April 28th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Phoenix Suns - GAME 6 - 3-2

Damn cj well let’s hope Zion come back he will be a great 3rd option

This is why you don't use your challenge on random questionable stuff in the third quarter

Get a stop

Nance, wow

We just couldn't figure out chris paul

gotta deny CP3 the inbound, make anyone else shoot the free throws.

Turnovers again kill this team. It's like they aren't even trying to address this issue...among other issues...

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

This is why you don't use your challenge on random questionable stuff in the third quarter

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Yea, that was a bad decision by Willie.

This is ridiculous

I mean Chris definitely intentionally elbowed him. Like history tells us that.

All the losses beside game one should have been a win I hope this team isn’t looking for morale victories we should have won , graham has to go maybe packaged with first pick

Your starting line up on the 3rd killed you. You can't act like this is a regular season game.

It's fine.

Draft Mathurin or Sharpe
Get Zion back
Dump Hayes, Temple, and Graham
Figure out where Kira fits, because he's not a shooter. Which is almost a no go.

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Originally Posted by Algiersraised

All the losses beside game one should have been a win I hope this team isn’t looking for morale victories we should have won , graham has to go maybe packaged with first pick

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The knee-jerkiest of all possible reactions.

We're a 9th seed missing our best player and we took a 64 win 1 seed to 6 games, and made them struggle for every win. We're fine. Sure nobody wants to lose and there are mistakes you can point to, but the fact that we are even playing in this game in the first place is a sign of intense accomplishment over the last few weeks.

Experience + Zion and we should be way better next year

Add a top 10 draft pick

Subtract the dead weight like Temple and Graham

We are in a good place.

Damn I wish they hadnt zoomed in on Zion at the end of the game lol

Straight up, two things lost us this game.

1) The big one, running the starting lineup with Jax for 6 minutes to start the 3rd. Totally poured away the entire lead in that time.
2) Smaller factor, but that weird use of the challenge in the 3rd.

Oh well. There are certainly things to be bitter about, and I certainly will be for a little while, but I'm pleased with how our season finished up.

This is why we need a legitimate 1. This point guard by committee stuff is not the ticket.

I do like the respect both teams are showing, and I'm glad the guys in the stadium are applauding. Nothing personal in it, just fighting it out. We gave them all they could handle.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

The knee-jerkiest of all possible reactions.

We're a 9th seed missing our best player and we took a 64 win 1 seed to 6 games, and made them struggle for every win. We're fine. Sure nobody wants to lose and there are mistakes you can point to, but the fact that we are even playing in this game in the first place is a sign of intense accomplishment over the last few weeks.

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Not only that, but this is a newly put together team. Larry Nance and CJ been here for 2 months. The rookies didnt get minutes until the 2nd half of the year.

They achieved this on the fly.

This same team with a full season together would be a 6th seed at worst. Without Zion.


Now let's just have a quiet offseason with no bad surprises and build on this.

Stating the obvious, but this team needs reliable 3pt shooters.
They have one and he is a rookie.

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Originally Posted by luckyman

Not only that, but this is a newly put together team. Larry Nance and CJ been here for 2 months. The rookies didnt get minutes until the 2nd half of the year.

They achieved this on the fly.

This same team with a full season together would be a 6th seed at worst. Without Zion.


Now let's just have a quiet offseason with no bad surprises and build on this.

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For real. Get Zion back, do something sensible with that Lakers pick, and come back stronger next year.

Proud of the team.

Willie's gotta get better as a coach esp w/ adjustments and rotations.
CJ has to be the 3rd guy b/c he clearly can't be the #2.
Gotta work w/ Jax or get rid of him.
Gotta get rid of Devonte and get a true pg who can facilitate.

We definitely made them feel us. It's going to be an interesting off season

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Originally Posted by As I See It

This is why we need a legitimate 1. This point guard by committee stuff is not the ticket.

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Malcolm brogdon is available

I honestly think someone like Kira has the speed and just enough length to bother Chris Paul even more.

The man went 14 - 14 and they needed all of that.

But that is incredible.

Doesn't help when CP3 was 100% from the field 14/14.
He is just so clutch.

CP3 in this post-game

''Man, you have no clue how emotional every game here has been. Willie being my brother, someone I talk to about everything, seeing his son sitting on the baseline. It's a good win for us. There's a reason he's the coach here. There hasn't been this much energy here for a long time.''

''This city raised me, man.'' Gives praise to a family he knows in New Orleans who. Dapping up Pelicans mid-interview.

''It's emotional, this is home for me. I root for this team when I'm not playing against them.''

I’m a grown a** man. I just cried like a hungry infant. To see the emotion from Willie because he knows they got screwed is hard to see.

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

Stating the obvious, but this team needs reliable 3pt shooters.
They have one and he is a rookie.

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CJ is a top tier 3 point shooter. He just didnt show it this series

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Originally Posted by Speakthetruth

Malcolm brogdon is available

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He would fit well with zion in street clothes... very good player but injury prone

Man. That was sad. We fought. But Chris Paul did not miss.

We need a starting pg Ingram at the two her at the 3 Zion at the 4 Jonas at the 5 cj playing all the minutes we tried to give to graham and be our 6th man manu ginobili style; I’m disappointed truly believed the whole series we could take them

Those tears were from playing graham

Mr p3rkins coming on tv saying ingram is the best player in this series fired up Paul im sure

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The officiating was horrendous. All things considered they are still the better team, but I hate how the officials rub our noses in the dirt and make it even more challenging to take an already difficult series. Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I just didn't factor in CJ being as bad as he was. I mean 4 games and he was pretty bad.
Still like the guy but my goodness.

Ingram just needs to keep doing his thing we will have a well balanced team if Zion and incoming pick get with the program

If you'd described this series, and the way this team played, to me before it started and asked if I'd be happy with that. The answer is yes.

Proud of the team. And I think the experience the got from this series will be immensely useful moving forward.

Phoenix played damn near perfect basketball and we almost beat them.

Took a once in a lifetime game from CP3 to stop this going to game 7.

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Originally Posted by Algiersraised

We need a starting pg Ingram at the two her at the 3 Zion at the 4 Jonas at the 5 cj playing all the minutes we tried to give to graham and be our 6th man manu ginobili style; I’m disappointed truly believed the whole series we could take them

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maybe with Zion back in the point forward role it will be a better fit for CJ and Ingram as the backcourt. I love his game but agree CJ is not ideal for facilitating the offense. I like Alvarado as the 6th man :)

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Originally Posted by PELSGIRL

I just didn't factor in CJ being as bad as he was. I mean 4 games and he was pretty bad.
Still like the guy but my goodness.

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The hope for cj would be he could settle in as a number 3

Jokes aside, really proud of this team! This experience will be a huge boost for our future!

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Originally Posted by hornetsrebirth

Damn I wish they hadnt zoomed in on Zion at the end of the game lol

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That would be awesome but I think he maybe a weak link on defense and if Zion don’t improve that won’t be good on that side

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Originally Posted by Impose

If you'd described this series, and the way this team played, to me before it started and asked if I'd be happy with that. The answer is yes.

Proud of the team. And I think the experience the got from this series will be immensely useful moving forward.

Phoenix played damn near perfect basketball and we almost beat them.

Took a once in a lifetime game from CP3 to stop this going to game 7.

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yeah this result was well above expectations, huge performance by the pels with massive minutes going to rookies too. from where this season started to where it ended, massive turn around and hats off to the team.

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Originally Posted by JJackisangry

The officiating was horrendous. All things considered they are still the better team, but I hate how the officials rub our noses in the dirt and make it even more challenging to take an already difficult series. Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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I don’t think they are. All of the Pels losses came from the refs taking the Pelicans momentum. It happened in this game 3 times alone. I’m not a homer at all when it comes to talent, but the Pels are better than the Suns. We will see that next year

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Originally Posted by PaKwAn

Jokes aside, really proud of this team! This experience will be a huge boost for our future!

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And the draft is in less than 2 months!!!

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Originally Posted by PaKwAn

Those tears were from playing graham

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Yeah, Willie has to stop stuff like this. Playing Jax was too much and we lost that lead, then bringing in Graham too much just like earlier we lost alot of games b/c he had to play Temple. Somebody (maybe Monty) has to talk to him about not doing this. Going w/the hot hand and not worrying about playing your veteran guys. Makes no sense. He is a rookie coach so he will fix this. (prayers hands up). Lol.

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Originally Posted by hornetsrebirth

CJ is a top tier 3 point shooter. He just didnt show it this series

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He isn't in the playoffs.
Teams with length kill him every time.
Sure when he has the space, playing with Zion he will be better, but he had open 3's he should have knocked down this series.

Anyway, i'm not knocking him, he is great for this team.

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Originally Posted by PELSGIRL

I just didn't factor in CJ being as bad as he was. I mean 4 games and he was pretty bad.
Still like the guy but my goodness.

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Yeah CJ was very poor. It’s not a shock as Portland usually went out with a whimper every time they made playoffs despite getting good seeds here and there. Mentality changes once you hit the postseason