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so i guess we the lakers plus zion.....and the lakers are the pels plus lebron lol......i know we are playing the lakers on Christmas day....i hope its down here....
pels VS lakers
clippers VS toronto
nets VS boston
heat VS philly
this should be the christmas games....maybe the knicks VS the warriors also..
Gayle will not allow any home games on Christmas. It’s a religious holiday.(Joking)
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Lakers fans spent all this energy trashing Dell Demps only to put the same players around AD
— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) July 6, 2019
When you spent six months saying the Pelicans surrounded Anthony Davis with trash but slowly realize you’re surrounding Davis with Pelicans castoffs pic.twitter.com/67K51c32ir
— Justin (@PootieWayne) July 6, 2019
Anyone feel sorry for Davis now?
Lakers signing Cook too? Championship! LOL!
https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/arti...n-14076121.php
Cousins contract . LOL.
Russell Westbrook, Thunder reportedly discussing possibility of a trade before start of next seasonhttps://t.co/RvtOW12DcD pic.twitter.com/vgq6LZ6ImN
— CBS Sports NBA (@CBSSportsNBA) July 6, 2019
This has been a wild offseason.
Let's see:
Lebron missed 27 games this past year...
DeMarcus Cousins missed more than half of his team's games over the last two years and has not played as many 70 games in any one season since 2013-14...
Rajon Rondo only participated in 46 games last season....
Anthony Davis has played less than 70 games in all but two of his seven season in New Orleans.....
This team doesn't need a training facility...they need a MASH Unit.
Seems that way don’t it? https://t.co/qKKQRBT9Pz
— Riley Demps (@rddemps) July 6, 2019
There is something annoying about this. One season ago, Pelicans lost Rondo and Boogie on the offseason after sweeping Portland on playoffs first round. Rondo gave 5 minutes to the Pelicans to match Lakers' offer. Cousins rejected all Pelicans' offers and signed with the Warriors for the MLE. Pelicans' FO managed to sign Payton, Randle and Okafor for cheap, but they still took the blame for missing Rondo and Cousins.
Now the Lakers have missed Kawhi, but I'm hearing even praise for recovering and sign Rondo and Boogie for cheap. They have been convinced by Davis. Why couldn't he do the same last year? Why nobody praised Payton, Randle and Okafor signings and now are praising Rondo and Boogie contracts? Yeah. I get it. The point was to justify Davis forcing his way out.
We laugh about it, but if the Pelicans team that had Boogie AD and Rondo also had Lebrun instead of Solomon Hill, that would have been a championship contending squad. Although I have mixed emotions about this I am interested to see the Boogie AD pairing again. Always felt that could work.
Agreed.
His game was never based on athleticism, speed, or hops, but it required a certain minimum to make it work. His handles weren't incredible, but for a big man they were good enough that he could get by people as long as he had even SOME speed. Now he's even slower, the handle doesn't work. Same for finishing at the rim: he led the league in having his shots blocked even before the injury, but now that he has literally no bounce whatsoever, he's even more vulnerable around the rim. He never had a super bouncy jump shot either, but the lift he DID get is gone now and his perimeter shooting fell off a cliff as a result.
He was never a great defender either, but he had good general instincts for loose balls and passing lanes, but again, the injury robbed him of his (already low) lateral quickness and now he's just a traffic cone on defense.
He had a skillset that was tailored to maximise his play despite relatively unimpressive athleticism, speed, and footwork. Now he has zero athleticism, speed, and footwork, and his skillset isn't good ENOUGH to hold him at star level with that extra decrease in physical ability.
The Thunder got a slightly better trade for PG13 than the Pels got for AD, but to be fair, more than what the Thunder got back, it’s about the freedom they are getting by getting rid of PG13. That Thunder team had peaked, and wasn’t going to get better. By getting off PG13 and getting SGA they are getting a great piece to build with. By getting Galo they are getting a near AS player on an expiring (a guy who many of us wanted here if the Clipps went for the salary dump). They also got a ton of draft picks to go along with future cap space. It’s a nice haul.
Where we can come out ahead is if the Lakers absolutely suck it up the years we get their draft picks. Given the players I would have preferred what OKC got over Ball, Ingram, and Hart.
If you Jimmer it, they will come.
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