Trade CJ McCollum to New Orleans

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  1. Orion Bailey

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    Cj deserves more respect than most players in the league but this is looking to be looking like a perfect example of addition by subtraction.
    Hart, though not the elite and diverse of a scorer as CJ, brings the grit on the defensive end, we have needed.
    Dame/Ant/Hart is better than any three guard lineup we had prior.
    I could see us talking Ant into a decent 15-20 mill contract and become iur 6th man of the year.
    Start Hart next to Dame.

    Dame/Ant/smith jr
    Hart/maclemore/eleby
    Nas/Hughes?
    Randle? Banchero? Grant?/ Winslow?
    Nurk/Watford/??

    is that enough with our picks and cap to fill in adequately to be a playoff team next year and contenders the following??
    Id say if not, its not far off.
    Draft night will likely decide much of this.
     
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    CJ in a nutshell:

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    Pelicans fans were really excited to get CJ. I mean sure they have been garbage for years, so to get a B-Star like CJ must be really exciting for them. I wonder how they feel now
     
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    36 points and 12 rebounds last night and the Pels still lost...to the Spurs
     
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    There are a lot of Pelicans fans complaining that between Graham and McCollum, they don't have any defense in the backcourt.

    That sounds eerily familiar....
     
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    Yeah, they have to commit to CJ at the point and play a defensive minded SG next to him but they can learn that the hard way or make a conscious decision to deny that reality forever like we did.
     
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    He threw a supreme dime to Snell under the hoop in the game tonight. CJ is the best player, at least on offense, for the Pelicans.
    In tonight's game against the tough grizzly defense Brandon Ingram looks kind of clueless. He's three for 10 for six points. CJ on the other hand is six for 12 for 14 points slicing and dicing as usual.
     
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    Draft order and ping-pong balls are almost more important, but yes draft night will be key for sure especially if we use the TPE and/or Bledsoe in big trades and we get the Pels pick. Wouldn't it be amazing if we ended up with the #1 and #5 this year? That would be absolutely bonkers. Jabari Smith and then I'd have to think long and hard about whether I'd trade the #5 plus whatever for someone like a disgruntled Ayton (is that even possible cap and salary guys?) or another elite potential center maybe go nuts and try and draft one like that Dragan Bender guy after a trade down trade. The possibilities if we had two top 10 picks are endless. We could then flip Nurkic for someone in an S&T as I don't see him being OK backing up another center. Maybe try and sign Boucher for PF/C with D and range? Man, wouldn't that be something?
     
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    ...I wonder if the Pelicans will ever have a winning record with MeJ :dunno:
     
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    He can put up terrific performances but he's not conducive to winning. Like the Hassan Whiteside of guards.
     
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    cj and whiteside. The opposite of kobe and shaq.
     
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    This Grizzlies team is so good. What in the world.
     
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    They’ll get broken up though. In 2012, I thought Thunder would go to finals every year. They never went back and 7 years later, they were all gone.
     
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    theprunetang, Feb 16, 2022
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    Yep. All that youth is great, until they want to get paid. And it's understandable. Then, because the team is good, the draft picks are later, and more likely to be meat beaters, than world beaters.
     
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    The Pelicans need to bench Graham, he's not even producing offensively. At least CJ is carrying that offense.

    Right at the trade I thought the best type of guard for the Pelicans to start with CJ is ironically Hart.
     
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    The Pelicans are 1-3 since getting CJ, all of those games at home and all three losses by at least 10.

    They host the Mavs tomorrow night, then play four of their next six on the road and have a home game with the Jazz.

    Starting to think we need to root for them to get a little bit better so they don't wind up in the top four.
     
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