DaTruth225

Pelican fans, the media, and posters on this forum (I don't assume all posters are actual fans based on some of these posts) all believe this is one of the worst trades in recent history. I think most are slightly overreacting.

Full disclosure, I believe there should have been some protections on the pick. If they wouldn't have accepted it with it ; being strong enough to walk away would have been preferable.

However, many NBA insiders believed that if Giannis was going to be traded this offseason, it would have happened before the draft, considering the teams most likely to trade for him had high lottery picks this year, and Milwaukee would have wanted them included in any deal. An average Milwaukee team in the East with Giannis is not a bottom-4 4 team. Even if they decided to move him at the deadline, the Bucks don't have the rights to their own first, so they have no incentive to tank.

Similarly, the pelicans are in the same boat. Everything that could go wrong went worng for them injuriy wise. We expect Zion to miss games, but the total games lost to injury from the rest (BI, Murrary, Trey, Herb, etc.) was unreal. We wern't good , but we wasnt as bad as our final record. We activly decided to tank. We played games down the stretch where the only recognizable pels were Jose, JRE, and Elfrid Payton. Since we don't own our pick, I don't see us doing that again. There will be teams actively tanking with worse rosters next year. For these reasons, I feel most people are overreacting.

Also, if the trade was so historically bad, and this makes the front office look so incompetent, why is it not equally bad for the Bulls, Rockets, and Trailblazers? It was reported that we offered the same deal to teams picking 9-12, and they turned it down. Shouldn't their front offices be ridiculed for drafting a player like Cedric Coward at #11 instead of trading back 12 spots and gaining this sure-fire top 3 pick in next year's draft?

Is he back on Twitter?

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Low key move of the off-season was resigning Herb a year before his contract expired.

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So D.G. did the right thing this off-season? He got railed by this board for using the only room under the luxury tax we had to re-sign Herb. I wonder what his market would be as an RFA this offseason

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He's lost a lot of support since the last election.

No he hasnt. He increased his votes by 6M in '20 (He said since the last election, not since 2016)

He beat the queen of politics in 2016 (He barley beat the most unliked candidate in modern history in a few key states, barely)

They faked a pandemic so they could stuff ballots in AZ, Penn, GA, Mich, and Wisc, or he wins again (All of those states elected democrats or reelected the same GOP leaders from 2020)

If the cheating is allowed again in '24, no Republican is electable

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( If you truly beleive this, why not try Desantis? We already know trump can't overcome it. He allowed it to happen while he was in the oval office. You think he can do better as a private citizen in his 80s)

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He was protecting an incumbent (That actually won the gen


No he was protecting the swamp monsters

And doing everything he could to help Ds win

You can just admit you are not bright

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He backed Incumbent Republican Senators (His Job as Leader)

Endorsing candidates in states they don't actually live in (PA & GA) , and not helping them financially when they were out spent by Dems is doing everything to help D's win.

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Nor did McConnell hoard money for himself while his candidates floundered.



Ummm he did exactly that and only put the money into a race vs a fellow R

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He was protecting an incumbent (That actually won the general)

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I have. Roy Blunt. Todd Akin.

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I assume you mean Roy Moore. If that’s the case, all the bad candidates you voted have one thing in common. They lost state wide elections in red states. Add Walker to that list. The GOP realized their mistake and won both of the seats the next cycle. GA primary voters have to do the same.

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Every time someone says Herschel was a bad candidate, I want them to defend Fetterman for the democrats that beat Oz.

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Fetterman is a retard, but he was PA’s retard. He held office multiple times in that state. We might not like him, but clearly the voters in PA do. He had the advantage of going against OZ who has little to no connection to the state. This is how a “bad” candidate wins a race they shouldn’t.

In Georgia, they portrayed Walker as walking retard. Unfortunately, when he gave rambling speeches he reinforced that narrative. Also, he’s from TX, and moved to GA to run for senate similar to OZ.

A real GA and PA republican could have won those two races easily. The primary voters made the general election harder than it needed to be.

How did Kemp do it on the same ballot?

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Hahaha that LT Governor is an attention seeking rhino cuck that would of lost re-election.

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He would've rode Gov Kemp's coat tails to victory like every other GOP candidate. Wish he was on the ballot today instead of Walker.