re: Game day thread

At this point I just hate watch this team hoping for some kind of growth. But they continue to get stomped on in the last 5 minutes of every close game they have

He always had the weight excuse, but now we see he simply isn't that good. Tough realization for pels fans, even worse for trade value.

This guy was taking over 20 shots a game last year when he came back from his injury and did it with a minutes restriction. Now he's only getting up around 16 attempts a game which is the lowest in his entire career. This is getting ridiculous for a guy who they gave the keys to and said it's your team now.

Where do we go from here as an organization? It obviously should be a rebuild but we traded away high first round picks. The roster is crap. We don’t have a coach. The GM is half retarded. His sidekick is full retarded. The owner is spending money defending alleged pedos. And Loomis is the mastermind of two disasterous franchises.

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Zion entered the game with 4:30 left, tied at 87.

He went 0/1 with a rebound over the next 3 minutes.

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To blame Zion for this loss is complete nonsense.
Is it his fault that McGowens threw a lob instead of attacking the rim, or that Fears and Bay can't hit an open 3, or that Jose can't inbound the ball?

Warriors always had few players in the paint and played a lot of zone because they knew we have no shooters. And as usual he had to play through lots of contact and didn't shoot a FT till very late in the 3rd (it's true that the refs were letting them play though).
But at least he made his FT, shot a middy and even attempted two 3s.
If the others ware able to score their FTs at 80% we would have had 4 point lead when Zion checked in.

Actually Fears played 36min and was quite good until his last stint. Queen looked unplayable on defense for a second straight game, but this is also a good learning experience for him.

I think you have to move TM, Z, and Herb. I like OKC for TM if that Clippers pick looks promising. I don’t know what the market for Z would be. But he definitely needs to get moved.

Trey to OKC?
Why would they want a 30mil player instead of a draft pick, when they roster is going to be very expensive next year and probably will let Dort and Hartenstein go?

This is silly logic. Those guys were playing above their pay grade and roles while pretty much help kept the team in the game and even gave Williamson the tie and lead. What you needed was a star player who would demand the ball during the close of games and take over. We've been waiting on him for far too long to keep playing those what if games with the role players.

If you're a fricking star player, play like one. You're a bucket getter so demand the ball at the top of the key. Close the fricking game like the talent you supposed to be. It's year 7 and you take 16 shots when the team is really short handed and allow the role guys to take shots/attempts that YOU needed to be the one who takes them? It's is the sad reality of the Pelicans basketball.

This is stupid. You're defending a guy who is playing about as mediocre as ever. And I've defended him more than most on this board.

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