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PelsRoe318
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Posted on 3/17/25 at 8:15 pm to purplepylon
He's gone. Unless we plan to tank for another season. Which we should.
Reason why:

1. Top 4 draft pick, need to give that guy minutes, we're not in a win now position with Dejounte gone next year
2. Dejounte is hurt next year
3. If green stay we're aren't winning. If we hire a new coach we still not winning, because it's his first year on the job.
4. Next draft has potentially four franchise players.
5. We don't know if Zion is going to be healthy next season.
6. Injury bug, let's keep it a buck we're probably the most injured team in the league so we can expect at least two of our players not to be healthy at all next season judging by past seasons. Can you guess who??

I would be fielding trade offers for Zion, get another war chest, get this top 4 draft pick, hope for a another top 4 draft pick next year. Get dejounte back during that 2026 season then run with that. But knowing Griff he's going to *****foot around and hold Zion still he has no value like Ingram and Lonzo.
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Tried to tell yall

Terrible bet. Doesn't he know our injury history and Giannis potential to want out in the middle of the season.

He really did. Had we traded Zion sooner we'd be in the playoffs these last few years plus this year as well. Griff would still have his job because the team he built were pretty much solid, Jonas, Alvarado, Dyson, Lance, Naji, Herb, Trey, CJ. Biggest mistake Griff made was not trading Zion because it eventually led to his firing and Zion being traded anyway.

Late to the party but... Finally people starting to make sense on this board. It's time to move on from Zion and start a soft reset. If we can get a top 3 pick for him in this draft or the next and multiple firsts and other players you take it. Don't do what we did with Ingram and Lonzo and get almost nothing because it's going to come to that point sooner or later. We need to cash in now.

Don't take them serious. They were probably the same stans that were saying we'd "make noise when Zion comes back next year" after the Pelicans-Suns playoff series. They'll be the same ones singing "Cry Me A River" when he doesn't resign with us in three years as an unrestricted free agent.

He's gone. Unless we plan to tank for another season. Which we should.
Reason why:

1. Top 4 draft pick, need to give that guy minutes, we're not in a win now position with Dejounte gone next year
2. Dejounte is hurt next year
3. If green stay we're aren't winning. If we hire a new coach we still not winning, because it's his first year on the job.
4. Next draft has potentially four franchise players.
5. We don't know if Zion is going to be healthy next season.
6. Injury bug, let's keep it a buck we're probably the most injured team in the league so we can expect at least two of our players not to be healthy at all next season judging by past seasons. Can you guess who??

I would be fielding trade offers for Zion, get another war chest, get this top 4 draft pick, hope for a another top 4 draft pick next year. Get dejounte back during that 2026 season then run with that. But knowing Griff he's going to *****foot around and hold Zion still he has no value like Ingram and Lonzo.

Good god, it feels like that time I lost money in the stock market trying to recuperate what I lost when I should've just dropped out sooner. Griff has to be gone this offseason. Dude does not know when to just Cashin on assets and gives away top dollar assets for a nickel on a dime.

David Stern would have vetoed this trade, fired the GM, and had the owner sell the team. The league has been officially infiltrated. Mark Cuban only recently sold the team in 2023.

It depends on what you mean as in fail. We've had players such as Chris Paul and Anthony Davis that were considered either generational talents or perineal all stars. They led us to the playoffs several times and put New Orleans as a basketball city on the map through participating in the community and being class acts on and off the court by just showing up a professional day in an out until it was time to depart. There can only be one winner as an NBA Champion and they're like 30 teams in the NBA. The last decade there was a period of only super teams(stars joining up together) winning and not small market teams. Only in the last couple of years has small market teams won and that's due to the decline of superteams or rather their inexperience playing together. (clippers, heat, warriors, cavs). Our issue is with Zion not fully committing from the jump to a well established NBA Basketball team, that has been fully committed to putting a viable basketball team around him otherwise we wouldn't have hired that Sun's trainer that Zion wanted gone because they didn't "click".

"You are only as strong as you're weakest link". From the very beginning Zion was his own worst enemy and our weakest link. If he was serious from the very jump this team would look a lot different right now. But his inability to be present as crucial times or just in general show up puts not only a damp on our fan's morales but also our players too. I guarantee if Zion played like he was suppose to Hawk would look like a different player. We have bench/role players playing the role as a starter/star when they're supposed to be secondary players/help to the actual star player but Hawk is in his second year like Nickeil trying give more than he possibly can at the moment. Borrego probably can't even experiment or enact a consistent offensive gameplan because this dude Zion doesn't show up for games and probably doesn't even take practice seriously. It's hard to make decisions that benefit the whole team across the board when your most important player happens to be the one that's dragging the entire team down.

Griff has been trying to put together a contender that was never going to happen this entire time. That is what's the biggest crime. Every step to bringing the New Orleans Pelicans to a now successful small market team was never in the cards because, our generational pick never wanted to succeed here not because of situations like Derrick Rose and Demarcus Cousins body failing them. We've had glimpses of greatness in our players (Ingram, Jose, Hawkins, Dyson, Naji, Murphy, and Herb) overshadowed because of Zion's tomfoolery. Potential exciting playoff berths missed that would have given our players a chance of further progressing in their development. The even bigger crime is we tricked our own fanbase into believing that it's our organization that isn't well-run or committed to giving the fans an actual competitive basketball team because our "best player" is in fact running the show. Proven how? "In a familiar spot. On the bench." Zion is giving the fans and organization nothing but false hope. A glimmer of what New Orleans basketball could potentially be but never actually living up to it. Zion is the actual grifter.

Mike Breen comment on Zion

Had we cut Zion sooner and gave Ingram the team we could have had us a Jimmy Butler Bulls era post Rose. But unfortunately, Griff was led astray by the off chance he could finally convince Zion to get with the program. It's going to be crazy when this debacle finally ends and the organization starts releasing all of what was really going on behind the scenes that we don't already know about. Alot of fans are going to be pissed. I don't even think another potential first pick is going to relieve them of their ptsd once this ends.

Look at it this way. We're set up way better for a rebuild than we have been when we first had AD and then Zion. We have our SF, SG, and Center for the future, and we can get at least some sort of decent capital for Ingram, Zion, CJ, and Murray. Griffin just better not blow it. New Orleans won't be a dumpster fire for maybe a year or so if we go ahead and start over now and not waiting like we did with Lonzo instead of collecting assets.