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Solomon Hill or Jordan Crawford need to be watched...
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The concern for me isn't about the Pelicans 2 bigs, cause they will get theirs. My concern is the 3rd or 4th little scrubs that tend to play like star level basketball against the Raps.
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They've been great defensively actually but can't score to save their lives. Not putting it past them to all of a sudden "figure it out" on Wednesday..planetmars wrote: View PostComment
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I'm kind of hoping that JV is benched in the 4th quarter, not because it will help us win, but because this should be the ultimate test of small vs. big ball. For Raps small ball, Ibaka can handle Davis, but who matches up with Cousins? Pat or PJ?Comment
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Boogie always kills us. Expecting LOnly one thing matters: We The Champs.Comment
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They are losing games where Boogie and Davis each put up 25-35 points, because the rest of the team sucks. I agree, a key to winning will be less about limiting those two guys than shutting down everybody else. They're 2-5 since the break/trade, have lost to every quality team they've played, and are only averaging 98.1 ppg which would be dead last in the league for the season.Hotshot wrote: View Post"We're playing in a building." -- Kawhi LeonardComment
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Ahahahaha they're not even pelicans lolScraptor wrote: View PostAnybody else gonna spend the game talking like Tony Montana?
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkYou come at the King, you best not miss.Comment
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9 time first team all-RR, First Ballot Hall of ForumComment
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Nope. Whats a 'hasa' Keon?KeonClark wrote: View Post
Tony says they're pelicans, they're pelicans.
you know what a 'hasa' is Mr Z?
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The thing is Buddy+Tyreke were averaging about 9 ppg each (18ppg total) on the Pels and Cousins is now averaging almost 24 ppg. I know the numbers don't exactly work that way, because you have to look at who is replacing who; but at a coarse first approximation, shouldn't the addition of Cousins boost the offense by around 6 ppg in less total minutes than Buddy+Tyreke? A 6 ppg increase is enough to lift a previously bottom 5 offense into the top 10.S.R. wrote: View PostComment
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KeonClark wrote: View PostWell the question was meant to be rhetorical...but heres a baby in a tuxedo
You come at the King, you best not miss.Comment
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Third time JV vs DMC this year. I hope D.C. Gives JV more minutes as DanH rightly has suggested.Comment
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There seemed to a be a 50/50 split around here regarding acquiring Cousins when he was on the Kings.
On one side you had people saying Cousins was a can't miss superstar, you add him by any means neccesary, figure it out later. It was all the Kings fault they were an absolute mess and ohh the outrage when we didn't get him, that was our chance to push for a title!
On the one side (MY side
) You had people that said Cousins is a huge part of the problem, he's never gonna win as a focal point on a team, attitude problems, and throw the stats out the window, a true superstar would win 40 games in 6 chances to do it.
And of course many fell somewhere in the middle.
Well guess which side is claiming early victory?
https://theringer.com/nba-trade-dead...285#.b4je2ay39Davis is shooting 21.6 percent worse from the paint when he’s playing with Cousins, and thus, the Pelicans have been significantly worse as a team.
When Davis is on the court without Cousins, the Pelicans are outscoring teams by 4.2 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com. Bring on Boogie, and that number plummets to minus-7.9. When Cousins is on without Brow, his performance has been relatively unchanged, but the Pelicans are even worse, at minus-17.4, per NBA.com.
We’re working with small sample sizes here, and there are other variables playing a factor, like game situation and opponent lineup units, but it’s noteworthy that, in a league where two-big lineups are vanishing in favor of small-ball units, a twin towers pairing is not working even with two of the league’s best big men sharing the floor.
The trade for Cousins was supposed to thrust the Pelicans into the playoffs, but it’s instead pushed them further down the standings. They’ll get a pass if they’re unable to click as a unit this season, since it’s not easy to integrate a central piece midseason. But Boogie and Brow need to become a dominant duo at some point, or else New Orleans will be right back to where it started prior to Cousins’s arrival.9 time first team all-RR, First Ballot Hall of ForumComment
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It's interesting because the Spurs lesser talented twin towers (Gasol/Aldridge) has an excellent net rating of +7 when playing together. Even more impressive is that they are anchoring the #1 defense in the league in the "modern NBA". Those are 2 aging, non-stretch, below average athleticism big men who were never heralded for their defense by any stretch of the imagination. Pop is amazing.KeonClark wrote: View PostThere seemed to a be a 50/50 split around here regarding acquiring Cousins when he was on the Kings.
On one side you had people saying Cousins was a can't miss superstar, you add him by any means neccesary, figure it out later. It was all the Kings fault they were an absolute mess and ohh the outrage when we didn't get him, that was our chance to push for a title!
On the one side (MY side) You had people that said Cousins is a huge part of the problem, he's never gonna win as a focal point on a team, attitude problems, and throw the stats out the window, a true superstar would win 40 games in 6 chances to do it.
And of course many fell somewhere in the middle.
Well guess which side is claiming early victory?
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