Western Playoffs Round 1 - New Orleans Pelicans @ Portland Trailblazers - Game One

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Originally Posted by lsutigers33

I don’t get why okafor isn’t in playing ed Davis and AD collins

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Coaching IQ will be on display in this series.

We need to live in the paint.

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Originally Posted by Alg_Hornet

We are bailing them out with jump shots . We really don’t shot the 3 ball well but we take a ton of 3 point shots

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That's because we are going 3 v 5 on offense with Hill and Rondo in the game.

Watch how Portland is defending them. They aren't. Just stacking players inside the arc and daring them to make a shot.

Fouled twice

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Originally Posted by lsutigers33

I don’t get why okafor isn’t in playing ed Davis and AD collins

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I know. Why is he in the doghouse so much

Jrue finally got a foul call.

Has a Pelican been fouled on literally every play? Close to it.

The refs had to fight every urge not to call a foul for Jrue then.

EVERY. SINGLE. URGE.

AD with the handle

That was an amazing play by AD.

3kola

Jrue erased Lillard!

Niko has been a beast on the glass and defense.

Jrue is game mvp. These refs are terrible.

Great run . Diallo got hacked man . But he is giving us great minutes.

Gentry taking a gamble here with AD on the bench

What’s the deal with okafor?

No foul calls for Pels.

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Originally Posted by wnelson

Jrue is game mvp. These refs are terrible.

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Definitely the first half MVP, we'll see how it goes through the second half. He's been exemplary though

WHERES THE FPOUL

Gotta love how the middle teams are getting reffed like the play offs while the regular teams get reffed like it's the regular season

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Originally Posted by lsutigers33

What’s the deal with okafor?

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Gentry likes Diallo better. Can we really argue? Diallo has been good down the stretch.

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Originally Posted by Mythrol

Niko has been a beast on the glass and defense.

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Totally agree

Miller had some key boards too. SOLO needs to step up

Niko already has 7 rebounds and 3 blocks.

You know leading the team in both categories because it's not like we have AD or anything.

Keep working Niko.

Great foul rondo

That was a good 2 minutes of Diallo to get AD rest.

Rondeaux has 9 assists

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Originally Posted by Mythrol

Niko already has 7 rebounds and 3 blocks.

You know leading the team in both categories because it's not like we have AD or anything.

Keep working Niko.

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In fairness, two of those rebounds came from running directly in front of AD to grab the rebound for himself. I don't mind that though, it's the hustle

Remember all of those terrible journalists and analysts saying there was pretty much no chance that we would 'upset' the Blazers? They get paid to be blind to stuff like this.

Nice def fellas

I like it a lot. McCollum and lillard are 1 for 15. Wow

Great half ... first 6 minutes of the 3rd is huge. The blazers are going to make a run just need to withstand it .

The team is playing great defense. They deserve this one

Amazing defensive half. Will probably need a bit more from Niko on the offensive end to pull this out, but props to him for his play on the other end.

At an absolutely great half after the first 6 minutes.

Up 9 and held Portland to 36 points. Like, seriously 36 points in a half.

End of our first half of playoff basketball: we're up 45-36. Jrue, Moore, and Rondo have all done a good job locking up Portland's guards. Jrue has 0 assists but it doesn't matter because he's been a monster defensively and led the offense charge for much of the half. AD had a pretty slow second quarter in terms of rebounding (only 1 board?) but scored well.

Let's get game 1 won!

Defense is playing just like I thought they would once the playoffs started! Less then a handful of plays I would say we didn't play great defense!

Gotta give it to Gentry... Great job managing ADs minutes.

We need to encourage Jrue to keep attacking . They can’t gaurd him .

Gotta love how we're winning in spite of the bs refs

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Finish strong. Stomp their necks.

And we aren't even shooting well!

Portland's hope is basically "Dame and CJ will go off in the 2nd and not keep this terrible shooting up."

Except, we could say that about basically all of our players as well.

Pelicans in 4

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Originally Posted by wnelson

Finish strong. Stomp their necks.

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Bash their butts

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Originally Posted by Mythrol

And we aren't even shooting well!

Portland's hope is basically "Dame and CJ will go off in the 2nd and not keep this terrible shooting up."

Except, we could say that about basically all of our players as well.

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Their shots will start to fall but so will ours . I just don’t think Portland has anyone who can guard Jrue or AD.

ITs always good when Davis and jrue get hot we can beat anyone , great signs , hopefully they start the second hot cos that will dictate the rest of the game

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Originally Posted by GuardianAngel25

Defense is playing just like I thought they would once the playoffs started! Less then a handful of plays I would say we didn't play great defense!

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Yeah bro I predicted this as well for the playoffs. If we steal this game this would be HUGE!

I feel like gentry has worked some wizardry with his rotations today . Our rotations have been pretty consistent lately , but this is a rotation we haven’t seen before and it seems like the blazers didn’t prepare for it

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Originally Posted by bdnp1

I feel like gentry has worked some wizardry with his rotations today . Our rotations have been pretty consistent lately , but this is a rotation we haven’t seen before and it seems like the blazers didn’t prepare for it

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I'm not on board with full props yet over the rotation. We had like 4 minutes in the 2nd where Rondo and Hill were in the game at the same thing and our offense was terrible.

I thought that we would win the series in 5, but at halftime...I think it might still be over in 5, but our wins will be double digit wins.

IF Solo doesn’t show something in this series, we need to find a way to move on and god after a legit 3 in the offseason that pairs with AD Boogie and Hrue!

AD's got his jumper on