>>55217819It's funnier when some time later they created Kris in the games, who shares a certain resemblance to Casey and in the HGSS remakes they incorporated pokemon sports, something that fit perfectly with this character, instead they made a couple of episodes with Lyra .
It was obvious that the writers of that time had no love for this series, it was just another job, I would have preferred to have few but recurring characters and to delve deeper into them, as happened with Alola.