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so I’m watching the show through for the first time in like three or four years and I’m super confused on where booth and bones stand on Max Keenan. for the past 10 or so episodes since Max appeared, there have been multiple times where bones and booth are talking about Max and what they would do if he showed up and bones is shitting on him and booth is defending him. Like I remember a specific episode where booth was specifically like “ honestly if I had the opportunity to arrest Max Keenan, I probably wouldn’t do it because he only hurts people who deserves it and I respect his code”. Booth had looked into his record and realized the people who were killing were all dirty. whereas bones was on the complete other side. And then like five episodes later, Max saves Booth’s life and Booth immediately tries to arrest him. And then like now I’m in the season finale of season two and he’s still trying to arrest him like the second he walks in a room. And don’t get me wrong. I understand that he has to do that from an FBI standpoint but his demeanor is like completely different from the way he was talking about Max before. like he’s trying to do everything he can to put Max behind bars. it’s not just like a oh “I have to do this, but I don’t want to.” He just had a conversation with bones like 10 episodes ago where he was saying that “he was a stand-up guy, even though he did illegal things and he didn’t want to arrest him.” I’m just confused about This dynamic. Did I miss like a turning point in booth’s opinion on Max or what?

I know we want a PG, and I definitely understand that, but I don’t think we should scoff at the chance to pick up Ament at 8 if he’s still there. He’s more of a SF than a PF, in a bit of a Durant mold, so JJ wouldn’t be an issue of blockading him in the depth chart, and I have a strong feeling he’d be the best available to us at 8. he’s better than Wagler and Flemings and Brown. If Acuff is gone I’m starting to lean towards taking Ament although I know the points moot cus the team won’t do it.

So, I’m a Tennessee fan and given our entire roster next season (literally all but 3 players for both men and women combined) is coming from elsewhere, I’m not super read up on our rosters for next season. Now that they are almost full, I have been able to gauge our roster level for next season for the men’s because they have TP rankings and tons of articles on guys like Juke Harris, Terrence Hill, Jalen Haralson, etc. that has given me a good idea of where our roster stands (imo it’s by far the best roster Tennessee has ever had and the first one ever capable of a natty on the men’s side). Problem is, with the women’s side, that stuff is not readily available. There’s no transfer portal rankings, there’s barely recruiting rankings, and very few articles to understand. I can look at stats but that doesn’t even tell half the story. For example, Coulibaly was the leading scorer for Auburn, but Auburn was absolute Buns last year so I have no idea how good she actually is. All that to say, I’m hoping some of y’all who are more read up on Women’s Basketball players across the board can help me gauge how good our roster is. It seems good based on what I’m hearing but idk. I know Minus is a very good top 70 recruit and Aaliyah Moore is a great pick up. Caldwell is a solid coach. But idk much about the rest of the roster.

Here’s our roster as of rn:

1. Gabby Minus

2. Avery Mills

3. Naomi White

4. Zhen Craft

5. Harper Peterson

6. Rylie Theuerkauf

7. Irene Oboavwoduo

8. Fatmata Janneh

9. Kaylene Smikle

10. Kennedy Fauntleroy

11. Jada Eads

12. Aaliyah Moore

13. Harrissoum Coulibaly

Any insight. Idek who our starting 5 would be?