The New Orleans Pelicans are now on a 9 game losing streak without Zion Williamson. But is it time to panic? Jake Madison says no and saw some signs of life from Brandon Ingram in their loss to the Denver Nuggets. Plus, Herb Jones breaks out of his shooting slump, and why did Kira Lewis Jr not get any minutes from head coach Willie Green?
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36 Comments
How are you feeling after 9 straight losses by the Pelicans?
You do realize the 🪟 is not as open as your making it seem… Zion is not a lifer… when his contact is up IF we can't put a team around him or at least TRY. he's going to leave like AD
Who is impressed with nine straight losses . CV (Call a spade a spade )What did I tell you all . Stop trading for and, drafting players with injury histories, that's the Achilles heel of this team. alongside their piss-poor medical staff 🤕🤮🤯🤬. Pelicans look great on paper, at the beginning of the year . How can fans have faith in a injury plagued team . As much as I like Z and BI and what their capable of doing together. We are in a unique position. to the point, where we may never see them even play 50 games together 😢😭. It's unfortunate but it holds a lot of weight . I would love to say . The PELs, will be healthy for the second half of the season . But it's unlikely. Seeing as our best two players always have injuries and have injury histories 🤕. Ik a lot of people will say it's hate . But it's not . I'm a realist. Have a great day #let'sgoPels
I'm starting to Panic I was getting very excited to have home court advantage through the playoffs. Now I think that's looking far off.
No we are going to be alrigth
Just get in the playoffs healthy and we can be as good or better than any team.
I agree, Jake. This is on the Coach.
How will he get healthy when he's playing on it, and dang, it's been long he's been hurt. Hope the pain find it's way to go away.
This team has no leadership, and they don't play fundamentally sound basketball.
What is the Pelicans record when zion plays and when do you think when he will be back?
I don’t agree with “taking more 3s”
That’s not our strength
We’re a DOWNHILL team
Hearing you say this means a lot man. Go PELS!!
No worries
bi i would only play 20m till Zion come back
they will make the playoff final 4 team watch
true dat need to find out what you got willieeee
Hi Jake
Have we been fully healthy in the last 5 seasons?
Thanks Jake…………… I have no words today[Insert sad face]
Definitely got a weird feeling about this Dallas game tho.
I don't think we need to trade JV but the way Willie is not using him I definitely thinks he needs to be traded. He only wants to use him against bad teams
Willie is losing me. He is horrible at calling timeouts and didn't play kira. A perfect time to use him would have been when they were losing the lead and BI on the bench.
1. I feel the Pelicans lost because BI wasn’t playing like a Superstar. Hopefully he gets his rhythm back soon.
2. I’m not big on a midseason trade because we don’t have big enough sample size of the starting lineup. I also don’t think teams are clamoring for Kira, Jaxson and Devonte who are the obvious players to trade.
The defense is trash!!! CJ get pass by so easy that collapses the defense no rim protection BI forcing everything questionable line ups no sense of urgency coach had to be tougher on them about the turnover and getting back on defense I’ll watch another game after the trade deadline because this is stressful
You can't be discouraged by last night's performance. They held their own without Zion against the number 1 team in the West!
Team needs to start Larry nance, he’s been consistent
The coach just don't like Kira or Jaxson!
im NOT worried one bit but man, CJ is starting to worry me. im starting to get this knot in my stomach ever time he steps foot on the court. i just dont know if he will either turn over the ball or miss key moment shots. maybe its just me.
Thank you for calling out Willie Green. His decisions are definitely suspect. What about CJ? He’s been relatively healthy during this losing streak. Why is he getting paid like an All-Star and we can’t even win one game out of nine!?!? A lot of love for both these men, but if we continue to trend downward that love could disappear. They’ve both built up a lot of support with this fan base but it is not without limits.
Here's my comment, Jake: why don't you guys press into Willie when he talks about transition play about why he didn't put Kira in the game? Kira would've been Transition King for the Pels and he would've made the Nuggets run after him instead of the Pels running after the Nuggets all night.
Sheesh! Willie — what's up with you and Kira?
I’m scared Jake!
We need our soldiers back fr
Not sure why Graham gets minutes that dude is trash
But more importantly, we need to go get Dwight Howard. We get OBLITERATED on the glass and Val is our only rebounder. Nance and Curly head dude gets smashed on the boards
Dwight is a vet with championship experience and is still in great athletic shape. We dont need him to play 20+min just defense and rebounding that we desperately need
I too think the team will be okay. I still see fight, I still see attempts to execute and most of all, I see individual and unit improvements. BI has been a catalyst on his return and they should get even better when Zion returns.
Denver is a solid team and they fought hard on the road, to which they have been very bad. Those are positive signs. The win is coming and the streak won't be far behind. They will get a home playoff series.
Taking more 3-point shots is NOT the solution. This team misses shots and teams have begun to push the ball, increasing the opponent's fast breaks and easy buckets. Taking more 3s without fixing the defensive transition will only lead to long 3-point rebound fast breaks that give guards even less time to transition, especially since this team's guards don't rebound
The solution is to penetrate more. Herb did a good job of that against Denver and Kira did it against the Bucks. With BI back and dishing, if the shot is not open, Trey and others need to attack the rim and get to the paint. At the beginning of the season, the Pels were at the top of the league in points in the paint. Even without Zion, they can get back to that with focus.
You want them to take more 3’s but they aren’t hitting them. They aren’t hitting many 2’s. The worst is that they suck at 1’s🤷🏻♂️ how can a professional team be such horrible FT shooters? McCollum is the worst I only expect 1 of 2 every time he shoots
I need whatever you are on to make you this calm about 9 losses in a row. Seriously.
Why are Herb Jones and Dyson Daniels not invited to the rising stars game
Hopefully when Zion returns it won't take him as long as it's taking B I and CJMC to get their shooting eye back. Those two guys are shooting about 35% from the field since their return.