not as great

Having a parent with the Gift is not as great as it should be.

“He’s not as great a businessman as he thinks. A lot of his businesses go belly up, quickly.”

The risks posed by medication are not as great, he said, as the risk of being homeless, sick and untreated.

“I thought our defense was phenomenal in the first half, but not as great in the second half,” Payne said.

“The fact of the matter is I’m 36 years old, too, so recovery is not as great as it was 10 years ago. We can’t sit here and pretend that it is,” he said.