I don't trade AD
New Orleans isn't Philadelphia, we aren't patient enough for a "process".
Damn... Looks like DeMarcus Cousins might be out for a long time... DAMN!!!
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I don't trade AD
New Orleans isn't Philadelphia, we aren't patient enough for a "process".
Bottom getting ready to fall out on the Cavs and you know this. Y'all gonna crash hard again. I know you know. I see it in your posts. Future is much brighter for the Sixers. Once y'all get bounced from the playoffs this year it'll be a wrap for y'all. Wade up and went home.
You guys got waaaaaaayyyyy more issues than we do. 
Yeah, I did mine in fucking winter. Actually heard that shit. Even with the surgical route, it's not a good injury to come back from. He's a big guy too.I know how Cousins feel. Torn Achilles was misery for me
Hope the best for him.
Damn. Sometimes it's worst to be stuck in purgatory than climbing out of hell. At least you see the progress
Personally, I'm not against the Pelicans hitting the reset button but I know this fanbase and I know how they feel about basketball and more importantly the Pelicans management knows how this fanbase feels about basketball.
If this market was different, the reset button would be on the table.
Yup.
Good game tonight. Y'all turning that corner
Best big man in the nba this season
"Overall this season, he is averaging 25.2 points, 12.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists. According to ESPN Stats & Information, over the last 50 seasons, only four players averaged those numbers for an entire season -- and all four won MVP."
I hear ya bruh. Hope everything works out for yall with whatever direction you go. We need more competitive teams in the league and the Pels were starting to find y'all stride
Sixers in the west now?
Hope the guy makes a full recovery. Sucks for NO. I maintain they should have traded him when they could have. This puts them in a terrible position now unfortunately.
Alvin Gentry typing up that resume asap
They told YALL that bullshit because nobody wants to trade for none of that trash y'all got on that overrated disjointed under achieving ass squad! Enjoy your last few months of relevance because once LeBron leaves, and he IS leaving that shitty ass depressed city and that shitty roster, you bums are back to the trash bin again!The Pelicans already made it clear to him weeks ago he would not be traded and was going to get a nice extension, and the Cavs just caught a break if they did trade him to Cleveland with his Achilles being made of Jelly at the time the Cavs would of been a bottom feeder of the east like the 76ers because they would have given up Love and a top 5 draft pick for a player who's career might be in jeopardy.
NO NO NO!
IF THE CAVS PLAYED A 7 GAME SERIES RIGHT NOW WITH THE 76er WHO YOU GOT BE HONEST!!!!!!
The same Sixers that just dominated the team that embarrassed your asses a few days ago and is ONLY 3 games back after playing the hardest schedule in the league while y'all struggled with the easiest schedule!?!
Nigga on some real shit, I'm riding with my squad straight up! Ain't nobody fearing that cast of misfit toys as squad!
You feeling yourself cuz y'all just beat the damned Pacers! Still waiting to see which superstar demands to be traded to your shit ass overrated squad! You need to STFU, you been cursing them since June you Eddie Mush ass Nigga!
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Nigga your math is as stupid as you are! We are 3 back of you overrated bums!! How the FUCK you come up with 9.5 back... AND you circus ass Niggas have played the easiest schedule in the league so far! But you may pull away if you acquire George Hill and that one hit wonder midget stops throwing tantrums.
...nah. Lou is just scoring, Paul is doing a bit of everything...
Plus 2+ 3’s a game. He wasn’t getting MVP, but dude was a monster on the court
23/5/1 coming off the bench without Blake, Gallo, Milos and Beverely for most of the season is more impressive than Paul George's 20/3/5/2. No way the Clips are in the playoffs without Lou Will but one can argue the Thunder would probably be around the same winning percentage with PG. Hell, look at how well the Pacers are playing without him.
Dude was on the beginning campaign to sbow that he is better than Karl and Charles.........
Numbers are misleading, and Lou, while he is having a great season, gets half of what he does against teams second units. He's not called on to guard the other teams best player and while hes scoring, hes the first option on the team when it comes to shots when he's with the second unit, while we all know how ball dominant Westbrook is. The Thunder are not in the same class without PG as they are with him either, who are they going to replace him with?
Lou is only required to score, PG is called on and responsible to do a whole lot more night in and night out...
The BGOL NBA insiders say "Trade AD and trade Boogie" because Big markets are just entitled to star players, People who are not privy to the Benson's financial portfolio, claim that the Pelicans can barely keep the lights on, yet the article above clearly states that internally neither player was going anywhere.
DeMarcus Cousins' season is over, and so is the Pelicans'
Alvin Gentry did not look or sound like a man whose team had just beaten the NBA's second-best team Friday night.
He looked defeated, dejected and demoralized.
He looked like a man who knew his season had just been derailed in the most cruel fashion imaginable.
DeMarcus Cousins suffered a season-ending torn Achilles tendon in his left leg in the final seconds of the New Orleans Pelicans' 115-113 victory against the Houston Rockets on Friday night at the Smoothie King Center.
One minute Cousins is flexing to the crowd after scoring on a put-back to give the Pelicans a 113-109 lead with 15 seconds left. The next he is lying on the ground with his hands on his head while the entire arena holds its collective breath.
"It's really tough, but we've just got to keep pushing on," Gentry said. "Obviously he was an integral part of everything we do."
The sports gods apparently have it in for New Orleans this year. They struck down the Saints in the final seconds on Marcus Williams' stunning Whiff Six. Then two weeks later, they take down Boogie in the final seconds again.
"It's tough," Pelicans forward Darius Miller said. "It's a great win for the team, but that's a huge piece of the team and that's one of our brothers."
Miller's answer tailed off after that. He didn't have to say any more. It was clear what he was thinking.
Cousins' season is over. And for all intents and purposes, so is the Pelicans'.
Cousins was enjoying one of the most productive seasons of his nine-year career. He entered Friday's game ranked sixth in the NBA in scoring (25.4-point average) and third in rebounding (12.9). Along with teammate Anthony Davis and Giannis Antetokounmpo, he is one of just three players in the league to average more than 25 and 10.
You don't replace production like that. The Boston Celtics might be able to withstand the loss of Gordon Hayward, but the Pelicans aren't built that way. They lean on their Big Three of Cousins, Davis and Jrue Holiday as much or more than any team in the league. Cousins ranked among the top 5 players in the league in usage rate, second to Joel Embiid among big men.
Moreover, they lack the trade assets and cap space to make a deal for a replacement.
Gentry and the Pelicans will say all of the right things about "next man up" and "moving on" without Cousins. They'll bite their lips, roll up their sleeves and compete. But they simply don't have the weaponry to replace Cousins' nightly production, not to mention the dirty work he did in the paint.
How valuable was Cousins? The Pelicans are 27-21, an eight-game improvement over where they were at this time a year ago. It's the most games they've been over .500 since Gentry took over in 2015.
Fact is, Cousins had been playing so well and showing so much improvement in his oft-enigmatic on-court behavior the Pelicans were actively trying to make deals in the trade market to make a playoff push in the Western Conference.
Internally, Pelicans officials laughed at the trade speculation regarding their All-Star tandem. Cousins and Davis aren't going anywhere. In fact, the club was prepared to offer Cousins a maximum five-year, $175 million deal in the offseason and ride the twin towers as far as they will take them.
Now, everything is up in the air.
"I feel horrible for him," Gentry said. "Everything that he's done and what he's tried to do this year for us, and what he's made himself and the improvements in all areas that he's made, on and off the court, it's just been great. I don't want that to happen to a guy that's trying to better himself. All of our guys feel terrible about it."
Cousins' injury is a devastating blow to the Pelicans' playoff hopes. The Pelicans are ranked sixth in the Western Conference standings. They have won seven of their past eight games and four consecutive overall, matching their longest winning streak in Gentry's three-year tenure.
When Solomon Hill returns, maybe they can win enough games to sneak into the playoffs as the No. 8 seed. But without Cousins it will be a short stay.
"We were just figuring everything out," Davis said. "That's the tough part."
Tough is one way to describe it. Cruel would be another.
After being hounded by inconsistency and injury for the past several seasons, the Pelicans finally seemed to have put it all together. Before Friday night, Cousins and Holiday hadn't missed a game all season and Davis looked healthier than ever.
With Cousins attracting so much attention inside and out, opponents couldn't gang up on Davis the way they did B.C. (Before Cousins). Cousins is the main reason Davis' Player Efficiency Rating of 28.4 ranked fifth in the league and second best of his career. Now he's gone. And Davis will again be a marked man.
"Just keep on going, that's all you can do," Davis said. "We can't keep our heads down. ... We've got to move on to the next game."
Davis' optimism is admirable. As the leader of the team and face of the franchise, he can't afford to show weakness. His teammates are looking at him for leadership now more than ever.
But deep down inside he knows.
The Pelicans' season is over - just when it was starting to take flight.
http://www.nola.com/pelicans/index...._dev.html#incart_2box_nola_river_orleans_news
DeMarcus Cousins' season is over, and so is the Pelicans'
Alvin Gentry did not look or sound like a man whose team had just beaten the NBA's second-best team Friday night.
He looked defeated, dejected and demoralized.
He looked like a man who knew his season had just been derailed in the most cruel fashion imaginable.
DeMarcus Cousins suffered a season-ending torn Achilles tendon in his left leg in the final seconds of the New Orleans Pelicans' 115-113 victory against the Houston Rockets on Friday night at the Smoothie King Center.
One minute Cousins is flexing to the crowd after scoring on a put-back to give the Pelicans a 113-109 lead with 15 seconds left. The next he is lying on the ground with his hands on his head while the entire arena holds its collective breath.
"It's really tough, but we've just got to keep pushing on," Gentry said. "Obviously he was an integral part of everything we do."
The sports gods apparently have it in for New Orleans this year. They struck down the Saints in the final seconds on Marcus Williams' stunning Whiff Six. Then two weeks later, they take down Boogie in the final seconds again.
"It's tough," Pelicans forward Darius Miller said. "It's a great win for the team, but that's a huge piece of the team and that's one of our brothers."
Miller's answer tailed off after that. He didn't have to say any more. It was clear what he was thinking.
Cousins' season is over. And for all intents and purposes, so is the Pelicans'.
Cousins was enjoying one of the most productive seasons of his nine-year career. He entered Friday's game ranked sixth in the NBA in scoring (25.4-point average) and third in rebounding (12.9). Along with teammate Anthony Davis and Giannis Antetokounmpo, he is one of just three players in the league to average more than 25 and 10.
You don't replace production like that. The Boston Celtics might be able to withstand the loss of Gordon Hayward, but the Pelicans aren't built that way. They lean on their Big Three of Cousins, Davis and Jrue Holiday as much or more than any team in the league. Cousins ranked among the top 5 players in the league in usage rate, second to Joel Embiid among big men.
Moreover, they lack the trade assets and cap space to make a deal for a replacement.
Gentry and the Pelicans will say all of the right things about "next man up" and "moving on" without Cousins. They'll bite their lips, roll up their sleeves and compete. But they simply don't have the weaponry to replace Cousins' nightly production, not to mention the dirty work he did in the paint.
How valuable was Cousins? The Pelicans are 27-21, an eight-game improvement over where they were at this time a year ago. It's the most games they've been over .500 since Gentry took over in 2015.
Fact is, Cousins had been playing so well and showing so much improvement in his oft-enigmatic on-court behavior the Pelicans were actively trying to make deals in the trade market to make a playoff push in the Western Conference.
Internally, Pelicans officials laughed at the trade speculation regarding their All-Star tandem. Cousins and Davis aren't going anywhere. In fact, the club was prepared to offer Cousins a maximum five-year, $175 million deal in the offseason and ride the twin towers as far as they will take them.
Now, everything is up in the air.
"I feel horrible for him," Gentry said. "Everything that he's done and what he's tried to do this year for us, and what he's made himself and the improvements in all areas that he's made, on and off the court, it's just been great. I don't want that to happen to a guy that's trying to better himself. All of our guys feel terrible about it."
Cousins' injury is a devastating blow to the Pelicans' playoff hopes. The Pelicans are ranked sixth in the Western Conference standings. They have won seven of their past eight games and four consecutive overall, matching their longest winning streak in Gentry's three-year tenure.
When Solomon Hill returns, maybe they can win enough games to sneak into the playoffs as the No. 8 seed. But without Cousins it will be a short stay.
"We were just figuring everything out," Davis said. "That's the tough part."
Tough is one way to describe it. Cruel would be another.
After being hounded by inconsistency and injury for the past several seasons, the Pelicans finally seemed to have put it all together. Before Friday night, Cousins and Holiday hadn't missed a game all season and Davis looked healthier than ever.
With Cousins attracting so much attention inside and out, opponents couldn't gang up on Davis the way they did B.C. (Before Cousins). Cousins is the main reason Davis' Player Efficiency Rating of 28.4 ranked fifth in the league and second best of his career. Now he's gone. And Davis will again be a marked man.
"Just keep on going, that's all you can do," Davis said. "We can't keep our heads down. ... We've got to move on to the next game."
Davis' optimism is admirable. As the leader of the team and face of the franchise, he can't afford to show weakness. His teammates are looking at him for leadership now more than ever.
But deep down inside he knows.
The Pelicans' season is over - just when it was starting to take flight.
http://www.nola.com/pelicans/index...._dev.html#incart_2box_nola_river_orleans_news
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Lou also closes out games and takes the big shots to win them while dishing out six assist a game. In terms of replacing PG..Melo, Westbrook, Adams and Patterson can give you that extra twenty while Roberson and Fergurson fills in defensively.
oh yeah.. definitely not getting MVP but he was really hitting his stride
were they also averaging 5 turnovers?
That's not true this year
Lou williams is the only reason the clippers have a chance at the playoffs
Blake and DeAndre were hurt and they ran the offense thru him.
4.997
Looks like it may be his Achilles!
Fucked up too, Dude has been balling! Was talked about in terms of a possible Cavs acquisition too... Motherfuckers can't catch a fucking break...
Imagine how fucked up it would have been for the Cavs if they pulled the trigger on that trade right before it happened.
Fa real...I haven't been chatting bout basketball because of my annually break at this time of the year....but Lou is very MVP like this year....
Blake, PaTrick, Gallinari and Jordan Missed time so far, but Lou been shining bright...
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