re: This team continues to crumble under pressure

Shoulda posted this in this thread initially:

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After Zion came back in with 5 minutes to go, here are the Pelicans halfcourt possessions, who initiated them, and the shot attempt:

-Zion: Herb corner 3
-Jonas: Jonas fallaway 2
-Zion: Zion and-1
-Zion: Zion layup
-BI: BI middie
-BI: BI fallaway

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Zion facilitating works and Zion not facilitating doesn't. Who woulda thunk it!

With all due respect, their all in, no moves left on management side left. Zion and bi need to work with their team, including coaching staff. Unless you’re telling me doc’s 2 week old contract can be bought out. I like the team and anyone but bi and Zion can be asked to come off the bench, cj val or jones. Stay the course.

The people making the decisions are BI stan accounts.

Were not going anywhere.

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Bro calm down damn we can’t win every single game lol

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We just lost two games b2b where coaching decisions with player personnel and player decisions cost us big time. I wouldn't be calm rn

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Bro calm down damn we can’t win every single game lol

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Nah this is a bigger issue. This is a "this team playing this way won't win a championship". And that's the only goal.

Have to make a change to get to the next level. Whether that starts with firing Willie, trading BI, or trading BI and Zion idk.

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kewl.
now do the night before.

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That was a coaching issue too.

A team cannot build a wall and take away open shots on their own. That happened, because we don't have a coach that played the right players, so it made it easy to wall up on Zion and take away the 3 pointer.


So yes, if you don't surround Zion with shooters, we won't be good in the clutch. That's on coaching to avoid, Willie fricked up the night before AND last night.

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That was a coaching issue too.

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So Zion failing to do anything against Miami is a coaching issue. If Zion could do anything outside of driving to the left real hard, then maybe he could actually have the ball in his hands more in the clutch.

BI taking two shots in the clutch last night is a coaching issue too?

You do realize that we scored 2 points on the BI mid range jump shot that he missed? JV got the board after setting a pick and had the rebounding position b/c Vucevic left BI wide open and let JV run past him to the goal.

And if you think that BI 13' mid range shot was a bad shot, you're a dumbass.
It was legit a wide open 13 footer.
Do you know what BI shoots from greater than 10' on 2 pointers this year when he is wide arse open like that?
76.5%.



Zion is not a closer with his current game. He's just not.
BI hasn't been good either, but he has a much higher chance of closing than Zion does currently, until Zion learns how do to anything other than barreling down the lane going left.
and i'm not here to say BI has been good. He's has not been good in the clutch at all this year, but Zion has been worse, and I agree that it's coaching issue more than anything. Why on earth we don't have 3 shooters on the court with Zion setting a pick for BI and rolling to the goal, or even BI setting a pick for Zion b/c you do that and the defender can't leave BI. That is literally all that should happen in the clutch of every game. It's what every team in the league worth a shite does with their two best players. And you rarely ever see from us.



Here's a comparison of what happens to us in the clutch. It's just as much a defensive issue as it is offensive.
Overall vs Clutch
ORtg 116.7 (8th) vs 99.4 (27th)
DRtg 112.4 (6th) vs 117.1 (23rd)
NetRtg 4.3 (7th) vs -17.7 (28th)
DReb% 72% (13th) vs 63.6% (21st)
TOV Rate 13.4% (15th) vs 17.4 (29th)
Opp TOV Rate 14.3% (7th) vs 8.2% (29th)
EFG% 55.5% (13th) vs 48.4% (22nd)
OPP Points of TO's 15.9 (11th) vs 1.9 (29th)
OPP 2nd chance points 13.1 (7th) vs 1.8 (29th)
OPP Fast Break Points 13.6 (8th) vs 0.7 (23rd) (doesn't help when Zion falls down on every layup attempt)
FT% 76.3% (22nd) vs 65% (30th)
That's pathetic.

We go from a top 10 team to literally one of the worst in the league in the clutch.

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After Zion came back in with 5 minutes to go, here are the Pelicans halfcourt possessions, who initiated them, and the shot attempt:

-Zion: Herb corner 3
-Jonas: Jonas fallaway 2
-Zion: Zion and-1
-Zion: Zion layup
-BI: BI middie
-BI: BI fallaway

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and i just want to correct this, b/c it's so stupid how bias you are. Don't pick and choose what you want. Lay the blame every where it needs to, not just the plays you want to cherry pick and not give all the details to.
My other post points out the terrible 65% FT shooting in the clutch. Zion and Herb both missed a FT. BI made both of his.


-Zion: Herb corner 3
-Jonas: Jonas fallaway 2
-Zion: Zion and-1 but he misses the free throw and keeps it a 2 possession game
-Zion: Zion layup
-Herb: fouled on the perimeter ripping through to go to goal, goes 1 for 2 from the FT line
-BI: gets rebound and gets fouled, makes both FT's, would be a 1 possession game if Herb makes his FT.
-BI: BI middie but JV gets the easy rebound and 2 points b/c Vucevic left him when BI was wide open
-BI: BI fallaway (not a good shot, and if we wanted a quick bucket then why would you not give it to Zion and let him go full speed at the basket like BI did. That wasn't a rebounded ball that BI took himself. That was an after TO play to give it to BI).

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Zion: Zion and-1 but he misses the free throw and keeps it a 2 possession game

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You called me biased then argue making a shot was bad because he missed the FT while also saying an off balanced not open shite was wide open and had a better efficiency rate than a Zion shot.



Good talks Teddy!