October 30th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Golden State Warriors - 2-0

Back at The Blender tonight❗️

🏀: vs Warriors
🕖: 7 pm CT
📺: @BallySportsNO / @NBATV
📻: @995WRNO#Pelicans | @SmoothieKing pic.twitter.com/cYb64RLFLy

— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) October 30, 2023

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The NBA schedule has helped prevent Golden State?s Steph Curry and a few of the Warriors? other most well-known players from competing in the Smoothie King Center in recent years, but the league?s all-time best three-point shooter and two-time MVP will be on the floor Monday evening vs. New Orleans. According to Golden State beat writer Anthony Slater of The Athletic, head coach Steve Kerr said after Sunday?s 106-95 win at Houston that he will use the starting lineup Monday of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Draymond Green and Kevon Looney.

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There has been some speculation about limitations to the main guys for GS, as this is their second game of a back to back and guys played legitimate minutes last night, but Kerr doesn't appear to have any such intentions. Now of course, he may be planning to start them but limit their minutes, but I wouldn't rely on that. The team will have to show up consistently to make this work. So far, through only two games, we have the 2nd best defense in the NBA but a bottom 10 offense: there's a lot of room to improve on that end, largely from the shotmaking perspective, so this team hasn't hit its ceiling. We should be trying to make a statement tonight.

houston gave GS a good fight last night so i hope we can take advantage of that and put this game away at the 7min mark in the 4th....i want to see the backups hold or build on to the lead and not play sloppy like they did at the end of the knicks game.....

i wish jose was playing tonight...i know cp3 will not miss him tonight after playing last night...

Just don’t get complacent. You only drop these opportunities when the effort doesn’t match the talent. That or the other team gets absurdly hot from 3 which is a given in today’s NBA from time to time. If the effort is there though, I find it hard to believe we drop this one.

If Steve Kerr pulls Steph from the lineup tonight, there’s gonna be hell to pay. I have yet to see Steph Curry on the SKC court in 3 years despite attending each of the Warriors games.

Can we get to 3 and OH?


I like that Willie has been able to keep BI and Zion's minutes down. If they are able to do that it will hopefully pay off later in the year. These are the games you expect the minutes to maybe creep up a little.

Let's see how the team reacts when JV and Zion gets targeted by the warriors.

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Originally Posted by Spec3333

If Steve Kerr pulls Steph from the lineup tonight, there’s gonna be hell to pay. I have yet to see Steph Curry on the SKC court in 3 years despite attending each of the Warriors games.

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That sounds like a good problem to have. I've never understood wanting to see the other teams stars playing. I want to see a beatdown win. Their stars not playing helps accomplish that.

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Originally Posted by Spec3333

If Steve Kerr pulls Steph from the lineup tonight, there?s gonna be hell to pay. I have yet to see Steph Curry on the SKC court in 3 years despite attending each of the Warriors games.

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He supposedly has a sore left foot and played last night. I'd be surprised if he plays 30 minutes again.

But remember players have to play at least 65 games if they want to be considered for any post-season award$$ now. New rule.

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Originally Posted by luckyman

He supposedly has a sore left foot and played last night. I'd be surprised if he plays 30 minutes again.

But remember players have to play at least 65 games if they want to be considered for any post-season award$$ now. New rule.

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That rule is just propaganda/lip service. Players can sit out every 2nd game of a back-to-back and they would lose 14 games on average. That would get them to 68 games. Of course, a legitimate injury would knock them out of contention, but I don’t think the players care as much about awards as they do about long-term health and earning potential.

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Originally Posted by drortego316

That sounds like a good problem to have. I've never understood wanting to see the other teams stars playing. I want to see a beatdown win. Their stars not playing helps accomplish that.

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Agree. I go to see the Pelicans and will take a win however it comes.

It sounds like Steph is going to play tonight:

https://www.si.com/nba/warriors/news...icans-revealed

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Originally Posted by Spec3333

It sounds like Steph is going to play tonight:

https://www.si.com/nba/warriors/news...icans-revealed

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Well yeah, I'm not sure why there was debate around it, I posted the quote from the NBA official website leading into the game where Kerr said that he would be.

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Originally Posted by Spec3333

That rule is just propaganda/lip service. Players can sit out every 2nd game of a back-to-back and they would lose 14 games on average. That would get them to 68 games. Of course, a legitimate injury would knock them out of contention, but I don’t think the players care as much about awards as they do about long-term health and earning potential.

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I put the dollar signs in the "awards" for a reason. Those awards mean more money come contract negotiation time, if they aren't already built into current contracts.

Players aren't going to fool around with those 65 minimum games.

Klay Thompson and Jonathan Kuminga are out for the Warriors tonight as they face the @PelicansNBA . @BallySportsNO

— Jennifer Hale (@JenHale504) October 30, 2023

Why is BI out though? This team is weird for that.

Bally's app not working for some reason. Was fine the 1st two games. When I open, it just spins. Anyone else?

Yep. Forced an update and now it's dead on my phone and FireTV.

It wouldn't be a Pelicans season without the Bally App crapping out.

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Originally Posted by Fedupfan

Why is BI out though? This team is weird for that.

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We are the Pelicans. Even if our health is overall good, guys are going to miss games for all types of reasons and we just have to accept that. Even in the best case realistic scenario, both Ingram and Zion miss at least 15 games each (probably 20), so we just have to accept it.

I'm still going to blame Solomon Hill.

Hawkins looking comfortable early

Offense flowing early

Same. App and website no longer work. WTF

Herb steals and Zion puts in a stupid layup through contact. No whistle, unsurprisingly.

Refs on their ''if Draymond does it, we didnt see'' mode

JHawk has had a really good start to his career. Even defensively he is really putting in the effort. Might have a steal.

CJ looked like a point guard on that last play pushing the ball up and kicking out to Hawkins in rhythm for the 3

Bally's servers are down. They're terrible and deserve bankruptcy. And we deserve better as fans.

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Originally Posted by JJackisangry

JHawk has had a really good start to his career. Even defensively he is really putting in the effort. Might have a steal.

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A lot of people were saying last year (and I started to be convinced by nearer the draft) that if Green is going to prove he can squeeze a decent defense out of any player, we just need to go for offense. Drafted Hawkins. Clearly, there's ways to use him defensively, as long as he's trying (which he is) that are effective - and the shooting is already there, as expected.

good drive and finish for Dyson Daniels

Guys just playing with so much confidence offensively against a GS team that's trying to be real pests on defense.

jesus they need to double curry for the rest of the game

So no BI in game 3 of the season.

Seems about right. Jesus

No Klay so still go get the W.

pels need a time out to reset its getting sloppy

If you guys struggling with the Bally Sports App have DirecTV, you can use the DirecTV app to watch the game.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

A lot of people were saying last year (and I started to be convinced by nearer the draft) that if Green is going to prove he can squeeze a decent defense out of any player, we just need to go for offense. Drafted Hawkins. Clearly, there's ways to use him defensively, as long as he's trying (which he is) that are effective - and the shooting is already there, as expected.

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Yep. If you can get the effort out of someone, you can usually find a role for them on the defensive end. We have a lot of defensive talent and length so we needed to go for the sure shooting and JHawk has started well. I’m stoked to see him getting a shot at starting tonight. He has earned the minutes.

Dyson's inability to finish... there are multiple GIF options here...

Dammit Bally I was so ready to ditch Direct tv

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Originally Posted by neworleanshoo

Dyson's inability to finish... there are multiple GIF options here...

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Made a nice layup earlier

Watch BI miss a bunch of time. It almost seems like he doesn’t want to play with Zion

It’s crazy how we just know they are going to shoot crazy good for no reason at all.

Why aren’t we posting up JV every time with this Warriors lineup?

Matt Ryan da GOAT

I do not like seeing Herb take 3s from there with that much time on the shot clock, one pass in the entire possession

He made it back with the charge

Is BI even on the bench?

We're just giving them every easy one and they're not big enough for it to be warranted. No reason they should be getting every one of these

Pels defensive effort right now looking like absolute garbage

Nice

Zion to Herb Alley-oop?! pic.twitter.com/7TCLIIrdb3

— Pelicans Film Room (@PelsFilmRoom) October 31, 2023

lmao nice

pels shooting under 30 percent from 3 so far