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

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When you can play, it’s obvious from the get go. It doesn’t matter if you are playing on a lottery bound team or a contender, if you can ball as a rookie you will play. It’s as simple as that.

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Yeah that's my point.. Kira obviously sucked, but Hawkins was filling up the box score to start this year, until teams understandably adjusted to him... but rather than give him some slack to work thru it (or *gasp* adjust our offense to get him into better positions), we bury him on the bench.

Trey was easily the best rookie in the Summer League -- on both ends of the floor.. he gets into the regular season and teams find his weaknesses and exploit them. Rather than see if he has the game to figure it out, we send him to the G-league. He comes back with a 3pt shot but still gets lost on defense pretty often