Pelican network guys doing a disservice showing the awkward dad cam on live TV.
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Pelican network guys doing a disservice showing the awkward dad cam on live TV.
If there one fireable offense for SVG... It's the constant pulling Zion at the 6 minute mark in the 4th.
Zion hasn't had a FT since, I think, the first quarter.
This is getting silly. He's clearly been fouled several times.
Basketball.
Late Game scoring run
Another team not name Pelicans imploding
A missed call that benefit the Pelicans
What reality we in...
Three nights ago; we keep Lonzo
Last Night we got to get rid of Lonzo
Tonight?
It's still what it's always been.
Keep Lonzo if the price is below $18m, let him go if it's higher.
The fact that he can go 0/8, 8/17, 1/9, 7/13 from 3 in four consecutive games is part of the reason. Zero consistency for him. It's all or it's absolutely nothing.
Lonzo responded tonight in a big way. Major props to him. Hope he can build some consistency going forward.
Lol I'm taking credit for this Lonzo perfomance because of my pro-Zo post on page 1.
Pelicans win, 108-103
Zion: 23/12/7 with 4 steals and a block on 8/17 shooting
Ingram: 13/3/5 with 2 steals on 5/15 shooting
Adams: 1/8/2 on 0/3 shooting
Lonzo: 33/6/4 with a steal on 11/23 shooting (7/13 from 3)
Bledsoe: 14/5/4 on 5/11 shooting
Lonzo had to come up big tonight. Draymond had Zion in his pocket a bit in that 4th. I like it when our offense runs through Zion, but I don’t like it when we force it and it leads to turnovers. Zion was smart to defer to the hot hand
Maybe not, but I'm happy for Lonzo. Clearly this was the biggest game of his career. I think the baggage of his old man coupled with the LA spotlight and all of the nonsense that went on there has screwed with this kid's head. Whether or not he stays with the Pels hopefully he can start to get out of his own head a bit. I don't think he'll ever be the star everyone pretended he was (including him) but he's clearly got some NBA skills and should have a decent career.
Yeah I've said a few times (and so have others, not claiming uniqueness here) that he has some good skills and if he can get it out of his head that he's supposed to be a point guard and just accept himself as a connecting wing-type player (think better shooting but worse defense version of old-man Iguodala for Golden State) then he'll end up a useful player to a team somewhere.
I just don't think that team is here. He hasn't established anything like the consistency yet for me to justify paying him the kind of money he probably wants and I don't want to pay him $20m+ for the next three years in the hope that he figures things out by year 4.
The formula to win big games is take BI and Adams out at the end of games.
It's todays NBA. The refs simply aren't calling a lot of contact on drives to the basket or attempts around the basket. it's why our team is so poorly constructed for the game right now. I guess the NBA is concerned about slowing the game down too much. But in doing so they've basically created a jump shooting league. I guess they're happy with it.
It's nonsense.
I refuse to accept concern over ''slowing the game'' as a reason, because if that was anything close to true they'd stop the 15 or 20 minutes of refs reviewing uncontested fouls every game. If anything, the game is slower today than it was even 5 years ago due to the quantity of coach's contests, ref reviews, et cetera. And it's not that they just won't call things around the basket: both Giannis and Embiid get 11+ FTAs a game. It's literally just refusal to call them for Zion at this point.
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