I haven’t thrown in the towel.

It’s weird seeing so many negative reactions to losing to the best team in the nba when we’re missing our 2nd best player and backup point guard.

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It’s weird seeing so many negative reactions to losing to the best team in the nba when we’re missing our 2nd best player and backup point guard.

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We can take losing. We’ve done that long enough. We can’t take a stubborn coach who’s essentially making decision for self preservation and not in the interest of the team. Or maybe he’s just that terrible of a coach.

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4”self preservation” in evolves winning. I don’t see your point.

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Playing it safe instead of riding the hot hand. He doesn’t take chances on the fly. Hes got a set rotation that’s ultra conservative and rides with that no matter what. His mind is made up before the game even starts.

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It’s weird seeing so many negative reactions to losing to the best team in the nba when we’re missing our 2nd best player and backup point guard

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It's not losing 1 game to a very good team without BI. The negativity comes from the repeated wasting of opportunity. No team was better positioned to make a jump to the top echelon than the Pelicans. The Thunder and Magic made huge jumps through coaching and internal improvement. The Wolves and Cavs made huge jumps by using their draft capital. With nowhere near the resources, the Mavs picked up team changing pieces in each of the last 2 deadlines while we dumped Graham and Kira to save money. Those teams have focused on competing for a championship. The Pelicans have focused on getting a check from the taxpaying teams.

You're happy that we are a good, competitive team. That's the difference. If nearly any other franchise had young players like Zion, Ingram, Herb, and Trey along with a mountain of draft assets, they would be doing everything possible to make them the next NBA dynasty. Any coach or player not furthering that would be expendable. But in New Orleans, not sucking while staying under the luxury tax is plenty good enough.

He wants a unicorn at center. The only guys that fit that mold in free agency this year is Olynyk, Saric, and Love. But none of those guys are ideal. I don't think any rookie is going to come in and unseat Nance. Griff can go out there and makes an aggressive offer to land a guy like Jarrett Allen. But we'll probably be in a tough situation going into next season since JV isn't valued by Green and the options are limited.

Sure, I’d love to win the championship. So would 29 other teams.

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What is obvious is he doesn’t like his center options and that has to be fixed in the offseason.

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The problem is we have a solid option at center but continue to choose an inferior option.

The idea of changing the centers really doesn't make as much sense as changing the person who can more correctly utilize the players in question.

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You're happy that we are a good, competitive team. That's the difference. If nearly any other franchise had young players like Zion, Ingram, Herb, and Trey along with a mountain of draft assets, they would be doing everything possible to make them the next NBA dynasty.

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Complacent with being average when the tools are there to excel

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I am FIRMLY in this camp. We are good rather than average but we absolutely should be better than good.

3 decades of mediocrity (sprinkled with the odd good season) .. now is the time
and it’s frustrating we aren’t absolute top tier with the players and resources we have.

Will always be a fan and invest time, money and lack of sleep in doing so… would be nice to experience success and I want it to be with this group so bad

Oh I’m a fricking idiot because I’m not crying like a little soy boy bitch after losing to the Celtics without BI and Jose? This Celtics team is having of the best regular seasons in recent memory.

You know who’s an idiot? Anyone that thinks a team that started 1-13 two years ago who’s now a top 8 team is an average team. You gotta be particularly stupid to think a team on pace to win 50 games whose core is almost all young players is “average”. That’s a special type of stupid.

Which is dumber:
A. Losing to one the best teams in recent memory without your 2nd best player and without your backup PG means your average

B. Not over reacting to a regular season basketball game when your team is less than 100%

A lot of bitch made posters who clearly never did anything competitive in there life showing there arse here. It’s ALWAYS the ones who never played sports or did anything competitive who overreact to regular season loses.

We’re a top 8 team in the nba after starting 1-13 two years ago. Chill the frick out and stop being a little cry baby pussy. We’re gonna be just fine.

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He played with no center in the 4th. That’s the opposite of what you’re saying. What is obvious is he doesn’t like his center options and that has to be fixed in the offseason.

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If they were going to handle the center position this way they should have made some type of move at the deadline. You have to think they are severely frustrating JV and he will ultimately not be interested in staying around. Jonas brings it for every game, is a starting center in the league, and he is getting constantly benched. If they keep handling it this way he will just expire and we will have limited space to sign someone and limited salary to use in a trade.