shel311
| Favorite team: | New Orleans Pelicans  |
| Location: | McKinney, Texas |
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| Registered on: | 8/9/2004 |
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re: Worst year in franchise history and the worst 10-month run for a GM in NBA history
Posted by shel311 on 2/11/26 at 9:27 pm to Colonel Flagg
quote:Loss at home to the Heat without Herro, Wiggins, and Powell.
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.
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quote:Apparently a coach is worth 20 wins now.
Like I can't believe we still have people thinking this team is just missing a coach and some luck to put it together.
I'd bet a lot of these same dudes loved Borrego too.
re: Bondi: Massie has Trump derangement syndrome
Posted by shel311 on 2/11/26 at 2:51 pm to hawgfaninc
quote:You gotta ahrw when politicians try to ensure the law is upheld and Co conspirators to child rape aren't redacted by our government
Bondi: Massie has Trump derangement syndrome
How dare Massie!
re: Murray rejoins the team and practices
Posted by shel311 on 2/8/26 at 8:26 pm to ghost2most
quote:Not weird at all once you realize he's been healthy for a while now.
Weird...
So as soon as the trade deadline passes, he's back?
He wanted a trade but had no market, so now he has no choice but to play to try to build value.
re: Worst year in franchise history and the worst 10-month run for a GM in NBA history
Posted by shel311 on 2/8/26 at 8:24 pm to Colonel Flagg
quote:No, all the teams didn't give up.
All the teams outside of the play-in just gave up at the trade deadline. They aren’t even wanting to compete.
quote:They are one of the least talented teams in the NBA.
The team has talent and some nice rookies.
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.
re: Worst year in franchise history and the worst 10-month run for a GM in NBA history
Posted by shel311 on 2/7/26 at 5:25 pm to Colonel Flagg
quote:They're about 12 games out of that Wil 28 to go, it's not even realistically possible.
Pels will end up being a late lottery team by the end of the season.
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.
quote: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.
He's never been close to an MVP-caliber player.
In a world where Luka doesn't have an MVP, Zion has never remotely sniffed being an MVP caliber player.
re: Seaton’s price is btw $4-5m? Is this correct?
Posted by shel311 on 1/21/26 at 6:38 pm to White Tiger
quote:Market rate, whatever it takes to get him to your school over other schools.
What process is used to "value" a given player?
re: I finally accept Zion just isn't that good
Posted by shel311 on 1/17/26 at 10:56 am to whatiknowsofar
quote: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.
Theres several reasons Zion isn't as good, the main one being borrego isn't building the offense around him and rightly so.
quote:He never remotely came close, unless you think he was as good or almost as good as Luka.
At one point, he really was an MVP-caliber player when he was actually on the court
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.
re: How will the portal affect high school recruting?
Posted by shel311 on 1/15/26 at 10:00 pm to Topwater Trout
quote:The discussion wasn't about the past, it was about the future.
Michigan did last year. Have any 5 star qbs signed with any mid tier teams recently?
re: How will the portal affect high school recruting?
Posted by shel311 on 1/14/26 at 1:21 pm to Topwater Trout
quote: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?
they will go to the schools offering highest NIL $. Those schools will still be the premier schools and not mid tier schools.
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.
re: How will the portal affect high school recruting?
Posted by shel311 on 1/13/26 at 12:31 pm to NorthTiger
quote: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.
How will the portal affect high school recruting?
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.
quote:It's not others' job to debunk random stuff she says.
So no one watched the show and debunk what she actually reported.
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.
quote:And then there will be one tiny, not terribly important piece of information that will be proven true, and she'll use that to say, "SEE, I'VE PROVED THE ENTIRE THING!"
Let me guess…her sources will have more info at a later date?
And folks will fall for it.
She's gone, out to sea and likely not coming back. No clue why folks believe anything she says at this point, it's all nonsensical.
quote:Our shot quality since Borrego took over is top 3 in the league.
There's a reason Borrego never got a HC job
And we're seeing it on the court
He can scheme open shots, which he is doing, but he can't make them for the players.
Defense...we have an entire team of bad defensive players except for Herb who doens't play much.
re: Queen, Zion, and Murphy is the core with the right coach - just hire Michael Malone
Posted by shel311 on 1/10/26 at 3:46 pm to VA LSU fan
quote:Why would he have a single iota of interest in coaching this team? Especially if Zion is on the team...
just hire Michael Malone
re: Jordan Poole 0 points , 0 rebounds, 1 assist, 0 steals in 12 minutes
Posted by shel311 on 1/10/26 at 3:46 pm to BowDownToLSU
We could have CJ McCollum on an expiring right now...
re: Don’t look now but Z actually kooks to be finally gelling with his teammates.
Posted by shel311 on 1/10/26 at 3:44 pm to LSUPilot07
quote:Doesn't equate to wins.
Don’t look now but Z actually kooks to be finally gelling with his teammates
We have a unique opportunity here to not be tied down by his contract. Would be very on brand if we don't take advantage of that.
re: Pelicans not trading Z, Trey, Herb, Fears, Queen before deadline per Haynes
Posted by shel311 on 1/9/26 at 7:31 pm to Jar_Jar_80
quote:Current, not much.
Explain how just cutting Zion would help the team with the current cap situation.
But Zion's contract being guaranteed will go on for much longer than just "currently" so we need to cut bait before the next guarantee kicks in.
quote:We didn't have to say anything to Leavitt, good or bad.
again in their head people are assuming we told leavitt to frick off during the visit when willliams declared back in the portal
This isn't that difficult.
quote:It's more likely that all that happened while we were hosting Leavitt?
it's more likely leavitt made it clear he wasn't signing before taking more visits and offers. LSU tried to pivot so we didn't have to wait this out and come away with no one, didn't work out but the line of thinking wasn't wrong or impulsive.
That's funny :lol:
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