January 19th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Phoenix Suns - 25-17

[Fedupfan]

Max 197 doesn't have one rebound...not a one. He's such a liability on the defensive end.

I’m so tired of these Beta players. Anytime someone punches them they coward up like their head coach.

[As I See It]

He also played most of his minutes in the first quarter, when the Suns DIDNT MISS, and most of the second quarter he played with 2 fouls, so couldn't be battling under the basket for rebounds.

CONTEXT matters.

Look if you want to be his apologist fine, but get it right. BI played the first 10 minutes of the first quarter. Wanna guess who leads the starters in negative +/-.

[PaKwAn]

Yeah this thing is over.......

[WhyHornetsWhy]

So...We get destroyed by the Clippers, Nuggets, and Suns.

That's not a good confidence booster

I just don't get it. I just don't. What are we missing? Why can't we be an elite team?

[WhyHornetsWhy]

You all keep preaching starting Herb because of his defense.

Is there a point to all of this if he is giving up 40+ to the guys he's guarding in Booker and Irving?

Isn't the whole point of starting your shooting guard for the Pelicans who averages a low 8-12 points a game is for his defense?

I need someone to make this make sense for me.

[Speakthetruth]

Booker is cooking them

Jeez

[As I See It]

1:30 left in the 3rd and Max 197 finally gets a board.

HORRAY!!!!

[AUSSIE_PELICAN]

So...We get destroyed by the Clippers, Nuggets, and Suns.

That's not a good confidence booster

I just don't get it. I just don't. What are we missing? Why can't we be an elite team?

Because the team doesn't have any stars. BI and Zion just aren't and that's evident against good teams.

Stars I mean top 20-30.

[RobertM320]

Look if you want to be his apologist fine, but get it right. BI played the first 10 minutes of the first quarter. Wanna guess who leads the starters in negative +/-.

I was waiting for you to bring up the negative +/-, when he's been better than almost everyone else on the team in +/- for the past 8-10 games. For example, the last game we lost, vs the Mavericks, Zion was a PLUS 6. What was Ingram? A MINUS 19.

[WhyHornetsWhy]

Because the team doesn't have any stars. BI and Zion just aren't and that's evident against good teams.

Stars I mean top 20-30.

I agree.

So what do we do?

[As I See It]

I was waiting for you to bring up the negative +/-, when he's been better than almost everyone else on the team in +/- for the past 8-10 games. For example, the last game we lost, vs the Mavericks, Zion was a PLUS 6. What was Ingram? A MINUS 19.

He is who he is....

You see a superstar; I see half a ball player (AT BEST).

[WhyHornetsWhy]

Is this team Ja Morant's baby or Booker's?

[As I See It]

A fish out of water on the defensive end!!!

[As I See It]

16 Points off the bench until garbage time. Where's all that depth they talk about?

[As I See It]

I'd put Hawkins in the starting lineup and let MAX 197 run with the second unit:

MAX 197
3M3
LNJ
Dyson
...and rotate BI, Hawk, Matt Ryan and CJ with that unit.

[dvdman]

You never let one player beat you and this seems to be the common denominator with these recent losses.
In addition, to poor 3 point shooting and just looking out of the sync from the get go and never recovering.

[As I See It]

You never let one player beat you and this seems to be the common denominator with these recent losses.
In addition, to poor 3 point shooting and just looking out of the sync from the get go and never recovering.

I've been saying it forever. You win on the defensive end.

We play decent team defense, but we can't man up because there are too many weak links defensively in this lineup which means we can be broken down.

[WhyHornetsWhy]

If you had the choice between Booker or Herb Jones to be in your starting 5, who would you choose?

If you choose Booker because he’s better at offense, then why are you not for starting Hawkins over Herb?

[donato]

If you had the choice between Booker or Herb Jones to be in your starting 5, who would you choose?

If you choose Booker because he’s better at offense, then why are you not for starting Hawkins over Herb?

Did you just compare Hawkins to Booker?

[WhyHornetsWhy]

Did you just compare Hawkins to Booker?

Was baiting for someone to ask me that even though the person asking me the question knows good and well that?s not the point of my question.

The point was, if you?re choosing Booker (better offense than Herb), then how come you?re not choosing to start Hawkins over Herb (better offense than Herb)?

But you already knew the point of my question, huh?

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But as expected, the person answering the question ignores the entire question all together

[Fedupfan]

Was baiting for someone to ask me that even though the person asking me the question knows good and well that?s not the point of my question.

The point was, if you?re choosing Booker (better offense than Herb), then how come you?re not choosing to start Hawkins over Herb (better offense than Herb)?

But you already knew the point of my question, huh?

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But as expected, the person answering the question ignores the entire question all together

Bro the team is just soft. They are extremely soft because they have a soft head coach. They been soft for years. Stan couldn’t stand how soft they are and now it shows every time they play someone who isn’t afraid to go at them. They are just a soft bunch of dudes. They hug and kiss each other and wear skinny jeans to the games. This team is just not made of men.

[13 - 3]

I don’t ever what to hear we are a top team in the west. We will be lucky to get 8 seed .

[13 - 3]

Unless we are playing the Kings. We are not getting out of 1st round if we do make it

[redrum]

Was baiting for someone to ask me that even though the person asking me the question knows good and well that?s not the point of my question.

The point was, if you?re choosing Booker (better offense than Herb), then how come you?re not choosing to start Hawkins over Herb (better offense than Herb)?

But you already knew the point of my question, huh?

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But as expected, the person answering the question ignores the entire question all together

This question shouldn't even include Hawkins ....
Trey should start over Herb!

CJ, BI, JV, Trey, Zion starters

Alverado, Herb, Hawkins, then
Nance, Daniels, Naji, if needed
the rest of the roster.

[WhyHornetsWhy]

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