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It would be stronger depth to sign a Dinwiddie, Reggie Jackson, Markannen, but not signing those players doesnt hurt the Pels playoffs chances
Yeah, but no one thought we would get Paul. Lowry was always a long shot at best. THJ was reported to be a top priority for Dallas. Good on him if he shot his shot. However, did he have no alternative plan for the space he paid assets for to create? Even if it is depth or one year deals to use as trade fodder at the deadline?
At least this year will be fun. We replaced all of our not fun guys with fun guys
So, the POBO says we desperately need to add shooting to improve the team, spends multiple 1sts to create the space to do so, and then swaps one shooter for another and calls it a day? That instills hope? Was he lying and we should all be excited? What was his plan? I get trying to justify everything we do as fantastic, but no objective observer would say that the Pelicans significantly improved this offseason.
Again, the roster construction is fine. I like this year's roster way more than last year, but with every first round pick we trade, we are slowly chipping away at our ceiling. With every Lonzo that we let expire, we are slowly losing our flexibility. It's difficult to really get excited about a team knowing that in 2022, you have zero first round picks and no chance at a decent free agent. It's just a high pressure situation when you have teams waiting to poach Zion
It wasn?t all bad. But there?s no sizzle. No bite. No impact. Whatever good comes of this season will be players getting f better or Trey Murphy or Herb Jones playing over their heads and beyond expectations I think.
Unless we expand and finalize a trade and it becomes awesome. Somehow.
We have Zion, Ingram, Valanciunas, Graham, NAW, Kira, but the forum’s offseason reaction makes it seem like the Pels lineup is Ajinca, Okafor, Solomon Hill, Bledsoe and Tim Frazier. Way too spoiled [edit: PANICKY]
Last edited by SonOfNOLA; 08-06-2021 at 06:54 PM.
Liking the roster and hating the moves are not mutually exclusive
Spoiled? With what? All the success we have had? With all the stars that have left? With 3 coaches in 3 years? Which is it?
I like Graham and think he will be fun to watch. I would have preferred him as a 6th man. I think JV is an improvement over Adams, but still not sure about the fit next to Zion (although has to be better than Adams). Other than that, we have to hope that NAW, Hayes and Kira significantly improve and that the team buys into Green. I really think they significantly underperformed last year and may have just quit on SVG. We still need shooters and we need front court depth. We did not get a floor leader we all thought we were going to get and that would likely have led to improvement.
Since the Pels seem to be operating as an under the cap team, could they sign Lonzo into space using bird rights and then trade him with consent to the Bulls for Satoransky, creating a decently sized player exception?
This is the kind of thing that really makes me think we as a city don't really deserve a basketball franchise at all.
Move them to Seattle, maybe we'll stop complaining then.
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— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 6, 2021
There goes my hero
I will say the same thing I said last offseason:
If I told you on July 18th this would be our offseason, you would grade it a D or an F. Yes, in the present, we rationalize and justify everything, and play the 'If; game. But if I come on this board on July 18th and say:
In: Jonas, Trey Murphy, Herb Jones, Devonte Graham, Satoransky, Temple
Out: Lonzo, Bledsoe, Adams, J Johnson, our 2022 1st and Lakers 2022 1st
That would have gotten a D or F and you guys would had no clue how or why we spent the two firsts. You also would have wondered why we took Murphy at pick 10.
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