March 3rd - New Orleans Pelicans vs Chicago Bulls - 15-19

[Freyfamilyreuni]

Adams has been terrible lately on both ends. His body has a lot of miles on it, so he probably takes a lot longer to heal.

On JJ's podcast Adams was complaining a bit about the amount of practice they've been putting in between games.

[Pelicanidae]

I completely agree with your point, which makes this so hard to explain:
Bledsoe:
2019-2020 all nba defense second team
2018-2019 all nba defense first team

gets to the Pels and looks like one of the worst, least interested defensive players ever.

Not that hard to explain, in my view.

1) Shouldn't have been all defense, was isolated from his mistakes by being on a historically great defense with other people taking the most difficult assignments and a heroic backline cleaning up those who beat him
2) Shouldn't have been all D first team, for similar reasons as above although to a lesser extent.

When he's on a good team, he's more engaged - this is true of most vets tbh - and when that's the case he can be a very solid defender, but he should never have been stealing those all-NBA nods from Jrue. He deserved neither of them.

[HornetGuru]

We?re trying to do everything and will accomplish less than nothing in the process.

There?s no benefit in this tactic. I don?t care if we make the playoffs. We aren?t ready to do anything once we get there. We should be running lineups with Kira, NAW, and Hayes and let them figure things out. Pop JJ and Bledsoe somewhere else and just chill the F out.

THIS, This, this. X100

[PELICANSFAN]

I completely agree with your point, which makes this so hard to explain:
Bledsoe:
2019-2020 all nba defense second team
2018-2019 all nba defense first team

gets to the Pels and looks like one of the worst, least interested defensive players ever.

Yeah, Bledsoe and Adams were expected to improve the defense and both have not been good.

[KoMikaera]

To get the best out of Adams he needs to have good recovery time, probably more than other players, because his play is so physical. He dishes out and takes a lot of contact and dives on the floor which is a big deal for a 7 footer, and tends to accumulate wear and tear and injuries and plays though them without complaining. In OKC he was overplayed at times and consequently underperformed in a couple of playoffs because his form was limited. Obviously he was carrying an injury that hasn't fully recovered vs the bulls. Maybe he should get a couple of scheduled games off for recovery and give JAx another chance with Billy.