PelicansFan33
Prospect
Usaully, when I lurk other team boards for game threads I never make an account. But I wanted to let you know this post is completely ridiculous. No offense tho.
[Game] Kings @ Pelicans - 3/31/14 - 5 pm PDT
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Seriously? No offense, dude, but there's nothing ridiculous about it. Based solely on performance, Demarcus Cousins SHOULD have been at the all-star game. It wasn't his numbers that kept him out...and the time is going to come when the whole league will admit it.
ShastaKingsFan
All-Star
Tough to quantify a "high Bball IQ", but Ray has it and will help him immensely as he continues to improve and get comfortable
Heuge
Starter
Cousins>Davis. It's close but Cousins has consistently proven he is better.
HereWeBoogie
Hall of Famer
Cousins doesn't get the best of Davis every time they play? ok
Davis is a better shot blocker, but other than that, its all Cousins
34 and 14 tonight, 22 and 8 for Davis.
and the win
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PelicansFan33
Prospect
I realize that. But who should he have made it over?
ShastaKingsFan
All-Star
Guess it helped growing up with a basketball coach in the family.
Yeah for sure. If in that situation you don't have the IQ part, then...no hope
PelicansFan33
Prospect
So we're going to judge AD only when he plays vs the Kings? Not the season as a whole?
upinsmoke
All-Star
PFFFT! The main reason AD made that all-star game was because the game was being played in NO. Need anymore proof feel free to re watch this game.
Um, we didn't come to a Pelicans board and try to convince you about how good Cousins is. I quite frankly have little patience for Pelican fans (or fans of any other team) who come here and want us to admit their guy is better than ours, especially when it's patently untrue. You probably would have been better served just to lurk. This is not an argument you will win around here.
HereWeBoogie
Hall of Famer
Go ahead and do that too if you want.
Cuz - 22.3ppg 11.7rpg 3.0apg 1.3blk
46 double doubles in 64 games played
AD - 21.3ppg 10.3rpg 1.6apg 2.9blk
36 double doubles in 64 games this year
all of that, in 3.6 less minutes per game than Davis, don't make me pull up the per36 minutes stats
HereWeBoogie
Hall of Famer
on NBA TV they said DeMarcus is the first Kings player to have 35/14 on 72% shooting in a game since C-Webb in 99
It wasn't so much player hate as ... fan mockery of sorts? That, combined with a reference to the original Isiah Thomas limping onto the court ... but alright I apologise if you didn't find it funny.
K
KingMilz
Guest
I don't get why the Pelicans with Holiday out don't just run Reke at the point and Morrow @ SG that's there best combo at the guards spots, they compliment each other. Roberts is not a better playmaker than Reke, I really feel the badly misused Morrow all season.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Let's not forget that Monty Williams is, by many accounts, the defensive version of Keith Smart. Probably a nice guy but, for all intents and purposes, not necessarily cut out to be a head coach. I understand his team's been ravaged by injuries but giving extensive minutes to all around waste of space Greg Stiemsma and ramming Aminu into the rotation isn't really going to win many games.
Then again, it would help if Dell Demps wasn't pulling a Geoff Petrie and stockpiling more guards (and mediocre big men) than he knows what to do with. Jrue, Reke, Gordon, Morrow, Rivers, and Roberts is a pretty good group of guards but really not all that fantastic as a group of complementary players save for Morrow. Jrue, Reke, Gordon, and Rivers all need the ball to be effective with Jrue and Reke both being good facilitators for the Unibrow. Unfortunately they are all on the same team AND the small forward depth of the Pelicans makes our squads featuring a Nocioni/Donte/Casspi rotation look like the Dream Team by comparison. As it's constructed, the Pelicans roster features rather ridiculous logjams (when fully healthy) at several key positions and absolute crap at others.
C: Smith/Stiemsma/Ajinca/Withey
PF: Davis/Anderson
SF: Aminu
SG: Gordon/Reke/Morrow
PG: Holiday/Rivers/Roberts
In other words, your five best players are all vying for time at 3 positions unless you want to shove Davis into the five spot (something he is currently not built to do) and put Reke at the three (and we all know how awesome that's worked out). There's a lot of fantastic pieces on that roster. Unfortunately, a lot of them don't fit together.
So in conclusion, New Orleans is a mess.
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Wait, back up: when did the Pelicans get Udoh?
King Baller
All-Star
Collossal game by Cousins
McCollum
McCallum
McLemore
If the Kings had somehow landed all three "Mc's' think how confusing it would be:McCollum is with the Trailblazers. Our guy is McCallum.
McCollum
McCallum
McLemore
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Whoops. Meant Aminu. Got my flailing SFs confused.
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