The Ball may be gone, but the grass won't be Greener on the other side: NOLA Pelicans 2021-22 Thread

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Ball at $22 million > Tomas, Temple, and Hart at $27 million. Terrible move and Griffin should be fired for it.

I don't care about the fit. You don't let talent walk for less talent.

Also, when you have a talent problem and your selling picks for cash. Shame.
 

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I have to admit... Jonas and Graham were such good moves...

But it's Two Steps forward and one step back...

If we was able to get a real NBA guy instead of the three Stooges at $27 million.

We still be 0-2... We just wouldn't be getting beat by 20 points in every game but one Bad.

At the end of the day we need Zion
 

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I have to admit... Jonas and Graham were such good moves...

But it's Two Steps forward and one step back...

If we was able to get a real NBA guy instead of the three Stooges at $27 million.

We still be 0-2... We just wouldn't be getting beat by 20 points in every game but one Bad.

At the end of the day we need Zion
Need to flip those 3 for Hield, I expect Hart to be traded either way. The lack of playmaking by guards has been very noticeable. Satoransky has been really bad and I hate to say it but Kira:hubie:a 6 foot guard who isn't a consistent shooter might have trouble in this league. A competent bench and this team would be good. Its time to start using those assets for some good role players
 

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Need to flip those 3 for Hield, I expect Hart to be traded either way. The lack of playmaking by guards has been very noticeable. Satoransky has been really bad and I hate to say it but Kira:hubie:a 6 foot guard who isn't a consistent shooter might have trouble in this league. A competent bench and this team would be good. Its time to start using those assets for some good role players
Kira to me is a bust in my opinion...

We was 6-26 1st overall and ended up pulling an Atlanta Falcons and bsing our way to the 13th pick for Kira. Disgusting. I wanted to trade down for Maxey instead of Kira.

Imagine this team with Lemelo.
 

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Kira to me is a bust in my opinion...

We was 6-26 1st overall and ended up pulling an Atlanta Falcons and bsing our way to the 13th pick for Kira. Disgusting. I wanted to trade down for Maxey instead of Kira.

Imagine this team with Lemelo.
I never got that pick because team was full of guards and in this league if you are gonna be a 6 footer, you need great shooting or elite defender like Davion Mitchell. Kira is neither. Still hope he can develop but it is a very likely chance he gets nowhere. Maxey or Sadiq Bey would have been better options.
 

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Ball at $22 million > Tomas, Temple, and Hart at $27 million. Terrible move and Griffin should be fired for it.

I don't care about the fit. You don't let talent walk for less talent.

Also, when you have a talent problem and your selling picks for cash. Shame.
Did ball even wanna play there tho? Y'all didn't even let him play as a conventional PG.
 

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I never got that pick because team was full of guards and in this league if you are gonna be a 6 footer, you need great shooting or elite defender like Davion Mitchell. Kira is neither. Still hope he can develop but it is a very likely chance he gets nowhere. Maxey or Sadiq Bey would have been better options.
It's even more wild, because that draft was so weak at guard and he was like... 5th one pick. You're begging for scraps. Everything about that year and draft set up back a whole ass year.

I'm also not the biggest fan of having the highest draft pick that we build around Zion is Jaxon freaking Hayes.

This shyt right there is why I was already calling Griff out I think after year one. No direction. He makes all these cute trades and shyt that only makes us worse for no logical reason. Why are we even pushing for playoffs in Zion rookie year? Get a top 5 pick! If we was doing that... Why the heck trade AD or even trade back for project players. fukking make a super team with AD, Jrue, Zion, and fukking CP3. shyt would of won a bubble chip.

Then, we eat up bad contracts with this implied pretenses that they are trade pieces. We couldn't offload Bledsoe, Miller, Favors for shyt and Memphis was able to do that for a good player.

Griff try to get to the playoffs with Jrue, Ball, BI, Rookie Zion, Favors, and JJ with zero bench.

Can someone explain to me wtf I'm not seeing, because anyone else knows that shyt ain't good enough.

Hell...

A bench of Kira, Temple, Tomas, Naji, Hayes, and TM3 ain't good enough.

I don't even want Lonzo Ball back. I just want a player worth $27 million dollars so we don't lose by 20 points a game.

I been talk down to all offseason how this roster ain't looking so hot. Too much gambling on internal development. Letting Ball walk for no value. Now the chickens come home to roast. I fukking hate being right. I wish on everything that I could of been wrong.
 
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Sorry, I went on an emotional ass rant, man. I really wanted the Pelicans to be good.
 

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Gentry I'm the front office playing Madden front office instead of paying attention to this team. I say sign Joe Johnson for 1 yr for leadership and shooting, make some trades, get Zion into Eric Thomas mode and let's go secure a #6 seed
 

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Gentry I'm the front office playing Madden front office instead of paying attention to this team. I say sign Joe Johnson for 1 yr for leadership and shooting, make some trades, get Zion into Eric Thomas mode and let's go secure a #6 seed
:mjlol::russ::hhh: 6th seed with the current roster? fukk you smoking.

Side note bi been ass and need to find his way.
 
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