December 27th - New Orleans Pelicans vs San Antonio Spurs - 1-1

no one tell me Adams isn't worth his contract.

Imagine if Josh Hart were the same player but like 6'8".

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Originally Posted by JJackisangry

Bledsoe is 100 percent the problem for me on offense.

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He's getting to the rim, but he's not finishing. And that's been a strength of his. This will pass, I suspect.

Hey we've made some shots, look at that

Zion with the deflection that almost turned into steal #4 on the night for him

You really cannot help that far off Rudy Gay. He's not a top tier shooter but he can make them, come on Zion

derozan is really good

zion gets blocked too much

We go to halftime up 47-45, after a miserable first half. Things got slightly nicer towards the end but yeah, not good.

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Originally Posted by PelicanNation

zion gets blocked too much

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Reasons why he has to develop a consistent jumper.

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Zion's been bad offensively this game, but I think he's been pretty good defensively tbh. Active in the passing lanes and better job knowing when to rotate. Still not perfect, but I think it's actually gotten better each game.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

You really cannot help that far off Rudy Gay. He's not a top tier shooter but he can make them, come on Zion

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yeah, that was pretty bad lol. Just as I post that he's improved :hihi:

I can't imagine NAW or Kira being a worse option than Bledsoe. An if not Melli, then Hernangomez needs minutes.

NAW definitely needs to be seeing some of Bledsoe’s minutes. Lonzo at the very least seems to have settled a bit as opposed to last year. Bledsoe seems a bit lost

Halftime stats:

Zion: 7pts, 5rbds, 3stls. 3/11 shooting (27.2%)
Ingram: 12/7/2. 2/9 shooting (22.2%)
Adams: 4/4/3. 2/5 shooting (40%)
Lonzo: 9/4/2, 2stls. 4/9 shooting (44.4%)
Bledsoe: 4/1. 2/6 shooting (33.3%)

Not exactly optimal.

Also, nice to see Lonzo not settle purely for threes. Like what I've seen from him thus far

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Originally Posted by Funcrusher

Zion's been bad offensively this game, but I think he's been pretty good defensively tbh. Active in the passing lanes and better job knowing when to rotate. Still not perfect, but I think it's actually gotten better each game.

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He's been far from perfect, and has still had his share of missed moments, but I agree that generally it's been not that bad. Good hands, as you say; 3 steals, almost 4 with a late deflection. Obviously steals aren't everything (Iverson averaged a bunch of steals, was never a great defender) but it's an indicator.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Halftime stats:

Zion: 7pts, 5rbds, 3stls. 3/11 shooting (27.2%)
Ingram: 12/7/2. 2/9 shooting (22.2%)
Adams: 4/4/3. 2/5 shooting (40%)
Lonzo: 9/4/2, 2stls. 4/9 shooting (44.4%)
Bledsoe: 4/1. 2/6 shooting (33.3%)

Not exactly optimal.

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Bledsoe is killing my spirit and I want it to stop.

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Originally Posted by hornetzplaya

Reasons why he has to develop a consistent jumper.

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He has that same flat shot its like he doesn't even try to add a shot.

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Originally Posted by Funcrusher

Bledsoe is killing my spirit and I want it to stop.

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I think he will settle eventually, but he has a me a bit concerned atm. I don?t like that he is keeping NAW off the floor indefinitely. We never think long term with our lineups.

Why didn't we keep Hill over Bled

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

He's been far from perfect, and has still had his share of missed moments, but I agree that generally it's been not that bad. Good hands, as you say; 3 steals, almost 4 with a late deflection. Obviously steals aren't everything (Iverson averaged a bunch of steals, was never a great defender) but it's an indicator.

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Three for 10 in the paint (other miss was a three) and two of those baskets in the paint were uncontested.

And they said Bledsoe was a tier below Jrue...i think that's pure crap...it's not even the playoffs yet but he is already in his playoff form

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Originally Posted by As I See It

Three for 10 in the paint (other miss was a three) and two of those baskets in the paint were uncontested.

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Not sure what that has to do with his hands on defense, but thanks for the contribution, as off-topic as it may be.

I don't think Presti is that stupid...we probably tried but was told take it or leave it,and took away denvers pick in the process lol

Zion starts the second half with 2 quick baskets, and another steal. So that's nice.

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Originally Posted by PaKwAn

I don't think Presti is that stupid...we probably tried but was told take it or leave it,and took away denvers pick in the process lol

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Yeah, I also would have preferred keeping Hill over Bledsoe if we had a choice, but lots of people are assuming there was a choice. In reality, Bledsoe was probably never an option. Hill or nothing.

Zion is a lot less flashy in the NBA

Let's find a plus side in the game! We only have 3 turnovers!

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Not sure what that has to do with his hands on defense, but thanks for the contribution, as off-topic as it may be.

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Just re-enforcing your 'he's been far from perfect'. C'mon, chap, don't be so sensitive.

Lonzo playing for that contract

BI takeover time

Lonzo at this level...we might need to keep him and pay him....

Which means we'd get even MORE for trading him.

I think one of my biggest issues with this team defensively is that even when we do the major stuff on defense well, we usually don't do the little things. So we'll make the rotation, be on the man, whatever, but there's just a lack of digging, tagging, shading, stuff like that. It's like the 2D version of defense

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Originally Posted by Eman5805

Lonzo at this level...we might need to keep him and pay him....

Which means we'd get even MORE for trading him.

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He's been good tonight!

We have picked it up a bit to be fair. Zo has had an excellent start defensively

Lonzo giving me a little chub over here

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Originally Posted by PelicanNation

Zion is a lot less flashy in the NBA

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The Zion we have and the one we saw at Duke look like they aged about 12 years. It's crazy watching long form clips of him at Duke. That dude was spry.

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Originally Posted by PelicanNation

Zion is a lot less flashy in the NBA

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He's in a funk for sure. Like those dreams where you're punching someone and it has no effect on them. He can't seem to score on isolations

bledsoe cant buy a shot

Even on a play where we score, Bledsoe disappoints me. Passes off responsibility twice and ends up forcing Ingram into making another percentage buster.

BLEDSOE WITH A BUCKET WHHAAAAATTTTT????

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Joel on commentary calling out SVG for the 8 man rotation immediately after SVG said we should use the bench more

Our defensive rotations on these threes are decent. They're just hitting them with regularity.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Joel on commentary calling out SVG for the 8 man rotation immediately after SVG said we should use the bench more

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I was just about to say this.

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The 3rd quarter so far this season, has definitely been the pelicans quarter.

Just something small but Jax just played really good, solid, basic defense on that play. Looked super convincing.

Reddick and Bledsoe have gone cold since that first game when they couldn't miss.

Remember: a win is a win

That's just good basketball