Larry Nance Jr. talks playing without Brandon Ingram, bench scoring | New Orleans Pelicans

Larry Nance Jr. talks playing without Brandon Ingram, bench scoring | New Orleans Pelicans

So man just what’s kind of that mood after you know kind of a rough start crucial uh home stand and just trying to get back right knowing you know how much these games me are I mean look there are abs and flows every season it takes an

Adjustment to learn how to play without without be you know what I mean so you know it’s it’s we’re playing some good teams and we’re down a major figure of ours so um you know nobody feels sorry for us neither do we we’re just going to keep on plugging on plugging away and

What do you think G kind of missing the most without him being out there uh some of the playmaking some of the uh you know the playmaking is super underrated the way he can find guys in Corners in different spots and um shot making honestly you know our our our offense

Right now is a little bit a little bit slow and missing 20 plus points a game hurts is it noticeable out there to you that the quality of shots the rest of the guys are getting when bi is not out there um yeah I mean a little bit of

Stagnant little bit we feel some you know stagnant offense feels like we’re um you know feels like we’re uh you know just not getting great movement yeah like you said not getting great shots and again we’re missing our best if not one of our best Playmakers

So it’s it’s it’s uh it’s an adjustment for sure and lar what do you feel like the bench has to do to pick up the scoring because now that tre’s moved in the starting lineup seems like there’s right you guys are kind of searching from game to game where that offense

Going to come from yeah um again you took away our took away our our you know our offensive hub for the bench so you know it’s it’s it’s got to come as a concert you know concerted effort from everybody sometimes sometimes it’s NJ sometimes it’s Jose it’s healthy

Sometimes it’s dice sometimes it’s me you know we just uh it’s got to it’s going to be it’s going to be different every single game there’s not a you know there’s not a natural play Burpy on the bench anymore so um it’s just going to come from a different person every game

Hopefully most of us we saw ner kind of camp out in the pain for a lot in last night’s game and I know look that some you guys have seen a lot of defense against Z just what are some of the the Cs you guys talk about what defenses do

Go to um SP I mean we just got to stay spaced obviously L you know teams are going to load up on Z teams load up on your best player that’s just every we’re going to see that in the playoffs we’re going to see that tomorrow in the next

Game and the next game in the next game so um just got to continue to work space around him um again I’m I’m trying to expand my game in terms of shooting more threes JV is as well we’re just trying to figure out what works um and uh you

Know like I said we’re going to see the playoffs so we probably good we see it right now do you think the way they’re doing it is kind of more drastic than you normally see with some of the best players in the league with the way they

Kind of is leaving their center right in front of the room um yeah to be fair I mean you know this is this is the first full full season that Z has really gotten to play so it’s it’s it’s it’s an adjustment to see what really is um

Needed around you know I you see what Milwaukee did with Giannis and just surrounded him with you know uh their Center is a 7 foot one two guard essentially and that’s you know it’s it’s a it’s a unique spacing environment for for guys to play like that so um

Again it it takes a it it takes a while to learn how to learn how to put put the pieces around certain guys but we you know we we’re working on it I think there are 11 teams in the west with winning records you’ve been in the East

You’ve been in the west how crazy is just like be a race like this no it’s crazy we’re uh it feels like it feels like we’re running from the teams behind us the teams in front of us are running from us so it’s it’s uh um certainly competitive and every game just means

That much more it’s I’m enjoying it’s a lot of fun you think it’s important for for you and JV when they are doing that to kind of be a screener be a dribble hand off guy to kind of take advantage of them when they are leaving all over

Yeah I mean look golden state has Golden State plays two quote you know what you would call non-shooters and Lon and Draymond so you know when DV spaces a three sometimes he’ll shoot it but often times like we you know we try we’re trying to implement you know it’s you

Know when you when me or JB catches out the three-point line you can use yourself as a as a connector as a you know catch go play handoff game with Trey Hawk CJ you know we’re at The Bigs in the lane now we’re just teeing up open threes for those other guys so

Again it’s not going to be perfect overnight but we’re working on it and it’s uh um it’s it’s getting there

New Orleans Pelicans forward/center Larry Nance Jr.’s post-practice interview on Tuesday, April 2 during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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New Orleans Pelicans Roster
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Jose Alvarado #15 Guard
Dyson Daniels #11 Guard
Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
Brandon Ingram #14 Forward
Herbert Jones #5 Forward
E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
Naji Marshall #8 Forward
CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
Dereon Seabron #0 Guard
Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
Cody Zeller #44 Forward-Center

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