TigerinATL

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I can see the 2026 swap but not both and if it has to be both they have to take DJM's contract.

Next years Swap has a high probability of being Top 4

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If you're doing a deal with Milwaukee for their picks back it's because they want to do a reset while riding out Dame's contract which means they need both picks/swaps back. I'm not saying you're wrong about needing to increase the value, just pointing out what they would likely be looking for.

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Link to full interview LINK

This board is full of dreamers that compare every move the Pels make to the perfect moves they had in mind. As if those were ever on the table.

I don't see this as the Pels hired someone that isn't the cream of the crop. I see this as a sign that Dumars will be in a more senior advisor capacity, which most on the board should like considering their opinion of Dumars. The title is also important as it seems like Bryson would have the same job and should stay.

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How is Dumars supposed to fix him being in way over his head?

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By telling him to let his OC run the offense like he was brought in to do? The few times Borrego got to coach the team they looked different. I think BI coincidentally might have been out too, still the difference was notable.

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who thinks it can’t get better

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Look at most owners around the league. It’s a shite show all over. Phoenix, new ownership came in, is fan friendly with free broadcasts of the game, spending on players, and they look like they are going to have to blow it up. Look at the Mavericks’ new ownership that didn’t veto trading the golden goose. We absolutely should be concerned about it getting worse because history says you’re more likely to get a bad owner than a good owner. Good owners are as rare as truly good coaches.

I’m not some Gayle Benson knight by any means, I just think identifying her as a problem is a long way from having a good solution, and ownership is not something that is easy to replace.

Also, to the OP, I don’t think this is about money. Making Griff keep Uncle Al and Dumars keep Willie wasn’t to save a few million, she just didn’t want to fire them for personal/sentimental reasons.

Hopefully they front load the schedule with tough games we would have lost anyway and we can get Interim Coach Borrego after 10 games.

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Second, the problem is THE PROCESS.

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The Saints took a long time to hit on the Payton/Brees combo, but they did. Just because the process is bad doesn't mean it's hopeless. Broken Clock, Blind Squirrel, etc.

Since this is supposed to be a positive thread, here is Shams spreading propaganda about how Dumars' gravitas maybe can get through to Zion.

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If they don't trade Zion they need to replace Willie for sure. Maybe Dumars and a hard nosed coach can get more out of him like Coach K and SVG did.

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They dont give 2 shits about privacy.

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They've put a good bit of planning and resources into privacy related infrastructure in this regard. They run a hybrid local/anonymized cloud/regular cloud AI setup while everyone else is sending everything to the regular cloud.

What Apple needs to do is use one of the open source models like Deep Seek until they can get their own solution up to speed.

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Trading Zion and keeping Willie puts this team on the relocation timeline.

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Relocation only makes money for one owner and takes an open market off the market. Expansion makes money for all owners and the more open markets there are the more they can charge to expand.

I get that you're saying interest would be so low as to kill the franchise, but local revenue is becoming less and less important to team success. A rebuild here might kill this board and turn us all into casual fans, but I don't think it will kill the Pelicans.