The below quote is my personal favorite. The lack of self-awareness is a thing of beauty.
who knows, he should have been above Ball I would think, and yet they went backcourt for a frontcourt injury. I think unless a C gets hurt he might get snubbed on the old "well which guy will be fun/is a big name"
I had Allen and Dejounte as my first two replacements. The game is perfect for Melo’s game so I’m glad he gets a showcase
The rookie wants playing time...unfortunately he plays behind LaMelo Ball and Terry Rozier. Wouldn't be shocked if he was dealt as part of a package to land a BIG (Myles Turner)
The Hornets play Ball and Ish at the 1 for 48 min most nights. They also play Plumlee/Washington at the 5 most of the time. The minutes available are the 2/3/4 minutes and Borrego isn’t afraid to play 4 guards/wings with a big. Minutes are there for Bouknight and not necessarily taken from Ball and Rozier…….Oubre and Hayward are obv going to get minutes but the kid hasn’t taken time from Cody Martin or Jalen McDaniels. He just had a stretch of games to impress and shot 8-26 in the last 3 prior to the blowout. It seems to me like this is on the player.
Yep, the NBA is really hard for rookies
Protected for lottery winners (1-4) and finishing outside the lottery (15-30) according to Woj. The pick rolls over if it doesn’t convey, but not sure what pick that is, as New Orleans has a lot of them to choose from.
Trent has been very good and I wish the Celtics had him. Just a disgusting series of moves by them. Yikes.
The lease on Moda is up soon and rumors locally is that Jody Allen is prepping for a sale. They are working without a GM and each of these moves saved salary even if no assets came back. The writing is on the wall.
Yup. I think you’re right. Just sad for a great basketball town to endure. Going to get ugly.
I think CJ is a negative asset, neutral at best, given that contract. There has been plenty of discussion on this board about the aging curve of small guards. He is making 33M next year and 35M in his age 32 season.
Across two different front office regimes. Cronin, the current GM, essentially has marching orders to unwind a lot of Olshey's work. Its hard to be critical of people who are asked to cut bad positions quickly, especially given all the cap constraints across the NBA landscape. YRMV.
yeah, basically Olshey quadrupled down on his broken backcourt because he drafted them, now the new GM's job is to fix it while also cutting salary.
I am surprised Nukric isn't being discussed. I would think he might be attractive to teams who need to rent out extra space in the paint for playoff season.
Is Nurkic going to be considerably better than other bigs bought out? He's also a TO machine which people ignore for some reason.
Rumor is that they had offers and said they are keeping him. Which is insane since he and Dame have defensive numbers that are just horrific, and it's not like he's making up for it on offense
I understand dumping CJ especially if he nets a first and Josh Hart. Not on board with the Powell trade in conjunction with this move. Powell is 28, making half of what CJ is paid, and knocks down threes at a 40% clip. He fits on most teams.
Looking back at the Covington/Powell trade, I can’t make any sense of it now. Why would they dump them to get under the tax *AND* trade Nance into the Pelicans’ TPE?
This is correct.
