Game #56 - Toronto Raptors at New Orleans Pelicans; Feb 14th, 2022 on SN1

[bertarapsfan]

Man Pascal gets no respect from the refs

[The Great One]

Trent just keeps flopping out there. No wonder he got the quick hook.

[golden]

Nah dude..
They got 2 find and get a Mobile Center, this ain't gonna work in the long run.
Myles Turner was available, now his not.
Now we're stuck watching guards..guard center, so stupid.
Not sure if buyout market will have anything, so sad.. every year.

I’m not disagreeing with you. Just re-iterating what the team building philosophy is. It’s all about aggressive ball pressure, doubling and switching. It’s an experiment… it could fail.

[Demographic Shift]

oof its a bad night so far

30% from the floor and 3 isn't going to win many games.

[LJ2]

Trent just keeps flopping out there. No wonder he got the quick hook.

He's been trying to add that to his defense the past few weeks.

[bertarapsfan]

Were playing like bums! Bring in Young! Were playing like bums! Bring in Young!

[bertarapsfan]

We cant handle 1 center on a good day let alone 2. Hayes and JV are killing us

[The Great One]

This game is the perfect example why i'm not sold on Trent. He shot the ball well the last 2 weeks, yes, but everyone know the way he was shooting was not sustainable.

[Demographic Shift]

20 point leads aren't what they used to be.....

one hot quarter ..

[golden]

Boucher is somehow a +4 through this debacle.

[bertarapsfan]

20 point leads aren't what they used to be.....

one hot quarter ..

And one cold one for the pels... Unfourtantly they have been getting wide open looks from 3 all night

[The Great One]

Still no Barnes. Is he going to get benched the whole game? I won't be surprised.

[TrueTorontoFan]

This game is the perfect example why i'm not sold on Trent. He shot the ball well the last 2 weeks, yes, but everyone know the way he was shooting was not sustainable.

last time I mentioned anything someone got mad at me.

[G__Deane]

This game is the perfect example why i'm not sold on Trent. He shot the ball well the last 2 weeks, yes, but everyone know the way he was shooting was not sustainable.

So Trent is the new target?
Or Barnes? I can't keep it straight.

[golden]

The rotations in the first half made no sense. We start small and get destroyed by JV. Then JV checks out and we have not 1, but 3 centers (Birch, Boucher, Precious) on the floor at the same time, also with Thad, IIRC. The Pelicans, meanwhile, have the smallest & quickest guy on the floor (Alvarado) and he breaks down the defense and helps them extend the lead after we got it down to 5 points. We gave up a strength/size advantage to JV, and then we gave up a quickness advantage, because we had nobody who could stay in front of Alvarado, when we could have brought in Banton (who was benched for no reason).

Our bench in the first half was basically 4 small-ball centers (Boucher, Birch, Precious & Thad). That's crazy.