November 10th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Portland Trailblazers - 6-5

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Originally Posted by WhyHornetsWhy

Is there a stat for the team with the most turnovers? I want to see where are ranked. Genuinely curious

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We came into this game averaging 14.5 TOs per game, 18th in the league. Very middle of the road. 17 teams turn it over more than we do.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

We came into this game averaging 14.5 TOs per game, 18th in the league. Very middle of the road. 17 teams turn it over more than we do.

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Thank you.

I honestly come on this board just for your breakdowns and opinions sometimes, honestly.

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Originally Posted by WhyHornetsWhy

Thank you.

I honestly come on this board just for your breakdowns and opinions sometimes, honestly.

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Well that's nice of you to say, I appreciate that

Zion plays defense like a baby learning to walk.

Would sure be nice if CJ could make himself useful.

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Originally Posted by Chris

Zion plays defense like a baby learning to walk.

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Sit Zion until he gives better defensive effort. It will pay off in the long run.

Morant should have gone 1. First time I've ever said this

Too much data to suggest otherwise now

Another year, another frustrating (and at times miserable) team to watch. So much talent just not putting the pieces together. Is a basketball team that is fun to watch over 82 games too much to ask for?

damn big fella get that rebound

if you are counting the Pels out of this game, make yourself known

Me

pels cant get a stop

Herb's situational awareness when he gets the ball goes right out the window.

This is a 500 team. Record proves it

Sean marks waiting for that phone call

Let’s be honest with Zion and BI on the court the Pels are pretty weak on defense.

oh no BI foulded out. thats a tough one

Imagine if Dame were playing. Just tack on an extra 30+ to the Blazers' score.

Lol foulded

You'd think in a season where he's shooting this badly, in a game he's shooting this poorly in, CJ might think twice before launching so many 27-30 foot pullups.

You would be wrong, but you might think it.

It feels like this team is missing something.

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Originally Posted by Jaxpel

Let’s be honest with Zion and BI on the court the Pels are pretty weak on defense.

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We were scoring almost every trip down the floor, but we couldnt get a stop. BI defense is not that bad imo but Zion is sub par on defense and so is CJ.

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Originally Posted by Jaxpel

Let’s be honest with Zion and BI on the court the Pels are pretty weak on defense.

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You can say that to most of our players on this roster minus a few guys

That 64 mil extension looks more amazing by the day

Pause not

Another bad shooting night for CJ. Or maybe a normal shooting night for him.

Have the Trailblazers missed a shot in the 4th quarter?

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Originally Posted by Jaxpel

Have the Trailblazers missed a shot in the 4th quarter?

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With the way we defend, they better not miss

And CJ ends it on another miss. Fitting.

Pels need a PG who can shoot.

The number one thing the Pelicans need to do is get better on defense. Change the scheme up, change the player rotations up, change the coaching up, change something up. We need to be swarming and putting pressure on guys it seems like teams just get whatever they want too easily.

Yes CJ has had a rough start. But you can't convince me that CJ doesn't know how to shoot. He's been in the league too long and done it too well.

Pels shots in the 4th:

- Trey misses a layup
- Zion gets a layup, and 1
- Zion misses layup
- Trey misses 3
- Zion misses layup
- Herb makes a 3
- Zion hits 2 FTs
- Zion misses layup
- Zion makes layup, and 1
- Zion goes 1/2 FTs
- Ingram makes pullup
- Zion makes 2 FTs
- Zion miss, gets offensive rebound, hits 1/2 FTs
- Ingram misses jumper
- CJ misses pullup 3
- Zion hits layup
- CJ misses pullup middy
- Zion hits 3
- Herb misses 3
- CJ misses 3

So bad the defense.

CJ is just not on planet earth rn.

End of quarter clock management has been horrendous all year.

Unforced turnovers are becoming a plague.

Larry and his unnecessarily dumb switching continues.

It'll get better in December. Right now it's ugly to watch. The light bulb is barely flicking above the shoulders.

The team just goes into games with no plan, comes out of halves with no plan, comes out of TOs with no plan. The only person who has a plan on any given play is CJ, and his plan is ''it's time for me to shoot''

The Pelicans are really easy to make money off of if you take your heart out of it

We need to send willie to the gleague. Him and hayes can learn a thing or two over there

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Originally Posted by Sovereign

The Pelicans are really easy to make money off of if you take your heart out of it

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I would absolutely put money on the Rockets on Saturday.

A bad defensive team, or a young team getting lots of points always a good fade.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Pels shots in the 4th:

- Trey misses a layup
- Zion gets a layup, and 1
- Zion misses layup
- Trey misses 3
- Zion misses layup
- Herb makes a 3
- Zion hits 2 FTs
- Zion misses layup
- Zion makes layup, and 1
- Zion goes 1/2 FTs
- Ingram makes pullup
- Zion makes 2 FTs
- Zion miss, gets offensive rebound, hits 1/2 FTs
- Ingram misses jumper
- CJ misses pullup 3
- Zion hits layup
- CJ misses pullup middy
- Zion hits 3
- Herb misses 3
- CJ misses 3

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Not a big deal...but Herb "attempted" three 3-pt shots...on the night. He made 2 of them. But unfortunately, they all 3 were his patented "foot fault 3s", so the box score will show him NOT taking a 3-pt shot for the night. I actually thought they might have figured out a way to keep Herb from constantly doing that again this year. Guess not. I think he had 40 "foot faults" last year on "attempted" 3-pt shots. All were C&S 3s, like tonight. What an odd character.

I really do not understand if you have the ball with 17 seconds left in the quarter, why are you running normal offense, and throwing up some dumb shot with 10 seconds still on the clock?

The coach should be yelling at the top of his lungs to hold the damn ball if your players are just that damn stupid.

What sucks is the lakers wasn't playing tonight to soften this blow

Before season i was expecting score like this in first 12 games. What is difference i counted losses against GSW, Dallas, Clippers and Bulls and wins against Lakers, Jazz, Trailblazers and Pacers.
We had luck with GSW sitting out guys, Lillard not playing, Nets disaster, Clippers injuries and we didnt took advantage of it, that is what bothers me the most. Between Lakers, Jazz, Trailblazers, Pacers we should have won at least 2...
And then it will come the streak where we have our guys injured and what will happen then? I'm disapointed with how this team is playing. I will just quote what Pop said:

"I WANT SOME NASTY!!!" .


Give me 5 mins of Alvarado, Dyson, Herb, Murphy and Nance and play that film everyday to CJ, Brandon and Zion...

I said we’d be a .500 team first half of season, but tough to beat after the turn. I still think that. A lot of moving parts to sort out, rotations to establish, roles to learn. It’s been patchy. It will stay patchy for a while. I’d recommend not overreacting. Let things work themselves out. But no way CJ stays this bad…

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Originally Posted by Jaxpel

Have the Trailblazers missed a shot in the 4th quarter?

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How many times do you hear this about opposing teams

Just going to give this one a mulligan. It's the end of a tough stretch and in desperate need of a day off.

When they are fouling like that it means the feet just aren't moving well.

Blazers were very smart to rest Jerami Grant last night. He came into this game focused and fresh among a bunch of tired legs.


No excuses Saturday.

So we are back this ******** again. Well that did not take long. Do we need to start a tank thread?

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Originally Posted by 13 - 3

So we are back this ******** again. Well that did not take long. Do we need to start a tank thread?

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You’re a like broke record with the T word thread. Do you like the team being bad more?

Apparently CJ has been really sick and fighting through it. Appreciate the heart and toughness but coach needs to rest him and let dude get better, its not helping the team to play him like this.

Both teams on back to back. Which one looked worse? Of course the one at home with a full roster.

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Originally Posted by hornetsrebirth

Apparently CJ has been really sick and fighting through it. Appreciate the heart and toughness but coach needs to rest him and let dude get better, its not helping the team to play him like this.

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CJ is sick? Like he has a cold? Where did you hear this?

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Originally Posted by Upper Decker

CJ is sick? Like he has a cold? Where did you hear this?

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https://youtu.be/ipaOCCBg5oo?t=312