Blazers vs pelicans game thread

I'm curious what exactly does Naji do well?

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Originally Posted by stevemadden504

I'm curious what exactly does Naji do well?

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He's always available.

Hard to argue with that first half. Pels lead by 20, 74-54. Trey with 25 first half points, including 5-7 from three. CJ with 22 pts, 4-6 from three.

20 assists in 25 makes in the first half. First game in a long time I've seen this much side to side ball movement. Looks much more like what we saw early on in the season.

das a lot of first half points

Herb is LOOKING good!

steamrolling on the 2nd night of a back 2 back with our top 2 guys out

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Originally Posted by stevemadden504

Herb is LOOKING good!

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can say that again

3M3 and Herb stepping up big time. Let's sustain it for the rest of the year.

"Paging Jaxson Hayes. Mr. Hayes. Paging Jaxson Hayes".

jaxson hayes is effecting shots in the paint

After last night’s game, I never want to start a game thread again. Triggaaaaaaaaa

A game like this one (they don't happen everyday) and we are still on Page one of the game day thread.

Great Game...let's sustain it!!!

They need to never stop involving Trey and Herb on offense.

Trey was en fuego. Would be nice to have more consistency but damn that was fun.

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Originally Posted by neworleanshoo

Trey was en fuego. Would be nice to have more consistency but damn that was fun.

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consistency is hard to come by for even good perimeter shooters. Some nights they dont have it, and other nights they cant miss. Tonight Trey was on.

I was at the game tonight! Got super close seats through work!

Let me tell you, the interaction between the guards/forwards and Jonas is not PG. There is heat there.

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Originally Posted by AD-AT

I was at the game tonight! Got super close seats through work!

Let me tell you, the interaction between the guards/forwards and Jonas is not PG. There is heat there.

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what do you mean by that?

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Originally Posted by hornetsrebirth

what do you mean by that?

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I guess in short it seems to be a bunch of dudes yelling at Jonas for not picking up his assignments on defense. He and Herb was the one I noticed the most in Q1

For herb having to guard the best players every game and still have energy to be effective on offense is a blessing, says a lot about his endurance. Since all star he's been playing at a different level

Trey money. Thank god we needed this one bad

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Originally Posted by Fedupfan

They need to never stop involving Trey and Herb on offense.

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Trey in particular needs to be the go to guy when Zion and BI are out. I’m not saying he is particularly there yet or anybody is to blame as of right now, but he needs to become that guy. That will be our key to surviving injuries.

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Originally Posted by JJackisangry

Trey in particular needs to be the go to guy when Zion and BI are out. I’m not saying he is particularly there yet or anybody is to blame as of right now, but he needs to become that guy. That will be our key to surviving injuries.

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It works good when CJ is facilitating and conserving his energy to close out games.

As much as I loved Trey's performance tonight - and I was encouraged by Herb finally driving to the hoop instead of taking the bait shooting uncontested threes he never makes... Dyson's lack of production (and assertiveness) was disappointing.

Dyson didn’t look very good, but I think they desperately need to make him try and be a little more assertive on offense. He looks like he is just out there to run the ball down and pass. Maybe the ankle injuries have him a little nervous.

Glad to see our 2021 draft class stepping up to help CJ. I hope they can sustain this going forward.

Currently in a 4 way tie for 9th with Utah, OKC and LAL at 33-35. Important game on Tuesday.

Don't understand what method ESPN uses to decide how to list the tied teams. We have the best division record, the best conference record and the second best points differential, yet somehow we're listed last among the 4 teams. Its not alphabetical. Is it just Pels hate?

9 Utah Jazz
10 Oklahoma City Thunder
11 Los Angeles Lakers
12 New Orleans Pelicans

Hopefully they get their confidence back and that fight in them after this game.. although i would be cautious with our expectations because that blazer team without dame looked liked a worse version of the rockets.

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Originally Posted by RobertM320

Currently in a 4 way tie for 9th with Utah, OKC and LAL at 33-35. Important game on Tuesday.

Don't understand what method ESPN uses to decide how to list the tied teams. We have the best division record, the best conference record and the second best points differential, yet somehow we're listed last among the 4 teams. Its not alphabetical. Is it just Pels hate?

9 Utah Jazz
10 Oklahoma City Thunder
11 Los Angeles Lakers
12 New Orleans Pelicans

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Do we have the worst head to head record with those teams?

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Originally Posted by hornetsrebirth

Do we have the worst head to head record with those teams?

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That's got to be it. Our 0-3 vs Utah really kills us. We're 3-6, OK is 4-5, Lakers are 3-4, Jazz are 6-2

So this was explained to me on Twitter. It apparently goes by combined W/L records of all teams tied. Going 0-3 vs Utah really hurt the Pelicans (because they’re 3-1 vs OKC.)