Willie Green recaps game against OKC Thunder | Pelicans vs. Thunder Postgame 1/26/24
And how that’s going to hurt and I mean you look at the box score you can start right there because you know I thought the defensive effort really wasn’t too bad tonight but yeah you couldn’t overcome the other stuff no you’re you’re right uh our our offense really
Hurt us um I talked to the guys about it they know that’s one of the main Concepts that this team does well is they turn you over and if you turn the ball over 20 times it’s hard to make up for that uh especially we’re down you
Know Z tonight but more importantly give them credit they did a good job of turning us over being in the paint we have to be better and our game plan discipline has to be better we went over it and over and over it and we just fell
Into their hands and um once they turn the ball over they’re going down with options uh like you said I thought our defense was solid we played hard defensively but we didn’t give ourselves a chance with our offense and how much of the turnover issues were you know Thunder’s length their activity for
Versus just y’all could have been better handling the ball passing the ball things like that well some of them I have to go back and watch but some of them were just unforced and um you know there there are a few that they did a great job of being active and and
Getting turnovers is what they do well uh but after we work on it work on it and our team comes out and not execute the way we can um it’s deflating and it leads to some of the shots not coming as as fluent as they they need to and and
Being a little hesitant offensively and it starts with the turnovers uh Trey’s kind of you know been struggling a little bit as of late is there anything you know he can be doing differently is just just is this just something guys go through from time to time what are you
Seeing there yeah you know hopefully it will pass just continue to shoot the ball See It Go in um but I don’t think he’s worried I’m not worried at all if he’s open he needs to continue to shoot the ball and do you have any feeling
Just as far as um this this game Clippers Phoenix uh Denver just against some of these top teams in the west where y’all just not coming out with your best performances it just we’ve seen it consistently over the past couple weeks my biggest feeling about it is that you know we’re we’re we’re
Capable but we haven’t done what it takes to give ourselves a chance to win those type of games yet and you know this is good experience for us coming down the stretch but we definitely know we have room for improvement and any idea about Zion for tomorrow’s game not
Yet not yet we’ll we’ll we’ll know more probably tomorrow sometime Willie was the second quarter the most pivotal one for you guys I think you had seven turnovers in the frame you missed all five of your um three-point attempts yeah when you look at the box
Score you you can see the difference 28 to 17 um I know we missed some wide open shots we got some great looks but the seven turnovers uh fued their their transition opportunities we we did a good job getting back but just gives them opportunity after opportunity to
Attack us and that’s tough they’re a good team and then also losing I think the points in the paint battle by a big margin it started early it seemed like JV was a little bit almost not surprised but Chad hram really kind of seemed to
Bother him early yeah he did he got it going early um shot fake driveing into the basket and um you know not not our best performance at all give them credit they came out and they played a good allaround game uh we have to be better we have be better
Starting with our offense and the turnovers things like that but we’ll clean it up your you know your your Duo wasn’t together tonight but it just seemed like Brandon struggled with aggressiveness and some shot selection and it’s been a tough month for him you know shooting wise scoring wise and getting some
Consistency what do you think is is the is is there an issue um just with his play or is just is there something that you know you need to do strategically to help him get going again uh no I I don’t think it’s necessarily something strategically I think they’re going to
Put their best defenders on him at times and he’s doing a great job offensively of making the next play and that’s what we talk about like you’ll free up when you continue to drive trust your teammates which he’s he’s doing um there’s moments for him to score when he
Has him and he he tries to take advantage of that but we just have to continue to trust in what we’re doing and bi has been doing that all season and because he’s doing it and he has a ton of guys around him other guys are are feeding off his gravity so we’ll
Continue to look at it though and and if we see that there’s room for improvement where we can get him the ball more in spots we’ll do it uh the first time you played them you guys generated 17 Corner threes tonight you have 15 just so those are two things
You’ve been able to do well is that something you can kind of like take as a positive from A Night Like This like Hey You know despite turnovers despite stuff we’re still getting kind of look I hope so we’ll we’ll watch the film you know after game sometimes is emotional and
You know once we we get settled down and watch the tape we can we can take a look I’m sure the turnovers were a big issue for us I know we got some wide open shots that we just didn’t knock down tonight so we’ll see we’ll see how we
Feel once we watch it um this road trip coming up obviously very difficult um starting with that back toback tomorrow against Milwaukee what do you do what did you tell the guys tonight just to kind of get their minds off of it of the loss tonight and start refocusing for
What’s ahead we’re going to we’re going to all feel tonight’s loss um that’s just a part of that’s the nature of of sports it’s you can’t flush it that fast but tomorrow you know we’ll we’ll message the team and get prepared for Milwaukee thanks thank you
New Orleans Pelicans head coach Willie Green speaks to the media following the team’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday, January 26, 2024.
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9 Comments
When this team win they win but when they lose they loseeeeeeeee, Jonas made 3 buckets back to back in 2nd quarter then he got pulled for a break, I think he should of stayed in a lil longer… I didn’t watch the 2nd half, too busy looking at KD killed me on FanDuel 🤦🏾♂️
BI and JV it's time for y'all to go ✈️
Pelicans fans should be miserable. Solid performance as always, a Willie Greene-esque defeat. The role players shut down when encountering a little intensity, the core players were confused, and then the entire team was directly slaughtered. Even if Zion is able to play in this game, I don't think they can beat a top eight team because this is a tactic that relies on inconsistent role players. This is a strategy that puts the cart before the horse. Two of their core players will soon tire of it and leave. The lineup structure should barely reach the playoff level, but combined with the coaching level, it is a ranked (9-11) team. Next they will encounter some teams with average or even good records. According to their current tactics, their ranking will drop rapidly.😷
When you practice day in and day out and still say at the end of every lost that your team has to get better it makes people think that is something else going on maybe it's coaching but one thing for sure CJ McCollum has his better days behind him Jonas valanciunas as well I don't understand how you practice all the time but your team shot 9- 36 and turn the ball over 20 and for as Brandon Ingram other than having a mid-range game the rest of Brandon Ingram game is horrible he turns the ball over more than anyone on your team, Miss costly free throws and his dribbling the ball is below average and I thought Trey Murphy was supposed to be such a great shooter I feel very sad for the New Orleans pelicans fans they deserve better than watching the pelicans gets blown out by 20 points against the elite teams in basketball changes definitely have to be made
No Zion No team. He is thd only Star player just face it.
Some of these players simply don't show any discipline and resort to street ball shooting. The coaches can't play for them. These players have to play with good fundamentals, especially against a tough opponent, especially in there own house. Show some pride.
Willie y'all should stop wearing those uniforms. It seems like everytime y'all wear that uniform y'all lose.
Willie is the problem
Pelicans wasn’t winning wit their best player anyway okc too good