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>I'm really sorry to all our fans. I own taking this risk. Surprised it came up 5th after this year. I thought we were due some luck. But please remember - this team deserved a starting center to compete with the best teams next year. We have always been resilient.

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Was he worth the 13th pick of last year + the 8th pick of this year? Time will tell, but might not be as disastreous as we feared.

Finally we can sleep in peace.

With all these guards in the 5-10 range, I'm curious where you guys think Fears would go if he went in this draft

Kinda boils down to this in the end....

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Now that we know hawks get a lower pick. Who do we think we draft in the second. I still feel like we need another wing. Cuz on paper we have all the pieces just idk what we r missing 💔

Nicolo Melli.

A player, an Italian, a legend.

On June 30th 2019 a 28 Year old Nicolo Melli, the Euro League Vet and Fenerbahce star(eche?, IDK) signed with the New Orleans. This was a brave move for the Italian who was an established player overseas. He came into a team where he would fight for minutes off the bench.

In his 82 games between 2019-21 he averaged:

15.2 Minutes
5.3 points- 2.9 REBs- 1.2 ASTs
0.5 STL- 0.2 BLKs

On atrocious shooting splits of:
39.5%-31.3%-75.0%.

Was he good? No
Was he fun to watch? No

But he was a Pelican. As an impressionable teenager who just watched Nikola Mirotic shoot his ass off for the pelicans in the the prime of his career and leave; I was ready for the European big man to fill Nikola’s size 15 shoes. Unfortunately Melli did not, and no shame to him.

Today Melli plays for Fenerbahce where he is an important cog in a championship squad. I wish him the best.

He apparently made quite the impression on them. Does Joe Dumars just despise the 11 of us that are left supporting this hole of depression? I can't think of anything more demoralizing for this fan base than going from no gameplan Willie "You Gotta fight" Green to no gameplan Darvin "I have no idea what to do" Ham. This man is clover valley Willie Green. He managed to tank a team with LeBron and AD. I'm struggling and I can't be the only one out of the dozens of us.

It would have been entertaining if the pick ended up in the top three, but perhaps now everyone can move past the Queen trade.

Joe dodged a bullet on this one.

From my understanding Atlanta gets the worst pick between New Orleans and Bucks if they aren’t both 1-4. Doesn’t this mean we should tank next year? I understand that the new draft lottery rules might change the situation but if we had two top picks and the rooster we’d have at that point we’d be the next OKC or Spurs.

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He was fired an hour ago, so we're seconds away from the Pels hiring him. All jokes aside, why are the Pels allegedly so interested in him?

He had a losing record in ORL, though a decent record in the last 3 seasons. O-3 in playoff series. Not trying to shit on the guy, just unsure why he's a leading candidate.

Seems like rondo and maybe jared dudley have been the only better candidates