November 14th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Minnesota Timberwolves - 7-6

Pels trying to be too cute at the worst time

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Originally Posted by Creative

We gonna lose this one....

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You are up and down like a yoyo

I really really hate the T-Wolves....that is all.

Just falling apart

Wiggins just went up for that dunk out with his foot up so he kicked Mirotic in the chest.

How is that NOT an offensive foul?

This is why you don't get down 20.....

Kicked him the nuts are you ********ting me

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I told You. Stupid, just stupid basketball from the Pels.

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Originally Posted by Creative

I told You. Stupid, just stupid basketball from the Pels.

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Didn't you just say like 5 minutes ago hat we should relax because we're in the drivers seat?

It's kind of easy to say you told us when you've said every possible thing.

We aren’t good enough to switch it on .. you can’t get down by 21 points. Team fought all the way back and just crumbled

So you can kick dudes in the junk now?

He literally put his foot out to hit him really? What a joke nba good job I don't wanna see you call anyone for the rest of the year if that's the standard of a non offensive foul

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Originally Posted by kidjock24

So you can kick dudes in the junk now?

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I mean, sure, if it means you get a funky highlight play for your instagram clips

Really need Payton.

How the fuq is that a defensive foul ?

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Originally Posted by Taker597

Really need Payton.

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Really need Randle to do better than 3 points and 5 turnovers.

The announcers are a joke. So is the officiating.

5 straight losses to the timberwolves. They are not that good

Lots of things killed us. But that three point shooting......

It would be nice if we had another shot creator out there :rolleyes:

Randle and Davis really let me down tonight... Davis’ numbers may look good but he wasn’t MVP caliber tonight at all.

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Originally Posted by msusousaphone

Lots of things killed us. But that three point shooting......

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They couldn't miss from 3 for the first half. The refs in the final quarter just sucked. We didn't defend for the first 15 minutes. Jrue doesn't get free throws, ever.

Lots of factors in this. Real gut punch of a loss after that come-back.

Aaaaaand Mirotic is hurt.

Mirotic is down #Pelslife

These are the games we have to win. Hopefully we get ourselves together soon or we will end up with the same dang scenario we faced last year. We can do better, and hopefully Payton gets back soon and Niko is alright.

Beautiful. Injury to insult.

Man screw the Wolves....and now Niko is dinged up....moving on to NY

We got mobbed by our own bench. 5 combined points.

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Originally Posted by jawznola

Randle and Davis really let me down tonight... Davis’ numbers may look good but he wasn’t MVP caliber tonight at all.

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I agree with this . His overall effort was poor tonight ...

What a calamity of a game. Awful, AWFUL, first quarter, the second quarter was half awful, and the final five minutes of the fourth have been horrible. Bad reffing too, but that's not the cause of the loss. PLUS the injury to Mirotic, again?

Minn had a point to prove after the Butler trade and we played like trash for 2 quarters. It happens, just take care of the next 6 teams under .500 that we play.

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Originally Posted by jawznola

Randle and Davis really let me down tonight... Davis’ numbers may look good but he wasn’t MVP caliber tonight at all.

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Our pg play just hasn’t been good enough since Payton went down. Jrue is much better when he isn’t relied on to be the general. Having said that, we can’t be losing games against the Timberwolves when Moore is putting up 30. We have to break away from this lackadaisical 500 basketball that plagued us last year.

Well, Gentry is not going lead this team no further than the 1st round. His team is just so undisciplined ie.. shots selection and being too cute at the wrong times in the game. I don't get it to play one way in one game and another way the next. Very inconsistent and it starts at the top.

Once you get down by 21 you're forced to play perfect basketball and can't withstand any runs by the other team... We lost it when we got down that far because we all know this team is no playing perfect basketball and certainly not for a full half.

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Originally Posted by sterlr

Well, Gentry is not going lead this team no further than the 1st round. His team is just so undisciplined ie.. shots selection and being too cute at the wrong times in the game. I don't get it to play one way in one game and another way the next. Very inconsistent and it starts at the top.

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He literally lead them further than the 1st round last year....

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Didn't you just say like 5 minutes ago hat we should relax because we're in the drivers seat?

It's kind of easy to say you told us when you've said every possible thing.

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Stop it Man. Everyone from this forum want Pels to win, but that kind of stupid loses give some of us f...g headache.

really bad loss

The pelicans need to become more consistent. Losing today takes some of the shine away from the Toronto win. We need to go on a legit winning streak to makeup ground from the 6 game losing streak. The west is no joke and we can’t give away games we should win .

Even without Payton we are better than the Timberwolves , but you still
Gotta show up and play a full game

I'd rather have no injuries at all, but Payton is so important. We have nothing behind him. We can mask Niko being out for a bit. Gotta get Elfrid back.

We're are about to go on a tear. guys. This next stretch is mickey mouse.

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Originally Posted by Mythrol

He literally lead them further than the 1st round last year....

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The way that 2nd round went it may as well have been 1st. The Pelicans IQ as a team needs to improve. We also need more depth because being tired causes the bad decisions.

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Originally Posted by sterlr

The way that 2nd round went it may as well have been 1st. The Pelicans IQ as a team needs to improve. We also need more depth because being tired causes the bad decisions.

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That's what we call ''moving the goalposts'' there, I think.

''He couldn't even lead them further than the first round!''
''But he did lead them further than the first round.''
''Yeah but we lost the second round, so he may as well not have led us past the first round.''

That's some pretty shoddy logic.

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Originally Posted by sterlr

The way that 2nd round went it may as well have been 1st. The Pelicans IQ as a team needs to improve. We also need more depth because being tired causes the bad decisions.

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That's stupid. Golden State rolled everyone last year. Stop trying to move the goal post after being wrong.

No one will beat golden state . The goal should be to put yourself in a position to take over the west when Golden State blows up

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Originally Posted by sterlr

The way that 2nd round went it may as well have been 1st. The Pelicans IQ as a team needs to improve. We also need more depth because being tired causes the bad decisions.

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So in the 1st quarter when Jrue, AD and Moore were literally passing the ball straight to T-wolves guys, they were doing it because they were tired?

Damn, cant even get a full quarter out of our guys before they tired, how are we supposed to even play a full game??:idoh:

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Originally Posted by soggymoss

So in the 1st quarter when Jrue, AD and Moore were literally passing the ball straight to T-wolves guys, they were doing it because they were tired?

Damn, cant even get a full quarter out of our guys before they tired, how are we supposed to even play a full game??:idoh:

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AD and Moore were not the problem, in terms of turnovers. I think Moore had 2 and AD had 1. It was Jrue and Randle having 10 between them that killed.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

AD and Moore were not the problem, in terms of turnovers. I think Moore had 2 and AD had 1. It was Jrue and Randle having 10 between them that killed.

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AD didnt have any turnovers in the stat sheet, his lack of hustle in the 1st quarter contributed to a few though

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

AD and Moore were not the problem, in terms of turnovers. I think Moore had 2 and AD had 1. It was Jrue and Randle having 10 between them that killed.

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Most of the turnover issues will be alleviated once we get Payton back to run the offense.

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Originally Posted by soggymoss

AD didnt have any turnovers in the stat sheet, his lack of hustle in the 1st quarter contributed to a few though

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Sure but I think you get into muddy waters when you start discussing the metaphysics of basketball. Safer to just blame whoever chucked the ball into the crowd

Not trying to deflect from the Pels disappointing loss but last night was the night of upsets in the NBA. Raptors, Spurs, Sixers, and Jazz all lost to sub 500 teams. Season is still early folks.

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Originally Posted by DaFranchise80

Not trying to deflect from the Pels disappointing loss but last night was the night of upsets in the NBA. Raptors, Spurs, Sixers, Jazz, and Blazers all loss to sub 500 teams. Season is still early folks.

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Yeah, I think if you're about ready to throw the season away, you're overreacting. It's important not to minimise too much though: 14 games in, okay. You can still say it's early 20 games in, or 25. But eventually you have to start being concerned, and I think concern is reasonable at the minute. Complete apocalyptic doomsaying is a bit far though.