re: The Official Brandon Ingram Appreciation Thread

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I’ll admit I’ve been too busy at work to watch them and they suck so who really wants to watch them lose every game. I do hope Trey is improving.

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That’s fair. For real, he’s been a 3 level scorer the last few weeks. I’m not exaggerating. Just wait. I had high expectations for him this year when he got back from injury, and he’s even blowing those expectations out of the water. I laugh at the some of the crap he’s doing lately…against GOOD teams

Cmon man. BI is an all star. Put some respect on his name.

I’m not arguing about BI to the guy who 100% has a dart board with BI’s face on it. Your obsession with the guy was weird and if there’s one positive to this trade, hopefully it’s us not having to read your daily threads about him.

Brandon led the Pels to 49 victories last year. This year with a better center and point along with TM3 being super efficient, this team is in the sweepstakes for the first pick.
The team took future salary and has zero flexibility to improve next season. Griff got fleeced. This current team plays zero defense and fans are more interested in Trey's stat line than wins.
This team has already gone fishing in Grand Isle. I hope Brandon the best in Toronto.

I appreciate BI and his contribution to the best fun run Pels had in a decade. It wasn't the Phx series; it was the run-up to the Phx series.

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It remember people on here saying we should get minimum three firsts since it’s what the Raptors got for Siakam in the same exact situation….

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Yeah.
and the fact that we weren't going to get that means you don't make the trade. Not only did we not get that, we got no where near that, and we got a 33 year old dude who took a huge step back this year that we have on contract for next year too.
Obviously the landscape of the NBA has changed dramatically over the last 6 months. Bridges went for 5 firsts and a swap, same as Gobert from a year before that, and then we see Fox go for 3 firsts just now.


I hope that BI had a talk with our idiot GM and said to trade him b/c he's not resigning here no matter what. That's the only way this shitty arse return makes any sense.
We lost a all-star caliber player who's 27 years old for an early 20's pick that in all liklihood will end up being a guy who doens't make it to a 2nd contract. It's not addition by subraction to the dumbasses that keep saying that. It's just subtraction of a really good basketball player without getting anythign back in return.


And I do think it was obvious that BI and Zion didnt' really like each other that much.
I know I defend BI more than most here, but I too was on board with moving him this offseason and at this trade deadline, but I'm not ok with this crap return. We should have kept him, unless he had that talk and said I'm out.

I hope he's playing in the all-star game next year, and I hope he comes back to NO next year and drops 40 on us.

tribute video of ingram

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Glad I don't have to watch those fade aways anymore!

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The shot that he was hitting this year at a higher efficiency rate than a 45% 3 point shooter?

It’s going to be hilarious when BI comes back here and hits those fadeaways and we have all the comments of “he never made those for us”

Dang, that's actually kind of sad. You can tell he wanted to stay.