Game Thread: Pelicans (3-2) vs. Cavaliers (2-3)

lmfao

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Originally Posted by Asteptooslow

We lost fair and square. They were short two guards.

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But up 3 refs.

Not even mad about this loss game was rigid, and I don't even like to claim that. The NBA needed the cavs to get their home win.

LBJ took 3 less FT shots than our ENTIRE TEAM

I'm a homer too but I saw Davis climb over love's back and then get the foul. They took the momentum away. We had our chances refs or not. We missed some easy shots. Next we will be blaming Jimmer for the loss.

The team played tuff, the Cavs just have so many weapons. If play like we did tonight by Saturday we will be 5-3 :)

Man Tyreke had a bad game.. Can someone tell him to stop forcing things and let the game come to him?
Big next two games, and i say that because if we lose ONE of them, i can see our team going backwards from here on.

Free Jimmer.

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Originally Posted by JimmerTime

Free Jimmer.

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They should. He sucks.

Feel free to save it for anytime you fall into sympathizing with the media narrative about Lebron James:

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264h...P_r1ZHJ..9zVRA

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Originally Posted by N.O.Bronco

Feel free to save it for anytime you fall into sympathizing with the media narrative about Lebron James:

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264h...P_r1ZHJ..9zVRA

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And "fans" on this board are saying he flopped.

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Originally Posted by JimmerTime

Free Jimmer.

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His game is actually quite improved. His ortg is down (maybe on account of how well our bench performs) but his dtrg has never been better.

I like how we are using him right now.

I don't complain about officiating often cause it is a cowardice excuse most of the time but holy **** was this a ****ing disgusting display tonight by Crawford.

Lebron stiff arms gordon and shoves him to the ground while driving to the hoop, nothing.

Lebron charges jrue, nothing

Rivers gets grabbed and punched in the face, nothing

Lebron pushes davis in the back while he is driving, nothing.

Lebron discontinues his dribble as Crawford is staring right ****ing at him! Nothing.

Lebron lowers his shoulder and literally blindsides jrue with a shoulder check off the ball, knocking him flat to the ground. ****ing nothing.


....I'm officially back on the **** Lebron bandwagon. Love, I hope the rumors are true, go to the Lakers please. Lebron, I hope you get an infected needle on your next HGH shot while Delonte West tag teams your wife and mother you piece of ****.

Post of the year.

Espn is selling Cavs hard after this game. LBJ's awakening as it were.

What a joke.

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Originally Posted by JimmerTime

I don't complain about officiating often cause it is a cowardice excuse most of the time but holy **** was this a ****ing disgusting display tonight by Crawford.

Lebron stiff arms gordon and shoves him to the ground while driving to the hoop, nothing.

Lebron charges jrue, nothing

Rivers gets grabbed and punched in the face, nothing

Lebron pushes davis in the back while he is driving, nothing.

Lebron discontinues his dribble as Crawford is staring right ****ing at him! Nothing.

Lebron lowers his shoulder and literally blindsides jrue with a shoulder check off the ball, knocking him flat to the ground. ****ing nothing.


....I'm officially back on the **** Lebron bandwagon. Love, I hope the rumors are true, go to the Lakers please. Lebron, I hope you get an infected needle on your next HGH shot while Delonte West tag teams your wife and mother you piece of ****.

Post of the year.

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Lebron knew not to try that -ish on Jimmer though

Lebron did get called for running someone over at the beginning of the game. It is just tuff beating a team with Irving, love and James. We couldn't stop them with some really long defenders. I don't think the refs were great by the way. We can be brilliant if we get a bench. A second pg would be nice. It isn't Rivers. That is fools gold right there dude. He is getting some value so move the guy.

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Originally Posted by speedyG

Lebron knew not to try that -ish on Jimmer though

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Jimmer would beat the brakes off of Lebron.

Wow I wanna say that the PELS look good. I'm serious. We are going to build this team as the year goes on and I think we'll be able to beat anyone.


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Originally Posted by pelicanchamp

Wow I wanna say that the PELS look good. I'm serious. We are going to build this team as the year goes on and I think we'll be able to beat anyone.


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The one worry with this team I have is the depth of our bench.

There another fend of by lebron on Jrue when he was on offense, there was a flop by Jrue there, but not on that vine sequence.

This isn't 2012, AD rookie year Hornets. I can take some good away with a good performance, but when we play like that and lose, I'm gonna be upset and disappointed, rather than optimistic.

Man. We gotta stagger one of Gordon/Reke/Jrue and give Austin more minutes until Jimmer shows ANYTHING. Hopefully he gets them to start falling but right now he doesn't look like he deserves a minute.

I counted at least 5 blatant offensive fouls by Lebron that weren't called, plus Rivers getting smacked with no call, and the 3 free throws for Lebron on the sweep-through below his waist that at best should have been ball in on the side. That travel call on Asik looked bogus as well. The Cavs committed way more obvious fouls and shot 10 more free throws. The worst part is that they will get the same calls when they are at our house......

I know we could have made more layups and defended Love better and still overcome the 3-man deficit, but you can't defend James when any proximity to His body draws a whistle.

I think Monty is channeling his inner Pops. Trying to experiment this early part of the season, especially with the bench.

Waiting for the John Salmons DNPs and Withey to get some meaningful minutes. Why in the world didn't Ajinca at least play against a small team like the Cavs?

Hoping for a split on this road swing. Success!

Over the next ten games( up to the thunder game) I can definitely see us going 9-1 or 8-2 (at Portland) is the only game I really see us losing.
This is a very good team and once Eric Gordon gets back to atleast 80% of the player he once was than we will be very difficult to stop. IMO if our guards ever figure it out we will only be a few solid bench peices away from a surprise contender in the west.

I do have to say that Monty has improved in strides from last year. And besides a couple of things. I have zero complaints with how he handle that game. Only wish he would start calling out the refs for garbage like that.

These sorts of games make me miss CP3, he would get you quality looks in crunch time (had a few brain farts by our guards in the 4th), and he would also get some superstar calls that would even it up a bit more.

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Originally Posted by hornetstime247

Over the next ten games( up to the thunder game) I can definitely see us going 9-1 or 8-2 (at Portland) is the only game I really see us losing.
This is a very good team and once Eric Gordon gets back to atleast 80% of the player he once was than we will be very difficult to stop. IMO if our guards ever figure it out we will only be a few solid bench peices away from a surprise contender in the west.

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I see a schedule that won't quit.

@Portland, @Sacramento b2b= tough
@Utah, @Denver (altitude b2b) = tough
@Atlanta, @Washington b2b = tough

Go .500 is all I ask right now.

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Originally Posted by luckyman

Why in the world didn't Ajinca at least play against a small team like the Cavs?

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Did you really want to see even more free throws?

Utah and Denver are awful.. Washington is the most overrated team in basketball and without Beal they are very very beatable ( see what a great raptors team did to them), atlanta is mediocre.

Over the last two weeks we have played 4 of the best 5 teams in bball(gsw being only exception IMO) and although we only came out 1-3 in those games all of them were there for the taking despite some really bad guard play.. I still think this team is much better than many people think and I see this team as being one of those teams that is just beats up on the bad and mediocre teams. We just don't have a) the depth, b) the mental toughness and c) the experience to be a great team right now that is up there with the 5 teams I mentioned.

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Originally Posted by JimmerTime

Jimmer would beat the brakes off of Lebron.

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I second this. Jimmer played ball in prison. While Akron might look like a prison (or something out of Mad Max) it is no prison.

Seems Waiters being hurt might have aided Cavs victory tonight. Looks like Cleveland went with a playoff rotation (Love/James/Irving all 40 minutes). Monty stuck to the usual script outside of AD.

Hey atleast they got the confetti out like they just won the chip lmao now that pathetic and you needed 30 and 30 and 10 more free throws to beat us yeeea you aren't that good get the hell outta here it's crazy how last year the cavs would'nt of cotten is half the calls they did and yet boom there they are #5on8andstillcouldofwon

Cavs big three combined for 86 points and 61 of their 67 2nd half points..sometimes it's just too good

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Originally Posted by luckyman

I see a schedule that won't quit.

@Portland, @Sacramento b2b= tough
@Utah, @Denver (altitude b2b) = tough
@Atlanta, @Washington b2b = tough

Go .500 is all I ask right now.

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Think 4-2 is realistic

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Originally Posted by N.O.Bronco

Feel free to save it for anytime you fall into sympathizing with the media narrative about Lebron James:

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264h...P_r1ZHJ..9zVRA

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I remember that play... and late in the game he ran over EG (I think) and scored. No charge call. It was friggin ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Mr. West

Man. We gotta stagger one of Gordon/Reke/Jrue and give Austin more minutes until Jimmer shows ANYTHING. Hopefully he gets them to start falling but right now he doesn't look like he deserves a minute.

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Jimmer shot 50% and played well. We let the Cavs shoot 50% as a team. I don't think Kyrie and lebron would have scored anymore no matter who was taking him.

We can't ecpect Anderson to shoot like that every game.

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...830af79e39.jpg

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Originally Posted by DroopyDawg

I remember that play... and late in the game he ran over EG (I think) and scored. No charge call. It was friggin ridiculous.

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On espn.com the highlights show the dunk where LBJ pushes off (right before dunking) and they even say "King James gets away with possibly a push off." Yet they still call it a highlight.

Wth?

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

On espn.com the highlights show the dunk where LBJ pushes off (right before dunking) and they even say "King James gets away with possibly a push off." Yet they still call it a highlight.

Wth?

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Its ESPN... I expect nothing less.

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Originally Posted by luckyman

I see a schedule that won't quit.

@Portland, @Sacramento b2b= tough
@Utah, @Denver (altitude b2b) = tough
@Atlanta, @Washington b2b = tough

Go .500 is all I ask right now.

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I say Sacramento, Utah, Denver, Atlanta and Washington should be wins.
Sacramento will come back to earth after their great start, Utah and Denver are off to horrid starts and Washington have had the easiest start to a schedule ever.

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

On espn.com the highlights show the dunk where LBJ pushes off (right before dunking) and they even say "King James gets away with possibly a push off." Yet they still call it a highlight.

Wth?

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Well its a highlight of the **** Lebron gets away with, I'll give it to them.

You know something's wrong with Eric Gordon is shooting a higher % form 3 than Jimmer at 19%. Needs to get out of this funk. Really can use 3pt shooting off the bench when Ryno has off nights.

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Originally Posted by RaisingTheBar

You know something's wrong with Eric Gordon is shooting a higher % form 3 than Jimmer at 19%. Needs to get out of this funk. Really can use 3pt shooting off the bench when Ryno has off nights.

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He is open a lot on drives but they don't or won't look for him. They don't seem to like him from the reaction on the bench. Jrue avoided shaking his hand. Make him part of a trade to another team if they don't like him.

I did see Anderson say good pass to him. I like that he can shoot off the dribble I guess.


Still think we should let him work with Davis more before D gets subbed out.

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Originally Posted by hornetstime247

Utah and Denver are awful.. Washington is the most overrated team in basketball and without Beal they are very very beatable ( see what a great raptors team did to them), atlanta is mediocre.

Over the last two weeks we have played 4 of the best 5 teams in bball(gsw being only exception IMO) and although we only came out 1-3 in those games all of them were there for the taking despite some really bad guard play.. I still think this team is much better than many people think and I see this team as being one of those teams that is just beats up on the bad and mediocre teams. We just don't have a) the depth, b) the mental toughness and c) the experience to be a great team right now that is up there with the 5 teams I mentioned.

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If we can stay focused AND Healthy we should do better than 500

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Originally Posted by UNO Gracias

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hahahaha I love it

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Originally Posted by Asteptooslow

He is open a lot on drives but they don't or won't look for him. They don't seem to like him from the reaction on the bench. Jrue avoided shaking his hand. Make him part of a trade to another team if they don't like him.

I did see Anderson say good pass to him. I like that he can shoot off the dribble I guess.


Still think we should let him work with Davis more before D gets subbed out.

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Yep this is it exactly :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Asteptooslow

He is open a lot on drives but they don't or won't look for him. They don't seem to like him from the reaction on the bench. Jrue avoided shaking his hand. Make him part of a trade to another team if they don't like him.

I did see Anderson say good pass to him. I like that he can shoot off the dribble I guess.


Still think we should let him work with Davis more before D gets subbed out.

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Of course. Jimmer playing bad, must be the other players on the team causing it. They prob think the guy is fine but hate his fans like all of us here.

What is up with Reke and him finishing?

Sooooooo Ryan Anderson bought his season 3pt percentage up to 42.5% in one game...lol