November 2nd - New Orleans Pelicans vs Detroit Pistons - 3-1

JV has 9/6/4, we're still in the second quarter.

Triple double watch?

Matt Ryan sits for Hawkins to enter, and Hawkins immediately hits a 3.

We have shooters, bruh. It's finally happened.

Jonas hit a 3.

We're up 19. Outscoring them 22-9 so far this quarter.

Jonas dominance

16 assists on 20 made FGS. And only 4 TOs so far.

I hope we dont forget how fast things can change when up in the first half. this game is nice and relaxing but that can change real quick.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Matt Ryan sits for Hawkins to enter, and Hawkins immediately hits a 3.

We have shooters, bruh. It's finally happened.

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We already forgot 1/19?

Never forget 1/19.

Jonas looks good with the 2nd squad! Hs scoring ability is unlocked without our top 3 offensive weapons on the floor. There simply arent enough opportunities for him offensively with our big 3 on the floor.

Our offense has looked fantastic for about 3 games now. Even last game when the shots weren't falling and we were in a fatal drought, the shots themselves were good - we just couldn't hit them.

If things are going to be like this offensively all season, then I'm even more excited for when Trey gets back.

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Originally Posted by ragincaucasian

We already forgot 1/19?

Never forget 1/19.

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Hey, they were still getting good shots. They just don't always fall - Steph Curry shot 27% (17/62) from 3 over a 6 game stretch in the 2018-19 playoffs. The important thing is you keep shooting them and allow the law of averages to kick in.

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Originally Posted by hornetsrebirth

Jonas looks good with the 2nd squad! Hs scoring ability is unlocked without our top 3 offensive weapons on the floor. There simply arent enough opportunities for him offensively with our big 3 on the floor.

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They still work as long as at least 3 of the other players are shooters. So CJ + Zion, or CJ + Ingram works - what you can't have is JV + Herb + Zion + Ingram. Zion isn't a shooter, Ingram is reluctant to shoot 3s, and Herb can't shoot. So lineups involving those four always struggle; it's why Herb has to sit for Trey when he returns.

Edit: note, I'm speaking from a perspective of maximising Jonas here. Ultimately, you'd want CJ + Ingram + Zion on the floor and for the shooting to come anyway.

CJ on fire

They took some mojo home from OKC.

The Bally update has been disastrous. Why did they break what didn’t need to be fixed? My lord

CJ has obviously taken a lot of things to heart in the summer. The guy will be an allstar at this rate. Not only that, this team should be more comfortable when we aren’t at our healthiest. Hopefully this continues. Guy is balling out of his mind

Pels finish the Q2 outscoring the Pistons 37-20, meaning they're now up 72-49.

23 point lead going into the half.

CJ has 25 points. JV has 12/7/4.

Team is shooting 62/50/89.

Offense looks great. What a luxury it is to have CJ and JV on the team so that, when you're playing against pretty bad teams at home, you can be missing the top two guys and still have two all-star calibre vet players to lead the squad.

glad to see seabron get some run and get points....dude put in the work...

please dont let what happened last night,,,get done to us tonight......i need the backups to play hard and close this game out...

CJ continues where he left off. Dude's going for 40 tonight

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

They still work as long as at least 3 of the other players are shooters. So CJ + Zion, or CJ + Ingram works - what you can't have is JV + Herb + Zion + Ingram. Zion isn't a shooter, Ingram is reluctant to shoot 3s, and Herb can't shoot. So lineups involving those four always struggle; it's why Herb has to sit for Trey when he returns.

Edit: note, I'm speaking from a perspective of maximising Jonas here. Ultimately, you'd want CJ + Ingram + Zion on the floor and for the shooting to come anyway.

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It works fine but with CJ and Zion on the floor you aren't feeding Jonas. On this 2nd unit he is the best offensive player on the floor and getting to show what he can do scoring wise

Missing some shots, playing a bit ragged now - we can weather it because we have such a lead but want to answer back soon. Can't let them get the momentum

God, we've gone to the ''1 shooter'' lineup again. Please someone stop Green doing this.

Dyson made a three, it's all the voodoo going on

Kind of wish Dyson would have just gone for the bucket there

Can we do a timeout please

Looked like Ivy wanted to fight CJ there

Still up 11 but they are on a surge.

Put the killer lineup in, run with the starters. Generate 3s, run through JV, lock in on defense. Run the score back up. Come on, guys.

CJ starting to wilt a bit

Matt Ryan with his 5th 3

Jonas has 18/10

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Originally Posted by Freyfamilyreuni

CJ starting to wilt a bit

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Clearly starting to wear down. Need to play inside out a little through JV to give him some plays off from being on ball

Jonas with the big OREB and the assist to Matt Ryan for his 6th three of the night

Herb’s defense has been outstanding

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Originally Posted by Freyfamilyreuni

Herb’s defense has been outstanding

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Comme d'habitude

Matt Ryan pic.twitter.com/JCgaSXt8Hf

— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) November 3, 2023

Wow, Jonas gets T'd up

Strange t

It is amazing on how much leeway they give Draymond. His mouth gets so wide when he’s screaming at the refs that it looks like he’s about to eat their head

Jonas going off

The idea of Herb and Dyson playing together for long periods on d is so tantalizing,

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Originally Posted by Freyfamilyreuni

It is amazing on how much leeway they give Draymond. His mouth gets so wide when he’s screaming at the refs that it looks like he’s about to eat their head

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If refs had any spine, Draymond would get ejected most nights.

This Bally app is so frustrating

Big fan of that TO

dumb asssss zone defense we were playing that gave up wide open 3s..

I hope I NEVER have to listen to Pistons announcers ever again. They are SO annoying. Six and seventeen left on the clock, Five and thirty-eight left in the game, etc, etc,. Why not just six seventeen like normal people?

Come on Dyson

Dyson with a brutally bad minute or so there

Come on, Pels. 2 and a half minutes and that's it.

Our own court sabotaging us

lmao Dyson where did that come from. Stepback 3 from Dyson outta nowhere

Dyson redeemed himself there a bit