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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    The only silver lining is now we may not get Grant. Which is a positive.

    That's the only positive I can take out of this septic filled catastrophe.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Im pretty curious about how much CJs contract was not looked at fondly by GMs. The league isn’t lacking in quality SG’s.

    I am not surprised that the Pelicans made the playoffs.
     
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    Yeah, it was a marginal pick, but it's just unreal just how badly Cronin screwed the Pooch. How did we not get one of the following back in the CJ trade: The LAL pick if the NOP pick didn't convey PLUS either Herb Jones (this should have been the MINIMUM for CJ IMO) or Murphy. Any of those would have made it slightly reasonable.
     
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    Now if the Pels beat the Suns we still get the pick, right?
     
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    I think that's a daily occurrence anyway.
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Fischer said it on Danny Marangs podcast. They tried hard last year and they wanted him again this year. We could have had both Hart and Lonzo ball last year.
     
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    Go lay on your dog bed. The adults are too sad. :(
     
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    by the way, I know we're all swimming in our river of misery right now, but about the Clippers:

    they will have a tax bill of 85M for a team that is out of the playoffs and in the lottery...but without a lottery pick. Between salary and tax, their total payroll this year is 252M. Blazers at 125M
     
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    I'd literally have almost anyone on this board instead of Cronin right now as GM even Mr. Robot if he was barred from Nurk related negotiations.
     
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    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    and again, the play-in is a joke.

    it's fine if teams are bunched up together, but Clips had a 6 game lead on NO after 82 games and lost a single elimination game with their best player a last minute scratch.

    need to amend that shit or risk completely minimizing the importance of the regular season.
     
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    I can see Cronin saying the pick wasn’t that important it was getting out of CJ’s contract that gave us flexibility.

    But like always with this organization. Flexibility to do what?

    Add a mid tier free agent?
     
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    that was olshey though, if true
     
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    they can take solace in the fact that they have a nasty lineup coming back next yr.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Cheer up, we can probably still draft Ochai
     
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    I stand by my prediction that one or both of Kawhi and PG are gone this summer, I will take it a step further and say about LA teams that likely both will see a superstar traded this offseason. Here's hoping and yes, you try and get in on that action.
     
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    Sucks for Balmer.
     
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    yeah, I'm beginning to agree with that after initially like the play-in.
     
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    Look at Lakers/Clippers. All those stars they acquired in 2019 and neither team is in playoffs 3 years later. Look at Nets. Signed Kyrie and KD in 2019 and all they’ve won is a playoff series and a play-in game.
     
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    Right!?!? It hurts more when you realize we gave two firsts and GT3 for Norm and Roco.
     
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    Totally agree.

    If you're throwing Nance into that deal, you have to make a contingency that the Blazers get one of the two Pelicans' picks.

    To me, not doing this, combined with the weak return for RoCo and Powell would be enough to show Cronin the door. I have a sinking feeling that isn't going to happen, but I think he could have maximized assets by trading all those guys off separately, not making it a tent sale.
     
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