March 18th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Dallas Mavericks - 30-42

Dropped 6 in a row, including last game in the dumbest possible way imaginable.

Tonight we play the Dallas Mavericks, and there are multiple chances at significant events tonight. Let's look at them all:

1) Elfrid Payton could record a 5th consecutive triple double, joining only Michael Jordan, Oscar Robertson, Wilt Chamberlain, and Russell Westbrook as the only players to record at least 5 straight trip dubs.

2) Dirk Nowitzki only needs 4 points to pass Wilt Chamberlain on the all time scoring list. He's averaging basically 9 points a game, so it should be very do-able.

3) A loss tonight gives us another loss, and Dallas another win. If this happens, we will swap places with Dallas and take the spot for 7th place in the lottery. That move up takes us from 26.3% to 32% chance to get a top 4 pick, and also moves our 6% chance at the #1 pick to 7.5%. Not too bad.

Luka is scheduled to play as well, as he's listed as probable by the Mavs. Hopefully he will play, because he's very fun to watch and him playing ups the chances of us losing. He's had a rough shooting stretch recently that's dragged his 3pt% down to only 34%, which is a shame for him, but he's still tallying 21/7.4/5.7 in his rookie year, which is still very very impressive. In fact, only three other rookies have averaged at least 20/5/5 since the introduction of the 3pt line in 1979: Michael Jordan, Lebron James, and Tyreke Evans.

And in fact, nobody in that span has averaged 21/7/5 except Luka. Just an incredible rookie year. Hopefully though, someone like Frank can be the rookie of the night instead.

Let's go and #DoItBig!

Let us see how we lose this one. If it is any more epic than Saturday night.

I didn't know where to post this, so I'll post it here. I saw earlier today, Tim Frazier got picked up by the bucks. He is now on the team with the best record in the league.

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I didn't know where to post this, so I'll post it here. I saw earlier today, Tim Frazier got picked up by the bucks. He is now on the team with the best record in the league.

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Anthony to Milwaukee confirmed

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Anthony to Milwaukee confirmed

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AD for Frazier and Niko?

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AD for Frazier and Niko?

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God no. Tempted to just give them AD as long as they keep Frazier forever.

We might have to give them Jrue too with that type of haul.

gotta give it to dirk he's stayed in one place even when Dallas was really bad

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RE-SIGN ELFRID

Tell you what, with as many times as Julius Randle has been hit inside the paint, the bad two fouls called on him early and that Luka Doncic half court shot at the 1st half buzzer, he never lost his cool but very easily could have.

DeMarcus Cousins would be in the showers by now

— Oleh Kosel (@OlehKosel) March 19, 2019

The Utah Jazz defeated the Washington Wizards tonight.

The New Orleans Pelicans are now officially eliminated from the playoff race.

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) March 19, 2019

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RE-SIGN ELFRID

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2 years 9 mil. No more

Agreed. Have to think something like a 2-year, $9-10 million dollar deal is a possibility. https://t.co/Off4gxMM6K

— Oleh Kosel (@OlehKosel) March 17, 2019

Kenrich Williams is a gem. Holy moly that was incredible.

crikey what a nail biter. complete opposite of the phoenix ending haha

I dont mind if we lose this game to mavs but the refs cant call that foul when luka is out of control on his own .

Whelp. You can't lose 'em all.

Frank Jackson is going to be a beast.

damn lmao go pels i think!!!????

Randle finished up with 30pts. Not bad

I think we should re-sign Randle (4 years $80 million) and Payton (2 years $10 million) to be building blocks for our next team.

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I think we should re-sign Randle (4 years $80 million) and Payton (2 years $10 million) to be building blocks for our next team.

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Agreed on Payton. Randle should not get $20m per, whatsoever. Just shouldn't happen.

Shame we won but at least it was a fun and dramatic game

I don't care about draft position. We're gonna get a top 10 pick regardless. I like winning, and seeing the guys happy. They work hard. They should get rewarded for it.

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I don't care about draft position. We're gonna get a top 10 pick regardless. I like winning, and seeing the guys happy. They work hard. They should get rewarded for it.

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Winning games like this will get us another Austin Rivers.

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

Winning games like this will get us another Austin Rivers.

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Dell Demps won’t be the one drafting this time so we’re good. :)

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I don't care about draft position. We're gonna get a top 10 pick regardless. I like winning, and seeing the guys happy. They work hard. They should get rewarded for it.

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If you will be fine with short term thinking, then I don't wanna see y'all complain when we can only draft some flop of a player. Priorities first man, and the reality is most of the contributors on this team is playing for THEIR future and contracts not to be apart of our future. That's my whole issue with this. Most guys playing right now won't probably even be here after this season so idc about winning if a culture won't be built and we are forced to draft freaking Romeo Langford based on players like Darius Miller balling out for us

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If you will be fine with short term thinking, then I don't wanna see y'all complain when we can only draft some flop of a player. Priorities first man, and the reality is most of the contributors on this team is playing for THEIR future and contracts not to be apart of our future. That's my whole issue with this. Most guys playing right now won't probably even be here after this season so idc about winning if a culture won't be built and we are forced to draft freaking Romeo Langford based on players like Darius Miller balling out for us

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This is so true.

Think about it. Who is guaranteed to be on the team next season? Not ''who do we want to resign'', but who is already guaranteed, locked in, secured, no question?

- Jrue Holiday
- Solomon Hill
- E'twaun Moore
- Frank Jackson
- Kenrich Williams

That is it. Randle has a player option, so he may opt in or he may not, and even if he leaves we may re-sign him, but he's not guaranteed. Elfrid is a FA. Miller is a FA. Diallo is a FA. Jah is on a team option, so he's probably coming back but again, not guaranteed. AD is going to be traded unquestionably, so we don't know what return he will get us yet.

Knowing this, why on earth would you be pro-winning when the guys who lead us to those wins, like Randle, Payton, Miller, etc, could very very easily not be on the team in September? Why sacrifice a chance at, for example, Jarrett Culver in exchange for someone at 10th, just for the sake of letting Darius Miller get $5m in September?

I'm ok not re-signing Diallo. He loses his defenders so easy. Got a great motor but his body moves faster than his brain.

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I'm ok not re-signing Diallo. He loses his defenders so easy. Got a great motor but his body moves faster than his brain.

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I would agree with you if this was October. I think he's shown enough to be worth keeping. His defense has gotten MUCH better this year, and he's developed a little bit of range out to maybe 12 feet. If we can get him cheap, which should be very easy to do, I'd keep him.

I've said in the past I'd give Diallo slightly over a minimum deal for a couple years because he still has a lot of developing to do. Basically just enough to beat out other minimum offers.

To be clear, I'm not against re-signing him. Yes, defense has improved and he is still very young. I wouldn't chase him though.

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This is so true.

Think about it. Who is guaranteed to be on the team next season? Not ''who do we want to resign'', but who is already guaranteed, locked in, secured, no question?

- Jrue Holiday
- Solomon Hill
- E'twaun Moore
- Frank Jackson
- Kenrich Williams

That is it. Randle has a player option, so he may opt in or he may not, and even if he leaves we may re-sign him, but he's not guaranteed. Elfrid is a FA. Miller is a FA. Diallo is a FA. Jah is on a team option, so he's probably coming back but again, not guaranteed. AD is going to be traded unquestionably, so we don't know what return he will get us yet.

Knowing this, why on earth would you be pro-winning when the guys who lead us to those wins, like Randle, Payton, Miller, etc, could very very easily not be on the team in September? Why sacrifice a chance at, for example, Jarrett Culver in exchange for someone at 10th, just for the sake of letting Darius Miller get $5m in September?

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This is one of many reasons you are an arm chair GM and not a real one. Or playing vets minutes on a bad team to allow guys half as good to kill their chances at getting paid is such a real idea. Man we would have guys like Payton and Randle lining up to take team friendly deals here to set themselves up in the off season. We made the commitment and just like we ask them to finish it so should we. Maybe one day you will get over Randle playing well I know you are dying for him to have that 1 bad game.. I hope im the next 9 you can finally get this relief.

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This is one of many reasons you are an arm chair GM and not a real one. Or playing vets minutes on a bad team to allow guys half as good to kill their chances at getting paid is such a real idea. Man we would have guys like Payton and Randle lining up to take team friendly deals here to set themselves up in the off season. We made the commitment and just like we ask them to finish it so should we. Maybe one day you will get over Randle playing well I know you are dying for him to have that 1 bad game.. I hope im the next 9 you can finally get this relief.

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Good thing I literally never said that we shouldn't play vets (FYI, we don't really have any aside from Jason Smith right now), at all, or even anything close to that.

Are you related to Randle or something? You're honestly the most defensive person I've ever met on a forum, and that is saying a lot. The minute someone criticises a player you like (which I didn't even do here!!) you fly off the handle like someone just told you your wife was ugly or something. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.

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Good thing I literally never said that we shouldn't play vets (FYI, we don't really have any aside from Jason Smith right now), at all, or even anything close to that.

Are you related to Randle or something? You're honestly the most defensive person I've ever met on a forum, and that is saying a lot. The minute someone criticises a player you like (which I didn't even do here!!) you fly off the handle like someone just told you your wife was ugly or something. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.

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I keep forgetting g Jason Smith is on the team.

Nice team win. Payton is playing great!

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I keep forgetting g Jason Smith is on the team.

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Guess I don't need to worry about forgetting it now.