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He's a 7 footer with one skill and he's already 24. Any minute given to him is a waste of minutes that could be going to Jaxson.
And I don't want him playing alongside another big just to ''space'', because he presents yet another hole in the defense to attack. I've said a bunch of times that I don't think we'll be quite as bad on defense next year as we were last, but there's only so much I can believe that if we add more god awful defenders, especially at important defensive roles like that of bigs.
Basketball.
There sure are a lot of assumptions and conjecture that's getting thrown around as absolute facts, today.
Also remember that history has proven there are no New Orleans Pelicans insiders. Our biggest moves are constantly broken by national media with no peep from insiders before hand.
BI, Zion, and CJ had a net rating of +3 when on the court together. BI and Zion had a +13.4, BI and CJ had a +13.2, Zion and CJ was just +5.4.
BI and Zion worked. BI and CJ worked. It was CJ and Zion and all three together that didn't work.
any Windhorst believers out there? apparently he is speculating that the Pel's "aren't done yet"..... throwing out names such as Dragic, Lauri, and Buddy.... who the heck knows?
"we might make dollars, but we don't necessarily make sense"
"always be sincere....whether you mean it or not"
Nobody disagrees that spacing is important. The question is how much are you willing to give up elsewhere to acquire, especially on a team which already has multiple high level shooters - BI and Graham - as well as a number of other guys who project well as shooters - NAW and Murphy.
This question becomes double if we were to acquire Buddy, who is arguably one of the greatest shooters of all time.
If you have a team with BI, Graham, NAW, Murphy, and Buddy on it, why would you take the downsides of Lauri on board just for the shooting? It's not like we'd be short on it.
Just saw that Toronto thinking of moving Dragic. Dallas looks to be going after him hard.
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Only 24 is good if you are showing signs of growth and improvement, because it's still young.
Already 24 is bad if you have stagnated for literally years and actually regressed in several areas. Like, you shouldn't be finished that young. That's a bad sign.
It's like Ben Simmons. Is Ben Simmons a really good NBA player. Yeah, of course. Is it a good thing that, at 25 years old, his growth appears to have completely stalled years ago? God no.
Similar thing with Lauri. If he was 24 and had tangible development curve, I'd be more optimistic about him. But he's not, he's 24 and he's the exact same player he was 4 years ago except - in some areas - arguably a bit worse.
I am admittedly talking out of my *** because I have watched very little Bulls basketball so I have nothing to go on but stats for Sato and Markkanen but defense is something that often develops later......I just don't see how a 24 year old can be judged so concretely on that. Markkanen is also quoted as wanting to leave to "get a fresh start away" so his stagnation could very well be franchise related.
Spoiled in having two of the best players in the league, 3 All Star talents overall after trading for JV, and thinking not successfully adding FAs means we?re doomed. We have a lot to be excited about with the team that we have right now was the point. We need more backcourt depth in FA but the Pels aren?t screwed if they don?t. Fortunately Trey Murphy and Herb Jones were added through the draft so if the FA offers to depth for shooters and bigs fell through like they did, we?ll have insurance. It?s on the newly hired coaches to be able to have them and our other young players ready to be at least serviceable contributors as rookies.
We tried signing floor leaders in FA, but they didn?t accept our offers. All the team can do is move forward. Between NAW and Kira, one of them should be able to develop into that role. They need to see the floor going into their 2nd and 3rd season, instead of adding more players to play significantly ahead of them
There is always the chance that getting out of Chicago would help snap him out of whatever rut he's in and get him developing again. My question is just how many resources and how much time are you willing to invest in the offchance that that's the case? Personally, not very much.
Pelicans fans are not spoiled at all . The team has no stability whatsoever..no direction..FO has always been a joke..we lose every franchise player we have because of it. How are we spoiled when this team is barely a play in squad and every team in the league knows there is desperation to keep a 21 year old happy because if he leaves the team probably leaves the city..this is a crucial time for the Pelicans.
Memphis just traded Grayson Allen to Bucks for 2nd round pick. Wonder who they are making room for in our trade?
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