re: Lets talk about the Pelican's brass...

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We have in Anthony Davis what many are regarding as a top 3 player today. You close his contention window 2-3 years by building slowly through the draft and making him wait on the team. You can have issues with the players we traded for, but I think the general direction of trading picks for young veterans is the way to maximize what you have in Davis. It's not like we passed up Wiggins to accelerate the timeline, we passed up, best case scenario with perfect hindsight, Steven Adams and Elfrid Payton. That's not bad, but that team isn't making the playoffs for 2-3 more years at least. This team was supposed to make them this year and should make them next year if they get the right GM and Coach.

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Chris Paul was a really good person who (at one point) wanted to play his entire career in New Orleans. It seems like Anthony Davis is a similar quality man. We blew things with Chris Paul through bad luck, poor decisions (Peja's extra year and forcing Posey which cap-wise forced us to give up on a top 5 center sooner than we should have).

As good a job as Bower did surrounding Chris Paul with an in-his-prime David West and an undervalued Tyson Chandler to create one of the more underappreciated "Big 3's" in recent NBA history, it still ultimately fizzled and we lost a top 25 player of all time before we needed to.

I hate to tell you (and it's way too early to panic), but 2.5 years into Anthony Davis' tenure as a NOLA NBA'er, we're off to an even worst start than we were with CP3.