April 9th - New Orleans Pelicans VS Philadelphia 76ers - 22-29

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

He feels like he's trying to force it right now.

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Is that what he feels? Dang, you are something else!!

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

At the half, Zion leads the team in points (17) rebounds (8) and assists (4)

Really would like it if we ran some stuff to try and get Ingram some easy open looks. He's 2/12 right now, which is no fun.

Both teams looking a bit stagnant

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Pretty good efficiency considering that the spacing is tight with the poor shooting.

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Originally Posted by Taker597

Was he ever available for a trade in the off season or was that media speculation?

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Speculation, I think, but I'd move a lot to acquire him if, for some reason, he did come up. I doubt he will though, especially now Chicago has gone all-in on being good now with Vucevic and such.

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Originally Posted by Taker597

Pretty good efficiency considering that the spacing is tight with the poor shooting.

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Yeah, Zion's 6/14 which is not *great* but it's not horrific and at least he's getting to the line a lot.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Meanwhile, Zach Lavine is up to 39 points on 13/19 shooting at the half for Chicago. He's 7/9 from 3.

Flamethrower night. He's on pace for 78 points.

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I saw his score but didn't realise it was only half time

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Pelican Halftime News:

JAXSON is 4/4 and 2/2 for 10 points and five rebounds (most of his play was at the 4).
H'Gomez is 4/4 for eight points and eight rebounds.
Pelicans lead 76'ers in Rebounding 35 to 28.
Pelicans seem to be playing defense tonight holding 76er's to 41.3% shooting (33.3% from three).
Pelicans have only committed five turnovers

In other news...

Both Pelican All Stars are shooting sub 50%

im just glad that stan was peeping at the board and listen to me about playing jax at PF the last few games lol.....

stan also looking like he is trying out ingram,,zion and jax at the 2,3, and 4....

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Originally Posted by 6warddude

im just glad that stan was peeping at the board and listen to me about playing jax at PF the last few games lol.....

stan also looking like he is trying out ingram,,zion and jax at the 2,3, and 4....

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I've said this since mid year last year..

Ingram with an assist and another 3. Let's warm up, BI

Zion's making the most of the defensive attention tonight, passing is really there. Second consecutive game with at least 6 assists.

Great D by Adams on Embiid...

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Originally Posted by KoMikaera

Great D by Adams on Embiid...

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Adams is doing a ton of dirty work with bodying up dudes. Just got to keep him fresh.

Winning comes down to effort and talent. The effort is certainly there so far. Having Zion and Ingram healthy tonight is huge as well despite their struggles tonight. We didn?t look like an NBA team without them

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Originally Posted by JJackisangry

Winning comes down to effort and talent. The effort is certainly there so far. Having Zion and Ingram healthy tonight is huge as well despite their struggles tonight. We didn?t look like an NBA team without them

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Idk... I still think the team is still missing one more elite talent. I hope we can bring one in the off season through trade or draft.

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Originally Posted by Taker597

Idk... I still think the team is still missing one more elite talent. I hope we can bring one in the off season through trade or draft.

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We definitely need another. Or at the very least a couple good ones

Ingram bucket and some FTs, starting to make an impact here late in the 3rd

Now remember everybody; if we lose this game, it's SVG's fault.

Zion makes 3 straight and we're up 14

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Zion makes 3 straight and we're up 14

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Oh, by the way, JAXSON had a fabulous block in the sequence,

Okay, dae, carry on.

Ingram and Zion with 39 FGA... Like they should.

Dirty mofo

That was a cheap shot right there. Guy obviously doesn’t like Zion

This big lineup has me dreaming about Zion plus a bunch of switchy forwards lineup.

31/12/8 for Zion with 8 minutes left

I like Jax’s confidence to take that 3, but that was probably ill-advised. Still would like to see him keep working on that. Particularly if he wants to see minutes at the 4

Just checking some other scores around the league real quick

LaVine cooled off hard in the second half, up to 48 points but that means only 9 in the second half after 39 in the first half.

Tatum has 50/10/4 on 16/25 shooting with 6/10 from 3

I wish SVG would stop doing that.

When they are pressing Zion and Ingram that high, our players need to start moving. They were just standing around

Bledsoe doing anything besides trying to blow this lead?

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Originally Posted by Taker597

Bledsoe doing anything besides trying to blow this lead?

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Is he ever trying to do anything other than suck?

Zion's 15th rebound sets a new career high

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Originally Posted by JJackisangry

When they are pressing Zion and Ingram that high, our players need to start moving. They were just standing around

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Sounds like we need a speedster that can rush the rim... Man... Where can we find that?

Zion with a jump shot? Nice

Really not Zion's most efficient game tonight but it feels like if he's not doing it, it's just not happening most of the time.

Exceptions here and there but really that's been the story.

Key learning moments. Zion has to figure out you don't keep rhythmically doing anything against any kind of veteran defender like Green in crunch time.

Simmons is unreal defensively. Perfect stance, right amount of physicality, quick feet and hands.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Really not Zion's most efficient game tonight but it feels like if he's not doing it, it's just not happening most of the time.

Exceptions here and there but really that's been the story.

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Nah!! The story is that the Pelicans are in position to win a game they weren't "suppose to".

And again, they press Ingram in the half court and not one soul is moving. Two of our players are standing over each other. We have to be better

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Originally Posted by Pelifan

Simmons is unreal defensively. Perfect stance, right amount of physicality, quick feet and hands.

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DPOY candidate this year. He's been stellar.

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Originally Posted by Taker597

After the last ten years of playing for 6th-14th lottery odds with some lucky lottery wins and two playoff berth. You'd think maybe being stuck on the mediocrity treadmill would get old. Outside of winning the lottery... We've haven't posted a worse lottery standing than 6th in I think since Chris Paul.

It just like insanity with this franchise. I get certain bad teams stay bad regardless of picks, but man... It's annoying how great this draft class is and we are dogging out for Ws that only hurt us. It's just frustrating. We'll get our one in 5 years playoff berth, but I want more.

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I'm 1000% with you brother. Sucky part is that very likely our pick won't even be good to trade for a star lol

Per @ESPNStatsInfo: Zion Williamson is the first player under the age of 21 w/ a 35-point, 15-rebound game since KD did it in 2009.

Only other players in the last 30 seasons is Shaq, who did it twice.

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) April 10, 2021

Turns out Zion plus team defense equals wins. Who knew?

Yes!!! They won despite SVG!! Yeah, us!!!

Morale up, pick down. Yay

I saw Zion do a turnaround fade once. I don't see any reason he can't become a consistent mid range scorer. He's still learning the game and what's required. Can't wait to see how good he'll be.

Endgame. Pels win, 101-94

It's the first time the Pels have held an opponent under 100 points since March 12th against Cleveland.

Zion finished with 37/15/8 on 53.6% from the floor (0.00% from 3, 0/1)
Ingram finished with 17/8/2 on 23.8% from the floor (22.2% from 3, 2/9)

Nobody else in the starting lineup hit double figures in scoring. Bledsoe was 3/9 for 9 points.

Jax and Willy contributed 12/6 and 10/10 respectively, both on 5/6 shooting.

Defense wins in any team sport!! Offense comes and goes, but if you play defense like this every night, you always have a chance to win.

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Originally Posted by donato

Morale up, pick down. Yay

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They're not gonna lose games on purpose. They'll lose games that make no sense to lose. ANd probably go on a 10 game winning streak and still miss the play in and be the highest not in the playoff team for the lottery and require a literal miracle to get a top 4 pick.

Just relax and hope for the best in spite of it all like I'm gonna do.

good game but this pelicans team is jekyll and hyde...

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Originally Posted by donato

Morale up, pick down. Yay

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