February 25th - New Orleans Pelicans @ New York Knicks - 30-30

Game day in the Big Apple 🍎

🕡: 6:30pm CT
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— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) February 25, 2023

Let?s go boys! How about y?all just move a little this game and CJ needs to pass from the start and not late on the 4th.

I will not be able to stomach Mitchell Robinson going off for 20 and 15 tonight.

Zion's health is a major problem and much worse than AD ever was

Also, if Trey gets a full time handle, he's gonna be a big problem

That crossover and dish he had v Raptors was sick

No excuses, we know how good he can be

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Originally Posted by AusPel

Zion's health is a major problem and much worse than AD ever was

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This!!!

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Originally Posted by As I See It

This!!!

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Yeah you've been right about Zion so far

the ghost of julius randle....

I like Randle. Seems a humble guy

Reading up on what assets/capital we've spent on the centre position by way of Jonas, Adams and Favors (and Jax!) is just heartbreaking and so illogical

It's been a guard/wing driven league for 7 or 8 years, yet Griff wants to double down on the 5

How is this even legal

We needed Stern to jump in and veto again

Lol Herb

Just trade

We can't keep sinking in the 1st like this. It's always a 10 point hole 5 min in

BI in his bag

Thank God for him

One simple fix for this offense is that when BI is in iso guys need to MOVE! If he picks up his dribble then cut to the basket. He is good enough on the dish to find you.

Our guys will legit watch him pivot 7 times and do nothing. It's ridiculous.

Herb got smashed

no foul

I love how Herb Jones plays; Herb Jones has to sit.

Both completely true statements

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Originally Posted by AusPel

Reading up on what assets/capital we've spent on the centre position by way of Jonas, Adams and Favors (and Jax!) is just heartbreaking and so illogical

It's been a guard/wing driven league for 7 or 8 years, yet Griff wants to double down on the 5

How is this even legal

We needed Stern to jump in and veto again

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this one of the reasons why i wanted to draft JA....i wanted us to have a lead guard after building around AD and failing to get a good guard outside of jrue.....i believed that JA, jrue and ingram would of had us in the playoffs that year....give zion to memphis and get every 1st round pick we was allowed to receive.....didnt know if lonzo could have been traded then but would have traded lonzo to memphis or someone else.....jrue still probably still would have ask to be traded and had received picks from him......

use the memphis picks,,lakers picks and picks from jrue to build around JA and ingram...now it seem like those 2 would have been hurt also lol but we should of had enough depth to overcome games those 2 would have missed.....also depend on if griff would have picked up the right players to go around JA and ingram....

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Originally Posted by 6warddude

this one of the reasons why i wanted to draft JA....i wanted us to have a lead guard after building around AD and failing to get a good guard outside of jrue.....i believed that JA, jrue and ingram would of had us in the playoffs that year....give zion to memphis and get every 1st round pick we was allowed to receive.....didnt know if lonzo could have been traded then but would have traded lonzo to memphis or someone else.....jrue still probably still would have ask to be traded and had received picks from him......

use the memphis picks,,lakers picks and picks from jrue to build around JA and ingram...now it seem like those 2 would have been hurt also lol but we should of had enough depth to overcome games those 2 would have missed.....also depend on if griff would have picked up the right players to go around JA and ingram....

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I don't know what put Ja ahead of Zion for you, but that's one timeline I won't lose sleep over

Zion was seen as the best prospect since Bron

Another game, another big early deficit.

Ingram has a (somewhat contested) layup but says "nope, I wanna pivot out and take a way harder shot" "I'm not gonna use my huge wingspan to score"

LeSigh

Wish we had Tatum

These 1st quarters are pathetic and it's getting really hard to keep these games on. Again, Willie get your team right. We have the youngest, longest wings in the league and we are the worst at defending 3s. It's dumb

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Originally Posted by AD-AT

These 1st quarters are pathetic and it's getting really hard to keep these games on. Again, Willie get your team right. We have the youngest, longest wings in the league and we are the worst at defending 3s. It's dumb

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Let's not play Dyson and Trey, our most promising wings

That would be silly

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Originally Posted by AusPel

I don't know what put Ja ahead of Zion for you, but that's one timeline I won't lose sleep over

Zion was seen as the best prospect since Bron

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With six years of injury history in the rearview mirror as the benchmark, looks like we will be playing 40% to 50% of every regular season going forward for the next five season (at best) with only 70% of our salary cap at our disposal.

We look bad

teams just cant miss against us for a good period of time..dont understand it

Joel Meyers: "A seventeen point deficit...didn't see this coming".

Me: "What have you been watching?"

20 point defecit

:hihi:

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Originally Posted by AusPel

I don't know what put Ja ahead of Zion for you, but that's one timeline I won't lose sleep over

Zion was seen as the best prospect since Bron

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i get zion was the man but i was looking at addition by subtraction in new orleans...we had the label that stars didnt want to come here so you take one star to get multiple stars to go with ingram....i was looking at it as a way for a small market team team to get stars and good depth...JA,ingram plus a gang of memphis 1st,,,lakers picks,,picks from jrue...to me it would have been easy to get a 3rd and 4th top player and good role players by giving up zion for JA...

It?s time to shake up this coaching staff. This defense is beyond woeful. One of the most important aspects in today?s NBA is 3 point defense. We are beyond horrible at defending the 3. The Knicks are in the bottom third of the league in 3 point percentage, and we leave them wide open for 3-pointer after 3-pointer, building the Knicks? confidence from deep. Teams feel like the Splash Brothers against us. It?s a recurring story all year. And this deficiency will likely cost us another game tonight.

Nance brings what that Hayes doesn't?

The cynic in me wants to go back and just get Nance from that Port deal and keep Hart on this team lol

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Originally Posted by AD-AT

The cynic in me wants to go back and just get Nance from that Port deal and keep Hart on this team lol

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I shed tears when Hart went

Either all those wise sages who were giddy over the depth on this team were wrong or Willie has been exposed.

Where's Kira?

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Originally Posted by As I See It

Either all those wise sages who were giddy over the depth on this team were wrong or Willie has been exposed.

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Healthy Zion covers a lot of the cracks

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Originally Posted by AusPel

Healthy Zion covers a lot of the cracks

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The first two words of your statement is an oxymoron.

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Originally Posted by As I See It

The first two words of your statement is an oxymoron.

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A large part of this deficit is our shot selection. If you aren't hitting 3s... stop shooting them

Richardson very solid on both ends

Kind of guy you need on the team

I don't understand these rules at all. How is that not an automatic flagrant 1? We've been hit with it for less than that.

No Dyson, Kira, or Jax in a game where the other players aren’t interested in being at. Willie has lost this team.

The Knick played last night and have much more energy. It’s crazy to see how little these guys care to play now. I don’t know when they decided to tank it, but these losses are inexcusable.

Alvin Gentry teams were fun as f*ck to watch offensively

Just give me that back

Willie can’t coach at all, so he tries to motivate and that seems to have disappeared. I think they are pretty much on their way to the lottery.

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Originally Posted by Fedupfan

Willie can’t coach at all, so he tries to motivate and that seems to have disappeared. I think they are pretty much on their way to the lottery.

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I don't even know what the hope is anymore this season

Probably Trey and Dyson to get as many reps as possible

Without Z we look bad it’s a shame how bad we look definitely should’ve been more active during trade deadline

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Originally Posted by Algiersraised

Without Z we look bad it’s a shame how bad we look definitely should’ve been more active during trade deadline

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Brass didn't want to dip into tax

Someone like Poeltl would have been great

i forgot hart was traded to new york..but i guess this team is still in after allstar week hangover gear..

If Trey could just get a tight handle he'd be amazing

We need a Chauncey billups type player someone who will knock down open looks but knows to facilitate the offense and help teammates get open looks

Losing by 30 is not cool B.I definitely falls behind Zion where z returns