January 4th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Indiana Pacers - 4-2

[DaPelFromHell]

How did that lose that game?? Unfreakingreal!?!!!?!

[Algiersraised]

Bledsoe and jj are earning Kira some opportunities cause wow

[ramsters60]

zion starts OT we win ..SVG is obsessed with JJ

I like Van Gundy but I hope he is ready to answer some tough questions from tonight....

[sterlr]

SVG is a **************. He had Zion on the wing when he had clear advantage on Holiday the whole game. This dude is not the coach to take us where we need to be. Zion is not being used properly, SVG thinks he's old school but i beg to differ.

[PelicanNation]

jj in 33 min 1-9

[JJackisangry]

Stan needs to get on the guys tonight. You can lose a game late, but you can’t lose showing a lack of urgency. That will kill you every time. Protect the ball. Call a timeout to advance it. It’s the easy bits that let us down tonight.

[kinglio21093]

This hurt man. They played really well, and then they sucked in the last two minutes of the 4th, where it all went downhill.

[Algiersraised]

I understand trying to not ride Zion but the jj and Bledsoe playtime isn’t good for us rn ESP Bledsoe

[hornetsrebirth]

Turnovers sure but I would blame this loss on the big difference in 3 point shooting combined with poor offensive possessions in the final 2 minutes of regulation

[luckyman]

This one is on SVG. Only Lonzo and Redick in the backcourt to recieve the ball assuming Indiana would just foul.

I dont want either of them trying to handle the ball in that situation. REdick falls down for some reason and Lonzos floppy hands gets the ball taken away.

I'd much rather Ingram and Bledsoe and take my chances.

[Funcrusher]

SVG is a **************. He had Zion on the wing when he had clear advantage on Holiday the whole game. This dude is not the coach to take us where we need to be. Zion is not being used properly, SVG thinks he's old school but i beg to differ.

Was literally screaming for him to get a touch there. Nope. Ingram ISO ball.

[Fedupfan]

Wow that was a brutal coaches finish.

[sterlr]

So many mistakes late.

Completely ignoring Myles Turner on defense in OT before he fouled out.
Sitting Zion for the first 4 minutes of OT.
Ingram, as much as he had some good stuff going on, flipping the full hero ball switch.
No off-ball movement at times early in OT.

Just so much stuff gone wrong in that five minutes. Dreadful play.

SVG forgets who Zion is and forces him to play 2nd fiddle all the time. I can see Zion's lack of aggressiveness due to this.

[JJackisangry]

This one is on SVG. Only Lonzo and Redick in the backcourt to recieve the ball assuming Indiana would just foul.

I dont want either of them trying to handle the ball in that situation. REdick falls down for some reason and Lonzos floppy hands gets the ball taken away.

I'd much rather Ingram and Bledsoe and take my chances.

Yep. It was bad all around. Stan gets no pass for that one.

[Algiersraised]

Why wouldn’t jj allow them to foul knowing he shoots free throws out zo in horrible position McConnell dogged Bledsoe 5 possessions straight geez

[bustah]

Too many bad shots from BI once we got in front...

Also should of challenged that Oladipo trip

[JJackisangry]

Oh JJ. Please come back to us

[Algiersraised]

I believe Stan is just doing the popavich and letting the guys try to handle their adversity unfortunately if it ain’t Brandon we need to make a move should’ve kept George hill

[ragincaucasian]

Jj made 1 more shot than if we just wheeled a mannequin out there. Why is he getting any time whatsoever?

[DaPelFromHell]

Should of never went to OT. According to the radio broadcast BI waived off a timeout that SVG wanted to call right before they hit those two 3s. Not having Zion in OT was dumb. We had the advantage down low, but said screw that we going to take BI jump shots when he was at 37+ minutes & probably pretty tired

[Pelicanidae]

Player Names	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	fg%	3pt%	FT%	to	pf	mins
Brandon Ingram	31	4	8	1	3	12/31 (38.7%)	1/6 (16.7%)	6/6 (100%)	1	0	40
Zion Williamson	24	10	2	2	1	9/19 (47.3%)	0/0	6/8 (75%)	3	2	35
Steven Adams	10	8	0	2	0	4/7 (57.1%)	0/0	2/4 (50%)	4	4	31
Eric Bledsoe	12	11	5	0	0	4/9 (44.4%)	1/3 (33.3%)	3/4 (75%)	4	5	34
Lonzo Ball	18	6	6	0	0	7/11 (63.6%)	4/6 (66.6%)	0/0	4	5	38

Honourable mention to Hart with 10 boards.

Zion team high +18: second best in the starting 5 was Adams at +3. Worst was Ingram -6.

[luckyman]

Redick played too much and he's become a severe liability

[Nichols]

This is not about Ingram playing hero ball..

SVG has to allow Ingram to get some rest on the court in late game situations instead of having him do all the heavy lifting. Zion could be a real difference maker if they ran something for him every other play down the stretch. This would keep Ingram from being gassed, and keep opposing defenses off balance.

[Nichols]

Any attempt to make this about Ingram is ridiculous.. with that being said some of you are just being consistent I suppose. =)

[Nichols]

Redick played too much and he's become a severe liability

This sums it up.. If he doesn't turn it around it's going to hurt us this season.