20th January - New Orleans Pelicans @ Memphis Grizzlies - 16-27

[Nichols]

Do you have any other options?

I would have started Melli..

[Pelicanidae]

What was THAT pass, Hart? Jeeeeeeeeesus

[Nichols]

Or if you just have to go small at least send help when a big posts up. We don't double team on the block..

[Pelicanidae]

Hey look it's the 4 guard lineup, I just realised

Lovely

[kinglio21093]

I would have started Melli..

I get that but then you run the risk of having no bigs coming off the bench.

[Nichols]

Yeah, I'd have preferred a Melli sub there. I get that we're short on bigs tonight, I really do, but they're currently fielding a Clarke/Jackson duo and Hart at the 4 just isn't big enough

Agreed..

[HartOfaPelican]

Man, turnovers galore! Clean it up!

[Pelicanidae]

That's three straight possessions where they've gone right to the hoop and scored with ease

[Nichols]

I get that but then you run the risk of having no bigs coming off the bench.

Stagger their minutes.. but like I said if you have to go small at least send help on the box. We play one on one on the block.

[Pelicanidae]

It wasn't perfect but hey, after 1 we're up. So I'll take it.

[Tinman]

It wasn't perfect but hey, after 1 we're up. So I'll take it.

Moore couldn't guard a high school player.

[Pelicanidae]

Moore couldn't guard a high school player.

He's not very good at very much.

[Pelicanidae]

You'd have to assume Jrue and Jax are back soon.

[AusPel]

Melli could be a weapon

[Nichols]

If we're going to make a push for the play-offs and hope to have any success while in it.. We need to have a healthy favors in the lineup. I don't know much about his injury history, but it hasn't been good this season.

[PelicanNation]

wow melli

[Pelicanidae]

If we're going to make a push for the play-offs and hope to have any success while in it.. We need to have a healthy favors in the lineup. I don't know much about his injury history, but it hasn't been good this season.

It's strange, he's definitely not some 82 game iron man every year, but he played at least 76 games in each of the last two years. In each of the last two years, he never missed more than 4 consecutive games.

Yet this year, the maximum number of games he can appear it is 64, and he missed 12 games in a row (although part of that was not injury, we understand).

Hopefully he'll be more stable as the year goes on. Since coming back from that big 12 game absence, he hasn't missed more than 2 consecutive games so with any luck that's a sign of improvement.

[AusPel]

Never doubted you Melli

[As I See It]

10 of 18 from 3

[Pelicanidae]

Never doubted you Melli

Next level coaching from Gentry: he has purposely avoided playing Melli for any real time until now, explicitly so that Memphis would be taken by surprise.

Genius Gentry.

[kinglio21093]

Lmao Solo.

[Pelicanidae]

Wacky reverse finish by NAW

[AusPel]

Is Caron just going to talk the whole game

[PelicanNation]

this game is ugly

[Nichols]

It's strange, he's definitely not some 82 game iron man every year, but he played at least 76 games in each of the last two years. In each of the last two years, he never missed more than 4 consecutive games.

Yet this year, the maximum number of games he can appear it is 64, and he missed 12 games in a row (although part of that was not injury, we understand).

Hopefully he'll be more stable as the year goes on. Since coming back from that big 12 game absence, he hasn't missed more than 2 consecutive games so with any luck that's a sign of improvement.

Yea hopefully that is the case.. He's not the best player on this squad but he's the most important.