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Was just listening to Nate Duncan and team simulate the trade deadline. What would your opinion be on the following suggested trade from them?

Pelicans Receive:
Barrett, Walter, 2026 and 2030 1sts Unprotected

Raps Receive:
Trey, Hawk

It doesn’t feel like enough to me.
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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I miss having BI on the Pels….
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Looney only played 8 min for the Pels and that was 8 too many. I don’t want to see him on the floor unless Yves or Karlo are hurt for the rest of the year.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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@dieworkwear.bsky.social can we get an NBA Draft suit review from you this year?
June 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Whew you are really down on Tre… I would rank the guys I would want the Pels to take that I think may be available as follows
1. Kon
2. Tre
3. Maluach
4. CMB (trade down)
5. Fears
nolaanalytics.bsky.social NOLA Analytics @nolaanalytics.bsky.social · Jun 25
Holding myself accountable beforehand: here will be my draft grades for #7 for the Pelicans (C is average, sorted by FanDuel odds as of noon today):

Khaman Maluach: B-
Jeremiah Fears: C
Derik Queen: C-
Tre Johnson: D+
Kon Knueppel: A
Ace Bailey: D-
Kasparas Jakucionis: D+
Noa Essengue: A-
nolaanalytics.bsky.social NOLA Analytics @nolaanalytics.bsky.social · Jun 25
My Final 2025 NBA Big Board:

Tier 1:
1) Cooper Flagg

T2:
2) Dylan Harper
3) VJ Edgecombe
4) Kon Knueppel

T3:
5) Collin Murray-Boyles
6) Noa Essengue

T4:
7) Khaman Maluach
8) Jase Richardson
9) Thomas Sorber
10) Jeremiah Fears
11) Derik Queen
12) Kasparas Jakucionis
13) Tre Johnson
14) Asa Newell
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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In March John Hollinger wrote about the work that Ben Alamar and Dean Oliver—one of the pioneers of NBA analytics—did on this very subject

www.nytimes.com/athletic/618...

All three are on bluesky:
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In particular, Alamar and Oliver studied shooting percentages on passes from teammates and concluded that there was a marked decline in both shot quality and shooting accuracy from those passes when players were interacting with new teammates. While the study focused solely on catch-and-shoot shots to simplify the analysis, the results were perhaps more staggering than you'd expect: Overall expected points from those shots are 5.5 percent higher by the start of the second season together and 11.7 percent higher by the end of it. In another example that is perhaps more relevant to the current discussion, Alamar and Oliver also noted that Kyrie Irving shot dramatically worse on passes from Doncic in his first season with him - one that ended with Dallas in the draft lottery — than in the second one that ended with the Mavs as Western Conference champs.
May 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Delano Banton is a legitimate dude, awesome close with him in the 4th for the Blazers
November 14, 2024 at 5:26 AM