November 3rd - New Orleans Pelicans @ San Antonio Spurs - 4-4

Hope Gentry chews their butt out at the half. No excuse for the ******** poor effort on both sides of the floor.

This game is a mess. We are terrible

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Originally Posted by England_Hornet

This game is a mess. We are terrible

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Yep

i know its early but has gentry loss this team?...the players seem like they dont care in this game...

Gentry has to go.

I've never seen a team more inept at defense in my life

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Originally Posted by DaFranchise80

Hope Gentry chews their butt out at the half. No excuse for the ******** poor effort on both sides of the floor.

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Somebody needs to.

I'm not giving up on this game yet (I've seen us come back from so many 'hopeless' games at halftime and either make it close or win) but we need to come out properly in the third quarter. Down 19 at the half, we have to at least outscore them by 8 or 9 in the third. We do that and go into the fourth with the momentum, okay it's a game. We don't do that and we either let the deficit sit, or grow, then we may as well just sit the starters in the fourth.

This road trip has been a disaster for this team . The guys look tired and ready to return home

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Originally Posted by Alg_Hornet

This road trip has been a disaster for this team . The guys look tired and ready to return home

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Who's idea was it for us to have a 5-games-in-7-nights-overlapping-with-a-5-game-roadtrip against 5 high quality teams this early in the season? They need to retire.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Who's idea was it for us to have a 5-games-in-7-nights-during-a-5-game-roadtrip against 5 high quality teams this early in the season? They need to retire.

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Don't sugar coat it. There has been 538632 open threes on this road trip. No one gives a ******** about playing defence and I'm growing tired supporting this team

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Originally Posted by AusPel

Don't sugar coat it. There has been 538632 open threes on this road trip. No one gives a ******** about playing defence and I'm growing tired supporting this team

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I'm not sugar coating anything. Literally on this same page in this same thread I said that this was a ''Pathetic first half, and everyone who touched the court should be ashamed.''. That's not very sugary. The defense has looked trash for several games, and while in some cases the lack of personnel explains that, it doesn't explain it here: Miller and AD are back, only Payton is out. I don't think Payton is our defensive anchor, so his absence shouldn't be this disastrous.

That said, name another team that could play Golden State, Portland, and Denver, all on the road, missing multiple starters, and come up looking good? I don't think there is one. So I excuse those losses, and having them back to back to back to back means that guys like Jrue and Randle and Niko have been logging heavier minutes than usual, so when guys do come back, they're exhausted anyway.

That's no excuse for this particular game. I agree, and I've said that. But the scheduling has been garbage too.

DeRozan flopping hard

Mirotic gets mauled, no call.

On the other end, WesJohnson plays decent defense, gets called for a non-existent reach.

Niko is so cold it's painful. He has frostbite.

Team's looking better this quarter so far, sure, but not better enough. Need something like a 10-5 run, to pull things back into being manageable.

Kinda crazy. But could Payton really already mean THIS much to our offense?

I mean, every game we have played we have been juggernauts on offense. Every game without him we've struggled. He shouldn't mean that much already but it's such a stark contrast and it's the only common denominator.

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Originally Posted by msusousaphone

Kinda crazy. But could Payton really already mean THIS much to our offense?

I mean, every game we have played we have been juggernauts on offense. Every game without him we've struggled. He shouldn't mean that much already but it's such a stark contrast and it's the only common denominator.

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A big part of what's wrong with us right now is the turnovers. We just bleed empty possessions and second chance opportunities. Payton was great for us as a ballhandler, who was reliable, dependable, and a good passer who didn't turn it over. Makes sense.

Niko hit a three, please more.

Niko was just in position for the offensive board, Cunningham two-hand shoved him out of bounds, no call.

For god's sake. We're already sucking, but if the refs just decide the want to be popular for the home team there's no point in even playing

Not gonna win anything shooting 39% for the game

They've taken 16 more shots than us, due to our awful turnovers and our lack of offensive boards. Even if they only shot 30% on those, that's 10-15 points. We're down 20. The turnovers are killing us.

Gasol is our MVP

We just need to finish the quarter on a 5-0 run, or something like that. Have it around 10 going into the fourth, it's all possible.

Jrue's doing what he can do, he has an efficient 20, but AD has only taken 9 shots, for 11 points. That's just not good enough, from our star player.

Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Yes, they're flopping all over the place, yes they've called some stupid fouls on us, yes we're shooting poorly, some of that is not in our control, fine.

That's no excuse for the lack of attentiveness and the defensive laziness. That can't be forgiven easily.

Might as well not even bother having refs in Spurs games. They just let Pop call the game anyway.

That's about right.

Is throwing on the towel with dialo in lol

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.....so......what's the latest on Elfrid?

The first game on this road trip we should have won, and it's the worst one we've played yet.

AD, Randle, Miller, Clark, all need to ask themselves what they are even thinking playing like this.

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Originally Posted by msusousaphone

.....so......what's the latest on Elfrid?

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That if we make a top four seed in the playoffs he needs to be MVP since he's clearly the one who matters most.

Man, refs just believe the hype with the Spurs, right?

People say the Spurs don't foul, that they're an upstanding team that doesn't flop or play dishonest ball. So the refs just believe it.

I figured we'd be 5-5 at the end of the road trip once Payton, Miller, and AD went down.....we can still do that. Get back above .500 against the Bulls. Get healthy. Start making a run, again.

We're still 4-0 when healthy. :D

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Originally Posted by msusousaphone

I figured we'd be 5-5 at the end of the road trip once Payton, Miller, and AD went down.....we can still do that. Get back above .500 against the Bulls. Get healthy. Start making a run, again.

We're still 4-0 when healthy. :D

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It's still not the end of the world, no, but you have to start putting expectations out there. No, I didn't expect to beat Golden State or Portland given the state of the team, the back-to-backs, the road trip early. No, I didn't expect to blow San Antonio away the same way we did Houston. But did I expect us to look better than we did? Yes. Did I expect us to beat the Spurs? Yes.

The way we're playing is unacceptable. It would be below-par if we were the Suns, to play this way. For a team with high playoff aspirations, coming off a playoff run, this is just disgraceful.

Edit: at what point do you start worrying? 5 straight losses seems fair for me. When we're 7-14 or something? 10-20? What's the cut-off point where we say okay, we just need to win some games now.

I think the biggest mistake Gentry made was that he went all in against the Warriors. He threw out an injured AD who had a setback on his arm and completely exhausted our guys trying to beat his old team. They look done. Had we taken the loss and played sparingly in GS, we may have won in Portland and tonight with a rested and healthy (sans Payton) team.

In the long term, the 4-0 Pels are more representative of who we are. We'll still be top four in the West and won't remember this stretch when all is said and done.

But we'll still hate the refs.

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Originally Posted by msusousaphone

I think the biggest mistake Gentry made was that he went all in against the Warriors. He threw out an injured AD who had a setback on his arm and completely exhausted our guys trying to beat his old team. They look done. Had we taken the loss and played sparingly in GS, we may have won in Portland and tonight with a rested and healthy (sans Payton) team.

In the long term, the 4-0 Pels are more representative of who we are. We'll still be top four in the West and won't remember this stretch when all is said and done.

But we'll still hate the refs.

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I agree that the 4-0 Pels are more representative of who we are. The question is, how long can that reputation hold up. If we go 4-10 to start the season, do the 4-0 Pels still represent us best? When does that reputation need to put up or shut up?

Look: we're cutting the lead, playing proper defense, causing turnovers, and passing properly. We're even making our free throws.

Why do we have to be down 20 in the 4th to do that? Why couldn't we have started that in the second quarter, and never fell so far behind in the first place? Why can't we just go out there motivated to win?

Dante never had 15 for us ever

What can you do but laugh yourself silly? :hihi:

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It's single digits with 3:30 to go. We can win, we just need to execute and play defense. Come on guys. COME ON.

Jrue Holiday by the way the MVP of this game for putting up 27 and being the only guy who could consistently put the ball in the hoop.

I have always liked Dante. I miss him.

And Gasol is still my MVP.

pels are going with AD, Niko, and Randle lineup. This should be interesting.

......so many makeable FTs and shots.....

WTH Randle!!!....You are not Boogie...stop it with the 3’s.

Just awful shots. Randle misses 2 at the FT line, then misses a 3 (for some reason he took that?)

Just bad. bad. Bad.

AND A TURNOVER.
OF COURSE.

There goes the game.

Trash.

I've seriously had it with this team

I can handle losing but not gaping wide open shooters every possession

I am done

Marco showing why you don't throw out three bigs.....especially when two are having off nights and the other recovering from injury. Lol

Like I said, when is it too much?

Golden State loss, fine. Denver loss, fine. Portland loss, kind of our fault but fine. Spurs loss? Come on.

Spurs so far have beat: Mavericks, Lakers, Suns, Magic. and us.

Do we deserve to be in that list? Are we that bad? Are we Suns/Magic/Mavs level of bad? No, we're not. So it's down to the performances. If we played in the second and third the way we played in the fourth, we would have won, but we didn't because the team didn't look interested. Nobody but Jrue looked like they cared. Trash.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Like I said, when is it too much?

Golden State loss, fine. Denver loss, fine. Portland loss, kind of our fault but fine. Spurs loss? Come on.

Spurs so far have beat: Mavericks, Lakers, Suns, Magic. and us.

Do we deserve to be in that list? Are we that bad? Are we Suns/Magic/Mavs level of bad? No, we're not. So it's down to the performances. If we played in the second and third the way we played in the fourth, we would have won, but we didn't because the team didn't look interested. Nobody but Jrue looked like they cared. Trash.

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Not even AD cares. He gets some flashy blocks because his wing span is otherwordly

Jrue is the only guy who puts in night in, night out

Easily my favourite guy in the NBA

Start 4-0. Now 4-5. That is awful.