2nd February - New Orleans Pelicans @ Houston Rockets - 20-29

Pels making this game harder than it has to be.

Our bigs just cannot take advantage of these matchups at all.

And there it is. We're matching them.

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Originally Posted by AD-AT

Our bigs just cannot take advantage of these matchups at all.

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We have one guy that certainly could. But lets DNP him today.

No bigs to start the second quarter (6'6" Zion)?

Gentry falling for the bait. playing 4 guards and zion. this is stupid.

Zion getting the foul off that double team is really impressive. Still getting it up on the rim too. But the better play would have been the skip

Melli

I can't believe we're relying on E'twaun Moore to get to the paint.

Zion bulling into the restricted area again. Good

Great recovery off the offensive board there

Thank You

Why is nobody moving?

E'twaun passes it in to Zion. Zion passes it back out to E'twaun. E'twaun passes it back in to Zion. None of the other 3 players on the court are even moving at all, whatsoever.

This matchup is starting to get in PJ's head lol

MORE PAINT LOOKS.

Here we go, a few consecutive good scores.

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Originally Posted by As I See It

Thank You

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i was just bout to type the same thing. Let them match us.

I gotta give credit to Tucker. He's making Zion work very hard to get close to the rim.

Zion can make a layup and it’s like the most mesmerizing thing I’ve ever seen. No one moves like this lol

— LIFELONG PELICANS FAN MAN 69☭ (@Riffs_Man) February 2, 2020

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Originally Posted by Ivan Balakhonov

I gotta give credit to Tucker. He's making Zion work very hard to get close to the rim.

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He is. Tucker's a great post defender. It's also a testament to Zion that he, at 19, is making Tucker's life very difficult :hihi:

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Originally Posted by superstar7th

i was just bout to type the same thing. Let them match us.

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BINGO!!!!!

Great pass from Zion, Hart should have taken that tho

E'twaun with the turnover :rolleyes:

I'm blown away that we're still in this game.

If we turn the ball over again this quarter I think I'll cry

Jrue and Zo are great but have too many mental lapses.

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Originally Posted by As I See It

No bigs to start the second quarter (6'6" Zion)?

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harden is playing center in the paint and we are not attacking him smh....put a big in...play okafor at center to make them match up or let okafor eat all day in the paint and draw fouls..

The thing with Harden... they don't give him these calls in the postseason. So why give them in the regular season?

Whenever Ingram takes 3s off the bounce, I cringe internally

if its about offense then let okafor and zion score in the paint all day...they will foul a couple of players out...

I don't think I have ever seen a team this bad at turnovers. I don't get it.

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Originally Posted by 6warddude

harden is playing center in the paint and we are not attacking him smh....put a big in...play okafor at center to make them match up or let okafor eat all day in the paint and draw fouls..

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I like it; there is merit to your observation.

It is mindblowing how this team one night has a great game plan and is able to execute it nicely, and in the next game falls off the cliff when the win is here for the taking.

Zion with the offensive board and putback to rescue a failed offensive possession

Our rotations on defense are so lax. From almost everyone, almost all of the time.

ingram playing terrible leaving mclemore wide open and shooting bricks

That was a pretty pathetic half of basketball on National TV. Nothing to get excited about unless your thing is turnovers.

14 TOs to 1 TO.

Par for the course.

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Originally Posted by Biasvasospasm

I don't think I have ever seen a team this bad at turnovers. I don't get it.

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One of the main reasons Gentry has to go.


This is one of the games that you can put Okafor in and let him eat.

just leave mclemore open the hottest shooter on the team in the past week. I dont get it.

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Originally Posted by As I See It

I like it; there is merit to your observation.

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its the main thing that drive me crazy every time we play houston....we never punish harden when he is playing in the paint guarding a big.......when we had AD and boogie ,,,cp3 or harden would be guarding anyone of them in the paint and we just dont go inside and punish them.....

we punished harden onetime in a game and had him sit almost the whole first half and that game was when boogie tore his acl...

Halftime, we're down 65-60. Defense has been dreadful for huge portions of this game. Masses and masses of turnovers have hurt a lot.

Halftime Statlines

Lonzo: 8 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists. 3/3 shooting, 2/2 from 3. 2 turnovers, 1 foul. +0
Ingram: 12 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists. 5/10 shooting, 2/5 from 3. 2 turnovers, 1 foul. -4
Zion: 15 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist. 6/9 shooting. 3 turnovers, 1 foul. +5
Jrue: 4 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist. 2/5 shooting, 0/2 from 3. 2 turnovers, 1 foul. -3
Favors: 0 points, 4 rebounds. 0/1 shooting. 2 turnovers, 1 foul. +5

Bench
Hart: 11 points, 5 rebounds. 3/6 shooting, 3/4 from 3. 1 turnover, 0 fouls.
Moore: 6 points, 0 rebs, 0 assists. 3/4 shooting. 1 turnover, 1 foul.
Redick: 0 points, 0 rebs, 0 asts. 0/2 shooting. 0 turnovers, 1 foul.
Jax: 2 points, 2 rebounds. 1/3 shooting.
Melli: 2 points, 3 rebounds. 1/3 shooting.

Out-shooting Rockets from 3 --- Check
Out-shooting Rockets overall --- Check
Out-rebounding the Rockets by a landslide --- Check

How much are the Pelicans up by?

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Originally Posted by As I See It

Out-shooting Rockets from 3 --- Check
Out-shooting Rockets overall --- Check
Out-rebounding the Rockets by a landslide --- Check

How much are the Pelicans up by?

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20 turnovers will erase everything

For some reason they aren't running as much screen action for Ingram, which leads to one on one isolation. Which leads to lower quality shots, which also leads to fewer opportunities to find open guys.

This is a coaching issue.

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Originally Posted by Speakthetruth

20 turnovers will erase everything

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Exactly. Doesn't matter if you shoot 45% and they shoot 30%, if you hand them more shots.

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Originally Posted by Nichols

For some reason they aren't running as much screen action for Ingram, which leads to one on one isolation. Which leads to lower quality shots, which also leads to fewer opportunities to find open guys.

This is a coaching issue.

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Agreed.

Just give it to zion every time down low..good things have happened when he gets the ball down low

Great drive from Ingram there

Another turnover, yay