Game Thread NBA PLAY-IN - PELICANS @ CLIPPERS - APRIL 15, 2022 - FRIDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) TNT

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  1. Strenuus

    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    This isn't about the tank. It's about the trade.


    How on earth did you confuse this?
     
    Strenuus, Apr 15, 2022
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    Just got back from getting my second booster.
     
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    All I see is record low hospitalizations everywhere. But hey I guess this is still a thing
     
    AldoTrapani, Apr 15, 2022
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    CRAP!!!!
     
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    hospitalizations are down, but cases are up again. we've seen the hospitalization #s lagging usually, so they might trend upward again.
     
    illmatic99, Apr 15, 2022
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    If New Orleans wins with another great CJ game, what an all time F you from the tanking gods.
     
    calvin natt, Apr 15, 2022
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    Paul George in health and safety protocol is OUTSTANDING news
     
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    Karma or whatever.....
     
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    This team won a ton of games without PG and without Norm at least tonight they'll have Norm. This makes the game about even at least that's where the Vegas line is now. PG wasn't lighting the world on fire every game anyway. Obviously this made my stomach drop and my first reaction was that we're fucked but we have to see how the game plays out. An hour ago the pick conveying had a very high probability but I wasn't feeling great about the fact that it was just a high probability and anything could happen in one game. Right now the odds that we get it are lower than 50/50 because I think this game is now 50/50 and then we still have to dodge getting really unlucky with the pick in the lotto.

    All is not lost, we'll have to see the game and then wait for the lotto. If we do lose this pick, Cronin should be fired and the new GM has to decide if we build around Dame or Ant, Nas, Keon, our pick, our high second and use what could be 40M in cap space. If the answer is still build around Dame then we should definitely do what it takes to get our conditions taken off of the pick we owe Chicago and use as many of the future firsts we have as we need to in order to add what will help us win in the near future.
    There are no fucking tanking gods, it's an all time fuck you to Cronin for so severely undervaluing CJ and getting so fleeced by the Pelicans. The good news is that now more than before the first gift Cronin gave away will have a bigger chance to make the second a little less charitable.
     
    blazerkor, Apr 15, 2022
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    Please save us Nico, RoCo and Norm. Dame needs you
     
    DDolla, Apr 15, 2022
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    fuck you paul george, you fucking prick

    clippers fucking better win this game
     
    Mr. Robot, Apr 15, 2022
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    Are we more likely to trade for Jerami Grant if we GET the Pels pick or if we DON'T get it? Because whatever makes us more likely to trade - I'm rooting for the other one.
     
    Rastapopoulos, Apr 15, 2022
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    If Cronin retains his job, I bet we guarantee the pick to the Bulls for cash or the Memphis second rounder. Then he'll spend as many of our future firsts, I think we'll have 4 available to trade if the trade officially completes after the draft. I could see Cronin giving all of them to Detroit for Grant because it sounds like he thinks our pick and Grant make us contenders in Joe's head. So probably hope that Joe either loses the job or we get a President of Basketball Operations that is far more shrewd.
     
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    blazers want to rebuild around dame, so unless we get lucky with the top 3 pick, i believe our pick is gone for sure

    top 3 pick might change the plan
     
    Mr. Robot, Apr 15, 2022
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    PG is OUT. pels for the win/
     
    Cugel, Apr 15, 2022
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    Paul George waves bye bye to the Blazers pick. He got his revenge from that Dame shot
     
    DDolla, Apr 15, 2022
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    Since I believe Grant is way overrated; does that mean I should root for us to lose the pick?
     
    SharpesTriumph, Apr 15, 2022
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    A lot of contingencies? They protected it top 4.
     
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    Everyone chill, the game is about even now and with the fact that betting has to have swiftly shifted towards the Pelicans on the money line, the fact that they still aren't a + (that means no book is paying out less money than someone bets on a Pelicans win) means that Vegas still wants that heat. Vegas wants betters betting on the money line that the Pelicans win, they still think they'll get that money, so they still think the Clippers win. Now if they start getting that heat, they'll hedge their bet and the line will shift towards the Pelicans but with all of the info in, Vegas is trying to drive up the amount of bets on the Pels.

    Bottom line is that the people with the most money to lose on a Pelicans win haven't jumped to the conclusion that the Clippers are done so those of us who have an interest in the Clippers winning shouldn't be so fucking hasty.
     
    blazerkor, Apr 15, 2022
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