January 2nd - New Orleans Pelicans VS Toronto Raptors - 3-2

With that alley oop, Zion no longer has the fewest FGAs in the starting lineup: he has overtaken Steven Adams.

They gave Zion a whistle, hooray

lmao... raptors have the audacity to challenge as if they haven't been hacking Zion all game. With our luck though they'll prolly overturn this

Zion with the perfect rotation into the paint to force Baynes into a terrible rushed floater

I feel like a good lowkey synergy goal is getting Adam 8 FGA/10 pts.

Spread The Wealth

We are 10/26 from 3 so far, good for 38.5%, mostly led by Ingram's 4/6 shooting and followed by Lonzo's 3/6. Good to see a bounce back in the shooting between this game and last.

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I feel like a good lowkey synergy goal is getting Adam 8 FGA/10 pts.

Spread The Wealth

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Agreed. His Hustle-to-touches ratio is pretty astronomical, he deserves to be feed more.

Okay, refs confirm; that's a foul.

If that's a foul, Zion should be shooting 25 FTs a game, no question.

Our bench: 10pts, 9 rebounds, 4asts on 4/16 shooting (25%) and 2/13 from 3.

Their bench: 23pts, 5rebs, 1ast on 7/15 shooting (46.6%) and 3/8 from 3.

Zion dunk

Bledsoe has been good again. What a shot

Boucher blew that but the defense was nothing there. Not good.

At the buzzer yes

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Bledsoe has been good again. What a shot

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He's 3/4 from 3 tonight. Might be his best game as a Pel so far?

Raptors : We're gonna make you beat us with your guards tonight

Eric Bledsoe eating a bagel: and I took that personally...

After losing the 2nd quarter by 11, we won the 3rd by 10.

That's how you respond.

Zion straight through the defense for a layup off the nice Hart pass

Raptors defense looking a bit gassed.

Zion with another ridiculous drive off the dribble, spin moves incorporateed

That Zion footwork ��

He's at 20 pts �� pic.twitter.com/xSKJ6a7XUo

— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) January 3, 2021

Flames.

This is the Zion I've been waiting for offensively.

Jax with a great steal as the help there

Zion goes coast to coast to draw the foul.

And Siakam gets his 5th.

Zion is 7/10 from the line tonight. 70%. Good to see

We're in the bonus with 8 minutes left.

We should live at the line now.

The difference is Zion is showing a lot more assertiveness on his drives. I feel too often this season he would only half commit on drives, but so far this game (even on his misses) he is using much more force and is using his speed much better than before. Even with his misses he has been better I feel

Lowry playing irresponsibly.

I generally like him a lot and try to make the distinction between playing gritty and being dirty, but right now he's just being reckless. Deserved those calls.

And Hayes has picked it up in the last two. Encouraging

Awful over-help from Lonzo there. He's done that a couple of times this season and his footwork is not nearly good enough to let him recover.

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The difference is Zion is showing a lot more assertiveness on his drives. I feel too often this season he would only half commit on drives, but so far this game (even on his misses) he is using much more force and is using his speed much better than before. Even with his misses he has been better I feel

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Zion and SVg kind of have been stressing to be more patient at certain stages of the game. They like to set up the defense for these late runs when they are gassed. It's pretty clever. It's polar opposite of gentry. Who wanted to have his player come out the gate firing away.

Hayes playing great. If he had the experience of Adams, he would be the starter.

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Hayes playing great. If he had the experience of Adams, he would be the starter.

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The more he learns under him. The better.

Adams needs a rebound and I'll be pretty happy.

It burns me that NAW got run in the first quarter. But none for the rest of the game. Need to give up some minutes of jj to NAW.

A big note for Jax: one of the largest areas of concern with him last season was his rebounding. He was obviously super easily moved and didn't read the ball off the rim massively well either.

He had 6 boards in 12 minutes against Phoenix, 6 boards in 14 minutes against OKC, and 8 boards in 17 minutes tonight. It's good.

Just bury them now. Put the foot down for a few minutes.

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It burns me that NAW got run in the first quarter. But none for the rest of the game. Need to give up some minutes of jj to NAW.

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I ahree, but Naw did play his way to the bench unfortunately

Adams dissecting them with passes here.

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Zion and SVg kind of have been stressing to be more patient at certain stages of the game. They like to set up the defense for these late runs when they are gassed. It's pretty clever. It's polar opposite of gentry. Who wanted to have his player come out the gate firing away.

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Zion is definitely taking advantage. If he can keep up this kind of pace at the right moments, he will be much harder to stop.

I’m all about his aggressiveness tonight

Unsung part of our success tonight: only 9 turnovers so far. Only 6 from the starting lineup.

Can't start getting lazy now, it's still close enough to lose.

Team gotta tighten up

I see you Mr. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE POWELL. chill dude

damn

Make no mistake, this Raps team is still really good

Well....

gotta hang in there and give yourself a legit chance at the end....

Raptors 25-25 on FT... Woah.

It's actually kind of funny how foul-free we played most of this game and then late it's all coming. It's like the refs looked at the stat sheet and went ''oh wow, we gotta call some more of those''

gotta make free throws, plzzz

Bledsoe been yuge