November 10th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Houston Rockets - 4-4

We really miss Alvarado. Energy and ballhandling is what we are missing the most. Doesn't look good...

this team is lost without a map.

Two numbers that sum up that experience for us:

5 total assists tonight

2 made threes total tonight.

The fact we're still in it is a miracle. Just a lot of ISO - which was fine early when it was working but the Rockets just decided to go full on pack-the-paint mode and we had no adjustment.

Need to come out in the 3rd with a mindset towards generating and taking threes, and getting some off-ball movement going.

Hawkins making a three hopefully helps him. Seeing the lid come off the hoop

And there's another one, so I think it did

And Hawkins with another

BI gets to the hoop

Okay, it's starting to go again

Yes, that was a foul. You're not allowed to just shove people on drives, I know it's hard to believe Fred

Dyson has been lowkey very very good this game.

I respect the hustle Zion but you gotta flop on the charge or they don't call it. You gotta hit the deck

I like JRE.

Okay, I like JRE but I meant instead of Nance, not WITH him

That was a bogus call tbh

This ref crew is extremely hot and cold. They won't call anything on multiple drives to the basket and then all of a sudden they're calling you for breathing on someone, like, is it a foul or not?

Ingram's had a good game in a lot of ways tonight but as he goes 1/6 from 3, he's now 4/25 on the season. 16%. What has happened to his 3 ball?

JRE is making Nance expendable.

Refs have called at least 5 things wrong in the last few minutes, all for Houston. Looking rough out here.

So, Willie doesn’t challenge the ball obviously going off Dillon’s leg in order to save a possession and retain his challenge, then he makes an unsuccessful challenge right afterwards. Learn how to use your challenges, Willie!

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Originally Posted by Spec3333

So, Willie doesn’t challenge the ball obviously going off Dillon’s leg in order to save a possession and retain his challenge, then he makes an unsuccessful challenge right afterwards. Learn how to use your challenges, Willie!

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Impossible to use them correctly in this game. Refs are deciding what is and isn't a foul based entirely on the vibes they get from certain tea leaf patterns.

Nice pass from BI to a trailing Zion

Zion's had at least two awesome passes this game that haven't turned into assists because Houston just slaps people and the refs are like, nah. No call.

Ingram hits his 2nd three - this is his first game with more than one made three this season.

Very clearly Ingram's best game of the season thus far btw

That is exactly why you challenge an OBVIOUS wrong call like the Brooks one.

There are certain players - Draymond, now Dillon Brooks - who literally just dare the refs to foul them out and the refs almost always back off. It's insane to see.