PPR: #Pelicans Linked to Kings & Jazz in Latest Trade Rumors
for all things Pelicans you’re now tuned into the Pelican post game report much love to the fam the flock we up in this thing PPR representing the flocking nation standup pale Nation we in this thing shout out to you guys appreciate y’all for being in the live stream tonight and it’s been a lot of stuff shaking in the NBA world man but listen Pelicans doing work trying to put in some work behind the scenes to make something shake with the bi thing Pelicans are linked to several players uh and the issue is so are a couple other teams trying to Vive for the same player but the Pelicans in there doing the due diligence trying to land a starting level big uh we’ll talk about it tonight on the Pelican post game report please feel free to hit the like button hit the Subscribe button and feel free to share share the show on your social media Network I’m big Q uh one of three of the PPR family members DC’s on the line Lex will be chiming in perhaps a little later on Big Ups to everybody Elite J COV what’s happening fam Daniel shout out to you guys appreciate you in the Stream as well and as you can see as this as the uh show opened up there is a um a chat or chat question or poll rather in the chat which big should the PS go for in the bi trade so there are several options up there and uh right now Lori marketing is running things right now so it would be interesting for see what the Pelicans are attempting to do but we also a decipher what’s a good trade for you guys to get rid of bi to trade bi obviously the Pelicans feel like they have to move on from bi and they do contractually speaking Trey Murphy III is also a guy that’s pressing for that position looking for more playing time so the Pelicans trying to figure out what they can do so a lot of due diligence a lot of players are off the board now a lot of people have been signed and nepel is trying to get a few things popping with the bi thing so shout out to you guys appreciate y’all being in the Stream hit the like button hit the Subscribe button and by all means feel free to share the show on your social media fam DC are you with me how’s your mic bro yeah I’m with you C Franklin oh yeah there you go all right there you go DC oh you with me oh yeah all right so here we go I’m driving though okay there you go DC’s driving you morning y’all so hold on DC I’mma mute you right mute yourself right quick because I know you’re driving and got a little road noise there all right so uh let’s let’s kind of move it into this article right here fam shout out to rail right our Pelican contribut at to HUD that daily.com y’all can feel free to go over there and check out his articles and share them helps out the website Pelicans link to Kings and Jazz and latest trade rumors here as you see pelicans after qu de jonte Murray have been actively seeking a trade partner for Ford Brandon Ingram Sacramento has shown exploratory interest quote end quote in trading for Ingram as reported by Michael Scotto of Hypes hoop while discussions quote haven’t escalated yet end quote between Kings and Pelicans 76es are another potential destination I don’t I don’t think that might be the case but additionally Golden State are in the mix as well according to Yahoo sports Jake fiser during the 2024 NBA draft Sacramento proposed a general trade package including hter Harrison Barnes and draft picks one of those picks was the number 13th overall selection used to draft Devin Carter whom GM Monty McNair was pleasantly surprised to land right there’s the original The Source tweet despite acquin Carter the Kings retained their first round picks from 2026 onward which could be packaged with huter and Barnes for a star player like Ingram Ingram averaged almost 21 points a game almost six assists over five rebounds and 64 games during the 23 24 season now the Pelicans needed a starting level Center to fill several Reserve roles after free agency in trades might find Sacramento’s offer enticing here’s the unofficial look at the current New Orleans Saints depth chart as you can see fam unofficial look the jonte Murray MC uh MC McCullum at the two Ingram right now still on the team but you know it is what it is Zion Williamson and Mei at the center position and you can see the rest of the guys off the bench Trey Murphy Jose Alvarado herb Jones jeremi Jeremiah Robinson Earl Jordan Hawkins and anonio Reeves Matt Ryan and blah blah blah so the Pelicans man uh trying to acquire a big to help out man and add some more size to a package including Brandon Ingram so DC before we move on into the rest of this news bro what you think about this these recent developments feel uh you can feel free to chime in my brother I think it’s it’s awesome man um I know you know looking at it you look at Lori and you wonder how he fit like we gonna play him at Center mean near a seven footer the only thing about it that’s just a thorn in my side Q I just can’t get over the fact that we could have been head this St but you know with the Lono ball trade all which we were saying here three years ago or was that three or two and a half whatever it was we saying you should get L get L get l l if he going L he didn’t do it here we are years later looking at possibly giving up three to four picks to get him but all that put aside man um the pals have basically put themselves in a position by not getting anybody in free agency which we didn’t think they were gonna sign like any major name like harinstein or anything like that but you got guys like goo paza Mo Wagner all of them went back uh to the magic which probably opens up a spot for another Senator I’m sure we talk about later you got wisan at the W sign with the Pacers uh Andre Drummond is gone he went back to Philly right um coming from the Bulls for Philly didn’t think he play Philly but looking that Lori maram man looking at them running a potential lineup I’m taking CJ to the bench so I’m say J Murray Trey young herb Zion Lori marman man that that would be an awesome lineup man not a lot of rent protection but when you look at it who the hell can guard that you got Zion in a situation where you allow him to have nothing but Shooters around him nothing but Shooters cute like everybody get hit from r a that’s that’s a tough one man that’s a tough one for uh for any team to try and guard but you know as of now it’s a dream because how are we gonna do this they obviously Gotta Move Brandon Ingram we know Utah if they’re moving off of Markman they obviously aren’t trying to be very good so this is a pick heavy deal with uh matching his money I think he only makes about $18 million so if you’re looking at the Sacramento right I’m sure you can reroute um Kevin herder or Harrison Barnes one of those guys to Utah with a about five picks and a pick swap or something two you know they they they want all the picks they say they wanted five picks for them and based on all the teams that’s interested you got the Warriors that are also highly interested looking at doing something they might be able to those five PS HS were to pull us off I’m with it but I still think we would still need an additional S Type yeah DC uh absolutely man it actually makes uh you know based on what we what they’re trying to do um you mentioned the framework for a deal that’s being thrown out there a few players uh uh marketing and then of course maybe a couple of draft pick and stuff like that going with him and his numbers on the screen 23 points eight rebounds two assists I just showed some highlights he’s a legit seven-footer about 240 pounds uh he could shoot the ball man he really could and it’s not the ideal big but based on current where the situation is uh in terms of what the Pelicans are trying to do it could I mean it’s it definitely helps you at the at the five no doubt about it and plus you still have M um you have Mei the atic rim protector to mix in with the marketing he does shoot the three-pointer he gives you some versatility right there I remember when the Pelicans played yeah he merked the Pelicans I remember and plus um it does here’s his contract right here uh a marketing right here on the Jazz the last year of the Jazz deal uh which is eight just over $18 million that is on a one-year deal from for him so you’re right on that so yeah it’s it’s very arrest and like I said there’s other teams according to Michael what’s his name H brother Haynes and uh and a few other people they’re saying that uh golden state is in the mix talking to them and there’s another team they mention outside the Pelicans but it’s definitely uh supposed to be the framework between maybe uh one between the Pelicans and another team or something like that it’s different um Sacramento also want in the mix for him too which is weird right that’s right yeah they they they’re in they’re uh it’s supposed to be in the mix for marketing which is crazy because didn’t they have them already didn’t he come from over there from my my my uh memory serves didn’t Markin and used to play for Sacramento oh no he played for Cleveland Cleveland okay there you go he went from the Bulls to uh to Cleveland and wound up in Utah some type way no he went from the Bulls yeah that’s right Bulls Bulls to to Cleveland or Cleveland to the Bulls I don’t know I think he went from Bulls Cleveland then the not yeah that’s a bonus I’m thinking about let me pull him up here yeah uh from uh Chicago four four years with shaown one year with um Cleveland and then two years with utel so I mean yeah he’s uh and let me put the stats on screen for the family members right here this is some of the stuff right here uh for uh marketing uh had his best season in 2223 he played 10 games Less in 324 48% from the field 40% from downtown he shot 39.2% the previous year kid’s always been a pretty decent three-point shooter his off year was 1920 he had 34 uh percent but last year almost 40% shooting from downtown and 90% shooting from the foul line with 48% from the field in 33 minutes of action so these are pretty decent numbers from uh this the legit 7f footer Larry Mark and if the Pelicans can pull it off it would definitely be an interesting move for them to have Mei and then Lori marketing uh for the Pelicans now ideally DC we know that um a lot of the family members prefer I Well I this is the the confusion that I had because I know a lot of people say n q we need Jared Allen I don’t I don’t I don’t think Jared Allen you said you was doing some research on that from what I was seeing getting Jared Allen’s not on the table to be traded uh anywhere because Kenny ainson is the is the head coach over there and he had um he had him in Brooklyn so it’s a he he the overall feel is and it’s saying he’s talking Darius Garland in the stand because of what he did in Brooklyn with D’Angelo Russell and Spen how he was able to get those two guards to coexist right right and you know what’s crazy about this whole thing darus Garland right now has no has no trade value right now I mean it’s amazing like it’s it’s very difficult to move darus Garland right now just that fast we thought it was gonna be hot now he got that 200200 million contract like bi on yeah he stuck with him whether you won’t like it or not it happen it fell well very well for Cleveland and then spyer gets his money dar’s got this money and now the rum is now you talked about that the research you did in terms of Jared Allen what you came up with um similar thing man but one thing I found a little weird is they talked about aison wanting to keep them Donovan Mitchell says he wants him to stay there Cleveland said they’re keeping their core together right this is where we’ve been here but when I heard a lot of the press conference in Cleveland man um Ackerson spoke very highly of Moy at the five so that it just kind of had me scratching my head a little bit if they are trading right nobody tips their hands you can’t you hardly can’t believe what any team says you know until things really start to heat up or the trade happens because everybody always lies to keep the trade value of their Guy high so they got they making it seem like he’s untradeable we really don’t want so you can keep you know throwing more picks and better off offers at him like I said for the last couple of years they’ve been trying to trade Jared and all of that just goes away with the new coach um I think a lot of the offers they’ve been getting for him they they not really feeling and they’re like man this you know this guy’s valuable he’s a lot more valuable to just hold on to him than to just trade him for this or that so that’s kind of how I see it um there’s a chance they’re telling the truth and they want to keep that CT together I mean they work pretty good man they got to the second round of the playoffs right so that is the reality in itself but looking at uh guys like lri maramman and Wendell Carter Jor I don’t feel the need to over pursue Jared Allen or overpay for him to be honest yeah because and this that’s another thing we talked about Orlando Orlando just been paying you know paying their guys they paid go go they paid your guy Isaac gave him his his bread and wend Carter Jr I’m sitting there saying okay they paying all these guys uh and bringing go go and and and Isaac back and they still what they paid Wagner gave him his bread so I mean I’m thinking to myself uh what what they GNA do window Carter J I mean there’s a lot of rumors circulating around with the Pelicans and their link to window cter doing their their due diligence with him so you know people them people extended three centers Q I know fourth Center they a do nothing yeah he on something I don’t what it would take who that’s the thing that’s that’s the that’s another potential guy because 11 and seven is what he gave last year he’s 610 uh 270 is his thing now DC he got a decent game he I think he never played more than like 62 or 63 games in the season sometime he’s been having his little issues with injuries or whatnot but W Carter Jr is definitely out there for whoever wants him so I guess if the Pelicans shoot for Lor marketing and they don’t land them then I mean but it appears and from what I’m researching here it appears that uh W Carter Jr is closer to be acquired than say a Jared Allen I mean that Orlando paid all of its big guys and W Carter jius basically even though he under contract it’s like he’s you know he’s available he’s definitely available so I we have to see how this how this goes because Orlando opened up their Banks they paid everybody man they paid they paid go go they paid Isaac they paid the other guy man Orlando just paying every damn by they gave Gary Harris money they gave uh who else did they give money too damn everybody everybody everybody got paid damn they did they did do Gary Harris too right I forgot about har brought him back brought Gary har their big move was signing C well Pope that was that was they swing defenses move they goty callwell pop yeah they got callwell Pope over there they brought Gary Harris back they gave uh they I think they gave Wagner some bread they gave Isaac some bread they gave goo some bread and they just spreading it all around man and uh we wend Carter Jr but like what I’ve been researching and seeing wend Carter is more I guess more achievable is the term to be gotten then say a Jared Allen because I like I said Kenny ainson uh has basically got the core to stay together and I think the Cleveland team is going to be good man they ready they hitting the ground running like I like to say but yeah window Carter Jr is still an interesting piece too man let me go over this article right here D see if you don’t add anything with the window Carter information uh this there’s a nola.com shout out to Christian Clark Pelicans need a new starting center after valat chun’s exit and he gives four options so these are some of the options that Christian gives Pelicans address one major area uh of need point guard by trading Murray La trading for Murray last week the franchise Focus now is on the center position so hold on let me kind of put that on screen for the family so y’all can see that as well all right so the franchise focus is now on the center spot in a three-day span the Pelicans lost their two leading minute Getters at the position from last season Larry nass Jr a mobile big man Pelicans coach Willie Green liked to close games with was included in the Murray tree then on Sunday interior Bruiser batuna signed a three-year deal with the Washington Wizards and free agency batuna departure means the Pelicans will employ their fourth different starting center since 2019 when the team drafted Zion Williamson number one overall and that’s very interesting within its face and a good piece of information that he dropped right there man fourth different starting center since Zion Williamson been here fourth different one damn you talking about crazy man that’s crazy that is not stability that’s every year different Center every year basically other than big V who had two years two years so it’s like okay you had three coaches in five years and four centers in that same span of time well that’s just yeah the same span four centers in five years that’s that’s absolutely crazy anyway here’s some of the options right here for J uh for a valun replacement and eyes Jared Allen Pelicans were interested in acquire Allen before the trade deadline in February and he remains one of the top targets Allen as a track record of anchoring Elite defenses his 26 years old would clearly be the most dangerous lob threat and best rim protector Williamson has shared a front court with but right now their skepticism the Cavs will part with him they’re not going to part with him from what I’m researching and and Kenny ainson wants to keep those four guys together and look like he’s going to get his way we thought that darus Garland was going to get on out but there was no trade value for him with the fat contract and a lot of these people already have a lot of them have set their team already oh man it’s just crazy how that happened man all right but anyway let’s keep it going Jared Allen the plays all right they could definitely trade him for trade for Value ESPN Insider Brian Wendy Wier said Tuesday quote but from what I understand Ken Aon does not want to trade Jared Allen as of right now I would like to go back to what Kobe Alman said on record I don’t think they’re trading him and I would have to agree I don’t think they’re going to trade they’re not going to trade him they’re not going to trade him they want to keep the St stands p with their roster and they don’t change anybody though they still need a wing man they’re still very deficient on the wing department but you went to Houston first and W Houston turned you down for S goon they the Pelicans went for senon and then what was the latest information on both green and senon D what did Houston do in as in terms of of those two guys didn’t they uh well they determined that they’re not going to pay either one of them a Max as of this year so the way I see it I think Houston is gonna stand Pat they’re gonna let both of those guys play it out and and decide over this next season which one they want to keep because I don’t they’re not sure that they can play both of them together they look like they don’t know which one they want to move off of cuz green played very well at the end of last year man 30 30o games you know pretty regularly so they don’t they don’t know who they want to keep and who they don’t they can’t pay both of those guys a Max you can only give one of them a Max so I think they’re gonna stand P until they can decide which one that’ll be and then they’ll probably uh trade the other okay uh let’s let’s take early picks on this one here I say the max goes to S goon who do you have I think that’s a wise pick big sangon but I can’t count green out man green has a lot of talent he’s just very immature and a young guy but sangon is is ready now so that’s that’s that would be the right choice in the wise choice but if you say uh green you taking a little bit of a gamble but I I could see it I could see them keeping green too right that’s what I’m saying a big a skill big those don’t you know you know you don’t have a skill those will just fall down out of the sky you know I mean no disrespect to Green need need to do skill Wings man and that’s what everybody wants Jaylen green is a shooting guard that can play small forward probably too and I mean he’s he’s kind of rare too I don’t know I’m G ride with s goon on that one brother y’all put in the chat who y’all would if y’all had one player to pay the max to like if you were Houston which one would it be would it been s goon to Green which one would y’all go with I’ll go with uh I’ll go with senon I’mma go on that the Pelicans heard something they was like Hey man y’all want y’all want to come up off that that that that with s goon I think they’re gonna give him the bread I’m G just be honest anyway back to the fact that it ask either one of them man just kind of tells me what they standing man they still trying to figure it out be C they don’t know either they don’t know either because they both really good but you know like I said this is a early vote and a lot of family members saying they saying s go too yeah he says all Center roles are not to score but to defend and rebound and set screens uh J cof say it’s true Joker MB the only real centers everybody else is trash he the four is at the F four my man one smoke said uh MB with Tear Us Alive you know we got lry and you know what I like to say that to that one smoke and Beads tears Us Alive no matter who we have brother it’s been constantly happening for the last four or five years ain’t Jared Allen ain’t changing that player you know what be honest with you bro um you know Joel unbi is he he beats up a lot of people man but first he he got to beat up the injury man first that’s the whole thing if he can stay healthy that’s the major thing about Joel embiid he has to stay healthy uh and make his way through because they they picked up some really good players they got Paul George up there and if the pressure Z for Philly to take it to the next level Tyrese Maxi is a a a Bonafide star so they looking good uh the New York Knicks made their steps uh and all these other teams man they just trying to stay in the game trying to keep up with Boston man so it’s going to be fun in the East man and watch what goes on there man to be honest with you all right back to the article walk Walker Kessler is the next mentioned order for the writer uh 7 foot one giant who was the 22nd pick in the 22 draft has been a rotational player for the Jazz for the past two years Kesler has averaged 2.4 blocks in 23 plus minutes per game in his career his 8.9% block rate is not far off from the 10% block rate of Victor wiama that he posted last year all this to say Kesler provides real room protection equality Pelicans Executive Vice President David Griffin has said he covets so um kesla still has two years remaining on his rookie contract to engage the Jazz the Pelicans would likely have to send them a promising young player or draft Capital to secure Kesler multiple NBA sources outside the Pelicans organization have said they see a potential fit with Kesler in New Orleans however the Jazz aing price to move Kesler is said to be very high and of course it’ll be very high you know why it’s going to be high DC because that’s Danny a over there Danny a is over there man and Danny a is trying to he’s going try to get as much as he can get from you that’s just the Danny a way of operating and doing business so we’ll see how that all falls out always it’s always interesting to do business with uh Danny a man a lot of people they won’t stay away from him bro but uh yeah hey man you just got to be smarter than the average bear man all right W Carter Jr is next on the list here the magic have a glut of big men under contract after resigning go go and mo this offseason is it possible they can make window cter J available that’s a lot of centers and then you got jonath think Isaac that’s also plays that position the P Pelicans certainly think so or hope so Carter was another player the Pelicans had interest in before the trade deadline and uh he’s the type of mobile Center Green and assistant jiren Collins love additionally Carter is a capable passer and outside shooty shot over 33% from three and 2 point on 2.3 attempts for his career now Carter is owed 12 million this season and 11 million next season he’s a bargain Assuming he’s able to stay on the floor he missed 27 games last year he has never played more than 62 games there you go I seen that on on X the rate about W Carter Jr never playing more than 60 uh two games in the season throughout his career there ain’t no problem that’s that’s all we need ain’t no problem right if you mix put Mei out there DC you’re doing what you’re supposed to do we should be all right that give me’s enough time to develop me’s got 60 games before he got to get together yeah and listen his his defense I was watching footage on him man his defense that’s already you’re gonna be really happy those those defensive instincts are there already now just getting the rest of the stuff that to happen with his offensive game teaching him how to clean up and hustle and all that he’s tough uh you know you know I see I see the vision now once they traded de jante Murray without giving up bi the me’s pick suddenly started to look different to me it did because yes because you can get relatively a big that when you have Wim that when you got uh hopefully Edy but I don’t think anybody be able to stop his weight and height and just you know and Beads and the Y A guy that can make it hard for him while also fit and Willie switch all right you get the jonte Murray who’s probably one of the better rebounding point guards in the league you know I look at him like kind of like Russ when it come to rebounding you know he’s pretty damn good for point guard um that’s that’s me’s you know that’s his area where he’s not really that good um you got guys like Zion is not the best rebounder but combination with Murray Zion out there with me’s Trey it just it just fitting a little more because the one thing we all knew me’s could do everybody knew this he he can defend I I can’t when you look at him to say the brothers only been playing basketball for three years he has the ability to be a very special Defender you just got to worry about him um fing you know early in his career he’s big man big men tend to pick up a lot of fouls you know especially being younger still trying to figure the game out and he wasn’t actually a guy that committed a whole bunch of fouls in college and they keep talking about how smart he is and how quick he learned they posted a YouTube video today showing me at 16 man dribbling a basketball on dirt Q yeah he show where he started this man dribbling on dirt showing his starting you know to see where he came from to where he’s at I’m like well you he definitely does have a lot of potential you know this could be some people say oh this the Giannis of the future you know being sarcastic and stuff but he does have a similar timeline to a lot of those guys that just started playing basketball and it looks a lot different than Jackson Hayes I know you look at the numbers they’re probably very comparable that’s why I didn’t agree about start how he works it looks different than Jackson ha man he looks like a guy motivated that actually takes his craft serious right that’s the big that’s why I didn’t say a lot of people say hey um Jackson was a top 10 pick he was super raw you know coming out he had all this athleticism but Jackson was supposed to do stuff when he got he was supposed to pick up weight he was supposed to get stronger he supposed to be a gy rat he supposed to him do like what herb was doing and that just wasn’t his commitment wasn’t the same as herb Jones or Naj Marshall or Jose Alvarado it shows his commitment wasn’t that I don’t know what it was but you know it wasn’t what it was supposed to be and ultimately what end up happening was he endend up being a very bad uh uh pickup for us we end up letting him go do whatever he was do it was a waste of time this guy right sheing right but this guy here is that’s why I was like I don’t want to throw that Jackson bull crap on Mei because Mei is a worker he’s motivated he’s a worker and he’s serious about what he wants to do and I just love the family background that he comes from man I really do I respect uh you know the high uh I guess the high feeling that the family has you got a person one of the brothers I think he went to an ivory League school he got a sister that’s a doctor or something like that is a very the the parents were Pros pro basketball players I want to say or Pros so I mean it it’s a very very accomplished family that he comes from and he has a mentality that work work me mentality um one of the coaches I’ve seen a video of the coaches saying you don’t have to tell him to keep you know if he messes up to keep doing the same stuff he learns stuff very well he adjusts fast you know that type of stuff that that’s that to me is why I was like man we ain’t going to sit up here and and color this guy jackon you know Jackson Hayes or whatever man this guy would come in here he he obvious look at he was gonna work his ass off Jackson Hayes I don’t know what he was doing when he was doing down here I remember when he went out to California he was fighting them cops you know but outside of that man listen man [ __ ] leave Mei alone with that that terrible Jackson I heard I heard Jackson H used to be at Walgreens buying swishes that’s that’s what I heard I ain’t giving up my right yeah I already know do you see the word Word on the Street Jackson Hayes was not committed like that he wasn’t Jackson Hayes was supposed to be putting and Jackson had all them years here he had access to everything that herb and and Jose and Naji and all them guys had access to all he had to do was hang around them guys and do his work that dude wasn’t bought in like that down here he wasn’t bought in at all he was an impatient picker you know he was a a parachute guy that’s what we used to what we used to call him DC we used to call him uh par I paratrooper yeah he was a paratrooper when you just had you just had to do this like you say you know what I’m saying say hey Lex you do this Lex look you do this and you draw your head like that and somebody and he say hey man what’s up when you do that Jackson jumping in the sky he already in the damn Cloud old Palm you used to call him palm tree too yeah the old palm tree boy he had that that yeah and then he you said what’s up Jackson you throw your head up there like that and that boy all through the roof that boy ain’t seen a pump fake hand like just undisciplined you know so that’s why I say I want color put that Mei energy I mean put that Jackson palm tree negative palm tree energy on me me is a worker he’s gonna go out there and make it happen and like I said it’s it’s really something you say that cause Jack like isn’t his dad like an Olympian or something or he was like a track star and his mom she was a Hooper in college yeah his mom was a Hooper and his dad played football that’s what it was oh okay he play NL and his mom was a his mom was a legend man a lot she had 60 point games and crazy stuff like that his mom was a hoopa Hooper so they didn’t work you know what I’m saying I mean what say that’s some that’s some tough lineage right there yeah but when you have no motivation and and you you don’t want it it it don’t matter you can have all the genetic gifts in the world but if that ain’t really what he want he just happy getting by you know and your mom or your daddy can’t do that for you well you know Steph wasn’t like that n it’s I mean I guess it just depends on the person step step daddy play in the NBA so maybe maybe that’s that’s the correlation because Jackson Hayes wanted to be a football player leex but with his size I know they talked him they talked him into playing basketball because he kept growing it’s like look dude you so tall you can make a lot more money if you just go play basketball even if you’re good in the NFL you can’t make as much money you know in the NFL as you make playing basketball like they talking them they talked him in the switch and over he learned how to play basketball in like the 11th or 12th grade and you know you got what you got now wellever collect two or three or four five million a year for the next6 me he gonna keep getting them somebody gonna keep taking a chance on a seven-footer that can jump off the gym I’m sorry to tell you not really I mean you know well that’s what I was saying man it’s like Jackson Hayes was the eight if I’m not mistaken he was going over Rec off my memory he was eighth overall he was an eighth over all selection thaty that’s crazy for to to start playing basketball late like he did and get selected that high cause Mei went 21 right that’s right I mean he me might have went 21 because of guys like Jackson ha though well cut it off I mean that’s really something it’s like shoot Jackson Hayes ain’t open no doors for nobody cut it out d need that I need that no no no no no I said me went 21 because jackon Hayes went eight it didn’t basketball heed the door d hold on hold on I’m G get back to that qu because I want to comment on what you just said but Lex just broke open the conversation all right Lex you said you need 6 foot 11 do you need that height you need that yeah look went down an inch on her requirements if I can be like 61 and go in the top 10 look and I just started playing basketball in high school dog come on man I me sh that’s what’s the tallest woman in the WNBA is that the what’s her name the woman that went to prison name who’s the tallest Britney not Britney I got Britney R Britney grinder grinder she the tallest lady in the league what about Les Cambridge I think he wasall I was talking about in the NBA like you me like for liter literally I’m saying like for any for any guy for any guy 611 and you just started playing basketball in high school and you went top 10 in the draft that is a straight up blueprint right there man golly that’s a dream come true you got to have the right circumstance for that to happen too like but I mean if you but still I mean you have a good chance if you if you already in that world man I mean you really gota the probability is very high is what I’m saying yeah he had the right team behind him though he had the the good a good people pushing him they was giving them the right word and everything they was talking all the stuff that that you would want to hear if you was gonna draft the guy with the top inside the top 10 and it just did not go as the Pelicans expected it to go Jackson Hayes did not commit to being a quality big for the Pelicans he really didn’t you know what one thing I will say though I don’t feel like they were developing him very well either I’m not you know I’m not I don’t want to put it I mean we know we know the Pelicans don’t develop very well you know we know that right off top how many guys have they really developed I mean you have Jose you had Naji and Jose before before he had he had the mentality he had the dog mentality but he had to work on his three-point well he wasn’t you know he a dog though you if you have that dog mentality mentality wise like it’s a lot of the exes and those you still gotta get you gotta get your body right those guys like Naji and Jose and her who’s a second round pick those guys had to work on it like whole I mean herbs three off def game wasn’t there he worked his ass off to become a three and D you know I saying the difference between Hayes and these other guys who the difference is these guys were second round picks and undrafted guys with chips on their shoulders and you got a top 10 pick that’s a palm tree that jumps at every Punk fake you can imagine he’s there and he’s it’s a bit of entitlement going on because he didn’t have nearly the type of mentality needed to develop himself here and like I said uh coach darell is not a bad coach you had jiren Collins there who’s also a big these not you know super duper bigname people but they quality coaches you know they quality they know what they’re doing if you listen to them so like I said some you know I guess it’s up to debate of the big conversation because we can’t seem to keep bigs down here we read this article here and it says that we had four bigs since Zion been here four bigs so it’s more big than coaches huh that’s right that’s crazy well the thing is it’s like they just like I said man I mean it’s going into year six and it’s like why did y’all wait so long to try and build around him like now and it’s even not even clear Griff hasn’t even made it clear that they gonna build around him I mean because he hasn’t came out and said that I think it’s pretty obvious though yeah building around a nothing to be said no but look like I said hey man did he ever say did he ever say it was Brandon Ingram’s team like after the Drew holiday thing I think he learn from that he just shut up on that Hew holiday te Drew holiday ain’t here no more you know what I’m saying and somebody specifically asked him that question remember yeah they asked him that and he was still beating around the bush I I don’t I don’t understand it but he made he made it clear with Drew though I’m just saying you gotta ask permission to lead a team so uh but but this is the thing going forward though you know that that’s how do you how do you ask for how do you ask for permission to lead the team just call up call him up on the cell phone say hey Griff can I lead the team oh yeah well you go he gives you the permission oh goodness gracious brw did not do thatw Drew holiday did not do that wait wait wait wait wait so you just call is there a certain time you gotta call Griff or you just call Griff at any time and you say hey Griff can I leave H got you gotta call him on Friday at 555 why 555 because it’s the fif listen Friday at 5 why not 4:44 oh no you can’t do that that’ll get you fired has to be 555 you ask for permission the Stars will be aligned and then you can you give permission that’s how it goes but Lex I’m making light of it but yeah you gotta ask permission to you know you know what Drew holiday said that was that little thing that sticking thing they said but but the early on was like okay this is Zion team was Z was so hurt and missed so many damn games you know they relied on BI so kind of bi took the team and it became his team because you know obviously was missing all these games so everything kind of focalized around Brandon Ingram and it’s understandable but you know so did Brandon did Brandon Ingram call uh Griff at 555 and and asked permission to lead the team big maybe about two years ago I don’t know DC I don’t have that information brother oh okay we gonna have to do some digging man look into that man that H yeah I’m I’m G dig in there and see we can find brother listen all I’m saying at the end of the day is if you know that’s how it happened it’s kind it kind of because originally when you took Zion Williamson he was this big name and everybody knew man you got to build around Zion all the injuries happened so you couldn’t really build around him because he was missing so many games so the the second option was bi and bi in his mind say I’m the first option in many cases and a lot of that started def Fest during his period of time so it’s hard for him to say I’m GNA take a backseat to this guy and I’ve been here putting in work and leading when he was missing out then CJ comes in and CJ get to dancing and and and and doing what he does so you know then will is sitting there so D CJ’s dancing b bi is playing his ISO ball at times and then Willie got his arm folded just watching so I mean it just took a nap TJ was doing he was dancing he was supposed to be our oh CJ was dancing he was dancing dancing Hammer dancing or he was just doing a little shoulder shake or he was like pull out dancing no he was actually doing a little Michael Jackson you know doing I can see him with some Penny loers had the bottom of them he had them super slick at the bottom of them Penny loers vaseline on the bottom of yeah bro he when he bust that spin you know yeah you know he he would pod he would podcast why he why when he bust that spin and that’s what that in the money green suit so you know one things very it’s very it’s a lot of stuff shaking down there in the Pelican building as you could tell but I mean but now now is now that you see that the experiment is going around and they they are going to bi it’s obvious that CJ’s gonna eventually be out of here and they say okay we gotta build around Zion so they finally doing what they were supposed to do years ago uh which is put a team of Shooters in athletic gifted people around them but it it it is it’s it’s is working the way it was intended like I told you I keep saying this family I keep telling you Lex and DC the Pelicans do stuff by process of elimination y’all thinking I’m just be throwing it out there but think about you know what and that that’s what’s the matter because you always talk about B is systematic oh yeah I’m saying because and I keep saying this when you look at the Sixers with embid and you look at the warriors with step they knew who they guy was they knew it you know what I’m saying even with all their injuries and they they were injured for a while it wasn’t just a season or two it was more like four between four and five you know what I’m saying so it’s like so if those organizations are able to do it why weren’t the Pelicans able to do it that’s all I’m saying like if if if that’s your guy that you’re building around be committed to it you know whether they’re whe whether they’re injured or not because the thing is when they do get back you see what I’m saying everything is already set place right but that but you also gotta stick to it too you gotta be able to stick to what’s going on too you know you can see the the peners on right there doing busting that Michael and one thing I do want to say another thing B Q is that it shouldn’t have Tak to the fth season for you to get a physical therapist process of elimination organiz Organization no but I’m saying all the other organizations had physical therapists right and y’all waited till his F Fifth Season to do that that’s crazy and look how many games he played I know he didn’t play in the playoffs but look how many game think about if they had a physical therapy it worked it helped yeah it did really did so think if we were more proactive and had the right staff the right the medical team to to hired on to the organization they could have solved a lot of the these injury things with Zion way before it got to now right because you saw the improvements the 70 games that’s the most games that he’s played in the NBA right and it’s all because and this is the first season where the Pelicans had a physical therapist yeah I know that that floored me too like some of the Stu you gotta prepare you gotta prepare do the ne make the necessary adjustments for your star your number one draft pick to be successful you knew he had a unique body everybody was talking about it yep he you know I don’t know like bumblebees are not supposed to fly people but they do that’s Zion you know what I’m saying he’s a bumblebee you know and the about the Transformer huh no funny oh my Lord oh my gosh that’s DC was one of my favorite Transformers L DC’s crazy oh I’m sorry oh breaking breaking news uh maybe five hours ago though um the Bulls are planning to move on from NOA vich right because Demar D rozan says he’s leaving they said if he leaves they moving on from vich 20 millionar a year two years true Center uh uh a very good I guess three-point threat at least maybe a couple of years ago that kind of went down a little bit but I think a lot of that has to do with some of the looks he got over there and just the Bulls as a whole man they’re not really looking that good as of late how do we feel about vvis I think he would more or less be a constellation prize if we can’t land any of these other guys but we’re gonna have to get a center2 million a year don’t sound that bad to me you got look at him I mean um we know we know dear’s supposed to be he wants to go back he wants to go to California so it’s a lot of stuff going on with that but it’s also the Lakers looking at Jeremy Grant from Portland pink to pull that off but uh vuvi is a skill big 18 and 10 a night 610 260 let me see what his three-point stats is because I know he can shoot the three I just don’t know how well he can shoot the three 29 % okay that was down boy that was a worst year goddamn well since 2020 how long has wer been been in the game DC DC uh oh I got Echo going on here I got Echo going on here DC turn your your uh speaker off bro yeah I’m here all right so yeah uh vuvi shot what 20 what 29% last year from the three-point line uh prior was 35% from the three-point line but he gives you eight and 10 and a half but yeah it’s a fallback option no doubt we talked about this before I mean I mean if you can’t get like you said if you can’t land these other guys you call Chicago and see what the asking price is for V vuich on a two-year deal I mean it he doesn’t fit Willie switch all but um I I don’t hate V but I definitely would rather Wendell cter J over him um yeah if you can’t land a you can’t get nobody else then he’ll be the guy I think he works but how does he work do you give up be this bi or how does it work at this point man it’s the Bulls they stupid so I don’t I don’t think it would be that hard to pull off you probably could you probably be able to get vo for a couple of second round picks man way they operating over there with the bulls man I don’t think it’ll take a lot you still do whatever you’re gonna do with bi how do y’all feel about vich man if y’all can’t Pelican a shout out to the fam man uh yes DC yes slim DC’s forever driving uh oh DC’s not happy all right Big Ups to you guys appreciate y’all being in the Stream if you can’t land none of these guys how does vuich fit for you do you how do yeah I thought about us not getting none of the other guys Q I’m sorry about that that’s all right that’s all right bless your H all right so let’s finish up on this Isaiah Stewart on this article right here split time between Paul Ford and Center in His Four Seasons in Detroit he quietly developed into a decent outside shooter steart Stuart knocked down threes at a 38.3 rate I didn’t know he was shooting threes like that on almost four attempts per game last season wasn’t have let threes fly and he’s a good offensive rebounder physical presence on the floor the Pistons drafted jayen durran in the lottery two years ago it would be a surprise if Duran isn’t the team starting center on opening night this year Stewart is owed 15 million in each of his next three seasons langon who was with the Pelicans for five years became the Pelicans lead executive in May perhaps lanan and his old boss old boss David Griffin could do business so I like Isaiah Stewart he’s just incredibly undersized he’s like 68 but he’s a bully on that Julius Randall type game you know that bully ball type stuff like I said 38.3% from downtown but very much he better he only 6’8 better figure out how to do something special right I mean the thing is pH physicality and that’s one thing that has killed the PS teams get physical with the Pelicans this is true so from from that standpoint I could kind of see that but you still got to have a seven-footer you still got to have a seven-footer man like I’m looking around the league everybody’s everybody’s so tall you know what I’m saying everybody everybody’s tall man it’s like now look it’s not you’re not just dealing with one seven-footer you like there was only a few teams that had like a couple of strong you know seven Footers on the team now you starting to see that with everybody and you could you could maybe call that the wimy effect the yic effect because that’s how many guys it takes to you know bigs to take to to to you know just uh throw bodies at them and things but it’s like everybody’s doing that you know um I mean we just we we got to be able to match up well I I’ve been saying it for a while we we we got to match up well it’s about matchups in the NBA so yes I mean I like his physicality but man you cannot teach you you you can’t teach height you can’t teach seven foot yeah he yeah he’s yeah that’s one part of his game because I watch Isaiah Stewart and yeah he’s a brute underneath there man and then he helped improve the Point his three-point shot I didn’t know I knew he was shooting three I just didn’t know he was shooting it at 38% and um you know I don’t know if it would be a starter maybe we can acquire him as a a bench guy but then again you know you know if you get a a l or wend or one of these other guys and then maybe we can acquire him as a guy off the I mean I would love to have him as a like a guy off the bench his physic I would love that physicality is golden like I don’t know how many times everybody in the chat how many times did you like how you know the Pelicans were getting bully every time every time teams and that was the blueprint teams like I think I think Dallas was the first to really show that type of physicality basically that let all the other teams know oh shoot you just bump him a little bit you know what I’m saying push him a little bit you know just get into him you you know I think it’s a it’s a method to the madness for that and one is DC whatever you doing hold on whatever you doing keep doing it because your mic ain’t popping it ain’t doing you ain’t fish frying you ain’t frying in the in the carp I’m stop sign right now bro whatever do Wasing Pine always Le always on the road I got to rebuild a Studio when I get back Studio I get my mic I get my my my real Studio mic back up I still got it DC I be driving man I’ll be driving oh that sound good Le you G have to record that for me I to play that while I’m driving was drinking red stripes and every damn thing this soundy I can’t drink red stripes you when you driving you can’t that’s a DUI bro you trying to trying to get me in trouble now not in Jamaica to laugh at that on himself but go ahead bro go ahead no I was saying I think it’s a method to that Madness Man U I don’t think it’s so much of just purely the physicality I don’t think we’re that weak-minded where people just beat them up and that’s what take them out the game we don’t know how to get the referees on our side so these teams they get physical they be fing the hell out of us they file the hell of us out of us we don’t get the calls we got two stars that don’t sell to get the calls so at a certain point it just looks like they they get frustrated with getting beat on and not getting the files so I I don’t think it’s necessarily like um we can’t handle like just regular physicality but when you look at that the OK OKC game man I mean I went back and I looked at it you know multiple times are you talking about in the playoffs they was fing the hell lot of them but it’s not just the playoffs man we’re a team for whatever reason um I think it has to do with our age you know what I’m saying uh also the the style of which the style of which we play the game I say some of it not all of it is age because the Thunder’s like one of the youngest teams and I don’t know yeah but they got the biggest foul Merchant in the whole league on their team and and uh as it’s uh damn I can’t remember his damn initials right know sh that’s yeah he’s he gets the most fouls out of everybody League like I’m just saying I’m not saying he the only one but that’s a hell of a thing to have a guy that can get 10 to 12 fouls a game and you’re players on his team he can show you how to bait the referees we don’t have nobody like that which would have been awesome if we could have got trade right but uh I think that has a part to do with it not just the physicality but it’s the fact that teams can beat up on us and we get frustrated and don’t know how to counteract that to get the refs on our side I don’t think it’s necessarily them being bigger bigger and stronger type type thing it’s it’s more of a a strategy that they work and and it works out you know they get away with things that they wouldn’t get away with on other teams and we don’t know how to bring that to the referee’s attention I guess other than um you know complaining about it and never getting text about it but you know just hey refe follow me we just keep doing the same [ __ ] and nothing don’t happen see Isaiah Stewart would have punched somebody Lex but he 68 you don’t want him over here no I said one thing that I can appreciate is his physicality though okay um yeah I mean but if we did get him we still need seven Footers we got me he’s seven foot Mei H how many years are is he gonna be a developmental project I realistically and they say you know you you you really can’t put a year on projects I think it probably be this year and I think next year me will be ready to go from everything I looked at and what we need from him I think we may be able to use him in spurts actually this year just maybe you know how willly does for the first the first half of the Season you ain’t gonna see them that much but let me tell you something because there’s a lot of skilled bigs out here okay a lot of skill big so yeah we just he’s not going to be able to do it himself because see the thing is they know how to hunt those fouls and that’s why that’s why I was saying that it could be one of those learning curves where where he’s going to be in a lot of foul trouble because when you look at guys like joic you know wimy Giannis you know uh um porzingis guys like that they they know how they know how to attract that type stuff you know so it’s got to be more than him it’s got to be more than him I mean just from an experience because that’s going to be a huge learning curve let me tell all the rookies go through it all of them do and the fact that he’s big we we all know that he has to get stronger when one of the top two things that rookies uh always say that’s very challenging in the NBA when they’re coming to the NBA is that the speed of the game the speed is faster and it’s more physical that’s been consistent is those two things it may switch but they always say that those are the top two things so between the physicality they’re going to get physical they’re going to see Mei and they’re going to be like oh shoot oh you barbecue chicken you know I’m saying be like shoot I’m going I’m about to get a am1 I’m about to go to the line you know what I’m saying they’re they’re gonna yeah for real they always do that and it’s not just him that don’t sound good you said some pineapple curry salmon or something that that sound good DC started it he said said Big C uh what you say big Big C barbecue see well you know what we we we we we trying to eat healthy with the Pelicans how about some that lose some weight though brother how about some baked chicken some baked garlic chicken how about that he listen you trying to be healthy huh just said that DC he ain’t got his ears on he driving yeah I had my listening ears off for a second I Ain hear you say I Ain hear you see the healthy part yeah I was saying like yeah let’s that’s why I changed it from barbecue to baked chicken baked garlic chicken he ain’t gonna eat that okay people ain’t gonna eat too much baked garlic chicken no Lex that’s too healthy I mean for real look with some steam steamed broccoli that’s that’s a one that’s a once a week meal for uh most Americans bro that’s a little too healthy little too healthy what maybe flow gotta change the game brother we gotta change it up hey I’m just saying rotisserie chicken rotisserie garlic chicken there you go that sound pretty good with some [Laughter] glaze oh man hungry up in the damn chat all right question he says what do you guys think about Trey Murphy as a starting two guard that would be pretty long defense all right I think he could I think he could pull it off but Trey needs to which I hope he’s been working on at this offseason he actually did a um a podcast with Paul George um I think we might be able to pull up a few Clips you know and show it but self-c creation far as creating his own shot they they asked him what he needed to improve on and that’s the first thing came out of his mouth if he can get better at creating his own shot you know we don’t want him to be bi from the mid-range but just being able to create that mid-range shot create his own three-point shots off the dribble I definitely think he can be a a damn good shooting guard so I yeah yeah um I think one of the biggest things this is one thing that kind of bothered me but the way Trey moves is very interesting because sometimes it looks clumsy and unorthodox but I don’t know then he can he’s able to finish but I like him work to work on a little bit of coordination more because I kind of when I see him it kind of looks like he’s not used to his body and I know he did grow didn’t he grow like an inch or two or something from last season to to this season yeah he grew he was like originally yeah he grew what when he first came out he was what like six eight six he was about six 67 68 and I think he grew to damn near 610 he damn near 610 okay so yeah I don’t think said it’s like uh watching a baby deer learn learn to walk and run the first time yeah it is but a lot of times when when you you know just grow like that you know uh in a short span of time you know you kind of have to work on you know getting used to your body work on your coordination and different things but I think that’s kind of something that he should do because sometimes when he moves it’s like dude that look like it hurt and he does finish at the basket but it can just be a little bit better so you know he does end up hurting himself you know so I think that’s one of the things that he can work on I think working on that will help him as far as with his shot creation and then uh uh doing the making one two maybe three dribbles and and and uh going into the jump shot I think uh that that’s one thing like uh if if he’s being ran off the line because a lot of times when he’s ran off the line he’s going in for a layup or a dunk and sometimes if you’re they’re running you off the line um KD does this a lot taking that one dribble that one big step or nice strong dribble and going up yes or or two dribbles you know what I’m saying you don’t always have to go if if you’re not shooting the three you don’t always have to go and attack the lane for a layup or a dunk sometimes if you just once you uh they run you off the line and you create that space one drible and two dribbles can do that for you and you’ve done your job so I think that’s a that’s another thing you know something basic that he can learn yeah that’s good that’s good advice right there from you and DC for Trey man and um yeah he’s still developing this game man but like I see him much more than than a three-point shooter I mean he’s he d a dunking on people he was doing that and that’s the next the next leg of development for Trey Murphy I third you know so once Brandon Ingram’s out out of the way he’ll have all the time that he needs to kind of get his game together man and get to that next level because Trey’s looking to get PID so you want to see all that from that brother all right so uh shout out to y’all man appreciate y’all being in the Stream please feel free to hit the like button hit the Subscribe button if you’re not a subscriber please feel free to chime in the chat the poll is there which big would you prefer got four bigs up on the board y’all let us know which one that you prefer we’ll go over the poll before we cut cut the stream down if you’re listening via you got Jared you got uh Jared Allen Isaiah Stewart Lori Mar not up there Q yeah Lori Lori’s up there oh Lori up there W Carter Jr Lor’s up there Lor’s the first dude matter of fact he’s the one leading the poll right now okay L it’s Lori wend Carter Jared Allen and W Walker Kessler oh Walker Kessler so no uh no Isaiah Stewart okay gotcha right I mean if we get if we get Mark Markman I mean realistically wouldn’t we be able to pull in Kesler would him or at the very least we can get Alexis Le’s favorite uh don’t they got John Collins over there okay don’t don’t don’t don’t I don’t think don’t don’t don’t uh D no I’m saying if you can’t get if you can’t get if you can’t get Kesler right you got Larry when intentions of him Poss you know being your Center like you still need another solid starting center in my opinion like you can’t run that lineup all the time like or or let’s say you can start them all the time but you might have to go away from that for certain matchups so well you try and get Kesler but if you can’t like you still need another Center we still talking Danny a right here and you trying to get Lori Markin and and and Walker Kessler from Danny a is well how we gonna get another Center we need another Center we we just sign whatever’s left we go get Daniel Ty dark Oar uh was out there but I’m I’m hearing that Philly is looking at signing him he been playing good overseas so Phil about to pick him up there ain’t a lot of centers left in free agency that I would consider a starter we we we have Cody Zella as a you know don’t break the glass player again I mean what do we do we need another big just in case this exotic uh lineup doesn’t work in certain games or against certain matchups go ahead Lex oh I was just saying names are being crossed off the board yeah oh I forgot my bad my bad d DJ got and you sitting up in here talking look the only move the Pelicans made was getting de jante and that’s it Stacy Says Nick Richards who’s hearing about Nick Richards being on the trade block though I mean Nick Richard ain’t bad five mil but are they trying to get rid of I haven’t seen Charlotte do anything to suggest that they just trying to get rid of quality players I haven’t heard anything on Nick Rich I mean they went got uh what green the tway guy from Dallas they trying to put together their team Nick Richard you know they they big guy backup your backup big yeah right so I don’t are they is Charlotte I I don’t hear his name in any trade talks I mean I’m all [ __ ] getting Nick Richard I mean you could return them back to where he belongs because we drafted him yeah they said well actually to Stacy’s point you know Hoops Heist has Hoops hype has something about that they’re saying that okay the Knicks are I and Walker Kessler and Nick Richards on the trade market so okay okay might have it might be something to Nick Rich I’m with it man Nick Richards is silent man I’m with it he’s starting caliber Center that might be it all right thank you Stacy for that because I was not aware that Nick Richards was on the trade block I thought they were NE you know maybe be maybe it’s just rumors that’s unfounded but uh but I I say I say uh the the lry thing is exciting um you go for it but if you can’t get L man I’m I’m pedal to the metal Wendell Carter Jr some type of way uh we’re getting rid of bi make that you know trade or whatever maybe we still bring some picks back after we get him because I don’t think that’s a fair trade to trade them straight up Orlando don’t have a salary cap so it’s got to be a third team but we can’t pull off the lry thing I say you get you get L and figure it out if we can if we can pull it off without like I think I think Nick Richards might be the guy for us oh Nick Richards no doubt if if he’s available you know I think that’s good he averaged 10 points a game eight re don’t have a 2025 first to give him no Stacy he is seven he’s seven feet tall 245 we drafted this guy yeah for for them we drafted Nick Richards the Pelicans did and DC he’s from guess what country he’s from I wonder where he from he’s from Jamaica oh wow that’s interesting I don’t know that I didn’t know that very interesting H DC yeah man and I understand why he’s a center bro he was the uh he was the famous island coconut go-getter you know he just lift his big old hands up there and pull coconuts down for everybody that fell real flat DC yeah it really was you know you like yeah that that what the hell is that I can’t make all that emoji with what that was you see that was flat brother that was that was yeah I mean you could have you just could have thought y’all y’all bringing up the Jamaican talk I to try to give y’all something to go off that was awesome no we no it was you you could have did better than that man yeah that was wack I didn’t really care game up dog yeah that was terrible you know you killed everything on You Killed the vibe on that DC well let’s move on job well done that’s har now we can get off of Jamaica point taken good job DC that was my intentions all right let’s let’s look at this fam we’re gonna go into this before we close down the stream we’re gonna kind of update you guys on the current unofficial depth charts of some of the guys in in the southwest uh division now right now we got the Pelicans on screen and of course I showed you guys the you know the unofficial depth chart for the pales Murray McCullum Ingram right now Zion Williamson and yees then of course Off the Bench Jose alvado Trey Murphy I theii herb Jones Jeremiah Robinson Earl Antonio Reeves Jordan Hawkins and Matt Ryan so there’s still some other Talent there Pelicans trying to pick up some bigs to kind of add some length there and probably the best team right now in terms of how far they got in the in the finals was Dallas Dallas did a lot of fantastic stuff and this is what they’re looking like right here Dallas with Luca Kyrie they added Klay Thompson to the team they got Klay there as a shooter PJ Washington Daniel Gafford and then Off the Bench Dante exom uh Naji Marshall Max Cleber Derek Lively III uh and they and they got a few other guys right there Jaden Hardy and a few others Alex fudge Dwight pow Brandon Williams but this is the Dallas Mavericks team a lot of people anticipating Dallas to be a very difficult matchup for Pelicans as well as the rest of the NBA adding Klay Thompson as a shooter to go along with Luca and Kyrie man wow and then of course we go to the Spurs Chris Paul joins the Spurs you know Castle was the guy that they drafted in the first round with Devin vassel Jeremy soan and W biama Off the Bench Trey Jones Julian champeny Kellin Johnson’s at Collins and more and more and more and more so the get an old man and Chris Paula kind of helped Castle get his stuff together Trey Jones is decent and they still have some Talent there in San Antonio perhaps if they could stay healthy they could probably cause some problems remember they did beat the Pelicans on the back end of the season we needed that game we really needed that game if we’ won that game that would have changed a lot of maybe not a lot but it would probably made things a lot easier and all some of them more of them home games would have helped too indeed and then of course the Houston Rockets the last team in the southwest uh they did they did a lot huh didn’t they what Houston they started they T started to turn it on a little bit more towards the end but Al sh shingun he wasn’t in the mix because he got hurt but I think I think they just need reps together but you know I’m I’m thinking they G they they gonna be nice it’s another year of uh cohesion they got one year of cohesion together yeah because they really didn’t do too much Stephen Adams is there and then of course about Aaron holiday and that but pretty much the same team redeveloped um with uh with that coach down there so I mean it’s going to be uh Southwest like I said man we’ve been talked about the Southwest is going to be a difficult division to play especially with Dallas there and what they’ve doing there so the still have do to kind of clean up some big the Grizzlies oh I forgot the damn Grizzlies good Lord they got Zack Edy yeah right I forgot we still we still gotta year on the gries in my opinion I think they gonna be good as they were no I think they gon be good as they were wait I’m not finished I’m not finished talking before I say my year well let me do this let me do this I’m G give you FL let me just kind of run the depth chart down then you can start tap dancing around all right so here go J R all you new jber Marcus SM ban jiren Jackson Jr Zack Edy Derek Rose uh GG Jackson Vince Williams Jr Scotty pippens Jr is there kch and in a bunch of other Brandon Clark Trey Trey jerson is there as well so it’s a bunch of people a lot of these guys are going to be lard they’re in the process of working on his contract right now get Luke Canard back yeah but he’s goingon to be back on there yeah they this is gonna be fun man watching all this go go down man back to you brother go ahead and Memphis to me they put themselves in position to be where they were a year ago so yeah they’ll be good but everybody else you know in our division except for Houston has gotten better we’re better you know so um and that’s funny Le we didn’t get better I mean we still don’t have a center but we’re better exactly we get better D is being optimistic that’s what I mean we got we got bi to work out a trade with I’m pretty sure we be able to get a reasonable Center um regardless of what they do goodness but but I mean Zack Ed Zack Edy is a rookie that’s why I’m saying to me they’re like a year away he still got to figure out the NBA okay it’s the same thing with wimy like now the second half of the season when he start to get you know the ground up under him yeah that’s when it start getting a little dangerous looking at looking at Memphis but everybody else has gotten better Dallas is gotten better we got better you know Sac Sacramento is trying to get be they can potentially get better you could say the Nuggets took a hit Clippers got worse um Timberwolves are still there the Warriors got worse but all the younger teams you you got OKC I don’t think Memphis just comes out and they jump back up to one or two just like that man it’s it’s a different it’s a different Western Conference at this point right now and it’s a difference even in that division you know San Antonio got Chris Paul and Castle over there that’s not the same San Antonio team you know I think you know you could say maybe San Antonio could be better than Memphis this year maybe not but all that man no but I’m just saying the the the conference that we’re in it’s not the same man it’s better even the Houston Rockets they didn’t get better on paper but they played a lot better at the end of the year like it ain’t no it ain’t an easy out for nobody so I don’t see Memphis just taking off and and dominating no did I think they’re as good as they were a year ago but everybody else has gotten better so where does that put that same Memphis team in the in the mix with everybody else they probably make the playoffs but I’m I’m not saying they um they’re not I’m not scared of Memphis like no no got all these other teams to worry about man I’m scared [ __ ] I’m scared of the West Le what you talking about nobody scared [ __ ] we got a lot out here yeah I know but the thing on who we pull off in this trade might that might call my fears might not be scared y’all better not be scared DC been uh for a long time I just seen a lot of stuff happen out here on the road Le you got to have a healthy amount of f okay what road kill I seen people get killed on the road yet I’m talking about like animals like you know I’m talking about the NBA I didn’t seen people get killed on the road okay D what is you talking about what are you talking about do I’m lost explain do I need to classify this as crazy pineapple talk what Ro wins Big Q the Pelicans were some of the best in the league at Road wins well you okay all right well because you was bouncing around between two different killings that’s right it’s called an analogy you got understand um yeah there was a lot of promising things with with Memphis uh if you think when J came back um that was basically their squad couldn’t stop yeah and they came came back being down double digits like within a week yeah and they showed like they have I’m telling you they have not lost a beat and now you’re adding a player like look at I look at it a little different choke that game see hold on no remember that’s the game where your coach Willie Green when he wanted to take out Zion Zion was guarding triple J remember that and who did he put in to guard Triple J he put in Dyson Daniels remember that that’s that game okay like dude like look and look the com the the the commentators were like they took that Zion to put that dude on him they went straight back down to him they hadn’t even played a whole lot together like let me tell you like Memphis Memphis has a style that they stick with they know who they are they’re very disciplined and not only that you you you you you didn’t compensate for for one the one thing that they have that that the Pelicans don’t they have a coach that dude can coach he can Coach man like you know they know exactly they the Grindhouse man Memphis they grind they’ve always grinded since Zack Randolph that’s their identity they know who they are man when they man J just got back that game y’all remember this they look like a totally different they look different when he’s there that’s no because jar was back and everybody fell into place everybody fell back into their normal positions right yep they were totally they don’t they weren’t that below 500 team that we saw you can’t look at their record look at them when they play they were not playing the same then J had the the shoulder thing he was out for the rest of season uh Bane he went down Marcus Smart he went down you had uh um GG Jackson and the other guy they they stepped in and let me tell you something when when the starters get back and then you add GG Jackson and that other dude I forget his name I’m sorry vce yeah he played his ass off they are going to be mean they’re gonna be mean because they already know what their identity is guys just went down I I think I think you downplaying I think you downplaying them a little bit you’re not you’re not you’re not hearing me though like I’m not I’m actually I told I said I said I said the what was the year before last man I can’t call Memphis all little brothers no more they didn’t they embarrassed us with and bi and I was all of that I gave them their respect what I’m saying for as Memphis Memphis will be good I’m not saying like you making it sound like they they not a threat I’m not saying that I’m looking at the landscape of the West is is Memphis more more a problem than the OKC Thunder I don’t think so gonna be mix though no they gon be I said they gonna be in the mix I said they gonna make the play yeah they gonna make the play playoffs I’m just saying I I look at Memphis as what they were and what we’ve known them to be a year ago right but everybody else was able to get better so they they’re not gonna be the same team that went number two in the west that’s that’s all I’m saying Memphis Memphis is a legitimate threat but I watched us play the Memphis Grizzlies would yah coming back those games and like you said Willie Green put Dyson in for whatever reason yeah and we we choked away you could say both of them I gota give them credit for one of them we should have at least been one in one we definitely was supposed to beat them especially the game when J hit that uh that gamewinner we chose you know what wasn’t like they were that much better than us we fumbled it away the same way we did whole bunch of other games what’s the definition of better what what do you see is better because I’m looking at everything I’m looking at the coach too because that was a that was a no for real isn’t that a part of it isn’t that a part of it the coaches would go would you would you would you I I would say it like this Lex so every time you see a team lose you always feel like the better team won could they have been the better team that night or they overall a better team than you because I look at it that way sometimes you have that’s a better team but they were mismanaged Memphis ow and what that would in 27 that’s why I that’s why I put a big emphasis on point guard Lex point guard having a point guard changes but we didn’t you only go you only go by what’s on your roster you don’t have we got a point guard now just like when we got a physical therapist bi is Zion miraculously play the most Gam who’s better the thing is man we we we’ve we’ve named all this season all last season the problems that the Pelicans have this is we don’t even have to include any opponent team take your pick the turnovers the energy the ball movement you know what I’m saying like understanding mismatches take take your take your pck those were problems that that the Pelicans have had not hitting from the charity strike these are problems that the Pelicans had all season and you know what a lot of them a lot of those problems were not addressed you know why CU you you you started to see those things uh being able to P perform at a high level under pressure in the clutch that was consistent that wasn’t just against Memphis I I I know I know I know Lex but you don’t think so let me ask you this you don’t think getting to Jon Murray was still having the potential of trading Brandon Ingram to yield you another very good player we don’t well the team is constructed right now let’s say we just sign a center okay we just sign because they have to sign a center right there’s a lot of unknown DC wait hold up okay bi is still on the team and everything the team as constructed right now they get a bum off the street to play center just somebody confident enough to know the plays set screens get a few rebounds you still don’t think gonna be fou out before the second quarter well we get two bums then we get two get two we we get we get Cody Zella Cody Z good enough to not fall out look you don’t think the addition of De jante Murray to help mitigate some of Will’s issues the reason I’m so hard or heavy on the point guard because a point guard is similar to a quarterback a lot of times all you could say you’re Superstar because they can do the same thing if I get people in their sets get them in places where they comfortable does that not give us an identity if I’m very good at that does that does that not give us an identity or way of playing or play style there’s more to it than that there’s more to it than that no there is more to it but if I’m very good at that does that not give us a form of an identity yes or no it get it get it gets closer but it’s not finished like we don’t know who who who the sinners G to be well why do why do we why do we think it’s not going to work if we don’t know there there so there’s nothing good that can happen that that’s a piece that goes towards getting better but we’re not finished our the the Pelican Squad does anybody feel like that the squad is finished y’all feel like it’s not but man if if this was a race right now we got we got we got two feet out front of finishing this and and being very good they’re in a very good position to finish strong without even having to run full speed you know I don’t know names are being crossed off the board man names names what are you talking about huh what names okay wisman Andre Drummond like who’s crossed off the board the looking I’m saying names are being crossed like guys are getting signed they’re going to other teams they still guys are we we’re going to build our team through a trade though Lex we’re not we’re not worried about signing free agents we never were right we’re gonna do it through a trade so it’s like there’s I don’t see any name that’s been crossed off the board that’s like oh man a pel’s got a Hur they still you got you got Kesler you got W cter Jr you got Lori they talking about you got whether Jared Allen can still you know be or not now you got vvi popping up out there you got Robinson and St there’s a bunch of siners I’m not saying I want some of these guys I’m naming but there’s a bunch of people out there that you still could geta right yeah so it’s it’s it’s it’s no it’s it’s nothing uh no it ain’t no Panic oh my God they gotta hurry up they don’t they can take their time and slow this really can it ain’t no big secret you know it don’t have to be but nobody knows who we’re g to get it’s not a big secret we need to make a move so the thing is to say to say that like we have gotten better we’ve gotten a we’ve gotten a better piece on the team right but everything is not completed yet no it’s not complete say we’re to say that we’re better than the Grizzlies like as of right now if I can’t I can’t say we worse though either I don’t know okay I can say I can’t say we better because we’re not complete I can’t say we worse because we’re not complete correct you you know how long like they they’ve they’ve actually played their core which is J and Triple J they’ve been together like I think Lex is speaking since Lex you’re speaking about philosophy and identity that’s what you’re saying that they have the players to fit the identity is that what you’re saying where they can they just have to be healthy and they hit the floor running is that what you’re saying I mean yeah they had a down year they had they can definitely they definitely can get out to a better start they can get out to they only had one starter and then Triple J ended up going down so all their starters were out I can give you that they definitely can get off to all of their starters were out you know what that and that speaks to when they played against the Pelicans man basically their team was back they were actually back when when they played the Pelicans and they did not look like the below 500 Team all those games that they lost they didn’t look like that type of team they look like a totally different team and that’s all I’m saying it makes a difference when you have all like all your guys like they all their starters were out for basically the second half of the season but shouldn’t I speak to them being even more dangerous that they had all these guys that were hurt but the reserves got all this this these they got experience they get they were able to get reps zy Williams look at all the young players look at all the young players that got time to hey go out there and play ball GG Vince Z they got more playing time than Jordan Hawkins I know that they got more playing time than than Matt Ryan yeah we still we’re in a tough West the Memphis is is in the mix part of that no ain’t no conversation on that DC you’re 100% right BR you don’t yeah man it’s I can’t catapult them above nobody else that’s the only point I’m trying to make they in they one of the teams in the mix like you know we gonna see who who rides to the top but then I ain’t looking at Memphis like oh my God we got to go out get people to just to match up just with them you know I’m more concerned about the Spurs in the future than than Memphis you know what I’m saying um but Memphis is right there you know what I’m saying they right there they they you know they hungry you know they hungry yeah they hungry team you know how we always talk about you know the Pelicans need to have a chip on their shoulder they need to play pissed off like let me tell you something they about to come out with that heat yeah yeah I get all of that but at what point at what point does zion start to scratch just the surface of his potential if we get Zion healthy with a team focused around him if we’re able to trade Brandon Eng because that’s exactly what’s going to happen bearing injury I don’t think anybody in the west won’t see this [ __ ] just just being real with you I can see that but everybody else you know might not see that or see come come the for wishing and you’re right to look at things that way because we never get it done we constantly get hurt we just got a damn physical therapist it works so well why don’t we get through you know say so it’s like trying to figure out why I took the fifth season the fifth season to bring in a physical therapist man you know why why didn’t bring one in his first year wasn’t thinking about it he BR in he BR in Aon talking about how unique his body was but they br in Aaron Nelson who had a reputation of being a they tried a coach yeah that was David Griffin’s first Aon Nelson everybody said Aaron Nelson was the best you know that’s that’s that’s what he was before he came here and it didn’t work it didn’t work right we can’t say he didn’t they didn’t try at all no they did they did they did because we C man we covered all that n n somebody should have been on top of Aaron Els and say hey don’t you think we should get a physical therapist oh all we know Aaron Nelson might have asked them to get physical therapist and they would be cheap they said no and they said we don’t know we gonna just use all these damn as doctors we didn’t gave You2 million we get no damn fisical thers we gotta use with the ASA doctors because they cheap Strider Strider KJ yeah I see you Strider yeah might be right true that is true but that’s the thing does he still ow owe some assistant money but boy Amy been working miracles on me because uh she made a Believer out of me this year so if we could find somebody that maybe uh went to the same schooling she did man man the possibilities are endless but see this it’s this the same thing I’ve been saying it’s trial in that because the Pelicans were using uh they were using the staff that take care of the Saints and the Pelicans that’s what Tom was doing he bought the team and he thought he can that is so crazy too because you gotta do you’re not even using the same muscle group yeah but but that’s the thought process that’s why to flag football golly there’s a so for real there’s a difference it’s the business philosoph difference the philos opy of the Pelicans and the Saints at the time when Tom Benson bought them he used me the same medical staff that he had he also had a deal later on with Ashna and he was using Ashna doctors and people to come in there and help and there was a lot of problems going on with that So eventually like I said I’mma keep saying it was trial and error that’s how they operate they’ll scratch it off we got to do this we scratch it off either I mean that’s what they were doing do interview process like they spent over two $300,000 now they said it was Gail’s money to uh rework the physical therapies not the physical therapy but the the the uh the staff the medical staff and the physical staff and the uh the facility that make it l they did they spent like $300,000 to refit it yeah that’s what they did they didn’t know what the hell they was doing they bought the team and really the I mean see I know all about the history of the [ __ ] because it was really Tom Benson got involved because his brother was trying to buy the team it was Tom Benson’s brother Larry was in a group with several other big-time businessmen one of them was a dude that was getting billions of dollars from a por of big wig down here that’s tied to the port of New Orleans and Larry Benson was the guy leading this group who was the top group at the time to buy the Pelicans because you know the NBA owned them and they were looking to sell it was D Stern who then approached Tom Benson as a par who could be a particular uh owner because he liked the um the fact that they had a successful organization with the Saints and Tom Benson then outbid his brother Larry and took the team and end up and that’s what happened they went through all this stuff Mickey Lumis was the general manager over the Pelicans before they decided to uh you know change that up and do something different so I mean like I said it was a whole bunch of I’m telling you it was Tri by it was trial by they crossed this out they screwed this up they did this this is how it worked so we getting to the point now finally they getting it it’s like with with with uh Willie who finally saying you know what um what’s the difference between us winning games on the road and at home well we practice in the home in the away people’s Arena why don’t we do that in our own building and they did that and at the end of the season that one time and after they got that one win then they went back to doing what they got to do so that’s what I’m saying that that’s that’s stuff like you would think that some of these people should be way more intelligent to kind of rationalize this stuff a little bit better but they’ve shown you consistently that they Vision don’t go out that far or they’re not very detail centered to understand that but I got to give them credit because whatever don’t work they’ll hurry up and cross it out and try to fix it as opposed to keep going with the same stuff that don’t work that’s what I was saying about Willie Green nobody stays the same nobody you either get better or you get worse you never stay the same everything is constantly in a state of flux and change you either change for the positive or you change for the negative I was saying when you have now with DC I gotta uh give him props because he hit some good points about the acquisition of dejonte Murray because it give you a court general that takes a lot of that stuff away like we’ll have this committee Confusion by this group committee ball handling situation you got herb doing it you got bi doing it you got Zion doing it and then we’ll beat the hell out of them with Zion running point one game and then we gonna keep that going and then you come back the next game and CJ out there dancing see all that’s nullified with de jonte Murray he handles the ball he sets the table he distributes he operates the system he operates as Willie Green vestage or his visor on the court to kind of set up everything that’s a big a big win and we on the verge about the being able to do the switch all Q for real yeah and you got players like uh like mei’s a big guy that can move so it’s that helps and then the Pelicans working on a tri working on getting some other skill bigs to help whether it’s lurry market and somebody else so I that floor General is that’s a big chip to have because that’s something that we’ve lacked for a very long time the biggest uh need for the Pelicans was to get the the floor General and the jonte Murray plays defense he averaged over 22 points a contest so he can score he’s a smart dude he’s very versatile can guard multiple positions he’s not a a troublemaker he’s highly intelligent and he’s in the pr of his career so like I said man this is this is a good this is a good a good situation they got up the biggest need they took care of and now they going after the center with ex Troublemaker okay okay ex Troublemaker but then but his family his mama was a blood so you know well DC come on brother I’m not talking that’s that’s he he he’s not he’s changed his you know it’s not the same he he he’s a different cat and uh he is a papovich p he got the papic PED go that helps really too that helps about this too remember when we had Lonzo ball right how did we look offensively when we had Lonzo ball before Stan Van Gundy you know just having a point guard man something that simple I think tremendously changes the pelic on nah it was a lot more than lives we had an identity everybody knew that R because the point guard was the one that balanced that out and kept everybody in their place was he was under who though he was under Alvin Gentry who couldn’t see nothing through them U them goddamn big eyes he was looking through that wasn’t all Alvin Gentry Alvin Gentry was letting them run him mu and do whatever they were making things happen on the court because you had two point guards really you had Drew holiday and you had ball and they made life extremely easy for Zion right that’s why I’m like man having a point guard with this version of Zion we got right now I’m telling you Lex it’s going to look very different and it’s going to be scary far injury I’m saying look I just wanted to finish and that speaks to Willie Lex that’s all don’t forget the Willie chip because having de jonte Murray helps Willie out too now that’s what I I have age with you much as I say he Ain G change that’s why I said it was gonna work DC I don’t think I’m be I don’t think he gonna change I think Deon he’s like Willie gonna try to draw something it’s like okay we ain’t doing that so Murray set up under Pap ofic Lex come through talking that ABC one two three [ __ ] that boy CA Willie don’t need to coach no I’m saying he’s put in a position where he coaches we losing I’m saying that but that’s that’s say you having a high IQ point guard a guy that has experienced running off great he took instruction from a the best coach in the NBA uh and Greg papovich a living legend so Willie that that knowledge will transfer to Willie willly familiar with papovich that knowledge will transfer he that will transfer because they can have a dialogue about why this won’t work and why this will work that helps him out that was one of the biggest problems we talked about the Pelicans did not have a floor General we had all these other dudes who would then have decent outings at times and then they’ll fall back into their nature when you have ISO bi and when he wants to turn into Kobe with a a pullback uh flipar around uh shot and all this kind of stuff or CJ going down CJ said I could do it too I could do it too Dancing Yeah he would do that J that’s ex I make just as much money as you watch this you need to go play the two somewhere else well let me let me tell you what’s about to happen that changes that too they gonna call a timeout and Willie gonna draw a play and he gonna tell Deon Murray what he need to do J Murray gonna look at Willie and gonna look at how much seconds they got left in that timeout right when they got about eight seconds left he gonna look over at James bgo say man what you think Ain gonna do that that’s what we rocking with he ain’t gonna treat him like that he gonna tell him say coach I got a better idea uh why don’t we do such and such such and such if I pass this that and Willie is agreeable enough he’s like you know what that that sounds like that’s how it goes it’s give and get you know that’s how it that’s the that’s just that’s how the universe work like if Willie has an idea he’s gonna have dialogue with his his floor J and the guy and and dejonte will give him a better idea Willie would go with it I can see him willing no you you going to do what I tell you now I don’t see that that’s not his Personality yeah he not that now right so as long as he’s not that that’s why we’re saying that change can happen because these players and and he can t trust uh de jonte Murray because he’s been in different roles different places had more than enough experience he’s been tested in the game and he’s a player that you can count on that’s why I was saying that having Murray here helps you know Willie will be better this upcoming year because they’ll have that dialogue as a team and you’ll see those iron those wrinkles ironed out and a lot of stuff now it don’t fix everything but it does improve how the Pelicans will communicate on the court when you have a floor General that’s really big then getting a a a center whatever the trader be for bi would be would be awesome too if it’s Lori marketing his storing and his three-point shooting with Zion and like like we said this was something that we talked about years ago creating space around Zion and always talking about Zion’s gravity you know if he’s healthy and you have the proper Shooters and we got most of them here we got the shooters here we’ve got them here it ain’t like you got oh we gotta find some more people no we’ve got the shooters here so if we can just get certain people out of the way and open up these areas we can be able to see a lot of that this year in Zions and his uh new contract year we can see a lot of that around him with all that space because he’s gonna track the space and pass out for three-point shots that how does that look you see so with a mobile center and de Jon Murray our defense is also going to be better as well DC and another thing while will is going to be better there’s no more Larry n to over rely on now you do have Jeremiah Robertson we got Robertson I’m getting you prepared for that he is going to fall in love no it’s not the same I mean it’s a different setup but at the same time he doesn’t have Larry n rely on Dyson Daniels is gone n I love you D he has to find a new group of guys and most of the guys that he has are offensive centered guys that’s why I was keep telling people people say he gonna change Q he ain’t gonna change I’m like what no he got to look at all of the guys that he relied on last year and his more offensive centered guys he’s got the change if he wants to have the success and with Zion there and Deonte there facilitating and they communicating man come on I mean you would see the best version of switch that we ever seen if we can get the maximize Zion that’s what it’s about right fam everybody it’s about maximizing Zion we won’t be able to get anywhere we can beat Memphis we can beat OKC I mean y’all tell me if I’m wrong we can beat OKC we can beat Memphis we can beat all these other teams if Zion is healthy and he’s fully maximized meaning that he’s operating within his gravity he’s healthy he’s kicking out to wide open three-pointers uh three-point Shooters herb Jones Trey Murphy Jordan Hawkins dejon Murray if CJ’s still here fing in his off ball role even though if he’s not trading bi’s gone and and CJ’s still here CJ off ball not hold handling the ball I’m cool with that until they trade up out of here fam are y’all with me on this I’m just say I think with Zion we we beat the OKC Thunder some people may disagree but Zion Chang this thing so dramatically yeah he cover Zion covers up a lot of flaws on the team and not just flaws he changes things offensively he’s the offense in himself like uh Paul George did a podcast with uh with Trey Murphy and he asked him he asked him about Zion and they went to a dial dialogue about Zion and Paul jar said yeah man when it came to Zion we didn’t have a game plan because nobody knows what to do they just told us to get back and stand by the free throw line right and no matter what we did he was still torch us anyway right and then DC don’t forget to mention how Zion Williamson started pulling up on that mid-range shots that this upcoming year yeah and I ain’t never forgot Zion got everybody fool Q it’s coming at some point come on Z can hit one or two three-pointers a game too Z Rook Rook his debut game he hit like what was it four five threes his he was for four he’s not that bad I don’t want to see him shooting a lot of them but he’s not that bad of a shooter if you just let him get a set shot in the space they get at boy he could take a set shot whenever you want sure okay he always gonna have that mid-range jumper when we may have seen Zion take maybe about I’m just I don’t remember the exact number but let’s say we saw him take 10 of them right he made at least six he he’s not shooting at at a low clip you know looks pretty good so we looking at everybody else they’re improving you got a team like Memphis but I just still don’t see anybody with an answer for Zion just the way that nobody has an answer for J the same way nobody have an answer for wimy nobody has an answer for Joker we have one of those players and as long as you got one of those players and you surround them with Talent a chance and you have health you have a chance at winning a championship if you’re going to run at the right time and you’re good enough to like Lex makes a point of about us having identity everybody got to know role to stay out of the damn way and and and you can do it you just got to go on the run at the right time nobody thought Dallas would be where they were they got hot at the right time well and they made changes too at the trade deadline they got Gafford and and PJ Washington they whole season but yeah they they were great fits those those were great moves because they they made it to the finals um but yeah I’m I’m still waiting for Zion to be Unleashed man I you know I’m you know we’ve yet to really see him you know what I’m saying like that excitement that we felt when he was at Duke but I don’t want what what he did at Duke I want NBA Duke you know what I’m saying really had no point guard that dude Bo was getting in his way what what’s that dude name RJ bar RJ Bar Way a lot of damn kind of reminds you of somebody else don’t exactly damn you’re right right look I know I saw that somewhere before and that’s why that’s why look it ain’t finished it ain’t finished come on y’all hurry up hurry I mean it’s going to be it’s going to be interesting like I said the Pelicans it’s it’s a lot of positive stuff though Le they’re still cers yeah right waiting I want I want to see the completion you know what I’m saying you know uh cause because right now we we we know what the front Court looks like right now I mean it’s it’s kind of like what y’all doing you know what I’m saying [ __ ] the front Court don’t look like nothing Le is it’s empty yeah that’s what that’s what I’m saying so that that I mean there there Reon reason for concern like until we have that part solidified it’s like you know yes deante great great great situ but it’s not finished it’s not finished we got the point guard but we still got a finish because again it’s all about matchups and the thing is right now right now when you’re looking at rosters there you you can see okay they have a solid front court and they have a solid back court everything is is solidified you you see how it’s coming together we don’t have that yet right well yeah we are we a step behind on it but uh we gonna get this I think they this this trade is going to happen over the next several days man I wouldn’t be surprised Man by this weekend we might be hearing something going down with the bi thing because it’s some competition going on for yeah Mark and their a Warriors are desperate yeah they trying desate they signed up what’s his name rebuild huh what’s the guy name uh Anderson they signed Anderson and theyed uh Melton slow mo and they also signed Terry Stott and um another coach too man what’s the other coach they sign St house Jer stack house be be favorite favorite guy Jared stack house goes to Golden State did did we feel those positions yet the Pelicans the assistant like iOS came back so that we really don’t you just need Freds we just need somebody for shooting who who who’s replacing Fred well I mean that’s just another assistant know open right Fred Fred’s job still open so we we don’t that’ll be probably listed later on after all this other stuff died out we’ll know who the coach who the taks up for for Freddy B’s job so but yeah it’s it’s I can bet you one thing if they don’t have nobody good to do it we just ain’t gonna hear nothing be a mystery n you they’ll tell you because they’ll do it just like they did when they br coach Erin in here last year when they sign no no not sneakily they’ll sign them right they’ll tell you about these new uh coaches right before the regular season start when they start naming all the new coaches they did it last year like when they had coach Aaron when he stepped in the door so I mean it was yeah they they let you know and they’ll break it all down and introduce you to the the new staff members and all that kind of stuff they’ll let you know they’ll do the little interviews on their website and all that kind of stuff they do that stuff all the time so they good about that by letting you know that but yeah like I said uh it’s some competition but like I said was looking around like there’s a lot of people available good centers that can actually help the Pelicans out man and getting Capital back for bi this type of stuff is what the Pelicans looking to do so man it’s it’s some times very interesting times Stacy made a good point uh Stacy been making a lot of good points look at Orlando’s team right now yeah they they’ve really beefed up and they just got caught well pop Orlando Orlando just brought back everybody they had you know yeah I know I mean so that that’s another year of experience that they got and they’re adding a champion a two-time champion and and you know he’s known for his defense I mean that’s um yeah that’s a great situation I still don’t think that pushed them up there with Milwaukee Philly the Celtics Milwaukee done huh what you eating pineapples yeah of course and driving no I’m not driving no more I sto right I was at a stop sign and I thought about how unsafe that was I said I can’t just stay at a stop sign and do the podcast so I just pulled over yeah this dude here man this dude just be telling all kind of stories this dude here tell tell us a story about the moon DC about Once Upon a Time way way down in the bag of the French Quarter big moon walking no you damn sure you didn’t know you [Music] didn’t I was just as shocked as you are like hell you did I was right at that LGBT flag and I looked DC what are you doing down there brother what that’s the turnaround point on French Quarter everybody knows and something just told me you see down that way he don’t have no big take a look and I saw big Q walking and I know it was him because he hit me with his famous tagline I’m big Q from the sports cour Li I don’t talk like that this dude crazy man more crazy pineapple talk from DC I think you crazy that’s a good album working on DC is a musician too y’all Y play play a good time he he he makes Beats and stuff like that I just finished my food and start driving again Lexi can’t play that guitar for you sorry he tried to sing one time on this beat I was like say bro one of your brothers to do that for you get Ziggy to help you on that [Music] one DC is like the he’s like this like this mus we got going on background keep thaty he can’t sing play the guitar that’s what DC is that’s that’s how DC is in a mar Marley he like Jasper isy can’t old that boy said Jasper who everybody KN brother cut it out boy everybody knew the everybody up everybody my listen to they sampling them boy what you talk man all I know is Mr Big Man cont go all right Le all right and the man said drive me crazy that’s all I got y’all oh man I got I got three words for DC man gold P’s mine go P that’s the wrong color go P SP we should we should bring slim on and let him do it go have you been practicing slim youve been prac DC busting for everybody goel hold up J Carell said the Warriors are trading for heel what they trading for Buddy Hill that’s news Caravel love DC there you go hey they need something like the Warriors are are really really desperate man oh my God they traded for buddy you mean so man this a this like um what they call that the what if alternate reality remember when uh that dude Sacramento say say buddy Hill reminded him of Steph Stephen Curry y’all remember that yeah now they trading him over there to the war y sham crazy wow yeah is the thing is on a lot of people though he what the Warriors missed out on a lot I mean it’s not an impressive signing but if if Buddy Hill can be good anywhere I’m not gonna lie I I would think it would be with the Warriors just with how they plays I don’t think this you know makes them a scary team or nothing but I definitely think they can get the most out of Buddy Hill probably anybody else man Jay Carval they that they would put uh what’s it no that’s uho you pronounce it gaming shoot if they did that that that would be a straight up rebuild right there try step to they saying we’ll give to nope yeah you are so fun up no no give them give them the Stars give them [Laughter] CJ oh goodness gracious all right you know what I’m talking y’all a y’all ain’t scared of the Warriors not they still got Draymond you know what I’m surpris I’m surprised they kept Draymond I always thought that Draymond would be the first to go out of that court I know right I thought he was gonna be playing with you know what I’m saying and I mean to to really to but you know I think I think the front office I think they scared of Draymond that’s why they don’t they haven’t trade him yet with everything he’s been doing they said they offered Klay Thompson a contract they offered him one for like what oh he he uh he was mad because they said they basically told him that uh Pinsky was gonna be starting over he was gonna bench him yeah it gonna bench he gonna be coming off the bench right like that they gave him a contract a two-year deal told him that I mean he took yeah he took I think he took less with with Dallas but he’s gonna be starting I think that was his biggest thing right yeah big time that that that was the thing he kind of got a little on the back and upset he felt like he uh wanted to go out like he wanted to you know and not he a want to be a backup but uh it was the right move for him man I know his father didn’t like it he F his father wanted him to go to the Lakers yeah because he’s he’s a la cat right but in the the actually offered him 0 Mill for like what four years he wanted to win a championship you and they just came from the finals oh not to mention I know I know LeBron he he called clay uh but y’all do know that uh clay signed with an right he signed with who he signed with an an okay yeah you know Kyrie yeah is like half the owner of like an right yeah yeah go so K Kyrie was crucial in in recruiting clay as well you see whose pool was a little bit stronger right yeah that that would be awesome man that would be interesting if Klay wins a championship hypothetically with LeBron who gonna get all the credit yeah versus if he was to win one in Dallas I think at this point any anybody any he does he’s very one of the best catch and shoot three-point Shooters he fits well with with with two guys that that can handle the ball the way that that is a good fit it’s just how much of a liability how much can they hide him on defense we know Klay can’t really play D the way he used to man like it’s they got to figure that out but him in a catch and shoot rooll over there I think that’s dope Next Level that that gets him there but I mean he is you g have to have him playing the three and I mean that’s that’s a tough ass in the NBA these days man indeed indeed man all right so before we get ready to close the stream fam I got some requests for the family members out there listening across the several different platforms if you’re listening on X give us a retweet retweet the chat retweet the show please everywhere else Instagram Facebook everybody hit us hit us with the like button if you’re on YouTube if you’re not a member please hit the Subscribe button man we all good on that do that and before we leave man I know I got the poll up in the chat which big should the Pelicans go for in bi trade over 300 folks we appreciate you kindly for vote in the PO 300 people please hit the like button indeed and thank you Lexa 45% of you guys said hey man Lori markeing would be the should be the guy that they we go for and be 45% and that’s the biggest on amongst all the polers 31% was Jared Allen and then it falls off a clip W Carter and Walker Kessler all represent 12% a piece so the big even with those two right the big winners of the poll tonight Lori marketing 45% from the pel so appreciate I wonder Carter J would be a little higher man given how good he is don’t like he can stretch and he’s mobile defensively can do the switch off hasn’t he only1 million right now for two years I thought more people would have him higher but see and the thing is my thing with uh wesler like can we we gonna be playing drop again with him right like he he can’t do the switch all so like will will he have a issue with him and be like getting another JV even though he’s more mobile and quick-footed than JV but right a seven foot seven footer that ain’t like exactly mobile that’s why he got played off the courtne Utah go ahead Lex no I think uh well it says with Lori he’s a forward SL Center here so he’s not really he’s not really a center they just saying that okay that dude Ain play much Center at all what the small ball right yeah he do he ain’t gonna get no defense that a why y I mean but we got other defense and other places I mean as long as he can play Team defense right so you okay so you you on board with uh efforts gives it he’s an effort with L all right all right me look if CJ can be out there playing and he’s hunted on defense look Lori can’t be that bad my only thing with Lori is if you get him you’re looking at a a potential max deal so how do we so we give him a Max we get rid of CJ and trade this his extension and and that this is our core for the next what five five years or so I don’t to say five years but I mean I don’t it’s I think be a trial like if we did get like to see if it even works which I don’t think it would not work um you because you it’s things you got to account for though DC along with the L market and situation is also Trey Murphy that’s another uh Financial chip that we have to look at but you know getting rid of CJ McCullum definitely helps man whenever we can off him that’s a big part of it too like we know bi gets us one of these guys but I mean what would uh Lori maramman be looking at he’s did he make all he made Allstar this year I don’t know so would his max be like similar to to Trey’s Max like we get like 150 or he’s in that $200 million range as well you know what it was pointed out I don’t I think we should discuss that and then you know we go and get out of here after that man but I’m curious to see how real it could be because if we get lry man moving forward we’re always going to have to keep a a solid Center in my opinion you know cuz I can see matchups where for whatever reason like where that could possibly be exploited maybe I’m wrong but I think you you just need an insurance policy with him well isn’t that Messi Messi is the me is the the the draft Yeah but that’s still two two to three years away we need somebody for a couple of years tell me now two no I mean before he’s able to be like a uh what you would consider a starter I would think he’s probably two years away from pushing to be a starter like let’s say Zion or somebody get hurt and you move lri to the four you know what I’m saying I don’t think uh Messi would be ready for that at fulltime minutes for maybe about a year or two I mean I think I don’t know where you’re getting this timetable from because the Pelicans are not very they’re not really patient with these BS I mean like we just we done documented the fact that they had four starting centers in the last five years they picked Jackson Hayes and didn’t develop him correctly keep doing that or we gonna get a center that maybe we can extend give a contract to that actually fits well we ain’t got to wor about that no you going get that’s the point I mean look how long it took to get a a point guard I’m saying you got me I mean we dealing with the Pelicans timeline here Mei is not a three-year I’m not I don’t like you looking at Mei saying well he’ll be ready to play Big minutes is that what you’re saying in three years no I’m saying he I think in two years he he probably can be a starter that’s that’s like you know if everything is slow as hell if if you speed it up I I say maybe a year it make he can make an impact on the back half of the Season it up it it’s a lot of counter references between uh me’s game and Derek Lely like a lot of people especially I’ve been hearing that too so that’s what I’m saying the timeline is confusing me here what you’re saying because they expected him to come in and maybe not be a starter but they’re going to give him some minutes they roll him out and give him some minutes because that he fits Willie’s defensive first mentality he’s he’s a big guy that can move and hustle you know his offensive game is not all there but that’s all you need to get on the floow Willie if he’s a big guy that could participate in this with y’all then he’ll gain minutes that’s what I’ve been noticing about about Willie this L marketing situation would be a solid move because like you astutely mentioned and Lex mentioned as well marketing is not really a center but he’s a a seven footer with right he stretches the floor yeah and he might not be a defensive stopper but he grabs eight over eight rebounds a contest I mean he’s a guy that makes it difficult for you know offensively speaking for some of those bigs have to come out and guard him and then if you like you said if Zion has an issue you can move him to the four and put Mei in there for whatever and then of course the Pelicans DC probably have to end up finding a u an inexpensive uh another uh big to come in perhaps maybe a guy that can do four and five perhaps a cheaper big down the line because I don’t know if they I don’t think they’re trying to get Kesler and M marketing the same thing that’ll cost a lot but you we see what they got going on but window but like I said I’m very about some of these names out here Lori marke and W Carter Jr he’s a real thing I think we need to really watch out W Carter J I think is is the guy man that’s the easiest to obtain yes uh probably most potential at the center out of everybody we name because he’s only like 23 or 24 so you don’t really know what he’s gonna be at honestly um he’s shown shades of almost being an Allstar you know so knock that’s the knock on him with the the 6 not playing well Lex like you got to go look at this guy Lex I don’t know if you how much how familiar you are with him he’s always been able to play like even in Chicago like it’s never been him not being able to play his problem is with just with Q just said he always gets hurt he goes on these runs and he gets hurt but he’s very very versatile like this dude can do a little bit of everything like he for a center he drives a lot like he can drive the ball from three-point line and attack it you know face up he can hit threes he switches on everybody you look at people like yic and uh mbid try to back him down he doesn’t move like he’s not this dude ain’t no I mean you can’t just like speed ball pass what he is like he did with with Orlando last year like he was a major part of how good they were it it wasn’t like he was just afterthought out there he’s really good it’s just I don’t you want to build your team around him I think that’s what Orlando was contemplating before Paulo and I don’t think he’s that guy uh we talked about you said allar I was just saying I don’t know about the allstar part but yeah I know he’s not I mean he 18 he had a season of uh what like 18 and 10 if I’m not mistaken pull his numbers up Q I say borderline borderline allar like you know one of them dudes could be a reserve one year I ain’t saying he like a perennial allar nothing okay look you said allar I was like that’s why I was like whoa you just heard allar like what you talking when he was at Duke and stuff yeah 15 yeah yeah 15 and six 15 and six in backto back years six 15 and six he getting with the blls hold on DC let me get these stats right here 15 15 and 10 and 2122 was 15 and 10 and a half in 2122 and then in 2223 was 15 and N so he was 15 he got 15 and 10 one year in the 2122 year what what about the the Bulls years what did he get over there he was pretty good with them too because they they traded for him yeah he averaged around 11 points and six boards 11 yeah yeah B hold on 11 points and uh nine boards one year nine almost nine and a half and his second year his third year was like 11 points and eight Wards then he went to Orlando and he went 12 and N 12 and n and the following year uh 2122 he went 15 and 15 and 10 and a half that was his best year and then he played like like his he got a lot of injuries in here the Orlando year then he had one year in 2122 when he kind of had like 20 54 games so he had 32 games 22 games 54 games 62 games 57 Games 55 games so you can see uh he had some injury issues but when he’s when he’s able to play gives you some good minutes and gu 37% my man Josh L saying on catch and shoot threes too yeah he ain’t a bad three yeah he shot 37.4% last year that’s right and Stacy Stacy say all this for 11 Mill and that’s a care and that’s a career uh he shot a career best from the three line last year forter and we get him que and you know what we gonna do we gonna extend him and give him JV money that’s right you gon get this guy and pay you pay JV and he’s 25 years of age I thought he 24 he just turned 25 25 okay still not not bad at all F the timeline F the timeline and the most important thing DC he’s a dookie and and wow I forgot to mention the Duke connection I just said that oh I’m sorry Lex my bad I just said yeah and it went to Duke he was nice well well Lex Lex pointed out the Duke connection there you go yeah I I’m I’m familiar with him you know what I’m saying I mean he A’s your lottery pick huh how do you feel about him you like him don’t like him oh no I mean shoot I’m just waiting around but yeah I think he would be nice I think this we need we need a center so you know yeah I think I think this guy all the yeah 66 610 270 25 years of age he don’t look 270 Q you look at him he don’t look that big man he don’t look that big bro that’s CRA not so he must that must be he’s Sol he gotta be solid bro he’s solid he don’t look that big man yeah you know muscle muscle a lot heavier than fat and plus since we got a physical therapist you know I think he can make we GNA need two now we got two injury prone guys we need to I mean it be nice I mean they can replace that trainer but uh Sho Jay hey uh Sho stay no centers playing over 54 games except for Jay VTO JV was Mr Iron Man yep he played every game so we gotta make up for that but St I think I think the only thing that I’m concerned about is the rebounding because JV was the rebounding for the well you you got you got uh he can get you 10 rebounds so I I I went back and looked at his rebound I was like oh he’s not that bad of a rebounder you had Orlando who had a lot of tall guys so I was like okay so that’s why he didn’t you got Paulo you know Paulo’s a good rebounder too you know so that’s why I think it took a little bit of a dip but you you got Murray that’s right br’s a good rebounder you know even Jaylen sugs is a decent rebounder too so and um you got Deon Murray like I said earlier who’s a good rebounder and he can take some of that you know and we wouldn’t I guess have to have him be JV but uh Stacy uh far as getting him for CJ he said for CJ you can get him and sus together h no I don’t think they moving off of sugs at all sugs is too good they not moving sugs you could get him and Anthony black he almost I don’t think you get Black jcole second cousin yeah that’ll work you one of them C they can’t keep all them guys man no yeah black I don’t say no big on black but you’re right they just some uh uh the stats they just signed him didn’t they who uh Orlando he’s this find a guy I wanted us to get they they resigned or extended Jonathan Isaac today yes and and mo wag him they gave yeah they gave everybody money except for Wale that’s why you on the Block it’s clear what they gonna doy I me yeah because they can’t pay everybody so I mean like hell they don’t they don’t pay they paid every damn body yeah they gave they gave Gary like I said Gary Harris I was surprised that they gave Gary Harris that contract well you gota think what they what they had and then they they signed uh cwell Pope but you gotta think they they were they were the fifth seed in the East you know I mean they they for for Orlando that that was a big deal I mean they got they were in the playoffs over the Pelicans convincingly in the playoffs so if we would have been in the East we would been like the three seed come on now don’t do us that okay all right uh look DC I can’t act like the East and the West the same I gonna do that all right look at how or definitely would got SW bylando you beat Orlando in two years you and they first they play first playoff series in like what how many years man then they go to seven games with Cleveland did they yeah I want to say they did I think I think they did I think they did go seven I mean at least at least won some games they’re not crazy to keep it together I don’t think I just I just think they should have had a bigger Improvement than call call hope I think that’s a good Improvement but I don’t think that’s a bad improve I mean I think that’s it’s a good Improvement but I just think they need more they need more to be to be serious about being a contender they I mean the experience look they just gon reload and go back at it the chemistry that that team showed this past season and going forward I think they like what they saw that’s why they signed everybody y they signed everybody it’s like yeah they like w for some reason yeah I know but you you know what I’m saying like liked what they saw and so if you get look we got a A year of experience we went to the playoffs went to seven games okay that that’s that’s a bit look don’t we wish the Pelicans would do something like that they’re trying to get wi I really I told we talked about this prior to the show starting I and we there’s the L marketing talk and all this kind of stuff but to be honest with you after we watched Orlando moves today signing goo signing Isaac yeah bigs and then it’s still talk about W Carter Jr is out there on the Block um I think this guy ultimately at the end of the day and uh DC you agree with me on this I think it’s w c guy EAS to uptain lowest amount of money like this this this is the guy man everybody else it takes all this working for nagling like what is our eyes are really getting Larry I mean it’s it’s nice to think about and it’s a good fantasy but what what every you know what’s our eyes are really pulling that off I mean take you take your medicine man you keep some some PS and go forward we wouldn’t even probably have to use a pick to get one we what have all our picks we can trade be Sacramento package herder in a pick give him another shooter that they need right take back W Carter Jr and somebody else to give him a little cap relief bam that’s it we need we we probably keep uh Harrison BS so w call Jor Harrison BNS in the first round draft pick yep no no no we window Carter junr Kevin herder we give them Kevin herder because Kevin herder I mean I guess we could use him but I don’t want nobody getting in Jordan Hawkins way and I think they look at it like that too we could use Harrison Barnes Harrison Barnes will get minutes quality minutes on our team filling that Naj role so you bringing Harrison bnes and Wendell cter Jr plus you still got all your picks you maybe gave uh and you get a Sacramento pick because let’s say they only give us two picks right you get two picks from Sacramento you throw one over there with herder and uh and one pick you come back with with when cter Jun and Harrison BS I don’t think that’s bad for bi and and the cap it clears everything else up and you still go and sign another big I want a pick we come back with a Sacramento pick we only gave in one pick okay so you okay so your your thought process is Carter Barnes first round pick that’s the spot Carter bonds and a first round pick come back to us I if we if we get that I’m happy I ain’t gonna even lie some people might say that’s too low hold on DC hold on I that is that too low I want I want now a pick for Sacramento it got to be in the future though cu come on this Sacramento we talking about we know they gonna mess it up at some point exactly well well give me like a 2030 2031 from the Kings bi in his latter years he might have pulled the Achilles or something career going you know almost over give me one of their picks when they they when they really looking to rebuild that’s when I want that pick how y’all feel about DC’s pick his uh trade scenario y’all liking that y’all put in the chat let me know how y’all feel about DC’s trade they don’t have enough to get Ingram no says uh Stacy I mean if they give us Barnes her let’s say what if they do three picks we ain’t getting we ain’t getting more than we not getting more than than four and I don’t think they can do for they can’t do for young City says hell no DC all right young City what do you you give me a proposal to pull off a trade for B Udo says Devin Carter Barnes and W Carter Jam how do we how do we come back with Devin Carter what do we get Orlando to get wter J just a pick Clint says he hat [Laughter] it Stacy Says DC making sense but the Kings just don’t have enough bring in another team who’s the other team who’s who’s trying to to me the kings are desperate because um dearon Fox came out and he said he not signing he not signing an extension he want see team doing first so they they have to get somebody right Pals Kings and Magic that’s a three- team trade right that’s the three teams all right young City say he’ll give them CJ man listen look them people not taking CJ at 33 million bro after they just signed CW out the people trying to go to the playoffs they’re not trying to take no CJ to buy off well that’s why you bringing a 14 Clint says CJ and I was I was pumping CJ over there maybe maybe uh a week or so ago right but when they saw cwell Pope like that’s it they would they I’m sure they want another shooter but 16 mil versus 33 yeah come on now yeah we we kind of stuck with CJ right now man depending if we get one of these they trying to give CJ away with two second round picks we second round picks away to get rid of Devonte CRA we not getting rid of CJ with two second round picks I ain’t mad at them either trying to be creative to get CJ off this damn team I guess these are these are people who want to keep bi so I get it yeah Stacy said he don’t want trade bi it’s CJ yeah I get it I get that Brother Gotta Get rid of both I’m not mad at that either I’m not mad at that situation man it it’s uh it’s a whole lot more trickier than I need be I need bi to come out and say he just he’s been praying all off season and he is so he is so ecstatic to be the second option and then then I would like I’ll be cool with having a back as long as be think he could be a number one I just I can’t see it working and I understand why he believes he can be and should be a number one here because all of the time Z got injured and he’s been carrying his team so I get it but I like for him to have a first start playing behind somebody else or trying to be a number number one on somebody else team other than our I think it just it messes up the flow of the game unless dejonte Murray can get him to buy in some type of way where he doesn’t slow the game down so much yeah this uh yeah Zion and and and Brandon don’t worry together man I mean we can all count on our fingers how many times they they did the pick and roll they played off each other okay I mean it’s like but when they did it was special Lex no it wasn’t that special it wasn’t that special did you see the Indiana game no chicken like what about that game against the Spurs where they both had 30 it wasn’t it wasn’t consistent like thing is this it’s like it’s like was forced wasn’t natural like you know like and that’s that’s the thing about the whole Pelican Squad it seems like a lot of things it’s like the Pelicans trying to breathe underwater that’s not natural like it just everything everything about them two especially just them two it it just was natural man it’s like they they they work together like in a game and then it’s like actually you know what they play better when the other wasn’t even on the court yeah well I mean you know what I’m saying and then the team actually played better when Zion was out there Zion you know what Lex it’s a shame that we didn’t get the Jon Murray during having bi and Zion what would that have looked like if we would have had de Jon as a floor General to help set the table for those guys that would have been that that would have been really interesting to see that spent a lot of time operating around they wanted to see Zion Brandon and CJ well at the point Zion know what it looked like 10 games wasn’t enough data to you know collect it yeah that and yeah that that’s the that’s the thing that I kind of look at now it’s like yeah it’s now that you got the floor General people like man hold on let’s just hold them for a little while longer to figure out if and we can’t do that I’m done with that it’s up on it they got yeah it’s like you we’ve been dealing with it it’s like it just I’m not feeling it my man Stacy say CJ was the issue come on brother I mean I can’t agree with it listen listen when the when when bi got hurt towards the end of the season against the Warriors and the SA I think I saw one of the best versions of the Pelicans I’ve ever seen just since this franchis has came into existence the only time I looked at it at us and I was like man this is truly special or I just had that feeling coming away from you know just those two games was when I watched DeMarcus Cousin and and and Anthony Davis you know I just the pieces that we had man they better they better there it’s a better fit with Zion the more pure Shooters as much as I would like to keep bi I just think the team will flow a lot smoother if you kept CJ and allowed him to play two guard as opposed to keeping bi and getting rid of him now CJ gotta be gone at some point though I ain’t trying to hold on to him forever if he Embraces the coming off the bench in the future then okay I I can see for the right amount of money with aay cut that’s what I’m saying I can see keeping him for the right amount of money but if you you want be the next Jamal Crawford all right a no no I’d rather have Jamal Crawford all to the team no CJ is think CJ would be would be better with L pressure I will take you right now no I agree I agree I agree about that point DC that’s less pressure and less responsibility I think you see a better CJ yeah off ball CJ that’s the name that we gave him off ball CJ meaning he doesn’t play the true two when he wasn’t dribbling he had one or two dribbles and that’s it yeah I mean he could do the dribble dribble dribble when the shot clock winding down in wait hold up Lex let me finish when the shot clock is winding down in the benches out there dribble dribble dribble all you want buddy and the Pelicans have a lead goddamn moolly I can’t win with you so I got the cap on for CJ and for both of them I mean it’s just it’s time for change man is time for change I mean this is in it just is it’s time for change and the thing is it don’t necessarily have to be totally bad like because you have to think the whole system of the Pelicans has not been all there I mean it’s still not we we’ve been talking about that like all summer so I mean if bi moves he would be going to a better system probably get better coaching you know what I’m saying and and fit and be a better fit with the with the guys around them so it’s not it’s not totally bad um you know I just think just tapped out need something different thing is BR Brandon knew that I mean he even said it man he said you know between feea in all this season this was his worst time time as being as far as being a pelican not to mention it was Brandon who wasn’t bought in and he and he alluded to that as well in his exit exit interview and the um after they lost against the Thunder you know what I’m saying I mean it’s like dude you weren’t everybody thought it was Zion because everybody was talking about how Zion was like you know yeah just trying to bu in I mean Zion was upfront with it and that was what in December when he did that and we we we found out at the end of the season that it was Brandon who wasn’t bought in and that I mean d you up for contract extension you weren’t trying to buy in you know what I’m saying that’s that’s the one thing I can say about CJ he he does have buying we’ve watched him especially last year he changed the way he played from the year before you know so I don’t think you’ll have a problem with him you know um at least for another year then you can move him out of Hulk and Trey his way you know unless he wants to be uh come off the bench Superstar that’s dict a no less money stop saying that DC no less money hey let me say something C CJ 17 18 million a year serious about his wine and about his money and he makes that clear in he made that clear in his expressor as well and they lost to the thunder in the series he makes that clear man that dude is about his bread that’s why I always call him a politician because that dude he talks that good talk and he and and and he’s like be like I’m good because I I got my breed you know what I’m saying and he makes it clear he throw he be throwing he be throwing that around hard and Larry n Larry n checked him on uh Twitter spaces I was on there when when they were in uh Trey Murphy Larry Nance and CJ jumped on and he checked him in front of all them people that were on because he talk he came in immediately talking about his pockets it’s like dog everybody every in here a ain’t Rich you knew that coming in why you got why you got to talk about your money man so CJ he he trust me his feelings will not be hurt if we because he he he’s about the wrong thing man that dude’s a politician you know what I’m saying plus not only that he does not show up in big games okay we appreciate what he’s doing in regular season as far as you know being available and all this stuff showing up out why you got that SAR SAR label by your name but you ain’t showing up in big games I mean that can’t happen where where you go you making 33 Mill 33 and the third I think DC what he’s saying is Lex about uh if you can’t move if you can’t move CJ then you gotta F I think I think you it’s a lot easier like I said to move him next year now previous shows to move him next year I’m asking to this year I’m saying if you if you is your comments are based on the fact that you believe that they’ll have difficulty moving them this year that’s what I’m asking you yeah because the the teams Orlando was a team that I know wanted a shooter for sure shooter it didn’t have to be part they wanted a certified shooter they needed SC a score they got cwell Pope spent 66 million dollar on it that’s done they resigned everybody that’s done who has the cap space and would want CJ you look at a team like Washington why would they want CJ they’re not trying to get better just yet they g a rebuild what what are they what are they gonna do with $33 million for CJ McCulla then you look at contending teams right uh the Lakers possibly you want to do a deal with the Lakers maybe you could get them to believe in CJ uh you got possibly well how much they signed buddy Hill for we don’t know but maybe you would say like somebody like possibly the Warriors somebody like borderline contendant or just don’t want to give it up that got the money to do it and the Lakers I mean the uh Warriors they probably don’t even have the money 33 million for somebody that’s not really a Allstar or a superstar is kind of a tough sell but if you sell it to a team as an expiring right and let’s say it’s somebody they trying to get off that we like I mean and you just CJ’s basically just salary he’s an expiring I think that’s a lot more believable than to get off of him at 66 million and two years after this year he’s in expiring so yeah I’m saying so we stuck with him for one more year I don’t think you’re stuck with I think next off season maybe whatever we do this year we could see okay we need to improve here or whatever whatever and you could use his salary in a trade for your next big move let’s say the pals go out and they do like wend cter Jr and they give them Harrison bonds and her they just come back one call the journey and we trying to save money and all of that D we can make another move to get somebody else if we want to do that next year with CJ and it gives us a player uh that we could still utilize this year until we get that next person to put with de jonay Murray and Zion and Trey and Her Like Jordan Hawkins I mean Jordan you I mean you create space for Jordan Hawkins to to be that guy yeah not with CJ there buddy unless injuries are hitting the hitting the block up what Jordan Hawkins ain’t gonna be that guy this year anyway we not we ain’t gota be concerned with Jord Hawkins being that guy till probably about his third four year I age with DC I’m talking about as him catapult where we contemplating starting him no I agree with DC on this because he won’t develop with all those people in front of him so you absolutely right on that I mean well let’s see what type of jumps he makes in summer league I mean the man gotta get regular minutes before we start trying to catapult him to CJ spot I mean well shoot according to Griff they said that they were really excited about him gri told me Griff told me Zion was a supercharged Draymond Green Lex weren GNA be complacent and that they’re they’re going to be aggressive right I don’t know I mean they are aggressive what they did was was aggressive and we’re still making moves not we don’t have a center and centers have went off the board and free agency so they’re going to trade for a center they are being aggressive I mean he wasn’t lying far as that I just feel like you know other team paac is just really different from the Pelicans it’s really different I mean like what would you rate what would you rate our trade out of all of the free agent signings and trade movement that you’ve seen this offense so far who made a better singular move than we did so far in the off season because I can only say one team well I mean everybody has different needs so I guess it would have to depend on how you rank you know not every team has the same needs that the Pelicans had no I’m just saying like based on what all the other teams have done and what the pals have done who made a better singular move than we did I can only think of one team I think the Thunder did by H signing harinstein and Alex Caruso which one of those moves you think would be better than our move a singular move not plural yeah okay probably probably the Caruso move so you think the Caruso move was better than the de Dynamic I mean the thing is is that that’s what they needed they got a more experienced player a three and D guy guy who can shoot you know who he does a whole lot more to to to a team a team that’s already young so yeah that that adds a lot with them signing harinstein I actually think they neutralize theirself a little bit they’re better but they take you take L dor out and now you’re gonna put Alex Caruso in because they damn sure not gonna play L dor at shooting guard so it’s like I I don’t see that move being nowhere near in the stratosphere of what we did but it was a smart strategic move that made the Thunder better but it ain’t a better singular move so the only team that made a better move coming off the bench is that what you’re saying I think they probably start Caruso have to come off the bench but I don’t think that catapults them into another Stratosphere as a team I’m more worried the Pelicans about about the rookie that they drafted wasn’t he on the uh all defensive team I mean he didn’t have those type I don’t care I don’t care about Caruso is good but he’s not he’s not like he ain’t no damn allar nothings I’m not taking I’m not taking Caruso over the J Murray on any team in the NBA period dog it’s according to what they needed I’m not saying yeah like the needs they were they were in dire need for another two-way gu I think they needed a point guard ask this do you do you think giddy is better than Caruso at this point right now for them no only because giddy can’t shoot if giddy could shoot for them I think he be better than kuso but he’s not he’s not a great shooter Caruso can actually shoot the three ball better than him I give that but Caruso to me is overall a better player and watch watch what he do with Chicago everybody think Caruso is just trash but I’m Noto G everybody think giddy is just trash but giddy was averaging like 1588 when uh when uh when shy was out that dude ain’t ain’t horrible they said the situation for both of them you know it was it was solid for both teams because the thing is Chicago was looking for somebody basically to Place Lonzo cuz they’re they’re basically trying to let Lonzo go I mean he’s been he’s been dealing with injuries so he was basically like look we we we need we need another point guard so it worked out for Chicago and then you know for for the Thunder they’re getting a a veteran they’re getting someone who’s experienced and they’re getting a a three and D guy somebody who can another guy you can knock down that shot I get you Lex it makes them better like it make them a better team but the amount that we get better by adding Deon Mur versus the amount that they got better by taking Josh Gideon and swapping them for Caruso they they they didn’t get like way better like they just say oh my God can you believe what the OKC Thunder did it ain’t that type of move you know when you look at our move we got deante Murray we got de je Murray for two first round picks somebody who you thought to give up Brandon Ingram to get the only team that that made a better move than us at this point in offseason will be Philly by signing um yeah the uh the OKC thing getting Caruso back there with shy and you got Williams and the philosophy is to use Chad at four and put iHeart there at five if they need to they got versatility there Dart Off the Bench so they thicker there and they did have some they better they’re a better team they’re a better team that’s that’s they got they got better making that Chicago Chicago got P Piddy over there and the bottom line is godamn at the end at the end of the day what happened is basically destroyed Chicago because uh D Roan doesn’t want to be there after the trade and basically you got was like what would you I don’t know how much improve I’m done so you got two guys about to get that that is more than likely you G have to get out of there they trying to give away a first round pick to get rid of Zack LaVine is in man they in disarray over there man so I mean it’s a rebuild that in the truth since and then Lonzo ball hadn’t played basketball in what two years so I mean yeah Chicago’s a dumpster fight well he can play this year that’s that’s what he’s saying well I seen footage of him par you know he can actually stand up you know walk up a flight of stairs that’s a horrible injy that man went through back in there so it’s not easy but it is what it is but yeah like far as what the pals have done so far they’ve had the biggest splash move to get better in one Move versus everybody I saw other than other than Philly Caruso great move great move Lex they got some first round picks and but I just don’t see that catapulting their team to the next level you know it makes them better margin they’re better than they were with Josh giddy but it’s not by that wide of a margin now if you add harinstein with that and Kus I could see your point yeah every Situation’s different I mean it’s not the same situation but and that’s not to knock what the pills did I mean Deonte was a good pickup Ben needing a point guard so great them at least at least they they they they already have like other other positions that are set in stone so just adding on to that to you know to help improve um you know it’s a good situation for him but uh yeah Pelicans just got to finish man just got to finish to see what this this whole thing’s gonna look like because it’s still up in the air yeah it it’s it look like OKC moves are pretty much solidified some minor moves and a couple other teams look like they done did all their big movements so you can see how the team is filled out Pelicans not there yet so it’s still movements to be made like you mentioned so that’s it’s gonna be fun watching over the next several days to see if we can land a really good Center uh by all accounts like I said uh the poll chat running away with it uh three plus three plus 100 people said 45% of them said low marketing I got W Carter Jr on there 133% of them which is second for the poll believe that he’ll be the I actually think it and me and DC kind of talked about this prior to the show with everything how it shaping out I think it might be in be at window Carter but how it would look I don’t have uh that simp move man you can add all this in De Jon Murray trade maybe they do bi and connect all this [ __ ] together five trade or they do two trades I mean this what Griff normally does he does one trade and then in the middle of that trade you got another one right there with it so he likes to do everything all at once so it makes perfect sense man I think this is a move that can happen now versus the L Markman trade man you talking about Danny a Danny a a Danny gonna look at that goddamn trade proposal for God knows how long before he pull a trigger he gonna make sure he on top coming out of that trade so you know that ain’t one with a lri that I think is GNA happen really fast he how they looking at Lori now because it’s like he had a CH to get him instead of sansi they had a trade lined up before the before the uh they we could have traded Lino ball at the deadline for it was like Lori marinan and and S R you could have got both of them but they waited till he decided Well I’m not coming back I told y’all I wasn’t coming back y’all can’t convince me to come back because maybe Zion didn’t want him to trade him right so that’s the only reason I could see them passing up on that I mean I don’t know if they were listen to Z like I mean how how come on Lex I know they’re incompetent right but I think they kind of rolled the dice on Lonzo a little bit thinking they could woo him back and get him to take a lesser deal and all that [ __ ] and he said no because if you could trade him at the deadline you know he leaving and you trade him for no you don’t get nothing for him it’s different than the JV deal the thing that happened with JV but with Lonzo like they had Lorie and um and sansky right there they were gonna give us fonzo at the at the deadline and we didn’t want him we didn’t want him because he he wasn’t the center probably and they looking at bi they like well what we gonna play Lor at no imagination you know what I’m saying and and they probably wanted to still keep Lonzo and it blew up in their face that’s that I would hate getting them after being able to get them and then you overpay for him now I don’t think he worth five first round picks I ain’t gonna even hold you but I think for us he he would be such a dynamic piece it’s worth looking at and considering especially if most of those picks can come from a different team all right we got to leave it right there fam uh it’s 12:23 my time here and Alexa I think it’s 13 in your time shout out to Angel Reese man she made her first allar game much love to Angel big she made her first allar game that’s right wait how long is the WNBA season they halfway through D I swear to you the computer the internet is worldwide you brother the internet is oh goodness gracious set up anytime you want brother feel free to look it up anytime I mean I feel like they just started playing the thing is that you know the Olympics is right around the corner holy [ __ ] yeah like that that no no not the Olympics I’m just saying I just felt like the WNBA had just just got started but all right that’s a whole another let’s turn into another topic let’s end the show she was a rookie of the month too no no no that’s that’s great she’s been playing awesome how you know that when you don’t even know never mind all right shout out to the fam man appreciate y’all for chiming in the chat the first 10 games I was watching bro DC please 200 history too did you know that yeah yeah I knew about some of that I just didn’t know they was halfway through the season so how you knew about all that but didn’t there all right shout out to the fam man thank y’all for being in the Stream as usual much love to y’all y’all please feel free to smash on the like button uh hit the the if you’re on Twitter or X whatever you call it please retweet us PPR in here representing the flocking nation pale standup man we got us a floor General we need we need to get a big we need to get the big to complete the deal and 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Additionally, the Golden State Warriors are in the mix, according to Yahoo Sports’ Jake Fischer. During the 2024 NBA Draft, Sacramento proposed a general trade package including Kevin Huerter, Harrison Barnes, and draft picks. One of those picks was the No. 13 overall selection, used to draft Devin Carter, whom GM Monte McNair was pleasantly surprised to land.
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