re: New Orleans Pelicans vs. Minnesota Twolves: Immediate Retaliation

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Folks, starting Herb is making a huge difference to our defense.

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I didn’t get to watch the game, how’d he actually look? His stat sheet leaves much to be desired tonight but obviously he’s a guy who can impact the game without tallying stats.

32 minutes
0 points
2 reb
1 ast
2 stl
3 to’s
4 fouls
+1 +/-

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Graham is a lot better at the basket than his percentages lead you to believe.

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I won’t say I watched him a ton, but I definitely saw him play a good bit last season because CHA was a fun League Pass team.

He has straight up improved from mid range and attacking the rim.

His early season percentages bear that out.

Not only was he timid to go inside, but he was really bad at it for a guard last year.

Maybe it’s a fluke, but he looks like he really worked on that inside scoring game and it’s paying off. That floater, that crossover step back mid range, that hesitate drive, all looks improved and he’s confident using them.

Sons. 79-3.

He just never allows a clean look at the basket for whoever he is guarding. He’s also extremely pesky on and off the ball and forces a lot of turnovers. A chunk of them don’t go down as steals in the statsheet, but his constant pressure forces multiple turnovers every night.

He can’t do shite for us offensively, but considering he’s in the game with BI, Jonas, Graham and NAW, he really doesn’t have to do much on that end. If he can continue stopping their best player and causing havoc defensively, that’s all we really need from him.

Also his effort is contagious. I’ve never seen a Pelicans team rebound like this one does when Herb is in the game. If the ball is bouncing around off some hands, I have confidence that we will collect the loose ball rebound. I can’t remember the last time that was the case.

He and the rest of the team still need to cut out the fricking turnovers though. I’m glad we won, but 20 turnovers still isn’t a great number. It is better than 30, but you aren’t beating top teams without Zion with 20 turnovers

Nice win

Your confused on this one. In his last year with the raptors he was mostly on 2nd unit and did feast. Ibaka was used as the number 1 except against the really big studs. Raptors got gasol for jv who played less than one adequate playoff game. Raptors won a championship with gasol on roster, but have regretted making that trade ever since. Teams are feasting on them at the 5

I know we won but I still want to see Trey more involved

Well when Zion is back you can do that a bit more.

Jaxson had good moments tonight. If he can give quality minutes you can do it a bit more too.

It’s kind of incredible how getting one player back would solve so many issues.

Playing Minny back to back, its so clear why they haven't won anything with Towns.

He's the softest player in the league and spends more time flailing around and whining to refs than he does playing defense. I thought AD was a beta. He looks like Jordan compared to Towns.

I understand why they don't want to do it, but that team could be set up GREAT(similar to the situation Griffin walked into) if they could trade KAT for an AD-like package and officially let that be Edwards' team.