Pelicans at Bulls 11-4-17

That Bulls possession made me hold my breath. Geez.

Big shot Nelson...

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Originally Posted by eatmoreyeah

Get the ball to AD, he's only shooting 66%

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Why would we do that? Makes too much sense

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Originally Posted by Mythrol

That Bulls possession made me hold my breath. Geez.

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Yeh I thought for sure that 3 was going in.

I'm not complaining with them stopping the game to review this. Our guys need a breather.

Put AD and Cousins in a hyperbolic chamber and leave them there until the next game.

We've scored almost as many points in this 5 minute overtime as we did the entire first quarter.

My updated wish starting roster

Nelson
Poo
Miller
Brow
Boogie

Moore first off bench

Jameer with a casual 12-5-5.

Hah auto correct- hyperbaric

I like sweeping back to backs on the road

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Originally Posted by Mythrol

Jameer with a casual 12-5-5.

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And at least 4 steals

As I did last game, here's our totals.

AD and Boogie: 52/27/4
Rest of team: 44/25/17

Good win to get back to .500

"Our offense wasn't going at all." AD with the real.

and that is how a fugly night turns into a pretty good win actually. You need these tough it out games to build character and confidence.

It was ugly, but we got it done.

Before the injuries I thought we'd be 6-4 or 7-3 right now, but after so many guys went down

I'll take 5-5 for sure.

Honestly thought we should have won our last 2 home games.

On the radio "great way to begin the road trip" boogie (exhausted) "hell yeah... I'm sorry can I say that" I like boogie... He is legit a team guy even if his low bball iq makes him seem selfish.

Highlight of the game : the “not” back court violation

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Originally Posted by Mythrol

It was ugly, but we got it done.

Before the injuries I thought we'd be 6-4 or 7-3 right now, but after so many guys went down

I'll take 5-5 for sure.

Honestly thought we should have won our last 2 home games.

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I had us 7-3, but I underestimated Memphis. 5-5 missing two starters is fine with me.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

As I did last game, here's our totals.

AD and Boogie: 52/27/4
Rest of team: 44/25/17

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At least we had jameer and Miller kick in buckets and other key stats.

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Originally Posted by wnelson

At least we had jameer and Miller kick in buckets and other key stats.

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Yeah I honestly don't mind this balance too much. Obviously I'd prefer Jrue to score more than 10 points but I think rough 50/50 is about all we can expect with starters still out.

I hope Gentry tinkers with the starting line up. Dante and Moore just aren't doing it. They both have numerous wipe open looks and never convert. What semi decent defense they sometimes play doesn't warranty them logging these heavy minutes.

.500, baby!

Two back to back road wins. Can't be down on that. Flap.

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Originally Posted by eatmoreyeah

I hope Gentry tinkers with the starting line up. Dante and Moore just aren't doing it. They both have numerous wipe open looks and never convert. What semi decent defense they sometimes play doesn't warranty them logging these heavy minutes.

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Exactly

Someone in the thread had the gall to say Moore was a good contract. I'm speechless

We have learned tonight that we can’t expect a win in any second game of a back to back this year.

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Originally Posted by wnelson

My updated wish starting roster

Nelson
Poo
Miller
Brow
Boogie

Moore first off bench

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Agreed. Bring DC off the bench as the 3/4 off the bench. It's really a toss up between Poo and Moore but I would have to give it Holiday thanks to Dell's 20 mil a year donation to him. They both suck tho.

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Originally Posted by Delko

We have learned tonight that we can’t expect a win in any second game of a back to back this year.

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To be fair, Cousins, AD and Jrue had to log far too many minutes last night because the 'others' couldn't do a damn thing last night. So cut them a bit of slack for this game.

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Originally Posted by Delko

We have learned tonight that we can’t expect a win in any second game of a back to back this year.

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Nah, I think what we learned is we can't expect a win in any back end of a back to back which follows a game in which AD and Boogie both played at least 39 minutes.

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

If you're trying to tell me playing basketball is harder on the body than being a miner/quarry worker/metalworker/brickworker/masonry/12 hour shifts in warehouses/etc, then feel free to be ignorant.

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lol yes i will continue to be ignorant lol...like i said something is wrong with you smh.......

good win by the pelicans,,i know you are angry about the win...sorry...

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Originally Posted by 6warddude

lol yes i will continue to be ignorant lol...like i said something is wrong with you smh.......

good win by the pelicans,,i know you are angry about the win...sorry...

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Either read my posts and know that I've said multiple times I don't care how we win as long as we do, or don't respond to me.

Don't @ me bro

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Originally Posted by AusPel

Don't @ me bro

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Basically

A side note I hope no one is forgetting. Despite Boogie's play overshadowing AD in the eyes of the media so far this season, Davis is still averaging 31.1/13.8/3/1.6/2.3 if you remove the 2 point game he got injured in. That's a huge statline.

This is what .500 basketball looks like. Ugly wins against poor teams and frustrating losses all over the place. If the Pelicans played like they did against Cleveland every game they would be one of the top teams in the league.

I'm happy for a win and holding at .500 for as long as possible until Rondo and Hill get back. At that point there will be something like six halfway decent (?!?) players off the bench instead of four. Plus a four time allstar at the point.

I'm a little surprised about Clark, tbh. I thought he had real sixth man potential for this team.

Offensive stats alone does not make players great. Or good. Or any level of measurement. Too many people only focus on the offensive side of things.

Well this is the same team (Bulls)that ran over a red hot Magic team last night who whipped our butts earlier last week.
So make some sense of that please. I'll give the Pels credit for the tough win tonight.

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Originally Posted by boardtown

This is what .500 basketball looks like. Ugly wins against poor teams and frustrating losses all over the place. If the Pelicans played like they did against Cleveland every game they would be one of the top teams in the league.

I'm happy for a win and holding at .500 for as long as possible until Rondo and Hill get back. At that point there will be something like six halfway decent (?!?) players off the bench instead of four. Plus a four time allstar at the point.

I'm a little surprised about Clark, tbh. I thought he had real sixth man potential for this team.

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We are 1 1/2 out of 1st place. Go Pels.

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Originally Posted by MSU-Sousaphone

Offensive stats alone does not make players great. Or good. Or any level of measurement. Too many people only focus on the offensive side of things.

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I agree but I understand why they only see offense. Offense is most noticeable to fans. Can be hard to judge good defense and intangibles sometimes.

Miller is looking confident. He plays good defense and if he keeps shooting 3s I see him helping us win more games. I’d love to see rondo out there with Nelson at sg and Jrue at SF. Or rondo Jrue and Miller. We need to hit our 3s and let jrue attack the basket. I see us being very successful because if the players outside of AD and cousins can get us 45 points we should win a lot of games. So AD and boogie should average about 55-60ppg.

Jrue: 17
Miller: 8
Nelson 9
Moore 8
Cunningham 6
Rondo: 8
Clark: 5

71ppg

71ppg plus 55-60 is 126or more


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Originally Posted by kinglio21093

I agree but I understand why they only see offense. Offense is most noticeable to fans. Can be hard to judge good defense and intangibles sometimes.

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I hear you.

But man. Going back and checking through are past games.....Butler had a decent night, McCollum did OK, the Warriors had a good night but didn't go off. Our guard play has been pretty good on the defensive end. Particularly Jrue.

MIN 6-3 (-2.4 Diff) 4H/5A
MEM 6-3 (+4.7 Diff) 6H/3A
LAC 5-3 (+6.6 Diff) 6H/2A
UTH 5-4 (+2.1 Diff) 6H/3A
POR 5-4 (+6.6 Diff) 5H/4A
SAS 5-4 (-2.0 Diff) 4H/5A
NOP 5-5 (-0.4 Diff) 4H/6A
DEN 5-5 (-0.3 Diff) 5H/5A
OKC 4-4 (+8.6 Diff) 4H/4A

The Pels are hanging in there fine.

5-5 Baby !!! I don't remember last time we were able to win b2b games... let Me think... maybe 2-3 years ago ?

Last year we lost 10 games before we won 5 games. Massive improvement this year given our depleted roster. Enjoy it!

Only half a game out of the 6th seed now. We are right where we need to be.

Also, i'm never mad at an ugly win against any team on the 2nd night of a b2b on the road. In fact, I don't care if every win is ugly as long as we win.

Allen is used to winning like this, he's been doing it for like 40 years or something.

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Originally Posted by P_B_&_G

Only half a game out of the 6th seed now. We are right where we need to be.

Also, i'm never mad at an ugly win against any team on the 2nd night of a b2b on the road. In fact, I don't care if every win is ugly as long as we win.

Allen is used to winning like this, he's been doing it for like 40 years or something.

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I agree but I dont get it why Gentry puts these kinds of minutes on AD and Boogie. We played a young team and even though Diallo has a long way to go he should've got some playing time at least in the first half. Tired Boogie made lots of mistakes and even if Diallo made many as well he would bring some energy and our main bigs would have more energy at the end of the game

I was disappointed how we ended the 4th quarter. We were in the bonus situation and instead attacking the rim we took a couple of threes. The worst one of course is the very last posession. Jrue shouldnt had the ball in his hands for the last shot any more. The shot he took wasnt the worst even though I would much rather AD attack the rim and possibly get fouled but Jrue gave them enough time to have a real shot at winning the game.

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Originally Posted by PolishFan

I agree but I dont get it why Gentry puts these kinds of minutes on AD and Boogie. We played a young team and even though Diallo has a long way to go he should've got some playing time at least in the first half. Tired Boogie made lots of mistakes and even if Diallo made many as well he would bring some energy and our main bigs would have more energy at the end of the game

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You should watch the post game interview. Gentry addressed that specific question. He basically said he has two choices, try and find rest for AD and Cousins during the game but they need to be in the game to win or play them and then try to find rest for them afterwards. He decided to go with that route since the next game wasn't until Tuesday. Said tomorrow they (AD and Cousins) weren't going to do anything.

Time to give Miller a shot at starting. He cannot be worse than DC

Didn't see the game but the highlight of AD making a block and throwing it off the guy was one of the craziest plays I've ever seen.