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re: Kevin Arnovitz doesn't think Jrue will re-sign with Pelicans
Posted on 6/20/17 at 8:59 am to Cap Crunch
Posted on 6/20/17 at 8:59 am to Cap Crunch
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I don't get what you think Jrue owes the Pelicans.
He got traded here, had to deal with mishandled injuries, and took time off to take care of his wife and kid. When he and his family were healthy, he played well for us.
It didn't work out for either party and now he is looking elsewhere. I don't understand why you are trying to make Jrue out to be the bad guy here.
I love how it's ok for a fanbase to universally pan a superstar when he demands a trade in much crappier circumstances yet a lesser star, but still a big name player, gets to skate by from criticism while he plays out his deal and potentially leverages the team. Consistency is lacking here.
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When he and his family were healthy, he played well for us
Well, that's entirely debatable on the played well part. It didn't take a rocket scientist to see Jrue isn't the perfect fit as a PG next to AD/Boogie, which is odd because theoretically many PGs would be salivating at that prospect.
Maybe my first hand contact with brain tumors (an immediate family member having one the size of an egg that was there ten years and has come back) and knowing that if the tumor was small enough, it's not even that big of a deal as long as it's not malignant, which I can promise you it wasn't or we would have heard the dreaded C word. That whole situation was overblown. I've lived it, and people have the right to think its BS he was away from the team that long, essentially killing our season before it even started.
The team owes Holiday nothing while Holiday owes the team nothing. Yet in this situation, the team is at a serious disadvantage by being disingenuous while the player can screw em up and down Bourbon St. in this climate.
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Posted on 6/20/17 at 9:09 am to ShamelessPel
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I love how it's ok for a fanbase to universally pan a superstar when he demands a trade in much crappier circumstances yet a lesser star, but still a big name player, gets to skate by from criticism while he plays out his deal and potentially leverages the team.
The problem is you're being premature based largely on what you think another human being that you have very limited information on thinks. You did that back in October when you said you wouldn't be surprised if Holiday was out until January.
This is how the Free Agency process works. Typically unless teams throw a max or above market value at a player they go out on the market and try and find the best deals they can. It's not personal, it's just business. MM thinks the Pels are going to go after Lowry. To max Lowry they probably have to let Holiday walk. The lack of loyalty and good faith is a 2 way street in the NBA.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 9:13 am to ShamelessPel
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f the Pelicans had known last season Holiday was going to completely leverage the Pels to leave in the offseason, there's likely zero chance he's still on the team
Really?? Like they traded Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon before they walked?
But there's a zero chance he'da been on the roster?
Posted on 6/20/17 at 9:13 am to ShamelessPel
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it's ok for a fanbase to universally pan a superstar when he demands a trade in much crappier circumstances yet a lesser star, but still a big name player, gets to skate by from criticism
both complaints are dumb.
Holiday is a free agent. he is free to do whatever he wants.
Paul busted his arse and played exquisite basketball on a rudderless, sinking, broke ship. he didnt take games off like Vince Carter or Kobe (in the playoffs no less).
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:29 am to ShamelessPel
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Maybe my first hand contact with brain tumors (an immediate family member having one the size of an egg that was there ten years and has come back) and knowing that if the tumor was small enough, it's not even that big of a deal as long as it's not malignant, which I can promise you it wasn't or we would have heard the dreaded C word. That whole situation was overblown. I've lived it, and people have the right to think its BS he was away from the team that long, essentially killing our season before it even started.
With all due offense, you are an idiot. My cousin had a "benign" central neurocytoma which rapidly caused her to be confined to a wheelchair, migraines, and significant cognitive impairment and behavorial change before surgery. She had surgical resection of the tumor and spent over a year re-learning how to walk and talk again. She still suffers from limb weakness and cognitive deficit.
Jrue's wife was diagnosed with a meningioma while pregnant. The location and symptoms definitely troubled her doctors and would freak me out if it happened to my wife. If it was "no big deal" or "overblown", there is NO way the doctors would induce early labor to rush a craniotomy.
People who think it was BS that he ws away from the team so long because he was with his wife whil recovering from brain surgery immediately following the birth of his daughter are assholes.
This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 10:31 am
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