Talk of Pelicans on BS Report with Zach Lowe

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Don't know if this deserves it's own thread, but was interesting nonetheless:

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definitely worth a thread. a good 5-10 minutes on the pelicans. a brief summary, AD good EG bad

Just finished listening to it a little while ago. Obviously I knew Gordon had been playing poorly but my God a PER of 3?! And conversely AD with the PER of 35, holy crap. Simmons basically said that Gordon has taken over as the worst contract in the NBA and it's hard to argue with.

That's exactly what he's said. I think Gordon still has potential, so I'm not sure I'm ready to say he's the worst contract, but he's trending in that direction.

One thing they didn't point out was if we take the Lakers trade for CP3, we don't get The Brow. There's no way we are bad enough with Martin, Scola, Dragic, and Odom.

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I think Gordon still has potential, so I'm not sure I'm ready to say he's the worst contract, but he's trending in that direction.

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He doesn't have the potential to live up to 14-15 mil a year. He did like 4 years ago but not anymore.

He has potential to be a 10mil/yr player.

That's good enough for me.

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One thing they didn't point out was if we take the Lakers trade for CP3, we don't get The Brow. There's no way we are bad enough with Martin, Scola, Dragic, and Odom.

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I thought of this, too. Give me Dragic over Gordon any day of the week, but I'll definitely take AD over Dragic

If everyone stays consistent with what they're doing, Eric Gordon hits his career average, or even a tick below it, I think the 50 win mark is obtainable.

Jrue Holiday: 43/30/100; career low from 3
2.7 REB
6.8 AST
1.7 TOV

Tyreke Evans: 36/45/70; career low in fg%, career high in 3pt
7.2 REB
6.5 AST
2.7 TOV
career best in reb/ast; career average for tov

Ryno: 42/42.5/75; below career avg for fg% (42.7), above career 3pt (38.7%)

I think Asik keeps his 10/10 and 55 fg%

Eric Gordon is the huge anomaly with 7.8ppg
Shooting 29.3/19.0/64.3
His attempts this year 9.7/3.5/2.3
He has made 2.8/0.7/1.5 this year

His career average has been 44.0/36.6/80.7
If you give him career averages, he is at
4.3/1.3/1.9

Which gives him 11.8. +4.0ppg.

The legendary "Sportsguy" Bill Simmons and Father Pellie himself, Zach Lowe. Does life get any better than this?

Bill Simmons is in love with Anthony Davis. His athlete crushes are pretty funny and get intense. He's going to talk up the Pels as long as possible. Zach Lowe is also the only person in America who thinks Monty is a good coach so it's interesting to hear.