March 18th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Portland Trailblazers - 17-23

[Pelicanidae]

#PelicansGameday back in Portland

🏀 at Portland
🕘 9 p.m. CT
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— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) March 18, 2021

Uh...

Take two?

[luckyman]

Line was -2 in for the first game, which surprised me. It's -1 for this one.

[KoMikaera]

Strategy: get far enough ahead to survive a cataclysmic fourth quarter implosion.

Simple.

[Taker597]

Strategy: get far enough ahead to survive a cataclysmic fourth quarter implosion.

Simple.

*Scratches out 17 point lead with 6 minutes left*

*Writes 18 point lead*

[JJackisangry]

Strategy: get far enough ahead to survive a cataclysmic fourth quarter implosion.

Simple.

This almost has to be the strategy from now on. Dear me. We can’t feel safe unless we are up by 25

[PaKwAn]

Brandon "the magician" ingram and his disappearing acts, now showing tonight...

[KoMikaera]

This almost has to be the strategy from now on. Dear me. We can’t feel safe unless we are up by 25

Yeah I feel 25 is about right entering the fourth today, especially their ability to close out a game, Dame totally clutch. Might be wrong though, 25 could be a bit light ... lol

[PelicanNation]

Bledsoe is so trash

[Eman5805]

Bledsoe’s not even touching the rim.

[6warddude]

our starting back court is looking out of it early...

[6warddude]

so fouls not going to be called tonight lol..

[As I See It]

Portland is a terrible matchup for Adams.

[BigChris504]

Man we aren't getting any foul calls at all!!!

[As I See It]

Our 'Bigs' are really get exposed defensively.

[6warddude]

portland playing small ball so jax need to rebound the ball..

[JJackisangry]

This is exactly why you don’t randomly glue young players to the bench. It wrecks their confidence. Kira was playing really well until the benching and Stan decided on a whim to drop him for a few games. Hopefully this is the end of that from here on and they can make up for lost time chasing fools gold. I’m glad they are actually getting minutes tonight and have been getting them lately.

[6warddude]

we might get beat by 30 lol...

[Chris]

Soft league

[As I See It]

Hart at the 2 is fine. Hart at the 3 is a challenge. Hart at the 4 is impossible.

[luckyman]

The fact that they didnt even know they were in the bonus says a lot. They are ready to get on a plane.

Good night.

[ragincaucasian]

Adams has hands of stone. Never pass to Adams down low.

[6warddude]

the refs are letting them be physical lol....zion should just go into freight train mode and murder anyone in front him...

[As I See It]

I know this won't go over well in here, but I would give Melli a run with Zion to try to take them out of their zone. I also don't think Melo can post him up like he does Hart.

I'd also start Hart and Ball in the backcourt to start the third. I would never say that a a player has quit on his team, but something is up with Bledsoe. He's a life time 79% FT Shooter (over 80 % last year) and now he's a sub 70% shooter who barely grazes the rim now-a-days? What's up with that?

Just my thoughts.

[Pelicanidae]

Had the juice last game and choked it. Hard to get that back now.

[JJackisangry]

Bledsoe seems to have taken that flagrant personally. The hardest he has played in a while