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Season in Review: Ryan Anderson
22 games. That was all we saw of Ryan Anderson this season. Luke Babbitt played in 27 games. Little used Darius Miller played almost the same number of total minutes. It was rough for us as Pelicans fans, but for him, it must have been a nightmare year. His off-season was tragic. He got […]
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Season in Review: Jrue Holiday
The Acquisition It would be hard to start a Jrue Holiday season recap without first mentioning how he was acquired. On the night of the 2014 NBA Draft, the Pelicans traded the #6 pick (Nerlens Noel) and next year’s pick (which became the 10th pick after the lottery) for Jrue Holiday and the rights to Pierre […]
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Season in Review: Anthony Morrow
Where He Started Anthony Morrow agreed to a one year minimum contract with a player option for a second year on July 9th after the Pelicans had made big moves for Jrue Holiday and Tyreke Evans. They had agreed to terms with Al-Farouq Aminu at SF after missing out on Martell Webster and Morrow gave them […]
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Season in Review: Brian Roberts
Writing a Brian Roberts 2013-14 season review is a tricky thing. He isn’t a particularly unique player, but he splits fan opinions like crazy. Some love him, while others love to hate his defense and ball hogging. Let’s look at the facts, the raw numbers, and the data to see how Brian Roberts actually preformed […]
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Season in Review: Luke Babbitt
Luke Babbitt is a tougher player to review than any other on the Pelicans in the 2013-2014 season. His limited minutes and more or less one-dimensional skill set doesn’t leave a lot of room for individual analysis. Yet, when we were signing up to review players, I jumped at the chance to take Babbitt. Let […]
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Season in Review: Jason Smith
There were high hopes for Jason Smith following a promising 2012-13 season, despite the injury that left him riding the pine for the final two months of the season. Let’s head way back to the long long ago and see what McNamara had to say about J-Smitty after last season. “It was a tough season […]
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Season in Review: Anthony Davis
“ There’s no other place I’d rather be.” – Anthony Davis, when discussing the city of New Orleans at All-Star weekend, 14th February 2014. In the two years since New Orleans won the draft lottery there has been mass transformation to a franchise fighting to get back into the playoffs. The team has evolved its roster […]
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Season in Review: Alexis Ajinça
Nearly two months into the 2013-14 NBA season, the New Orleans Pelicans announced the signing of 7’2″ center Alexis Ajinça after buying him out of his contract with Strasbourg of the Euro League. Ajinça was the 20th pick in the 2008 NBA draft, playing sparingly in his first three seasons before deciding to head back to France to […]
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Season in Review: Al-Farouq Aminu
Before the start of Anthony Davis’s first season, our own Jason Calmes and I had a talk about Monty Williams. It was regarding his ability to develop players, and whether he deserved a contract extension. We talked about his ability to have fringe guys become rotation players in the league (Marco Belinelli), but how do […]
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Season in Review: Austin Rivers
Where He Started Before we look at this year, let’s just go back to our evaluation of Rivers one year ago. Here is the Season in Review piece on Rivers from our own Ryan Schwan at the conclusion of his rookie year. Some highlights include: He’s below average as an NBA guard in every category. […]
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Season in Review: Darius Miller
After two years in New Orleans, Darius Miller remains exactly what he was when he came out of college. Excerpts from the scouting report prior to the draft: “shoots the three at a respectable rate” “can hit a mid-range shot off the dribble” “Has shown surprising ability to handle the ball” “Shows some passing skills” […]
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Season in review: Greg Stiemsma
There’s an old mother’s saying that goes something like, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” For the New Orleans Pelicans Center Greg Stiemsma there wasn’t a whole lot to say. Last off-season Dell Demps made a trade that sent Robin Lopez to Portland. In doing so the Pelicans […]
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Season in Review: Tyreke Evans
Welcome to our annual “Season in Review” series! Over the next five weeks, the Bourbon Street Shots team will be reflecting back on the performance of every New Orleans Pelicans player throughout the 2013-14 NBA season. Make sure to keep up with the series here, as there is lots of GREAT stuff to come. On July 5th, […]