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I thought he retired?

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Yea, what happened? When did he come out of retirement? I see he's back on twitter now too.

Listen to the actual context and actual words, then have an opinion. Too much to ask, or nah?

And again, you are looking at their raw talent. I am looking at their lack of:

-Basketball IQ
- Emotional Resilience
- Leadership
- Ability to make others better/smarter
- Sheer will

The greats, and guys who consistently win, have this AND talent. Our three guys have talent. And no, I don't think they will get these things with a new coach. A guy like Jason Kidd was always going to understand the game, regardless of his coach. A guy like JR Smith was always gonna be a talented idiot, regardless of his coach.

I will take a bunch of 7's in raw talent with 10's in intelligence and intangibles over 10 in talent, 7 in intelligence any day. Now, I might be wrong, but that is the core of where you all differ from me

I think a lot of those things are a matter of circumstance.

You cited Draymond Green as an example of a guy with those attributes. While I agree Draymond has a high bball IQ, I think he'd be looked at worse than Cousins around the league if he was drafted by about 25 other teams. Might not even be in the league anymore. He ended up in a perfect situation, where all of his nonsense and BS is looked at as "leadership" and "will to win"

He's less talented than Cousins, but just as volatile and just as much of an arse hole, but happened to end up on the perfect team for him with the perfect coach. And even still, might have costed his team a championship.

I do think Davis lacks a lot of the leadership qualities you'd like your best player to have, but I totally disagree with rest of your assessment of his makeup.

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They don't have the actual leverage this offseason though. Anything they promise now are just words. Loomis would have to look at all the tickets Cousins has sold and feel paying Gentry $4 million and Cal $10 was justified. Maybe it happens but I'm not betting on it.

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Oh ok. I got u.

I've said since Monty was here that Loomis would never make a Pelicans move that would threaten any of the, totally disgusting, control he has over the franchise. Right now, getting rid of Loomis means turning over two franchises. Even though Benson already seems to cherish Loomis like a child, running the Pelicans gives him even more leverage.

I don't think he'd ever voluntarily hand over any of that power, to bring in Cal.

I believe John Reid when he reported Cal's people called, basically looking for the Stan Van Gundy package. Loomis would never go for that though.

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I don't think he'd ever voluntarily hand over any of that power, to bring in Cal.

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That's why I think it's got to be next summer when Cousins is a UFA and AD can agree to the DPE. If the choice is lock 2 stars up for 5 more years or see Cousins walk and AD force a trade, even Loomis has to blink, right?

I agree with your thought process but don't you find the thought of going through another season with Gentry as head coach a little depressing

The Spurs also have the best coach in the history of basketball.

The Pelicans have a bum

Also to be fair you echoed many of my thoughts, i.e. Whether there's an Asik effect to resigning Jrue, having a PG be a top priority and playing Jrue at SG, etc.

I was joking with the OP. I listened to the entire thing. I enjoyed it. But it was a inherently pessimistic edition. Sign of the times.