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On Second Glance: Looking Forward to Next Year by Looking Back
You wanna hear something sad? I’ve been rewatching a lot of Hornets games lately. Yeah, I know. But what I have come to find is that there is a lot of treasure amongst the trash. There is some real potential if the New Orleans Pelicans can focus in on what worked and add some pieces […]
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NBA2K13 Draft Class Now Available for XBOX 360 users: McNamara Approved
I have spent the last week creating an authentic draft class for NBA 2K13 and it is now available for download. While I will admit that I am not the greatest at recreating a player’s exact face, I think you will find player abilities, attributes, and tendencies are dead on. To download the class, simply […]
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Sixth Pick Tournament Round Two: CJ McCollum vs. Trey Burke
Mason Ginsberg and Michael McNamara represent two of the top point guards in this year’s draft as Michigan’s Trey Burke and Lehigh’s CJ McCollum go head-to-head in round two of the Sixth Pick Tournament. The Case for CJ McCollum (McNamara) Better. Bigger. Quicker. Stronger. No, this isn’t a sequel to a Kanye West song. […]
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Sixth Pick Tournament Round Two: Otto Porter, Jr. vs. Michael Carter-Williams
‘In the NO’ podcast partners battle it out in the second round of the Sixth Pick Tournament, as Georgetown small forward Otto Porter, Jr. and Syracuse point guard Michael Carter-Williams go head to head. The Case for Otto Porter, Jr. (McNamara) The first round was all about telling you just how productive Otto Porter was […]
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Sixth Pick Tournament Round Two Begins Monday: Matchups Announced
Voting for Round One of the Sixth Pick Tournament has come to an end (results below) and now we have our matchups set for Round Two. Victor Oladipo (74%) beat Dario Saric (26%) MCW (65%) took down Trade Up (35%) Alex Len (59%) got by Shabazz Muhammad (41%) CJ McCollum (84%) beat down KCP (16%) […]
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Voting for Sixth Pick Tournament Round One Coming to a Close
Voting for the first round of the Sixth Pick Tournament will wrap up at midnight tonight, with the winners to be announced tomorrow. Then, it is off to Round Two. If you have missed out on any of the debates, click on the link below, read the arguments and vote. Round Two will start […]
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Per Dario Saric’s Agent: Decision is Made, Saric will Withdraw from Draft
After Chad Ford reported yesterday that Dario Saric is “leaning towards withdrawing from the draft”, I decided to take it upon myself to dig a little deeper. After all, I had plenty invested following a 4000+ word piece on Saric yesterday. I reached out to several people, including Saric’s agent Robert Jablan. I asked for […]
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Everything You Need to Know About Dario Saric (Updated)
I said in the last podcast that it was clear to me by this time in the process that Austin Rivers would be the 10th pick, but that this year was way different and I had no idea what the Pelicans would do with the sixth pick. I don’t feel that way anymore. Even though […]
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New Orleans Pelicans Hot Topics: Gordon, Granger, Rivers, Burke, and More
Time to catch up once again on some hot topics as the New Orleans Pelicans prepare for arguably their most important offseason ever. With approximately $13 million in cap room (with the ability to get that number over $20 million), some tradeable assets, and the #6 pick in the draft, the Pelicans figure to be […]
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In the NO Podcast Episode 138: Otto Porter, the Draft, Trading the 2014 pick
Andrew Geiger of CasualHoya.com joins us to talk Otto Porter. Then we start talking the draft prospects of the 6th pick tournament, talk CP3’s displeasure with the Clippers, and think about trades with Houston to “help” them land Dwight Howard. Then we move on to trading the 2014 pick, big men dominating the league, and […]
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Sixth Pick Tournament Round One: Otto Porter, Jr. vs. Dennis Schroeder
In another Round One matchup, Georgetown small forward Otto Porter, Jr. squares off against German point guard Dennis Schroeder. The Case for Otto Porter (McNamara) Darius Miller. That is how the depth chart currently reads at the small forward position for the New Orleans Pelicans. Al-Farouq Aminu’s option wasn’t picked up and Xavier Henry is […]
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Sixth Pick Tournament Round One: CJ McCollum vs. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
In another first round matchup, Lehigh guard CJ McCollum goes head-to-head with Georgia’s swingman Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in the Bourbon Street Shots Sixth Pick Tournament. The Case for CJ McCollum (McNamara) 22.9 points per game on 44.9% shooting from two and 45.3% shooting from three isn’t too shabby is it? Well actually, for CJ McCollum, it […]
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New Orleans Pelicans Afternoon Bullets: Vasquez, Rondo, Bledsoe, Burke, and more
Rumors and speculation fly fast and furious this time of year, and today is centered mostly on point guards. Let’s take a look at some stories flying around the interweb: – Bradford Doolittle proposes a Rajon Rondo for Greivis Vasquez and the sixth pick swap in his latest piece. I have proposed something similar recently, […]
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The Missing Piece: Trading out of the 2014 Super Draft
Though I always try to do the pieces in this series as objectively as possible, two things have become blatently clear to me in this last week, and as a result, this Missing Piece will be more subjective than any of the others. The two things are as follows: 1.) The 2014 NBA Draft appears […]
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In the NO Podcast Episode 137: Pelicans Draft 6th and the Draft Combine
Michael and I talk the sixth pick of the draft after I moan and whine about it to start the show. Then we talk players that could be available, players that could fall, players that could rise, and lastly, who would each of us take at that spot if we were Dell Demps and had […]
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Post Lottery Mock Draft: New Orleans Pelicans Go International
So now that the order is set, let’s take a look at how this draft might shake out. 1. Cleveland Cavaliers – Nerlens Noel, F/C, Kentucky Small forward is Cleveland’s biggest need, but Noel is a much better prospect than Otto Porter at this point, so Cleveland will take him. A couple years after LeBron […]
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New Orleans Pelicans Lottery Day Discussion Thread
Today can unofficially be deemed the first day of the New Orleans Pelicans offseason, as the first domino is set to fall down at 7:30 tonight. The Pelicans own an 8.8% chance at securing the first overall pick in the 2013 draft and have a 55.3% chance of drafting in the top five. As Ryan […]
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The Missing Piece: Offseason Plans A-E for the New Orleans Pelicans
This series was started in large part because of Dell and Monty’s comments last October. They both stated that the plan was to add the final pieces to the puzzle in the 2013 offseason and then move forward with that team for the next few years. Flash forward seven months and we are almost there. […]
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New Orleans Pelicans at the Draft Combine: Day Two
A list of things that stood out on day two at the combine. To read about day one, click here. Cody Zeller is more David Lee than Andrew Bogut As much as Zeller hurt his stock yesterday by measuring poorly, he helped himself today with athletic testing. There is no way he can be a […]
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New Orleans Pelicans at the Draft Combine: Day One
Today was day one of the NBA Draft Combine, and here were some takeaways from the first day. Victor Oladipo is Dwayne Wade Well, at least when it comes to measurables. It is kind of scary how close the two are when it comes to their measurements at the combine. Wade was a quarter of […]