SLAM! mag on AD

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"I promise you I’ve thrown lobs to him to the top of the backboard and he’s gone up and got them. You don’t know how athletic he is until you see it in person.” —Jrue Holiday

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And props to AD for committing to improvement.

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"He has to live a little bit differently than he used to," Daniel adds. "Instead of waking up in the morning and eating whatever he wanted to eat or doing whatever he wanted to do, now he has to dial it in so we can get him the proper carbohydrates, the proper protein, the proper fat, to one, recover from the workouts, and two, be effective on the court."

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That's not easy in a city like New Orleans or for someone so young that's probably been used to a steady diet of fast food.

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Among players who use at least 25 percent of their team's possessions and were on the court for at least 600 minutes, Davis was the single most efficient center, scoring 1.19 points per possession, a figure that ranks him behind only KD, LeBron, Dirk Nowitzki, Love and James Harden among all positions.

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Yeah, we're gonna be the 10th seed ESPN

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The west is nasty. I would be surprised if we ended up 10th. I also wouldn't be shocked if we pulled a Portland and overachieved for most of the season.

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But come one. We now have a top 7 NBA player and he is surrounded by good talent. And we improved our biggest weakness from last year which was post Def by adding Asik. Now all we need to do is improve our second biggest weakness, which is the injury bug.


I say we make the playoffs as a 7 seed.