re: Non-Pels May Thread

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Credit to them that they’re not ok being mediocre

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Well, seems there’s more to it

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It’s like looney tunes around here,” the Suns source told Hoops Wire. “It’s felt unstable since (Ishbia) arrived. He’s a good guy and everything, I think, but he’s just very involved. Too involved. I know he played (college basketball at Michigan State), but I’d venture to say he has no idea what he’s doing when it comes to basketball. Yet he’s making a lot of the big decisions.

The source went on to compare Ishbia’s ownership to the ownership of Dan Gilbert with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the early 2000s. Gilbert is also a Michigan State product — though he and Ishbia own competing mortgage companies and reportedly don’t speak at league owners’ meetings, or really, any other time. They’re said not to like each other.

“Back in the day, the Cavs’ basketball staff would do their coaching search, and Dan would do his coaching search,” the source said. “He’s not like that now, from everything I know. He lets the basketball people handle that stuff. Ishbia doesn’t. He’s a pain in the (butt) to be honest.”

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It sounds like he’s being one of those owners that’s wanting to make every single decision himself, but is blaming the people he hires when things go wrong.

Basically the type of owner nobody will want to work for and he will be relegated to hiring first timers within 5 years

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This would 100% be me if I ever come into $5 billion.

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Oh most definitely, I would run the Pelicans right into the ground

Or make them better by trading BI

I don’t really know

As furious as I am about the pels I cannot fathom having kd and devin booker on my team and getting swept rd 1

And now Chris Finch just tore his acl on the sideline no way

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Great coach. Wonder where he came from *drinks even more profusely than before

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Here’s another one Mike Malone of the Nuggets. Guess where he was an assistant coach?

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As furious as I am about the pels I cannot fathom having kd and devin booker on my team and getting swept rd 1

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Ain't that the truth.

That team is not staying together.

I want to lean more in on offense but the Suns are a scary example of how that could backfire.

You have three dudes who can score 30 ppg, another who is one of the best 3 point shooters in the league, and they're getting swept.

That tells me you need a balance. Duh, right?

I think this could work:

Murray
Herb
Trey
Zion
Allen

Jose
Hawkins
Dyson
Naji
Another big

My concern is that you don't have a ton of shooting still. Hawkins is going to have to be a consistent 40 percent guy and Naji, Jose, Herb, Dyson and even Zion will need to take more and get better from deep.

In a trade for Murray and Allen i would want to send out BI and Nance and keep CJ, but bring CJ off the bench to run the bench units.

You keep that offense and add more offense along with defense to the starting 5 with Murray and Allen.

BIG issue with that is MM is adament that any trade with Atlanta HAS to have Herb going to Atlanta otherwise they are not even listening.