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Jeff Peterson is choosing to blow up his franchise only to build around this. I am not exaggerating at all here, this is Nico Harrison level franchise suicide.
A Kon-Miller team is untenable without LaMelo’s playmaking brilliance. It doesn’t work. Hornets will have no future.
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“Coby White will give you 80% of the production Lamelo gave you on half the salary” 😂😂😂😂 that comment was always dumb as hell… who said it? Was it @ZachLowe_NBA ?
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Losing player. Unserious, unreliable doesn’t impact winning at all. Let’s just ignore the proven track record of him making his team’s offense 10 points better on the floor than off. No, it was all his fault that those Charlotte teams lost. Look how good Charlotte is without him!
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I am not giving Hornets General Manager Jeff Peterson anymore grace. His trading of LaMelo Ball was a illogical move with the excuses LaMelo is not physically reliable and not a winning player. LaMelo is super healthy and winning games for the Timberwolves. #FireJeffPeterson
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What are you talking about me and the majority of the Hornets fans in the city of Charlotte especially those in the Black community. Been furious with Hornets GM Jeff Peterson for trading LaMelo Ball wanting Jeff fired immediately. White racists in the media cheered the trade.
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we’re doing nuremberg for podcasters who called the lamelo trade a good decision for charlotte
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Man I feel bad for the city of Charlotte… Yall had a team to be excited about and now this smh
Oh, this offense will be record-breaking all right… just not the way you want to be
I missed Vecenie’s Hornets thread. Laughable. “You don’t want to end up like the Kings so you have to trade LaMelo”.
The Kings wouldn’t trade their virtuoso playmaker PG for a big and then choose to overpay an inferior player (Fox/BMill) as their star. The Kings never did that!
Not unfair, but also this thinking is what gets you where the Kings are now. And I thought the Kings did the right thing in 2022-23 in retaining their guys and being solid for a while. It resulted in zero playoff series wins and...what they are now. teapaw.org/laje0101/status/211823…
I get Vecenie’s in a tough spot as Russillo’s co-host, so he has to be anti-LaMelo/pro-trade for the approval of Russillo and other bald MAGA guests like Terrence Oglesby. But this is comedy. The Kings are where they are BECAUSE they traded Hali! How do you not see the parallels?
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Jeff Peterson…
It's panic time in Charlotte.
Worst offensive rating in the NBA by far. They take over half their shots from 3 even though they're shooting below 30%. Sion James cannot hit the side of the backboard, yet Charles Lee keeps empowering him to launch bricks.
Brandon Miller is not looking worth the money. Kon Knueppel is hurt again already. Seeing a lot of bad body language across the roster. All the joy is gone.
A step back was to be completely expected after trading LaMelo Ball but this is way worse than anticipated for the Hornets. This team looks broken.
Reminder that not only did Jeff Peterson trade his offensive engine and heart of the team for Naz Reid, he decided to pick Tidjane Salaun (whose option did not get picked up bc of how bad he is) over THIS
Why does anyone trust him. Seriously
This is the perfect encapsulation of why I'll never give up on LaMelo Ball, ever. Across a grueling slog of 82 games, teams lose their love for the game and stop having fun. But never Melo. His endless positive energy and infectious desire to make the game fun is so, so valuable.
You can't just paint by numbers and run mechanical plays expecting brilliance. There is an emotional, human undercurrent to the sport of basketball unlike any other. Knowing your moment, your spot, having trust in your teammates and confidence in your game, it's all intertwined.