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his dudeness said:
You guys need to actually watch the NBA. Pelicans have multiple big strong guards that can shoot and/or defend better than Hawkins at this point. Hawkins played big minutes early because most of those guys were injured and shot 36% from 3. Save your outrage for something more worthwhile - Hawkins will have a long and successful NBA career as long as he keeps improving and getting stronger.
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It does make sense that other guys getting healthy means Hawkins gets less. It also is true that the Pelicans weren't spectacular before, 11-10 when he got 15+ minutes (with an injured roster) and 6-4 in other games

But even though his percentage is lower than others, his volume is high. He's only played 60 minutes total in the last 3 weeks and still leads the Pelicans in total three pointers made

Their last 3 losses are all by less than 3 points. Naji/Daniels/Alvarado were 4-19 from three in those games. Hawkins 0 minutes. Hard to convince me that there were no minutes available in those games for their 3PM leader

They're 6th from the bottom in the league in three pointers made per game. Last year 6th from the bottom in 3PM. Worse the year before. They finished 9th, 8th, and 11th in the conference in those 3 years. The Pelicans need to modernize and with Trey Murphy going crazy last year and drafting Hawkins, it seemed like that was the plan

I'll agree with you the outrage here gets excessive, but Hawkins had a great start to the season playing his role and now he's benched indefinitely. While the main guys are back to play the same style and bring the team to another play-in seed. The Zion experiment is collapsing but they're doubling down and going all-in on that 7-10 seed range. That's the part that doesn't make sense
 
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his dudeness said:
You guys need to actually watch the NBA. Pelicans have multiple big strong guards that can shoot and/or defend better than Hawkins at this point. Hawkins played big minutes early because most of those guys were injured and shot 36% from 3. Save your outrage for something more worthwhile - Hawkins will have a long and successful NBA career as long as he keeps improving and getting stronger.
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Did you watch the game vs Grizzlies?
Hawk would have been a help in those waning moments of regulation as well as in the OT.
The Pelicans have a huge Zion problem and is way too 4 and 3 oriented. How can the guards produce when Zion brings the ball up the court every possession he is in the game?
Pelican guards may look physical but are neither strong nor can they defend. Period. McCollum is on the other side of his career at 33 yo He can still score but is slower than your average guard.
Daniels and Lewis are both extremely inconsistent and Seabron is great in the GLeague but has shown limited flashes of being a NBA performer - with his height and length he should be better vs the smaller guards. He gets abused defensively.

Not saying that Hawk should start - that time will come but to sit him the entire game is ridiculous. Also - the Bucks couldn't get Jackson some PT during the last 8 minutes of the blowout vs the Nets last night?

No blue glasses here - just dumbfounded. I watch a ton of NBA and GLeague games but thanks for the snark remark
 
I actually think the problem with the Pelicans is simply, they don’t have a PG.

If they got an actual PG so they can move CJ over to the 2 they would be so much better for it and have a lot of issues fixed as far as offensive roles.

Doesn’t even have to be anyone crazy, Tyus Jones would be a good fit. A Mike Conley goes a LONG way in solving offensive issues.
 
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I love being vindicated in less than 24 hours by a multi-billion dollar franchise. I hope Jordan uses the increased reps to improve his shooting efficiency (38%) and defense.

To the people telling him that he's a Top 3 rookie and just being victimized by a secret anti-UConn conspiracy - you are also entitled to your opinions. Have a great day everyone.
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his dudeness said:
I love being vindicated in less than 24 hours by a multi-billion dollar franchise. I hope Jordan uses the increased reps to improve his shooting efficiency (38%) and defense.

To the people telling him that he's a Top 3 rookie and just being victimized by a secret anti-UConn conspiracy - you are also entitled to your opinions. Have a great day everyone.
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The pistons are valued higher than the pelicans and have been to the playoffs the same amount of times in the last 5 seasons. They are currently 2-28. Valuation has nothing to do with basketball knowledge or being a good franchise.

This ain't the dunk you think it is, lil bro
 
his dudeness said:
I love being vindicated in less than 24 hours by a multi-billion dollar franchise. I hope Jordan uses the increased reps to improve his shooting efficiency (38%) and defense.

To the people telling him that he's a Top 3 rookie and just being victimized by a secret anti-UConn conspiracy - you are also entitled to your opinions. Have a great day everyone.
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There are 351 other fanbases you could be a part of.
 
his dudeness said:
I love being vindicated in less than 24 hours by a multi-billion dollar franchise. I hope Jordan uses the increased reps to improve his shooting efficiency (38%) and defense.

To the people telling him that he's a Top 3 rookie and just being victimized by a secret anti-UConn conspiracy - you are also entitled to your opinions. Have a great day everyone.
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#1 "vindicated" is more or less admitting you were wrong
#2 this appears to be the opposite in that the Pels are proving to be an org without a plan.
i.e. Why'd they have Hawk ride the bench all December and send him down now?
They certainly didn't cite a reason at least publicly for sending him to Bumingham.

Feels like if Hawkins started and played 30 minutes for the Pels tonight you'd also be saying I told you so. There's no conspiracy, just bad decision making combined with a posters confirmation bias. Pels are 918 losses vs 799 wins which seems about same odds (.465) that this decision is sound.
 
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Drummond looks on pace for another 20+ rebound game if he can avoid foul trouble in the 2nd half. 12 rebs in the first half but 3 fouls, Bulls are electing to go small with Drummond on the bench so no tick for Adama, who was called up this week.
 
jibsey said:
Sanogo called up to Bulls roster?
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Yeah he's on the 12-man roster, but not in the game yet (if at all).

Vucevic has a groin strain, so Drummond is starting and Sanogo is the bench big.
 
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You're a dope...those are non-rotation "garbage" minutes for Hawk in December. When Hawkins was actual rotation player for entire month of November games he avergaged 30 mins and 14.4 pts & played like a top 3 rookie. Go back to the log you crawled out from under.
 
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aceboon said:
Drummond looks on pace for another 20+ rebound game if he can avoid foul trouble in the 2nd half. 12 rebs in the first half but 3 fouls, Bulls are electing to go small with Drummond on the bench so no tick for Adama, who was called up this week.
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16 rebounds in 21 minutes. Incredible.
 
aceboon said:
In non UConn-NBA games the Celtics fell behind by 21 to the Pistons and then came out with Game 7 intensity in the 2nd half. Nobody wants to be the team that snaps that losing streak.
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Fortunately for the Celtics they won in OT.
 
Bouknight got 6 garbage time minutes and scored 5 points (pretty much all in the last minute)

He continues to play well in minimal time. 5.7 PPG on 55% FG and 50% 3P in 6 minutes per game. Unfortunately I think he’s exhausted all of his chances to be a rotation player in Charlotte
 
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You are truly a numbskull. Guess what? They don't list DNPs there!
12/26 - DNP CD
12/23 - DNP CD
12/19 - DNP CD
12/4 - DNP CD
From 12/4-12/26 10 games 40% didn't play, 20% <4mins/1shot, avg 6mpg=barely played.
Dec 26MEML, 115-11600/0-0000000
Dec 23HOUL, 104-10600/0-0000000
Dec 21@CLEW, 123-104122/5.4000260200
Dec 19MEML, 113-11500/0-0000000
Dec 17@SASW, 146-110123/6.5000172000
Dec 15@CHAW, 112-10740/1.0000000000
Dec 13@WASW, 142-122191/7.1430022100
Dec 11MINW, 121-10710/1.0000000000
Dec 7@LALL, 89-133122/8.2500042000
Dec 4@SACW, 127-11700/0-0000000
 
We’d all have to eat crow if Hawkins played poorly in the G League, but he had 32 points and 7 boards in his debut. 40% shooting, 5 threes on 38.5%. Still a volume scorer lol

Isaiah Wong also played in this game, 19 points including the game winner
 
6 and 11 for Andre if the first half. His rebounding ability is insane.

One observation from watching, he is taking the game very very serious and is locked in. Seems like he knows this is his chance to show he can be a starter somewhere again.

It’s cool to see Dre growing up and hope he can eventually find himself back into a starting spot somewhere with his play.
 
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