Questionable future after Brandon Ingram struggles again in playoffs for New Orleans Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans needed to rely on Brandon Ingram to avoid going down 0-2 to the Oklahoma City Thunder but he couldn’t deliver. Jake Madison look at why the Pels star was outplayed by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren. And what about CJ McCollum why hasn’t he shown up in the playoffs either? Plus, Jake explains exactly what happened to the Pels defense and says it shouldn’t have been a surprise. And finally, even he agree it’s time for more Jonas Valanciunas but not for the reasons you think.
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45 Comments
If you watch Marshall defend he gets blown by for easy layups way to often
Willie went to a zone too many times in that 2nd qtr and got destroyed – there's so many reasons why they lost this one alot of things need to change
Ingram needs to be benched
"Maybe this will wake them up" Jake, my friend. If all of the stuff that has happened this season and last season didn't wake them up, they are just going to stay asleep
Play Dyson at the 1. Even if you switch you got another defensive guy out there. It’s not like CJ is giving you much right now anyway. Let CJ do some 6 man stuff
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I think BI is gone. I'm bummed that he's struggling in this series and even in the play in games he was benched in the last mins of the game.
we lost by 73 points. who cares? lets get revenge and even it at home! 😢😊
I get all your saying. But tell me when he had one open or even semi open look from 3. Dort is taking everything away from him and willie hasnt done ANYTHING to help. When you just had daniels on your show you didnt bring up brandon shooting 3s not once. Why is that. You say it to us all the time but when you had a former nba vet on your show and he was talking about what we need from bi etc why didn't you say he needs to shoot more 3s ? That same player says what willie needs to do is get him the ball in his spots so he dont have to dribble. Willie has done zero of that. On ingrams end he just needs to play faster. When he did that in thr 3rd he got into a flow but you cant expect him to jack 3s when dort is not giving him anything. Even off ball hes hounding him whoch is great d on his part but more could be done to get him even a few ooen looks from 3 if thats what you want . Look what okc coach is doing for sga . Herb got switched off sga so much tonight you could barely tell he was supposed to guard him. That is all by okc coaches design. Even though his star player is a mvp front runner he's STILL doing EVERYTHING to get his top player favorable matchups. Willie doesn't do that. For ANYONE. Yes brandon needs to play better especially if the highest paid player on the floor ( cj ) does nothing but chuck shots. But to act like he's getting Any help from his coach or his 2nd option is a joke
Jonas scored 11 straight and then immediately went away from it. How many times have we seen this?
CJ is an average player,BI is good but to soft.
I think BI had a terrible game but he has an excuse believe it or not, this is his 3rd game back from a month an a half out with injury. He was terrible regardless but CJ had a god awful game & he has no excuses whatsoever
I have been begging you but you dont wanna listen. Trade BI, CJ and JV. Do it faster. I actually think its a good thing to see them getting exposed like that in the post seaason. OKC will sweep them. Ingram got exposed in team USA and he was never the same. The Fit with Zion is horrible. CJ is a Joke. We need a real center, a real star nex to Zion. Make a trade before the draft. Am begging you
Y’all kept trying to tell me the pelicans defense was elite 😂
Dort
I have been saying this for two seasons. BI have not gotten any better. BI is an average player and there are 20 SF better them him making 20M. CJ is who he is. He has been a front runner hi whole career. Why he had those good games at the end of the month of March, bc of Zion gravity.
Jake, they were doing good when they ran a Zone! You play Zone bc you are terrible in defending. They might as well play Hawkins! OKC is running the same offense on the Pels as the Warriors run, penetrate and kick out for the three. This is what the Pels do with Zion!
you blaming refs again you must learn to lose
Once again I say let CJ come off the bench starting Trey Murphy at the 4 I even say go back to starting Dyson still Z get back right
It's time to make changes for sure to coaching and players. Pelicans always have been 8th seed and can't beat no top team. To inconsistent. That was obvious doing regular season. Pels get swept by OKC.
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Zion has been in the league 5 years. 0 playoff appearances. Spread the blame!!!!!!!!
BI is too soft
The Pelicans are in trouble
Idk what's going on with this team but they seem to give up sometimes (BI) they haven't looked like themselves since before that difficult stretch at the end of season. (CJ) They did not make any adjustments from game two. They didn't try and get BI open from Dort by doing off ball actions and screens. There was no wall for SGA like in gme one. It's like they said let's not do what was working well in game 1.
Why does TM3 miss wide open looks from the line??? WTF is up with that?
Brandon Incomplete and Waldo McCollum both suffer from lemon booty whenever they're playing in the Playoffs. #SHOOKONES
start Dyson at the point and herb at the center or use your bench more!
the game today showed us ingram can never be a franchise player trade him.. zion is by far better
Say what you want about BI it’s hard to play when Dort gets to be extra physical with you and you get no calls till your team is down 20 pay attention when he is aggressive they call him for offensive fouls every time which forces him not be able to be aggressive
@ Locked On Pelicans pelease tell Ples coach green to change stater in games 3, marshall replace murphy, Let BI and CJ play more pick and roll with marshall, and let them iso to Giddy
Put BI in more screen actions in the mid range area and stop letting him try to attack from so far out and you have to know that Chet is sitting in the paint which makes it even more tougher
And we need to stop all the switching defense when shai has the ball herb needs to fight through the screens or go under the screen and meet shai stop switching cause he is killing cj Jonas and Larry
Run more plays for Trey with Jonas setting the screen for him if he is not open he can dump it down to Jonas now he would be the out let pass if they try to double which most likely Trey man will never help Trey can’t go 7/8 straight minutes without getting a shot that’s just dumb to see when he is your best shooter
Not a fan of the new intro music, if it’s gonna change go with New Orleans Style, Jazz, zydeco, something!!!
Am I being a hater or are those artificial noise makers tacky?
1.) Stop switching
2.) make sure defense is solid
3.) off ball screens for Trey Murphy
4.) We NEED ZION
BI is in Angola right now he can't catch a rhythm. Crazy thing is he didnt have a terrible game but it is not good enough.
Listening to AD break down the team, I think he would probably be a great coach.
Inspite of cjs and bi's obvious issues this game is on Willie. They needed much more commitment to the 3. Without z all you have is shooting, I saw a lot of open shots they didnt take
No sir! This team an coach is soft as Pharmacy cotton! Even if you miss shots,.the energy, the physicality! JV outweigh Chet by almost 50 lbs,.and get beat by him and not taking advantage of it.
I've been saying this forever it's a shame bi doesn't know this. If bi has to dribble more than 3 times his efficiency goes off a cliff.
Stop dribbling, don't play point gaurd, pull up a shoot
In the second half willie should have went small and committed to the 3 pointer. Throw in every shooter you got
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