Courtney Fells PG added to Pelicans SL roster

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Can't wait to see him not make the training camp roster.


Remember that 6'6" center we had like four years ago?

We'll see. His 44 point highlight is pretty decent, but it is the NBA D-league.

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Originally Posted by TPDG22

We'll see. His 44 point highlight is pretty decent, but it is the NBA D-league.

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Just went and looked at his college stats, how are you a PG and your career high in assists per game is 1.5?

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Originally Posted by RaisingTheBar

Just went and looked at his college stats, how are you a PG and your career high in assists per game is 1.5?

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lol thats like being a center and averaging 1.5 rebounds

Is this a sign a perimeter player is gone since otherwise we'd have no need to bring another one in? I can hope right?

From what i can tell, dude is 65-6'6 and 210 lbs. That's like, Kobe size. Went o college for 4 years, then hit europe and the D-League. The guy has experience, just not NBA experience.
And yeah low assists in college for a PG, but how much of his time was spent at PG? I'd assume he played a decent bit of SG consideirng his size.
And checking this out:
http://stats.nbadleague.com/playerSt...layerID=203587
In 2013-14 on the Toros, he averaged 18.0 ppg, 3.0 apg, 4.8 rpg, 1.7 spg. Shooting 47.5% FG%, 37.6% 3FG% and 79.0% FT%.
And maintaining 2.3 Turnovers per game.

It's not awful at all. Might be worth it.

Edit: Also, on a team with plenty of scorers, you'd ahve to assume his assists per game would go up. Maybe he ahd to shoulder a lot of scoring on his previous teams. Who knows? Sure he'll have plenty of players on this team to pass to.

Fells averaging 17.3 points and shooting 54% from three in the four games.
http://www.nba.com/summerleague/2014...elicans/#stats

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Originally Posted by Eman5805

Can't wait to see him not make the training camp roster.


Remember that 6'6" center we had like four years ago?

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O how a month can change opinions lol

Good for him!

he definitely isn't a PG! i watched all Pels summer league games and I liked him a lot. he can really shoot the ball. i know i will get laughed at but with some moves he looked like kobe imo :)

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O how a month can change opinions lol

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Dude, I love being wrong sometimes. I literally forgot I said that.

Ah yes, this is one for the records.

Wish we could sign him at least to see if he's worse than miller against nba talent...but doen't look like it

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Originally Posted by PolishFan

he definitely isn't a PG! i watched all Pels summer league games and I liked him a lot. he can really shoot the ball. i know i will get laughed at but with some moves he looked like kobe imo :)

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Wondering if ESPN just listed it wrong or if he was just playing out of position in college, but he's as pure of a 2 as you are going to get.

yeah id rather sign him over miller but whatever

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Originally Posted by All Metro

yeah id rather sign him over miller but whatever

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I agree.

Anybody else worried about how much Russ Smith tweets after what we saw last year from Pierre? ha

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Anybody else worried about how much Russ Smith tweets after what we saw last year from Pierre? ha

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No because that is the trend if these younger athletes. I am not concerned at all as long as his head is in the game.

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Anybody else worried about how much Russ Smith tweets after what we saw last year from Pierre? ha

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Nope. He is BASED so we are winning a chip. #TYBG

Thank you based Demps