How will Pelicans handle upcoming stretch without Brandon Ingram? | Numbers on the Board

How will Pelicans handle upcoming stretch without Brandon Ingram? | Numbers on the Board

Speaking of Zion uh his teammate Brandon Ingram went down with what we now know as a bone bruise H brend the knee and he’ll keep him out for at least two weeks um which is the best case scenario because that injury looked really bad it’s also the same thing that Don V

Mitchell is going through with the Cleveland Cavaliers that has hindered him from playing at Peak value um when he was healthy so even though it is a two-e prognosis right now I just I’m still a little bit afraid about what he’ll look like when he come back yeah

Um cuz bone Bros just suck man and it was had one no thank God play sports no only the worst thing I’ve had so far is like a spraying ankle like a bad one I didn’t spray my ankle for the first time I was like 22 that’s crazy damn you

Remember that story oh yeah I was I was hooping at a gym by myself cuz it was a point in time I just wanted to get some cardio in I’m I’m on the on one half of the court it’s a couple D yeah the uh

Not the arc but anyway um it was a couple dudes playing a 32 on the other side told me the story I’m just shooting around right doing basketball stuff and one day I go up for a layup and I come down right on the ball how you laying on

The ball by yourself they playing 32 ball ended up on this nobody said look out B yeah you say ball ball nothing and I’m sitting up with a spring said that was embarrassing C you know how big that gym is I can just imagine him walk that one

Spot I’m just imagine him walking with the Lim all the way back and they just watching him but if they to add like can we get ball I just I threw it back to on the floor I just threw it back to basketball courtesy been ruling basketball that if

Your all of them had on New Balance on and not no Jamal Murray New Balance not kawh leard New Balance they were not hoopers they don’t know the etiquette That’s funny though cuz one time we was there hooping and a dude was had necks and he was shooting and he kept letting

The ball roll and I had to like check him a little bit because he kept letting the ball roll but I eate I told him like Hey bro cuz we was checking up and I walked like hey bro you might want to get that ball cuz one

Of us I ankle up I’m on your ass you remember you know I’m on your ass y’all remember at the Plex when they used to be busting and like a ball R like a little kid ball roll on to the court people kick it they all kick they they

Used to throw that to the pond into the pool I’m like bro y’all got to stop I never participated in nothing like that but that definitely had OCC used to definitely people balls if your ball roll but Mike is putting I don’t think they would do it to them little itty bitty

Kids but like if we was hooping and Derek ball the eighth grade Derek ball is going over there he like hey bro that ball but yeah um on the bright side for the Pelicans like we saw last night they have a young hungry guy who plays the

Same position as Brandon Ingram and Trey Murphy the third so I think them having the luxury of dep um can at least allow them to maintain and I think with Zion’s emergence of uh trying to get back into that light and and and taking the reign

Of his team I think they still have enough man and we saw last night CJ McCullum I was about to say I think that’s their best asset is they’re D I mean I know we always talk about how like we could resign or bi could be a

Little bit more on the scoring average but it just speaks volume to how many scores they honestly do have I mean even valunas he still ain’t no he can still get in where he can so they have a lot of uh people that can go out there and get

TJ mum is definitely he’s been turned up he’s been turned up especially shooting the ball from Deep unfortunately for him it’s going to be the first time he won’t average 20 in a very long time but I think it’s been a really good season for

CJ where Ian he like 18 and I mean they do a thing where like he got to had like at least couple 30 point games in there yeah they to 40 ball up say that again they kind of do it by committee um but unfortunately for

Them I thought they were a team that could really fight for home court advantage they got a tough stretch coming up where they pay the Pistons tomorrow which is you know that should be a layup but then they go Thunder then they go bucks then they go Celtics then

They go then they go magic so sad it because this was a stretch I was looking forward to to see them play against that top competition but without Brandon Ingram it’s like we can’t gauge anything what if they what if they what if they in that stretch

Went five and one four- two and I feel really good about Williamson just really just put his head down he was just on his all all NBA type level yeah like that’s that’s what they going to need they going to need him and CJ and Trey

Murphy to come out and be this like big three-headed monster man I I love his game bro who uh Trey Murphy I just did an episode of my podcast where I did 25 under 25 yeah um and Trey Murphy was extremely high for me when I think about potential he’s

Extremely high he does everything you would want from a wing he shoots the three-point ball well and the counter stats dunk s be like posters of dunk contest type guy defends well he does everything I could potentially like his archetype is there yeah and um after slow shooting start after his surgery

And everything he’s putting it together more and more I think I had him actually I could check my notes I had him high that was my favorite I don’t blame me that was my favorite Prospect in that draft class I kept saying that is the

Guy that is the guy they had an amazing draft they drafted him and then herb Jones what what a crazy draft they had I had him um in 2C pass on him he was in the same tier as Darius Garland jiren Jackson and Evan Moy for me interesting

Yeah that’s the are like keny’s tripping we’ll I guess we’ll see yeah I mean an elite tier of DG jiren Jackson Jr and Evan Moy and all those dudes have like Allstar appearances DPO and DP Runner offs but it’s also like Trey Murphy’s also playing behind like

Allstar like Talent so he just needs to be Unleashed eventually yeah um also people didn’t like why I had Scotty Barnes which is like where was he 2B same place as K Cunningham jayen Jay dub and Brandon Miller where was he supposed to be at they think he should be a 2way

Cuz I have Al PR shinon 2A cuz I’m high on ALR in a couple years being a star lamelo and Tyrese Maxi I think he should be on that tier which I ain’t mad at you know I think he could exist on that tier

I just have him a tier below I mean I think I do not think aan shin and Scotty Barnes are the same level yeah and I think lamelo is also above Scotty I think he’s a tier above him and I also think tyes Maxi is also a tier above

Scotty so you okay I think you cooking with that one they also said I was being a homer CU I had Kobe white in the rank at all how let me do my thing who is he who is he in a tier with he’s in a tier with Jonathan kaminga RJ Barrett and

Jaylen Duran I don’t think that’s a bad tier they were saying like you missed out on like the Thompson Twins or hame hakz oh on that point I’m taking Thomson I’m taking a man Thompson yeah I ain’t mad at that I ain’t mad at that for [Applause] sure is coming

In this excerpt from Numbers on the Board, the guys discuss Brandon Ingram’s injury prognosis and Kenny sharing a story about basketball etiquette. They also speak about the New Orleans Pelicans’ upcoming stretch and who can step up in Ingram’s absence.

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