re: KOC: League sources "expect" Pelicans to be aggressive in trade market

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Just really scared with that meshing with Griff's history about reluctance to pull a trade unless he thinks he's absolutely getting the win compared to sometimes where you just have to pull the trigger and get best value possible.

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Just like Zion's injury history the last 4 years, I think there is a lot of noise in the data we have on Griff's trade record.

- He's a snake oil salesman and people act like he has a need to "win the press conference" with a clearly winning trade. As long as it's not too severe of a downgrade Griff would be able to sell a win in the press conference. Winning press conferences is what he does.
- The team has been standing pat in part waiting for data, that as of yesterday Griff said he now has.
- The team also seemed unsure of committing to Zion being #1 until Zion looked like he had committed to being a #1. That seems to have been resolved.
- We've seen him pivot quickly with Stan, he also unceremoniously moved on from NAW/Jax/Kira. He didn't damn the torpedoes and try to make them work because those 3 represented a #4 and #13 pick. He dumped Devonte Graham as well.

It just seems that people are saying Griff has sunk cost fallacy when he seems to cut his losses and pivot more readily than most GMs. Optimism bias is Griff's biggest weakness.