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re: Fun Brandon Ingram stat

Posted by shel311 on 2/20/26 at 9:49 pm to
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Hard disagree here.
Wasn't an opinion :lol:


Those were factual statements.

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. If Zion is your best player, you win 20 games. If Ingram is your best player, you can win 45-50.
We never won 45 games with BI as our best player.

We won 49 games with Zion as our best player.


Again, factually speaking.

re: Fun Brandon Ingram stat

Posted by shel311 on 2/20/26 at 9:47 pm to
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CORRECTION: BI was here for a little over half the season. It's convenient of you to forget, huh?
How'd the Pels do during that time?

re: Fun Brandon Ingram stat

Posted by shel311 on 2/20/26 at 9:39 pm to
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LMAO!!!
Everything I posted was a literal fact, not an opinion.

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The whole six years that BI was in New Orleans, the Pelicans have never looked this futile
The Pelicans won 21 games last season, BI was on the team. Even THAT team was better when BI was off the court, again, factually/not my opinion.
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Murray is a real a-hole for that
Or, he's an arse hole for being healthy enough to return for a bit now but refusing to do so because he wanted a deadline trade, and the only reason he's playing now is because he has no trade value and is trying to rehab it so he can be moved.
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For anyone that cares.
Nope, F that dude.

re: Fun Brandon Ingram stat

Posted by shel311 on 2/20/26 at 9:29 pm to
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Here's another Fun Brandon Ingram Stat for you.

31 / 8 / 6 last night (3 of 5 from three and + 12) in a win no less.

Just Sayin'
The Raptors have been better, factually, this season when BI is off the court... Just like the Pels were last season, factually... and just like the Pels were the season before that, factually.


BI does not affect winning. He has a career Net Rating of +0.3.
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Loss at home to the Heat without Herro, Wiggins, and Powell.
Loss at home to the tanking, Giannis-less Bucks.
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All the teams outside of the play-in just gave up at the trade deadline. They aren’t even wanting to compete.

The team should have been much better this season and it was mainly a function Willie Green being horrible.
Loss at home to the Heat without Herro, Wiggins, and Powell.
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Like I can't believe we still have people thinking this team is just missing a coach and some luck to put it together.
Apparently a coach is worth 20 wins now.

I'd bet a lot of these same dudes loved Borrego too.
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Bondi: Massie has Trump derangement syndrome
You gotta ahrw when politicians try to ensure the law is upheld and Co conspirators to child rape aren't redacted by our government


How dare Massie!
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Weird...

So as soon as the trade deadline passes, he's back?
Not weird at all once you realize he's been healthy for a while now.

He wanted a trade but had no market, so now he has no choice but to play to try to build value.
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All the teams outside of the play-in just gave up at the trade deadline. They aren’t even wanting to compete.
No, all the teams didn't give up.
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The team has talent and some nice rookies.
They are one of the least talented teams in the NBA.

It would be a minor miracle if the Pels win just half their remaining games. If that happens we'd need all the teams in front of us or go between 2-26 and 5-23 to have a chance at the play in.
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Pels will end up being a late lottery team by the end of the season.
They're about 12 games out of that Wil 28 to go, it's not even realistically possible.

For example, we went something like 20-8(lol) to finish the season, basically we'd need nearly all the average teams to go 8-20 or worse.
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He's never been close to an MVP-caliber player.
Don't think the OP mentioned MVP caliber, but it is said a lot, I think I quoted one such post a week or 2 ago.

In a world where Luka doesn't have an MVP, Zion has never remotely sniffed being an MVP caliber player.
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What process is used to "value" a given player?
Market rate, whatever it takes to get him to your school over other schools.
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Theres several reasons Zion isn't as good, the main one being borrego isn't building the offense around him and rightly so.

If you're going to be a completely negative at every facet of the game when you don't have the ball in your hands, then you need to be averaging 32+ ppg and 8 assists minimum or around there to be a truly elite player.
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At one point, he really was an MVP-caliber player when he was actually on the court
He never remotely came close, unless you think he was as good or almost as good as Luka.

Luka never won an MVP. Zion at whatever you think was his peak was still miles behind Luka, on 2 different stratospheres.


Zion never sniffed MVP caliber players unless they were on the court playing against him.
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Michigan did last year. Have any 5 star qbs signed with any mid tier teams recently?
The discussion wasn't about the past, it was about the future.
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they will go to the schools offering highest NIL $. Those schools will still be the premier schools and not mid tier schools.

But if you're a premier school, why pay a ton of money for a dude to sit on your bench then possibly leave in 1-2 years?


Seems like a better use of money to let him get experience playing elsewhere, then pay that player in a couple of years to come to your school.
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How will the portal affect high school recruting?

I see the elite 5 star QBs going to less and less big time schools where playing time isn't guaranteed, and instead going to mid tier schools where they can start day 1.


It just doesn't seem to make much sense for the top tier schools to pay top dollar for elite 5 stars to sit around for 2 years in their system when they can get playing time elsewhere for "free" to the top school, then the top school can invest in them when they're proven after a year or 2 of already playing.

re: Today on Candace’s show

Posted by shel311 on 1/13/26 at 10:28 am to
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So no one watched the show and debunk what she actually reported.

It's not others' job to debunk random stuff she says.

It's her job to show proof that it is true, which she never ever does.



Point being, there's nothing to debunk, literally nothing needs to be proven untrue, because she is just saying words, words are meaningless. Show proof, she can't do that though.