Bled has been trying harder on the defensive end to be fair to him. But wow. Offensively. Just no. Please get back to shooting 40 percent from 3 and stay out of the wayOriginally Posted by KoMikaera
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Bled has been trying harder on the defensive end to be fair to him. But wow. Offensively. Just no. Please get back to shooting 40 percent from 3 and stay out of the way
I did the same and it seems defensive flounders go unnoticed.
As much as Zion was scoring down the stretch, he gave it ALL back up on the other end. Old arse Paul Millsap was responsible for 8 points in the final 4 minutes of that game. Someone Zion should be able to check.
Zion took a bad angle and got screened into oblivion, which forced BI to help on Millsap, allowing him to find Porter wide open for 3 at the 3:54 mark. Which he drained.
Lost sight of Millsap on a run out and stayed on Porter for no reason. Left Millsap wide open for another Denver 3. Which he drained at 3:29 mark. 6 point lead gone, game now tied.
Then just flat out got beat off the dribble by Paul Millsap for an easy short runner at 2:21 mark. Denver back in the lead.
Instead of Pelicans putting the game away, they have to go tit-for-tat and ultimately lose.
I get Jokic and Murray giving you the blues. But Paul Millsap should not be putting pressure on your defense like that.
The future is bright peeps, I get we coulda shoulda won, but let it slide, we are in a good place, the future will be better.
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Despite the questionable trades and acquisitions, our needle is still pointing up.
Very true. This team should win a lot of games next season once they figure out how to close out games. I am super optimistic
To be fair to Bledsoe, there were stretches where he helped keep us in this game. Second most efficient player behind Zion tonight. Hope he keeps bringing the effort he brought tonight.
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To really put this in perspective, its truly a matter of learning to win. If we only win half of these, including the DEN and POR games, we'd be 25-19 and 1/2 game out of the 5th seed. We're better than people realize.
Exactly we are much better than the record shows. The future is bright
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yessir!!Exactly we are much better than the record shows. The future is bright
The problem is that when you blow double digit leads 27% of the time (which we have done this season) you are not better than people realise. You suck, and other teams just know they can turn it on late and there's nothing you can do about it.
Yes, we need to learn how to win, but to do that we need to be flat out better. It's not really good enough imo to rest on ''oh well, y'know, we almost won a bunch of games''. The 2011-12 Bobcats who only won 7 games total lost 15 games by less than 6 points: 2 possession games. Nobody looks back at them as being better than their record despite them being only a handful of shots away from being a 22 win team instead of a 7 win team: they sucked, and that's bad enough.
We suck. Yeah, we could have won a bunch of these games but we didn't, and we're losing them in similar ways. That's not bad luck or misfortune in most cases, it's chronic loser syndrome. Changes need to happen, both in the roster and in the approach to the game from the players and coachingstaff.
Talent wise we ARE better than people realize. And yes, we do need to get better and learn how to close out games. Example, Saints went 48-16 the past four seasons. Never reached the Super Bowl, due to some injuries, and unfortunate happenings. Doesn't take away from the fact they were still a good team.
It sucks to know we're better than our 19-25 record indicates. Doesn't make it not true.
Wow this is way more optimistic than I expected to find this place. Good vibes people
Yeah but there's a difference between a few unfortunate happenings and injuries and flat out just blowing leads in almost a third of all games you play.
To your point, the Saints over that span had those issues but they still ended up with that overall very good record, and were just held off from the ultimate championships by those issues.
That's not the position we're in. We're not even going to make the playoffs, and we don't have injuries as an excuse: we've been one of the healthiest teams in the league. We lose these games not due to unfortunate circumstances or injury, but because we suck. We have regular end game collapses because we can't stop anyone from scoring ever and we simply do not have the personnel to execute late game offense when the other team decides to make things difficult.
Thats a little misleading. It's not unusual at all for any team to lose a 16 point lead in quarters 1 - 3. That +16 vs Utah was in the 1st quarter. That shouldn't even be on that list.
The problem is losing double digit leads with 5/6 minutes left in the game. Until this team gets better on defense that will continue to happen. They are letting little known scrubs and old men way past their primes dictate clutch time. And of course the opposition's stars go HAM. It's not good at all.
Last edited by luckyman; 03-27-2021 at 11:19 AM.
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Everyone knows first half leads in the NBA don't really mean sh!t
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