Random Other NBA Teams Discussion

Hayes is gonna be good. If everyone is healthy, I would not want to meet the Pelicans if they somehow squeaked out an eighth seed

 

You laugh, but they are playing without half of their starters, making dumb mistakes and still giving the Clippers a hard time.
Of course, I think we'd win but they have only begun to scratch the surface of their talent.

 

I hope they have success, but I don’t think they are much of a threat this year

 

Three game margin over the Clips now.
Thank you Pelicans.

 

Took Booker five years and a decent coach to start winning.
I wouldn't write the kids off yet.

 

He hasn’t played 5 years has he?
I thought this was year 4

 

Nope it's five.

 

That’s what playing in obscurity does for you

 

and i'd trade him and several 1sts for AD, too.

 

What's up with ZO and BI btw? Ball with groin injury? BI?

 

they lost the game the other night when the entire team forgot to pick up james harden (the guy that shoots the ball every trip down the floor!) in crunch time.

but yeah, i thought it was borderline insulting that everyone thought george/kawhi/bev were going to just take people's lunch money on the perimeter like this was middle school. these are professionals. turnovers above the arc usually aren't forced; they're mental mistakes.

they'll be a good defensive unit, but i never bought the all-time greatness angle on that end. and they're going to be a very effective--but very ugly--offensive unit. they'll be more fun to watch than houston, but not by as much as people think. and they'll be better than houston, but not by as much as people think.

 

last i read it was "knee soreness". which is always good this early in the year.

 

Both the Pelicans and our record are misleading.
We won at least a few games we should have lost and they lost a couple maybe they should have won.
If the comparison was 7-4 or 6-5 vs 5-6 would you be bringing up the records?
They are missing Zion. For them this is the equivalent of no LBJ.
If they had Zion and we lost LBJ, our records could be similar.
Holiday also played poorly until last game where he finally broke out in spite of his 7 turnovers.

Again, I think we can beat them but my point was if they were whole and Hayes keeps developing, they get Zion back and have a year together I wouldn't want to face them. I feel the same way about Denver who also has a lot of young pieces and depth. I worry less about Portland, Houston, Spurs, Utah, Minny. If they stay injured, they won't even make the playoffs and this discussion will be moot and they will have a high draft pick which will fortify them even more. If they somehow made the eighth seed, that means they went on a fairly strong winning run and that wouldn't be a team that would be good for anyone to play. The season is between us and the Clippers, but I wouldn't want to play them if I were the Clippers either.

 

That would be the equivalent of sending Booker, Ayton, Oubre and three picks for AD.
Phoenix would not be winning in that scenario.
The key to winning is LBJ and unless he continues becoming the Tom Brady of basketball in a much more physical position, we won't be winning much longer either.
I'm praying LBJ follows the Mailman's path in aging, because our only path to success is him staying elite for three more years.

 

yeah, we could have continued to win 30 games a year and hope REAL HARD instead of this stupid lebron/AD gambit.