November 25th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Utah Jazz - 9-7

[Pelicanidae]

Pels just giving it away right now. Look tired.

[Pelicanidae]

What the fork is wrong with this team?

Zion or not, this team is missing something. Can't quite put my fingers on it.

I feel like this team is is still missing 1-2 players from a championship team.

Those two players might just be CJ and Trey, lol.

Yeah its called 3 40% 3PT shooters all off with injury

[neworleanshoo]

"what the fork is wrong with this team"? Well to start, we're on a west coast BTB without 3 of our stars. Still playing grind-it-out basketball and very much in it. But yeah there's something wrong with us.

[WhyHornetsWhy]

Yeah its called 3 40% 3PT shooters all off with injury

Wait, who is the 3rd?

Edit: Oh, Ryan.

[neworleanshoo]

Willie is doing well tonight keeping the lineups even.

Wow. Framing this!

[neworleanshoo]

Wait, who is the 3rd?

Matt Ryan, CJ, Trey?

[Freyfamilyreuni]

What the hell was that?

[WhyHornetsWhy]

We might actually lose this game.

[WhyHornetsWhy]

I really really really want to see J Hawkins + Trey Murphy on the floor together.

[Freyfamilyreuni]

Got to get Dyson back in there, I don’t care how crummy his offense is

[Pelicanidae]

Matt Ryan, CJ, Trey?

Yep.

Matt Ryan is shooting 47% from 3 on 5 3PAs a game so far this season. Serious loss for him to go out.

In fact, in their last seasons played (so this year for CJ and Ryan, last year for Trey):

Trey- 40.6% on 6.3 attempts per game
CJ - 38.0% on 8.3 attempts per game
Ryan - 47.1% on 5.2 attempts per game

All just sat out on the bench, no clue when any of them will be back.

[Pelicanidae]

We might actually lose this game.

Just missing too much firepower to overcome the back-to-back woes. Team's clearly tired and not altogether with it, and there's not enough offensive talent to make up for it, especially not with JV having a rough night.

It's ugly.

[Freyfamilyreuni]

Yep we f’d around too much

[Pelicanidae]

Will also add that while those are reasons, they're not good enough excuses. Execution has also been poor, there's been far too much dribbling and not enough passing in the 2nd half, no attempts were really made to counter the changes Utah made out of the half-time break particularly with their treatment of Hawkins, and we've been thoroughly out-rebounded. Just not good enough play overall.

[As I See It]

I know all the excuses. But against this team, THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE BY ANY MEASURE,

[Freyfamilyreuni]

This reminds me of our trip to Utah last year

[PaKwAn]

Utah has been owning us since last year

[Fedupfan]

I know all the excuses. But against this team, THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE BY ANY MEASURE,

Absolutely! A dreadful loss.

[Freyfamilyreuni]

lol

[Pelicanidae]

Utah has been owning us since last year

Longer than that. Anyone remember that Gobert block on BI?

[JJackisangry]

Welp. We fell asleep on defense for a good 5 minutes on defense. That would be fine if people were hitting shots and keeping it going offensively but we didn?t. Has to be one of the other. You can?t have these silly swings on the road. Bad loss. Onto the next one. They were gassed.

[Freyfamilyreuni]

Whelp

[Pelicanidae]

That travelling call was the refs saying ''no, we aren't watching anymore of this garbage, we will not allow OT''

[As I See It]

Too much dribbling by Jose in his minutes. Jose' playing ISO - Ball should not be in the playbook.

-AND-

LNJ should be a DNP - Coaches Decision until further notice.

[Pelicanidae]

Yeah, inexcusable loss. Awful execution. Guys were tired but they were tired in the first 3 quarters too and kept a lead, no need for them to suddenly stop bothering in the 4th.