’s some interesting because I’m prone to say in this, most rookies are not going to help you win basketball games. Yep. Especially early in the early in in their career. So, how do you balance that? And that’s always the thing about the draft. Like, you’re not drafting for me because we you know this Glenn, the one area on the depth chart right now for the Hawks where there’s literally nothing basically is backup center because Clint and Larry are free agents. Maybe Mo Gay. I mean, Mo Gay could play backup center, but they they’ve always viewed him as a four, more than a five. He played a little bit of five, but other than Mo, that’s basically they got nothing there. And that leads Hawks fans, even if even ones that are higher on a Congo, then you have the whole Congo piece about him being too small. Regardless of that, I’m sure this happens to you. Half the questions I get are more about the drafts are about centers. Yeah. People People are interested in centers. And Larry, I mean, the good thing about Larry, to bring it back to Larry, is that you can draft the center. You could even sign Luke Cornett or whichever big center you want and still sign Larry Nance because Larry Nance can play the four, can play the five, won’t cost a ton of money, great locker room guy. Like signing Larry is not prohibitive to do anything else like anything else. You could draft somebody, you could sign somebody. Whereas I don’t mean this in a negative way. If you were to sign Clint to what Clint’s market’s going to be this summer, that’s your backup center move. I think Clint’s gonna have a market of a decent amount of money and Clint is a very limited player as far as like what he can and can’t do. You know what Clint is Yeah. Whereas Larry could do a lot of different things and wouldn’t stop him from doing anything else. So that’s I don’t know that’s a long way of saying it, but I think that um all of that contributes to what I think is I’m not saying he’s likely to come back. 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Um like there’s a couple of restricted guys. Uh Don Sharp is a free agent for example. Like there’s some decent names but like a lot of the I don’t know it’s it’s a mixed bag of a list. I think Luc Cornet’s more popular than he was before. Um yeah, there are centers but there are not like an an endless amount of them I would say. And a lot of them are like the may not, you know, you’re probably not gonna be able to get Stephen Adams. Like I think he’s gonna probably stay in Houston or go somewhere else. You know what I mean? Like it’s gonna be they have they have the ML if they want to throw it at somebody if they want to go with a bigger option. But it’s interesting. Adam’s physicality is just just especially in the Western Conference. I mean all every Yeah. You got to deal you want to deal with Zubot, you better have someone like someone like Cass. Well, and I’d love that’s why I’m sure Hawks fans are saying I’d love to have Steve Yeah, me too. I’d love to have Steve Adams. That guy is really really good at basketball, but I don’t think he’s going to be jumping to leave if he doesn’t have to leave, you know. For sure. Yeah. And think about young guys like, you know, Kar you this year, like Miami invested a lot of minutes in him and and he showed a lot of progress this year. He I mean he but there are but if you watch a lot of Miami games, there were also games where he just looked like a rookie, you know, and and wasn’t, you know, really able to kind of keep up with adjustments and things like that. That’s not me. I mean, I think Miami whereas like this dude is worth investing in. I agree with him. He is I think he’s going to be a good player. versus if you want to kind of look at what the Hawks might do next season as a team that’s going to try to maybe kind of push up higher to the standings. Do you, you know, roll a 19-year-old out there on, you know, October 21st or whenever their whenever their first game is going to be, um, and roll with that or do you do you wait till, you know, mid December to start kind of, okay, uh, we got a backtoback Larry, you’re playing, if he’s back, you’re playing on night one, rookie, you’re playing on night two, oh, we got Utah on the second night. we’re gonna, you know, uh, you know, let Larry, you know, sit on the bench that night and and go take maybe, you know, a game where a younger guy is is a better fit. So, that kind of maneuverability, um, is is something that that they might end up needing to to have the the ability to do. Yeah, I’m totally with you. I have one more question. I’m let you go, but I want to make sure that I ask it because I’m sure I’ll be as I probably already have been asked it. The one thing that I would say about Larry Nance Jr. is that what I would not do as the Hawks is bring him back as the primary backup center, like the only investment of the position. That’s what I would not do. Do you agree with me on that? Am I being silly? Am I being too low on Larry? Because like I think I would not want I would not want my center room to be a Kongu and Nance with not much else. I if I’m gonna bring Lance back, it’s either going to be with a rookie, first round pick as a third guy or with a, you know, pick your other veteran maybe bigger body backup center like some some other option. I would not just have Larry as my only backup center would my would be my take. Well, Brad, they need a sevenfooter, right? So, well, I always play that joke, too. But even if it’s not sevenfooter, you’re you and I agree on that. That I’m sure that’s gonna come up a lot on the Aongu discussion, but it’s I mean, but it is true. Look, as much as I’m not a size only evaluator of center play, I do think that I would be wary of having someone like Larry as the only backup for a Yeah. I So, so I I think the best teams have configurability behind the starting center, right? Yep. Nance, like I said, you’re playing from behind. his shooting, his ball handling, all that, his ball skills, all that sort of stuff helps you in that scenario when you need uh a really physical and and Nance is a pretty physical guy, but he’s still, you know, going up against Embiid if he’s healthy or going up against Joic or whatever or chasing Wimi all over the perimeter, not necessarily assignment you want to get him, you know, and so I think having a third guy that can um is a stronger rebounder, is a is a stronger rim protector, um has more just takes up more say space um when you’re you dealing with um you know other opposing bigs who like to play you know in the paint and close to the rim and stuff like that. I think that um supplementary or complimentary kind of skill set that’s different than dances where that’ll let you kind of swing towards more defensive uh value when that’s the thing that you need. I think that makes a ton of sense. And so for me, you know, I sort of like, you know, there’s, you know, we talked about um, you know, we kind of did the season looked back on the Hawks. It’s like Nang shouldn’t be a guy that you have to play every night, right? Yeah. Right. Uh, and and Nance is probably at this point in the career that way, too. I I never worry about him not doing the right thing, not playing the right way. None of that stuff, but there are some matchups where you just need, you know, something different than than what he has to offer. And the best teams build contingencies into their kind of positional kind of roster construction to let them lean into whatever they need in a certain match up or night. Yeah, I think the word that we used a lot on that show that you were talking about which drop if you missed anybody missed it was a few weeks ago um was optionality. Just have giving your coaching staff options that they can utilize. And the good thing we we just not that I’m rooting against Larry playing but we just saw him not I’m sure he wants to play man. These guys are professional athletes. He’s a confident guy, but he was okay. Like he navigated life not playing every night and was okay with it. Like he didn’t cause a ruckus, like any of that stuff. And I think that if he if he came back, and look, he doesn’t have to. He’s he’s unrestricted. He can sign wherever he wants to. But if he came back, he’d probably know like, “Hey, I’m not going to play 75 games if I had to guess.” So, and that’s fine at this point in his career. Like, he he’ll age gracefully. I if I’m the Hawks, I definitely have a standing offer to Larry. I don’t know what it’s going to be, how much money it’s going to be for, how many years it’s going to be, any of that stuff. But I would be like, “Hey, Larry, we we’d like to have you back as long as you don’t get if he gets a massive offer somewhere.” If somebody else offers him the mid level, you shake hands and say, “Larry, we enjoyed it. That’s too much for us, but we love you kind of thing.” But if barring an an offer like that, like make him say no. Make him make him go somewhere else. He’s agree. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think he’s helpful. And hopefully, you know, you know, the the the messaging is that he had a good experience and hopefully that that helps the Hawks because I think he’d be helpful to have back next year. But, I mean, at the end of the day, Larry gets to decide. You know, that’s the thing. Yeah. He’s a he’s a he is unrestricted. He’s a veteran. He’s an adult. He will do whatever he wants to do and prioritize what he wants to prioritize. But if you’re the team, you can just give him an offer and see what he wants to do. So, uh, well, Glenn, I will get out of here now and we will effort to not go an hour on Larry Nance. Uh, I will not ask you this maybe every time we talk, but uh, where can folks find all of your fantastic musings? I know we talked about your writing at the beginning of this conversation, but you have a podcast that you co-host with some of my friends as well. What can that? Yeah, ET 29. Uh, last one we did was sort of what do we learn from the playoffs and, you know, big tip of the hat, Tyler. Tyler brought some great stuff on on that episode. So, if you haven’t listened to that one, uh, go listen to that. Uh, my Patreon, you can check that out as well. You can find the link in my bio of Blue Sky and Twitter or X, whatever you’re calling it. Um, looking forward to uh conference final previews with a couple of special guests uh coming out of the weekend here. So, that should be a lot of fun. Uh, I’m doing draft two to three draft prospects a week uh there. It’s very hard to do because yeah, I mean, those are great. I’m I’m reading them all. Those are great. I know. But trying to find the enough footage to like spend two hours watching and then, you know, have that be enough. If if it’s one of those things you feel a little fraudulent like uh because like you look at the people who do it full-time and like you know definitely go put Sam Bassini’s opinion like universe is higher than mine you know but but yeah I I look at it from a just sort of a coach’s lens and and do my best in that sets and stuff like that but um you can see those uh and then pastry hoops I’ll do I think I’m going to do three draft profiles uh over there. Uh, so yeah. Yeah. Um, all those places, come come find our our work and come say hi. You’ll appreciate this. Before we sign off, I just got a text from Tower Jones while we’re recording about Hansen Yang. He is all in on Hansen Yang as a draft prospect and he can’t stop telling me about it, which he’s also tweeting about. So, I think I’m safe to say this because he’s tweeting about it, too. He’s in on Hansen Yang. This is what we do. We’re talking about basketball all the time, even on a Saturday night when we’re recording this podcast. So, uh, no, thanks Glenn. Thanks for thanks for doing this. We’ll do another one. We’ll do another one soon. Uh maybe not Clint and Larry back toback. Maybe we’ll find something else to talk about the next time we come on. But uh Clint and I I was gonna joke that if we led with Clint that you were gonna have a thousand people unsubscribe from your podcast. So we don’t want that to happen. And that is why this is not about Capella out of the gate. That’s the only reason why we didn’t start with Clint tonight was because I don’t want to get people to leave the podcast. But one more time, thank you to Glenn for being here. As for everybody else, please subscribe to this podcast anywhere you find podcasts. And we’ll see you all next time.

Brad Rowland (@BTRowland) hosts Episode 1978 of the Locked on Hawks podcast, and he is joined by Glen Willis (@willis_glen) for Part 2 of a 2-part conversation. The show begins a 2025 Atlanta Hawks player capsule series, focusing on veteran big man Larry Nance Jr. and his strengths, weaknesses, future projection, and much more.

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