That New Orleans pick is starting to look good.... (FINAL: Will be 18th pick)

Curry is beating harden in both xrapm and per.

 

Still waiting for late lotto pick to score his first points for us. Sure am glad we held on to Omer instead of trading him for actual players the day after Howard signed.

 

correct, unless NO collapses, it won't get lower than 12

 

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It is 1-3 and 20-30 protected. So even if they get the 8 seed, we'll still get the pick.

The Lottery only selects the first three picks of the draft and then picks 4-14 are based on record.

So basically Rockets best case scenario is the 4th overall pick

 

NO needs to shut down Davis for the rest of the season just to be on the safe side.

 

Even if NO collapses...

 

New Orleans has already won 28 games. The next worst teams are the 5 teams "fighting" for the 7th and 8th seeds out east, they have all won 22, but sadly only 3 of them will miss the playoffs.

Barring a catastrophic finish I think it's hard to believe that pick will be better than 13.

 

Agreed. It's truly going to take the luck of the dice for that to jump up to something worth cashing in. That is, if the draft isn't totally rigged by ghe NBA in the first place which I going it is.

 

The not ghe and think not going. Stupid autocorrect makes no sense!

 

You do know we couldn't have signed Dwight if we hadn't traded Omer for cap space, right?

 

Huh? We had both at the same time.

 

You must not been around last season with this whole Omer drama not wanting to play a faking injury since Howard started in place of him.

 

Brain fart. We got rid of Omer and Lin to clear cap room to go after Melo/Bosh. It's all moving so fast.

 

How about the late lotto pick we got for Lowry from Toronto that turned into harden? He's scoring lots of points I think. He's + cap flexibility got us Howard, who helps us too. The two of them together got us smith and brewer and other players who wanted to be here. They all score points.

I was as disappointed as others that we couldn't get a good pg. but maybe Phoenix said that we had to give up the NO pick, a second first round pick, and dmo and kpap in order to trade with a western conference team? Maybe money declined that offer? Point is we know from feigan that the New Orleans pick and NY pick plus players were offered. PHD went with Miami. We can still trade in the offseason. And of the contenders, we clearly have room for growth, along with okc. I for one am ok that we stuck with the team to let them grow. We really needed a good shooter. Prigs is actually pretty decent.

 

Tevor Ariza is an actual player that Omer Asik was actually traded for...

 

[rQUOTEr]NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Pelicans announced today that forward Anthony Davis has been diagnosed with a right shoulder sprain. An MRI conducted by the team’s medical staff this morning confirmed the right shoulder sprain. The injury occurred at the 3:38 mark of the first quarter in last night’s game against the Miami HEAT. He is expected to miss 1-2 weeks.

Additionally, Ryan Anderson underwent an MRI this morning and has been diagnosed with an MCL sprain in his right knee. The injury took place at the 9:41 mark during the second quarter of last night’s game against the Miami HEAT. He is expected to miss 2-4 weeks.[/rQUOTEr]

 

While I guess this is a fun time for folks to try and take their shots at Morey, what I want to know is who should Morey's and gone all in on? (I haven't been paying close attention, did Morey miss out on some deals he realistically had a shot at?) This season's issues have a lot to due with Howard dealing with what could be a career altering/ending injury.

Not much Morey can do about that. But panicking and trading away the ability to make moves next season just to salvage this season's run isn't a wise course of action. Harden is 26 and I don't want to see him cross 30 as a Rocket with the search for the 3rd star still continuing, but I also don't want to see him cross 30 with the team locked into bad contracts with no draft assets to trade.

 

N.O. should sit the kid until that shoulder is 100%. Why risk exacerbating it? Dude is young and one of the league's best. Don't let him play through it. Screw the draft pick issues....

 

My Rockets fan self agrees.

My NBA fan self agrees.

My fantasy team featuring AD owner self thinks that AD needs to suck it up and play Monday. Let's go Willis Reed!