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Fire Dell Demps 2017-2018 Offseason/Season Long Thread

Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:46 am
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
116309 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:46 am
Dell Demps, somehow, is still the GM and main decision maker for our NBA team, despite going into his 8th season as GM and only making the playoffs once, and getting swept.

Despite making a great deal to get Boogie, our team is now so salary strapped that we cannot make any moves in Free Agency, even relatively minor ones, because we run the risk of getting hard capped. We are in a dire cap situation this year. Our only hope is to trade a our bum contracts like Omer Asik, Alexis Ajinca, or QPon. Contracts no team will likely take on. Who gave Asik and Ajinca those contracts? Dell Demps.

Let's recap some Dell Demps moves:

Traded 1st round pick (Tobias Harris) for Jerryd Bayless
Drafted Austin Rivers 10th overall
Tyreke Evans, 4/44 contract, had to trade Robin Lopez and Greivis Vasquez to make it work
2 First Round picks for Jrue Holiday
1st Round Pick for Omer Asik
Hired Alvin Gentry as Head Coach
Gives Omer Asik 5year, 58 million dollar contract (43 mill guaranteed)
Gives Alexis Ajinca 4 years, 20 million
Gives Solomon Hill4 years, 48 million

(To be fair, he has made very good moves as well)

And here we are. No ability to add anything of significance to a team with 3 good players but a lot of dogshit after that.

Our only chance is to somehow pull off a trade that gives out junk contracts and gets us back some semblance of an NBA player. That is the corner he has painted us in to.

And he is still the GM.

Fire away.
Posted by CapperVin
Member since Apr 2013
10547 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:48 am to
feeling lonely today?
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
166497 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:49 am to
Posted by quail man
New York, NY
Member since May 2010
40930 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:50 am to
You promised to keep the other one on the first page. That didn't work out so well.
Posted by lsusportsman2
Member since Oct 2007
27232 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:59 am to
Demps blows.
Posted by Whodatforlife21
Big Easy
Member since Apr 2013
1900 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 11:05 am to
quote:

only making the playoffs once,


We made the playoffs twice with him.
Posted by dj30
New Orleans
Member since Feb 2006
28732 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 11:06 am to
Have a downvote.
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
61576 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 11:12 am to
Despite all of the mistakes he's made over the years, the only way I see him getting fired is if Cousins walks or Cousins demands it as part of re-signing. His job is in Boogie's hands.
Posted by Not Cooper
Member since Jun 2015
4699 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 11:13 am to
quote:

Drafted Austin Rivers 10th overall

Meh. I was mad about this for a while but I forgive him for this now. Not many selected after Rivers did very much, its the few that went before him that kills me.
Posted by Mr.Perfect
Louisiana
Member since Mar 2013
17438 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 11:39 am to
I gave up my tickets because Dell has made stub hub a much better deal.
Posted by BilJ
Member since Sep 2003
158781 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 2:10 pm to
I'll never understand the asik extension
Posted by Pelicans8
Member since Feb 2014
122 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 2:10 pm to
There are bigger fish to fry.

Fire Loomis, hire David Griffin as President and let him decide Demps' fate. It's time we got a real POBO. It reflects poorly on the franchise when the president pubicly states that his role with the pelicans is "overblown" and that he doesn't "have a lot to do with that."

Article on Loomis' role with Franchise
Posted by Overbrook
Member since May 2013
6092 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 3:51 pm to
Dell still has some arrows left in that quiver: 2018 and 2019 first round draft picks, ready and willing to be traded.
Posted by WB504
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
5874 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 4:01 pm to
Imagine if AD was cool with playing C full time.
Posted by Kennerkarl
Kenner
Member since Jan 2014
704 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 6:30 pm to
Just think how terrible the Pelicans would be with dell at the helm if he hadn't lucked into getting AD.

The team would have been built around Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

Still holding out hope for a trade none of us expect. He should get canned anyway; but if they doesn't happen, he 100% needs to gtfo
Posted by NOLAbaby
CumTown
Member since Sep 2013
1758 posts
Posted on 7/10/17 at 8:00 pm to
Controversial take: I like Dell. He's done a bang up job.
Posted by LosLobos111
Austere
Member since Feb 2011
45385 posts
Posted on 7/11/17 at 7:57 pm to
You're my boy FB but all this thread does is rehash the same shite over and over

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