8th February - New Orleans Pelicans @ Indiana Pacers - 21-31

Jah fumbles the second pass in a row, just doesn't look like he's fully ''connected'' with the game atm

Lead evaporating here. Great pass from Sabonis there

Rough stretch from Lonzo defensively. Fouls Warren on an and-1 and then gets lazy in transition leading to a Pacers bucket

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) February 9, 2020

Basically this

Zo got three's on his mind... not D

Up by 5 and frankly, we're kind of lucky to be.

Things went downhill after Jrue left with the cut. Defense has been come and go. Lonzo has been largely unengaged on that end and the minutes where he and Okafor were defending together were painful.

This is a fun game for the ''people who watched the game'' vs the ''people who looked at the box score after the game'' crowd. Cause the box score people will be like ''wow, Lonzo's doing great! 9 points, 5 boards, 4 assists, 50% from the field, he must be killing it!'' but the people who have actually watched the game will be like wow, Lonzo spent a lot of this game completely disengaged, not playing any defense at all, settling for bad shots, etc.

Obviously 2nd half is a big deal, he could turn it on in the 2nd half, but the first half has not been pretty for him.

Jrue Holiday received 5 stitches above his right eye. He will return to tonight’s game in Indiana.

— Pelicans PR (@PelicansPR) February 9, 2020

Nice steal from Lonzo

Great offensive board by Melli after the Hart brick

Can't buy a bucket. Put JJ.... lol

League pass glitchin out, freezing up. I've just missed like 3 straight plays :hihi:

Real Pelicans fans make up fake player names https://t.co/3w05oXe0yN

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) February 9, 2020

Lol, Lonzo stans are wild.

Everyone remember Dylan from last year's team? No?

This is what annoys about the Pels coaching staff.
They are struggling to score for 6 minutes, why not out on JJ?

Jrue, who was shooting 3-6 before getting hit, has been 0-4 since returning. Wonder if that hit knocked him out of it a little.

Since I posted that Jrue had been 0-4 since returning, he has been 2/4 and got another few assists :hihi: Prove me wrong!

Something I saw on Twitter a moment ago that I hadn't really registered.

Frank Jackson is a career 31% shooter from 3.

I knew he was not very good, but I didn't suspect quite that bad.

[Warning: Single game plus minus is not to be taken that seriously, it is a very hazy stat]

Jrue is the only starter with a positive +/-

Tense game.

Okafor has the worst hands IN THE NBA!

Edit: They leave him wide open for a dunk on the next play. Reverse jinx still working!

On the one hand, I'm not surprised Jrue missed that; he was going at 1000 miles an hour

On the other hand, wow Jrue was going fast lol

How many layups Jrue gonna keep missing?

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Originally Posted by ragincaucasian

Okafor has the worst hands IN THE NBA!

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idk about the worst, but they ain't great :hihi:

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Originally Posted by boot318

How many layups Jrue gonna keep missing?

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The answer before he got his face split open was 0, but since then he's been bad. Shame his rhythm got totally disrupted.

Defense and passing has still been there tho

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

idk about the worst, but they ain't great :hihi:

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Zion dunks that 101/100 times.

Start the play with more than a second left please.

Edit: yaya. We did, this time!

It is disturbing when I MUTE the TV. It REALLLLLLLLY accentuates how BAD officiating is.

Wow. That quarter felt AWFUL but we only gave up 2 points on the lead.

Looks like Lonzo is struggling to chew gum and dribble tonight.

I hate E'twaun Moore Lead Ballhandler moments

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

Looks like Lonzo is struggling to chew gum and dribble tonight.

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He's been pretty dreadful most of the game

Zo attacked the rim and scored. People can be quiet about it now! l)

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

He's been pretty dreadful most of the game

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This is what I don't understand. No BI and no Zion and both Jrue and Zo are struggling.

Oooh, is Lonzo waking up? He drove and scored

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Originally Posted by boot318

Zo attacked the rim and scored. People can be quiet about it now! l)

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Even I could do that once.
I want that for the rest of the game.
Zo is too predictable.
The defense just knows he is looking to dish so they clog the lane.

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

This is what I don't understand. No BI and no Zion and both Jrue and Zo are struggling.

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Jrue struggling as far as I'm concern is his new consistency of play this year.

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

This is what I don't understand. No BI and no Zion and both Jrue and Zo are struggling.

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In fairness, and I'm gonna repeat this even though I don't think it's what you mean because I know that post-game, there will be people who try to distort this, Jrue's game has been far and away better than Lonzo's tonight.

The only thing Jrue has really struggled with is his scoring, and most of those struggles came after he got absolutely rocked by Sabonis and had to have his face stitched back up. He was doing fine before then.

Aside from that, Jrue's been playmaking well (his playmaking early was insane, total masterclass) and has been defensively locked in. Lonzo's been making extremely bad decisions all game and he's played traffic cone defense most of the night.

I guess we are gonna be stuck at trailing 10- 9 games below .500 for the next eternity. Figure.

The game flow lead changes looks like a knotted up headphone cords.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

In fairness, and I'm gonna repeat this even though I don't think it's what you mean because I know that post-game, there will be people who try to distort this, Jrue's game has been far and away better than Lonzo's tonight.

The only thing Jrue has really struggled with is his scoring, and most of those struggles came after he got absolutely rocked by Sabonis and had to have his face stitched back up. He was doing fine before then.

Aside from that, Jrue's been playmaking well (his playmaking early was insane, total masterclass) and has been defensively locked in. Lonzo's been making extremely bad decisions all game and he's played traffic cone defense most of the night.

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I didn't see Jrues first half.

Yall need to chill

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

I didn't see Jrues first half.

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Honestly, if you can go back and rewatch after the game, go watch that first quarter back. Not just for Jrue, the ball movement from most of the team was awesome. Favors' short roll passing was immaculate.

That said, Jrue's playmaking in the first quarter was dynamite and he was 3/3 inside of the arc. His missing really started after he hit a layup on Sabonis and had to leave the game to get 5 stitches above his eye.

Close game with no Zion or Ingram, lets see how Jrue and Lonzo steps up

Reddick playing this deep in the 4th now?

Double Double from Jrue.

JJ is so good on O......a turnstyle on D.

Pacers bench has 26 points

JJ Redick has 23 points

Jrue with another 3. He's up to 22/6/10, 3/6 from deep

Zo did it twice!

BOTH Lonzo and Jrue stepped up with Big plays down the strectch. Close this out PELS!

Lonzo is 7/12 overall tonight. 1/5 from 3.

Driving is good, at-rim attempts are good, layups are your friend.