re: Pelicans are not expected to offer BI extension this offseason, moving in new direction

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It's not b/c i think the draft is bad, it's b/c we have 3 years to prove to Zion we can get to the summit or he's requesting a trade. trading BI for role players and a draft pick isn't going to help with that imo.

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At this point I think surrounding Zion with good shooting players to open everything up for him is the best moves we can make.

Say we do the flip of Herb for Murray, you can have a closing 5 of Murray, CJ, Trey, Zion, Reid. That’s 4 40% C&S shooters surrounding Zion that NOBODY can leave open, forcing teams to have to play Z 1 on 1 otherwise they would get decimated from 3. We can do moves to get better now without necessarily getting back a better player than Ingram.

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Explain to me why nobody better than BI is available to us?

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Currently there just is nobody better that’s available to anyone. Paul George would be about the best option right now, but if he were to leave LA and come to us in a S&T we could definitely make that S&T for leas cost than BI.