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The trade for Cousins was an answered prayer in the quest to keep AD. It sucks that he got injured but people acting like we shouldn’t have made that trade are being blinded by hindsight.

I think people tend to forget just how bad the injury luck has been with this franchise. Chandler, Paul, West all had major injuries at points in the Paul era. Jrue, Gordon, QPon (remember having a competent 3...this injury cost us a bargain AND added dead weight AND led to Solomon Hill disaster contract), Cousins, all had significant injuries in the Davis era.

I’ll go one step further. The Nuggets are letting Murray take his lumps and grow. Does anyone really think this staff/front office would have been as patient? I don’t.

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Posted by Machine

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Posted on 1/4/19 at 8:54 am to ShamelessPel

Demps strategy of building through trade and FA has been such a monumental failure.

its beyond obvious that 9/10 times you need to build depth through the draft

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Posted by corndeaux

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Posted on 1/4/19 at 10:08 am to ShamelessPel

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I think people tend to forget just how bad the injury luck has been with this franchise

at some point, among the league leaders in games lost for years, it's not about luck and more about process from the organization.

again, the Haberstroh article lays this pattern out pretty clearly

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The football-heavy influence on the training staff is something that has caught the eye of Davis’ longtime trainer, Marcell Scott, a New Orleans native who also works closely with Pelicans forward Jahlil Okafor. “Let the Saints be the Saints,” Scott told NBC Sports. “They get all the recognition [in New Orleans] anyways. As a city, we need basketball guys with basketball guys and football guys with football guys. That’s how you get better as an organization moving forward.”

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It’s not rare to see a player need multiple surgeries to correct an injury or problem area. But the Pelicans seem to deal with this more than most teams: Tyreke Evans’ three knee surgeries in 10 months; Quincy Pondexter’s multiple knee surgeries and scary battle with MRSA; two surgeries on a broken foot for 2017 No. 31 overall pick Frank Jackson; multiple knee procedures on both knees for Alexis Ajinca.

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A series of stress fractures and stress reactions to Holiday’s right leg wiped out half his 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons. Stress fractures are not uncommon. But in 2015, Holiday’s long-time personal trainer Mike Guevara, in an interview with SB Nation, questioned the Pelicans’ return-to-play procedure and said that Holiday’s “minutes were not managed as well … his minutes were relatively high and in my opinion he was thrown into the fire too soon.” (The following season, in 2017-18, the Pelicans lowered Holiday’s minutes and Guevara was officially brought on as a sports-performance consultant by the Pelicans.)

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Last season, Cousins ruptured his Achilles tendon after an excessive workload just before the All-Star break. Playing on the fastest team in the NBA, Cousins also endured the most taxing month of his career from a minutes perspective, which included playing four overtimes in nine days and one game in which he played a career-high 52 minutes. His Achilles tendon snapped in the fourth quarter, his fourth game in seven days. In Cousins, Demps appeared to finally get his Davis co-star. But once again, the Pelicans seemed to mismanage a golden opportunity and run it into the ground.

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