May 10th - New Orleans Pelican @ Memphis Grizzlies - 31-37

It's weird being on the 21 side of a 21-5 quarter

Gonna bang my head up the wall

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Gonna bang my head up the wall

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This is like Inception level of low IQ basketball.

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Originally Posted by Taker597

This is like Inception level of low IQ basketball.

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The New Orleans Pelicans are the most transcendentally frustrating team in all of basketball.

We play a Lovecraftian brand of ball. Logic is dead here.

Atlanta beat Washington and Indy beat Cleveland.

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Originally Posted by As I See It

Atlanta beat Washington and Indy beat Cleveland.

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And the Spurs are up 18 on the Bucks going into the 4th.

A Washington win would have been preferable, but if we lose tonight most of our optimal outcomes are on track to have happened.

Bledsoe with the dumb decision again.

Lonzo with the lazy D

Lonzo and Bledsoe masters of the tank, they deserve praise

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Lonzo and Bledsoe masters of the tank, they deserve praise

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They’re the real MVPs

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

The New Orleans Pelicans are the most transcendentally frustrating team in all of basketball.

We play a Lovecraftian brand of ball. Logic is dead here.

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So... We came back from a double digit deficit to blow a sizeable lead to tying it up and choking in the clutch of a game that only hurts us if we win....

Just want to point out that Jax being 3/3 from 3 means he leads the team tonight in made 3s lmao

Champion

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Originally Posted by Pelicanidae

Lonzo and Bledsoe masters of the tank, they deserve praise

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Yea they were featured on the "Battlezone" game.

We saw Jax Curry tonight. That is good enough for me

I blame this game on the coach. His line up decisions cost us this game. Jaxon is young and should’ve been in a long time ago when hernangomez was getting abused constantly on defense.

Good loss. And JAX from 3!!!

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Originally Posted by AtlPelsFan

I blame this game on the coach. His line up decisions cost us this game. Jaxon is young and should’ve been in a long time ago when hernangomez was getting abused constantly on defense.

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Why do you want to win? TF

The perfect loss. Close, competitive game with good minutes from the youth in Jax and NAW, but ultimately we lose.

And the Spurs are up 25 on the Bucks with only 6 minutes to go.

Imagine if Jax and Nickeil came in to next season as good 3 point shooters.

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Originally Posted by AtlPelsFan

I blame this game on the coach. His line up decisions cost us this game. Jaxon is young and should’ve been in a long time ago when hernangomez was getting abused constantly on defense.

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We were not winning this game against Memphis’ backcourt.

We got to get rid of Bledsoe next year. Don't need Vets making silly mistakes.

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Originally Posted by Pelifan

Imagine if Jax and Nickeil came in to next season as good 3 point shooters.

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Nickeil, I think, will. He was 35% on 2.8 a game last year, this season he's maintained the efficiency on close to double the volume, and over his last 15 games he's shot 40.0% from 3 on 6.7 per game. I think he'll be solid.

Jax, I don't know if he will be good necessarily, but he's shown enough signs for me to believe he could at least start taking them. He might only hit 32% of them or something next year on one or two a game, but the first step to being an actively good shooter is beginning to actually take the shots.

Also - if Sacramento, New Orleans and San Antonio all finished tied somehow, San Antonio would still win the tiebreaker in that scenario.

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) May 11, 2021

This loss, combined with the Spurs win, basically make us out of the play in now, for real.

We would have to win out, and they would have to lose out, for us to make it. Anything less would not work. The odds of that happening are minuscule.

Well, it took Zion BI Adams and Hart all sitting out, but the Grizzlies finally beat the Zion era Pelicans in a one possession game with less than a minute left. Salute

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) May 11, 2021

Lmao

So I'm guessing about 4 minutes away from being officially out of the play in. **ok not quite

Also, again, if NAW is a starting guard next year I'm very good with that. I dont know what else he needs to do to prove thats what he is.

He has things to work on as any young player, but he is legitimately much better than Lonzo/Bledsoe.