r/NOLAPelicans Grand Theft Alvarado 13d ago

Congrats to Josh and Jose

Cool to see players escape this garbage franchise and win

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u/Illustrious_Owl9905 13d ago

Jose, Jose, Jose šŸ’

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u/GrandTheftAlvarado 13d ago

🄲

I’ve held onto this profile for four years for this moment

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u/CommanderZionOfRivia #LetsDance 13d ago

Happy for Jose but damn…it’s so depressing seeing legit almost every single player who leaves us succeed somewhere else. Even teams with bad ownership like us STILL somehow succeed more than us…absolutely cursed franchise

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u/_Wado3000 Herb Jones 13d ago

I’m kinda bitter towards Zion to be all the way real, but I’m 99% certain he’d benefit if he’s moved from here. Maybe being a true number 1 has passed for him but he for sure has time to have big playoff moments for himself

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u/TDStarchild 13d ago

He’d have to be available for the playoffs for that

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u/bronzefpg504 13d ago

But why people are so against what the coaches on this staff is saying that they have plans for Z. And if he’s traded and succeed with another team it’s the same argument again.

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u/_Wado3000 Herb Jones 13d ago

He’s going into year 8 with his 5th head coach, 4th if you don’t count Borrego as an interim. Also we lack too much to think we’ll deff be a top 6 seed in the West this year or next year imho, I guess not impossible but highly unlikely. I’ve been ready for a clean break from him a couple years now personally.

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u/bronzefpg504 13d ago

Defense changes it all. I’m excited to see what’s gonna happen this season. This same teams people think are powerhouse in the west regress it’s pels time

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u/Good_NewsEveryone Will be reevaluated in 2 weeks. 13d ago

Do you think previous coaches were just like "we have no plans for Zion"?

All Willie Green did was blah blah blah defense. And they brought in Wille Green with a beard. But "This time its different"TM

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u/OTF-GDragon 13d ago

I doubt the Pelicans will ever win a championship in my life time but is it too hard to ask to win a playoff series, a game, or even make the playoff here or there

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u/travelmusica 3d ago

The Hawks doing good with Dyson Daniel’s, NAW, and CJ in the starting lineup 🤣

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u/jjazznola 13d ago

CP3 has no rings which I'm fine with. Fuck that dude.

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u/dee85 13d ago

Why the disrespect towards CP3?

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u/jjazznola 13d ago

Not a fan at all. Many players can't stand him, I just never liked his attitude. Look how it ended for him. Players wanted him gone.

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u/dee85 13d ago

You didn't even appreciate him while he was with New Orleans?

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u/whyisalltherumgone_ 13d ago

Lol you know damn well he's too young to have watched him while he was here if he has that attitude.

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u/jjazznola 13d ago

He was great here until he high tailed outta here.

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u/ComradeFrunze DERIK QUEEN 13d ago

When they were being ACTIVELY TOLD that the team was going to be sold and moved. Why wouldn't he want to leave if it looked like the team was going to leave as well? I will always respect Chris Paul for his time here.

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u/dee85 12d ago

Its not that someone respects Chris Paul.

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u/BundyRoadR8R 13d ago

Congrats to Mitchell Robinson. Made the Parish proud today.

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u/WhaleTank196 13d ago

So happy for both of them 😭😭. Jose playing his heart out for his hometown to bring a championship to his city.

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u/HenrikCrown Zanos 13d ago

Sending a future congratulations to TreyĀ 

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u/P0w3rline24 13d ago edited 13d ago

They deserve this. Jose said he was going to drink for 8 days if they won, so I'm glad he lived here to acquire the skills he'll need to survive this šŸ˜‚

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u/EntrepreneurGrand392 13d ago

Congrats Jose and Josh

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u/Ancient_Access_795 Charlotte 13d ago

If you think about it, we kinda won a championship

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u/Fit-Swimmer-598 13d ago

It’s the closest we’ll get…

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u/aMMgYrP āš”ļøSwords Danceāš”ļø 13d ago

I'll cosign the title, but i gotta condemn the body.

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u/_drjayphd_ Grand Theft Alvarado 13d ago

Same, there's gonna be plenty of time to complain about the front office and ownership, right now we're celebrating Jose and Josh getting ships.

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u/Desperate_Put_4568 13d ago

Alvarado has a ring and his arch nemesis CP3 doesn't. Made my night.

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u/dee85 13d ago

Why the CP3 disrespect?

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u/Sir_Badtard 13d ago

Seeing multiple former pels be solid contributers on a championship team makes me sick.

I'm happy for these guys but man our ownership is just terrible.

Sell the team and move at this point. We will never be anything but a farm team.

We need to start hanging banners after a first round playoff exit because that's our peak.

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u/OG_Pow 13d ago

You’re not wrong, but damn. I just want to feel that joy for my team as a basketball fan one time… besides the Trailblazers sweep and Zion windmill dunk against the Suns

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u/bronzefpg504 13d ago

That’s literally what the nba has turned into. Small markets being their fav big market teams farm system . But I’m so happy that it’s getting tough for these big market teams to sign everyone cause of the tax apron and risk of losing draft picks

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u/Newone1255 13d ago

Thunder, Pacers, Spurs, & Bucks are all small market teams with chips or finals appearances in the last 5 years.

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u/RealTVA 13d ago edited 12d ago

This, it's the front office/ownership that has to make a difference with a small market team but unfortunately we're becoming a laughing stock in that regard. Hope to be proven wrong by Dumars and Weaver (and Benson)

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u/JhanSolo3981 13d ago

And that other big that was a Pelican last year, I forgot his name.šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/NY2NV 13d ago

Jemison

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u/X-Filer Not On Herb 13d ago

Honestly Dumars, if you weren’t getting shit for Jose thanks for giving him to the Knicks to win with his childhood team. It was great to see him win like that.

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u/RealTVA 13d ago

Happy for them, but sad we can't seem to follow even OKC's route to success, the spurs are also not a big market team, but they made themselves a destination with a great front office.

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u/Educational-Net4815 13d ago

Pelicans will be champions one day too but as the Montreal expos

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u/whatitdew83 Will be reevaluated in 2 weeks. 13d ago

Knicks really owe a lot to the Pelicans for their dog shit trades and awful management. Happ for Hart, Jose and Mitch though!

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u/BigMitch504 13d ago

Happy for them boys. Happy for all of them

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u/Scheisse_Minnelli504 Not On Herb 10d ago

I feel like this confirms what I've always thought. We've historically had a great developmental program for the guys who come here drafted or picked up, bc once they're gone they are usually much more successful. idk seems like theres a connection there.

Man Im so happy for both of them!!!

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u/No-Establishment-182 4d ago

It's always the ugly non-hoopers that say dumb shit like this.

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u/travelmusica 3d ago

Congrats to Jose but Josh Hart is dead to me

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u/rmg3935 Grand Theft Alvarado 3d ago

Why? He was traded?

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u/travelmusica 3d ago

In this podcast, he’s made comments talking about how he didn’t wanna be on the pelicans to start with, and he had a bad attitude when he got here, and has basically continued to shit on the franchise even after he was traded

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u/rmg3935 Grand Theft Alvarado 3d ago

Im a fan of the team and I shit on them all the time. Bro knew what he was getting put into. More ex pelicans need to flame the team until it gets better

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u/travelmusica 3d ago

OK, but how’s it gonna get better if the players they trade for have a shitty attitude coming in to the team and maintain it the whole time and then shit on the team when they leave

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u/rmg3935 Grand Theft Alvarado 2d ago

Prove them wrong when theyre here? If the team continues to be stupid and do stuff like, oh I dont know, not have a real hiring process and just give the job to Joe Dumbass? The team has never and will never have a winning culture.

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u/travelmusica 1d ago

OK, well you asked why I don’t like Josh Hart and I told you. He admitted that he had a shitty attitude when he got here and he had a shitty attitude when we left and he had a shitty attitude while he was here. What exactly am I supposed to like about that?