April 16th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Washington Wizards - 25-30

Jesus christ

Did we ever have double digit lead in this game?

Can we trade Adams for Gafford?

Where is the powerful offense and the powerful defense as proclaimed by some members of this forum?

Not hard to stop a guy who has one move late in the game. Why you still gotta go through Ingram if we get this ball back

Paging Dae

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Originally Posted by Eman5805

For context, is that actually bad? What are league averages for such shots?

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Not sure about league wide, but here's how it compares to some other stars in the league since 2012-13:

Lebron: 22/68 (32.4%)
Durant: 30/122 (24.5%)
Anthony Davis: 17/34 (50.0%)
Steph Curry: 15/48 (31.3%)
Lillard: 34/93 (36.5%)
Jokic: 13/24 (54.2%)

So it seems to be on the lower end for stars. Almost nobody is ''efficient'' in these situations, but 25.4% is pretty low on the scale relative to the other guys. Most them at least crack 30%

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Originally Posted by 13 - 3

Where is the powerful offense and the powerful defense as proclaimed by some members of this forum?

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....can you name one person who thinks this Pelicans team has a ''powerful defense''?

One?

We have no right saying the Knicks are overated when we can’t even take care of the Wizards.

Pels life personified right here.

We scored TWO points in the last 5:57 of the 4th quarter.

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Originally Posted by RobertM320

We scored TWO points in the last 5:57 of the 4th quarter.

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Powerful offense

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Not sure about league wide, but here's how it compares to some other stars in the league since 2012-13:

Lebron: 22/68 (32.4%)
Durant: 30/122 (24.5%)
Anthony Davis: 17/34 (50.0%)
Steph Curry: 15/48 (31.3%)
Lillard: 34/93 (36.5%)
Jokic: 13/24 (54.2%)

So it seems to be on the lower end for stars. Almost nobody is ''efficient'' in these situations, but 25.4% is pretty low on the scale relative to the other guys. Most them at least crack 30%

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No. That's about right.

And Beal missed another one. Phew.

Pels shooting in the 4th:

Zion: 2/5
Ingram: 0/4
Lonzo: 0/1
James Johnson : 2/3
Naji: 1/4
Bledsoe: 0/1

Not pretty folks

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Originally Posted by Eman5805

No. That's about right.

And Beal missed another one. Phew.

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How many have we missed?

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Pels shooting in the 4th:

Zion: 2/5
Ingram: 0/4
Lonzo: 0/1
James Johnson : 2/3
Naji: 1/4
Bledsoe: 0/1

Not pretty folks

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Powerful offense

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Originally Posted by RobertM320

We scored TWO points in the last 5:57 of the 4th quarter.

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Did you expect fireworks? lol closing out games is foreign here.

SVG messes up the same way every game. When you are UP late, there is no point to having Adams in the finishing 5. The opponent is more likely to take 3's and try to spread you out and by scoring you help your defense and put added pressure on.

I would bet my life that if SVG closed every game where we were up late without Adams that we would have a MUCH better record in those games. Maybe as much as 4 or 5 more wins this year

The fact that Adams and Bledsoe are in the game at the end tells all. Either SVG is incompetent or they're tanking...maybe both.

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Originally Posted by 13 - 3

Taker what was the spread on this game? Surely we can?t screw that up too?

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NOP -1.5

I passed on this game. I was gonna bet on the Wizards.

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Originally Posted by MichaelMcNamara

SVG messes up the same way every game. When you are UP late, there is no point to having Adams in the finishing 5. The opponent is more likely to take 3's and try to spread you out and by scoring you help your defense and put added pressure on.

I would bet my life that if SVG closed every game where we were up late without Adams that we would have a MUCH better record in those games. Maybe as much as 4 or 5 more wins this year

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Oh come on it’s not SVG,s fault

Washington went 2-22 (9.1%) from three in regulation, and 70% from FT line, and we still couldn't win.

Stan Van Grundy is a good coach

Not gonna lie, that nugget of info changes how I think about Beal a bit.

Zion playing lazy. Dude has to keep his head in the game.

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Originally Posted by sterlr

Zion playing lazy. Dude has to keep his head in the game.

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His worst game in a good while, no question about it. Playmaking hasn't been productive, turnovers that just aren't justifiable, etc etc.

Edit: also his first career game with more than 4 fouls

He's not paying enough attention to detail. He looks more fatigued than anything.

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Originally Posted by Eman5805

Not gonna lie, that nugget of info changes how I think about Beal a bit.

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Enough to sway you?

Westbrook would only be 50% at the 3 against us...

Dunk the mothereffing ball. Stop the layups.

Well, I made the right call on the Wizards, but still would of been a really bad bet in the 1st place.

What you just saw Daniel Gafford do to Zion is precisely why Steven Adams does not complement Zion Williamson.

Zion tries the stuff that works in the first 42 minutes again. It doesnt work again. Only one person is unsurprised

Z is going to have to get that floater going in the future. Adams is wasting space out there.

Pels life

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Originally Posted by sterlr

Z is going to have to get that floater going in the future. Adams is wasting space out there.

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Agreed..

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Originally Posted by hornetzplaya

Enough to sway you?

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Sway what? He's still a target.

Not a very big list of guys who could even have a possibility of grabbing who would make enough of an impact to flip our assets on.

But Stan is such a great coach

This is ridiculous. So you can sub Zion out for defensive purposes but can't touch Bledsoe or Lonzo

— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) April 17, 2021

Zion would have more energy right now if he weren't putting his head down and pulling to the rim. What happened to those baseline shots?

Hard to alter your game DNA midseason, I guess.

Can this miserable game end pls...

If we don't trade Bledsoe AND Adams in the offseason or before the deadline next year..... I think we failed the 2021-2022 season. The fact that adams has NO offensive game whatsoever makes me sad.

Bledsoe sucks

Lol

The extortion evidence Bledsoe has over SVG is all powerful obviously .. there’s no other explanation

— Heisenberg (@RandySm11867320) April 17, 2021

No idea why chicago traded gafford away...dude is nice to have on any team

REALLY ZION??!!

Challenge that ********

Why do we never have double OT in fun games, only ones where it's a horrible grindfest?

faaaacepalm

Well, that really happened

Zion -_-