re: Javonte Smart

3PieceSpicy don't become unhinged challenge

difficulty: impossible

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3PieceSpicy

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Plenty salty, too

They got Smart for local name recognition. Nothing more, nothing less. All this arguing is pathetic.

come on brah
neither dude is making the pels roster in any universe. Both will likely play a full D league season and will lucky to be late season signings. Just stop with the huffing and puffing

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Bias aside, it’s not a good trade. I don’t quite understand it.

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My own "Bias aside", because I know J personally, as I am sure some others do as well. This is zero risk to high reward move for the Pelicans. What you are failing to understand or get about the coaches both on the Squadron and Pels is that they may "like" Harper as a person and a player but there is a logjam right now of players that fit Harpers mold that we have much more invested in or that are proven NBA talents.

Graham 6'1
Lewis 6'1
McCollum 6'3
Daniels 6'6 (While much bigger obvs the Pels will want, especially in blowout or injury fill in games to handle primary ballhandler responsibilities.)

Harper is 6'1
The Pels have 4 guys again that they have more invested in and/or proven NBA players that even in an tight injury crunch they would rather give those minutes to.

Javonte is 6'4 and as a combo guard not only brings more versatility but played 17 games for the Heat last year a better team than NOP, while Harper only managed 5 . (But we coming btw baws!) Smart is younger by only a year but in terms of pro years this is his 2nd whereas I believe this is Harpers 5th. So Smart has a higher upside, more versatile, and as you alluded to you get the little added bonus whatever it may be of him being an LSU Tiger and a Louisiana player.

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It also makes zero sense from a trade valuation standpoint.

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Again if Harper was on the Squadron or even a 2-way which he would not be, you would never get any benefit out of it not even in the next 2-3 years let alone this year. The G-League draft is also much like the MLB draft and college kids in the sense that many of the guys have other options that get drafted in the G-League. They may take other contracts overseas. The G-League draft and the order in which teams draft quite literally does not matter at all as teams usually have negotiated or talked with players beforehand which is legal and teams never choose who is either the "best available" or has the most potential but similar to the minor leagues in baseball for some orgs they draft guys to put around their 2-way or drafted guys and get the most out of them. I think something like half of the 3rd round picks go unused .

The higher likelihood is that neither Smart nor Harper ever play a full season for the Heat or Pelicans given their current roster makeups and timelines. And this trade does not matter. They actually probably gave Harper a much better chance to getting a full contract for that 13th-15th spot onto an NBA team by letting him go.

Lastly I rarely if ever post on this board, just because only so much time in a day with school . But you think this board or its posters are "tribalistic". GTFO
. A lot of these guys from perspective have stuck around here through the darkest days and do not really care about somebody like you or any other johnny come lately coming and telling them about the team.

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I don't get the hometown bonus you brought up, which the Pelicans have never cared about. I just don't see that being a factor.

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Oh no I agree I do not think it is a real true factor at all, all I was saying is that if Smart does make it to NOP even for a cup of coffee that it cannot hurt.

we are finding out during this long boring off-season that some of our frequent posters have unusually specific hangups LOL

first GOP and now spicy. When ATL goes off the reservation we might need a poster intervention program

Correct me if I am wrong, but do coaches like Collins, Weatherspoon, and SL teammates like Trey Murphy and Naji have trade privileges for the GL team?

Because they can believe and say one thing and the front office/GL front office can still decide to do another.

And I am free to still agree with the coach and player analysis over the mystery men who signed off on the trade.

If you want to frame an argument the way you attempted to frame it in 2 posts now, let’s be honest, you are also picking and choosing the messages you are listening to from the organization. No one would acknowledge what the team (or Trey Murphy) was saying publicly about Harper in the SL, because it did not support their narrative.

Now something happened, where different members of the organization made a trade and now you and others are willing to accept a transaction for fuel to your narrative. When in reality, we aren’t exactly sure why the trade was made and we may never. The reasoning might stay behind close doors due to it being a GL deal.

Also, now there is an entire thread quoting a different Trey Murphy interview and taking it as gospel bc it’s a message the board likes to hear and believes in.

Meanwhile, 2 months ago when Trey Murphy praised Harper publicly, crickets.

So some of you really doing the same thing, you are accusing me of doing.