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Austin will have to decide whether to play in D-league or Overseas next year. ...IMO
Lol at Blake calling for the ball like 3 times
lmao c'mon youngin'....
just saw him hit a corner 3 tho. lac up by 5.
Should of kept him.
We could have used him against GSW.
He just went off for 17 pts. He's better than half the Pelicans roster.
So stupid to give up on a lottery pick so quick. These kind of idiotic decisions by the NOP front office will be why Davis will leave New Orleans just like CP3 did.
Your team choked away and easy game facing a team with no CP and you come over here to troll.
To tell the truth I'm impressed you were able to write all of that through all your tears, your post should came with a high blood pressure warning with all that salt.
We need to stop being so shortsighted on this board. Every time someone has a good stretch, we jump to conclusions. Aminu has a few good games and we screwed up. Babbitt has a good shooting game and he should replace Ryno. Rivers fits in better with another team's system and we failed him. Watch more basketball, folks.
I will gladly take QPon over Rivers 9 days a week.
The only reason I was ok with getting rid of Rivers was because we got Pomdexter who I believed could make a big difference on this team and he did. I know Rivers wasn't great here and showed flashes but I wish we would have kept him. In today's NBA nobody allows for development of players and it's almost if they don't become a star in the first few years people give up on them. Rivers mite not ever reach what I think his potential is but that doesn't mean his ceiling isn't high. So many players like Danny Green as a great example with hard work can turn into a very good role player in which I thought Rivers could do. Not every player on your team needs to be a star and Rivers could have been a perfect guy off the bench or even a starter at the 2 spot for his defense and attacking the rim along with developing a shot over time. I think his odds are very good of developing a good shot and becoming a very valuable player. Him developing a good mid range pull up and a better 3 point shot is all that is holding him back from being a very good player and the way he works I have no doubt he will. I'm not old but I'm old school in believing players need the chance to develop and have the time to work on their flaws. I can name a huge list of players that had the ability to use their hard work to become a better player. How good do people think Lillard would have been coming out as a freshman? If Rivers stayed until his senior year at Duke he would have come out as a way better player and probably still be on this team. Wish he was still here but Pondexter made the trade a lot easier on me but I will still root for the kid like I do most players that leave here.
Rivers will never be a guy a team can count on (on a consistent basis). The guy had every opportunity to prove himself here and never played any better than a D+. If he wasn't up for the task of being a contributor on our team he should have stayed at Duke.
He will never return to NO. never.
He was traded for reserve SF with bad 3pt %.
Only way that it did not hurt him more is connected with reunion with his dad...
As to Rivers - he had so many chances and he has failed
As to our Rockets friend.
In the last 5 years Rockets spend 1st rd LOTTERY picks on: LAMB (OK, HE WAS IN THE HARDEN'S SET), MARCUS MORRIS, PATTERSON.
And for the picks 16-23 - White and Mirotic.
Why Your FO didn't wait for their developement?
Rivers had so many chances to play, sometimes he was decent. Mostly not. But thanks to QPon we have made to the PO
To be reliable- Mirotic was traded in the draft day f.e. for Motiejunas. So this is probably not as big downgrade... But I will take Mirotic all the time...
I hope this whole deal comes back to bite Doc.
In other news, Chris Paul may FINALLY GET OUT OF THE 2ND ROUND.
Even with the 17 pts, Rivers was still bad. The only shots he managed to hit were wide open 3 pointers. He was still trying that same terrible mid-range floater and had some bad turnovers. His defense was nothing to write home about either.
I don't root against him but he still has a long way to go and I don't miss him at all on this team. It had gotten to a point that he was just unbearable to watch.
Rivers held his own compared to his usual self. Thats twice now in the playoffs.
But he did that on occasion here as well. Its his consistency mixed with his weaknesses that make him a likely bench guy for the rest of his career.
If I am asked right now whether I take Cole or Rivers, it is no contest. Cole every day, all day.
I don't know how you guys sleep/hate on Austin so much.
He would have been huge for you all in a series against GS. IMO he should have been getting 25 minutes a game with NO. When you watch him play he may still make some mistakes.. but his box score is much louder then you think...I.E 15/3/4/3 which is great production out of a 7 man.
Big mistake letting him go for an overrated QPON
Some guys won't ever fit in with Monty.
Not too easy to watch a Pelicans game considering you get maybe two NBA TV games as your only primetime showings. Guessing you don't know too much about the Sixers roster after their trades either.
I DO bet you know quite a lot about GS though...you probably got to watch them 15+ times this year if you are a true NBA fan... or atleast 4 times if not ;)
You do have a point there and I think it is a good reason why a lot of talking heads in the national media often sound silly talking about us. Not always, but more often then not. Same goes for fans of other teams that pop up on occasion during games to talk.
Hopefully a playoff berth and Davis's emergence changes that next year.
Can we end this already? Damn dude your team is 67-15 and undefeated in the playoffs enjoy this lightning in bottle season and stop trollin. Your team has been good for two hrs. Stop worrying about us. We good.
Your mighty comfortable for a fan whose teams greatest accomplishment is a 4-0 sweep of a 45 win team. As quick as it came, it could be gone. Hope you are actually enjoying it...
I get it though
12 mill for AI.
A Max deal for Green
Bogut is never going to give you a full 82
Klay is good, but 6 months ago ppl were questioning if he was 71 million good.
And we all know why Steph Curry is on the deal he is on.
Yeah, i'd be nervous too, about the sustainability of it all.
Makes sense why you care so much about the 22 year old sure thing. You'd much rather have that than the lightning-in-a-bottle, will it or wont it be this rosy in 18 months program back in the Bay Area. You can stay around, but ease up. Take your shoes off and use coasters. ;-)
Maybe the bigger question is who we should have drafted instead of Austin? 2012 draft after Austin got picked,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_NBA_draft
Quote:
1 11 Meyers Leonard C United States Portland Trail Blazers Illinois (So.)
1 12 Jeremy Lamb SG United States Houston Rockets (from Milwaukee)[c] Connecticut (So.)
1 13 Kendall Marshall PG United States Phoenix Suns North Carolina (So.)
1 14 John Henson PF United States Milwaukee Bucks (from Houston)[c] North Carolina (Jr.)
1 15 Maurice Harkless SF Puerto Rico[n 2] Philadelphia 76ers St. John's (Fr.)
1 16 Royce White PF United States Houston Rockets (from New York)[d] Iowa St. (So.)
1 17 Tyler Zeller C United States Dallas Mavericks (traded to Cleveland)[A] North Carolina (Sr.)
1 18 Terrence Jones PF United States Houston Rockets (from Utah via Minnesota)[e] Kentucky (So.)
1 19 Andrew Nicholson PF Canada Orlando Magic St. Bonaventure (Sr.)
1 20 Evan Fournier SG France Denver Nuggets Poitiers (France)
1 21 Jared Sullinger PF United States Boston Celtics Ohio St. (So.)
1 22 Fab Melo C Brazil Boston Celtics (from L.A. Clippers via Oklahoma City)[f] Syracuse (So.)
1 23 John Jenkins SG United States Atlanta Hawks Vanderbilt (Jr.)
1 24 Jared Cunningham SG United States Cleveland Cavaliers (from L.A. Lakers,[g] traded to Dallas)[A] Oregon St. (Jr.)
1 25 Tony Wroten PG United States Memphis Grizzlies Washington (Fr.)
1 26 Miles Plumlee C United States Indiana Pacers Duke (Sr.)
1 27 Arnett Moultrie PF United States Miami Heat (traded to Philadelphia)[B] Mississippi St. (Jr.)
1 28 Perry Jones III SF United States Oklahoma City Thunder Baylor (So.)
1 29 Marquis Teague PG United States Chicago Bulls Kentucky (Fr.)
1 30 Festus Ezeli C Nigeria Golden State Warriors (from San Antonio)[h] Vanderbilt (Sr.)
2 31 Jeffery Taylor SF Sweden Charlotte Bobcats Vanderbilt (Sr.)
Only players that have made an impact are the PF's. I would love to have Terrence Jones or Sully on my team.
No matter what your personal point of view on it is here are the facts:
When we traded Austin Boston tried and couldn't find a team to dump him to. Austin was almost out of the league before his dad came to his rescue. Even if he becomes the greatest player of all time every team could have had him and chose not to, meaning the Warriors, the Rockets, and the Pelicans are all equally as dumb for not grabbing/keeping him.
Or is it possible that he was nearly out of the league because he just never showed anything worth keeping him in the league for? He'll be a FA and we'll see just how much the league values him now that he has had two decent games in the playoffs vs 3 years of poor play. I like the guy and I hope he does do well. I hope he proves the Pelicans wrong for letting him go, but there can't be any blame put on the Pels for letting him go when clearly his value was so low in the league that he was not considered desirable except for the one team who his dad runs.
Yeah, I really wanted to try and trade up to get him because it was the high risk/high reward player I was willing to chance with Davis being the sure bet. And because it was pretty clear we were taking rivers if certain guys didn't fall and I wanted no part of it.
Qpon did choke in the last few games.
Don't care if he was open on his 3 pointers or not 4-6 is damn good. Had 3 turnovers which is not bad at all considering he was running the point. Shot near 50% from the field which is big man territory. Had 4 steals so I think he made up for his turnovers. To say he was bad is just completely false and obviously shows you are bias and will never give him credit. I don't miss him either but I would have liked to give him more time to develop but getting QPon made the trade a lot more acceptable to me instead of just dumping him for nothing like a lot of people thought and were hoping for just made no sense. I'm not saying he is going to be great but to me just improving a little each year he would be a very valuable combo guard off the bench playing D while being able to get to the basket very well and knocking down 3s at a good % with improvement. I was a fan of Rivers as I am of almost all the Pelicans besides a couple bad apples we will have like every team. I'm just a big believer in letting players develop before giving up on them especially someone with his talent and age wether he gets better or not he should be given more time like I would want anyone in that situation. Players like Davis completely spoil us regarding that process and God forbid how this forum would have blown up if he wasn't this good yet still going through growing pains we would have some band wagons really showing their colors.
Get out of here with that. I rooted for Austin every minute he was on the court with us and defended him on several occasions. His play, not my opinion, made it nearly impossible to defend him anymore.
I wish him well but I am not going sugar coat anything because some are still sensitive in his regard.