 What's the word y'all man? This was supposed to be an off-day my low management day if you will and Well something came up Something came up that I want to talk about now like when I say low management basically was like me recording in the video So I didn't get to watch like really any basketball until the end of the last game I don't know what happened in the first three and a half quarters But I'm here to talk about that last quarter and a half leave a like subscribe if you are new 11 double-digit leads blown by the New Orleans pelicans now this one might be probably the biggest blown game I've seen in recent history This is um, this is first of all, let me show all the love to Damian Lillard and the Portland Trailblazers He continues to keep Terry Stotz's job alive basically the man is just untouchable He gave the post game interview with the with the TNT guys and it was everything this man said was on key It's hard. I don't know how you can be an NBA fan not a fan of Damian Lillard Simple I just I just don't understand you do it. So shout to dame keep coming up clutches He always does hitting the big-time shots and not only just that trust in his teammates when he needed to trust him Let's talk about the pelicans though because that's the real story as much as it was a comeback for the Portland Trailblazers It was a collapse for the pelicans and guess what I'm gonna I'm gonna act like I know the answers How you can fix the pelicans in the title But I really don't I really don't the main changes I would say when it comes to this pelicans and it's not structural first of all I'm not telling them what trades they should make. Can you please I feel like I've said this a hundred times in a show Every time we talk about the pelicans. Can we please get Zion the ball when it matters please? They're in the midst of blowing this game, right? It's a 13-0 lead by the Portland Trail or 13-0 run by the Portland Trailblazers You would think that they would give Zion the ball, right? Give them a couple touches. No They revert to this Brandon Ingram isolation game They revert to this Eric Bledtoe isolation game and I understand allowing Brandon Ingram to be Brandon Ingram because that's what he's good At but in these late game situations every time I see them in a close game and and this is just based on what I feel I don't know if the numbers back me up here Brandon Ingram just doesn't hit the shot you you want him to hit in the clutch. I don't know How we can go from Zion basically being dominant He was walking to the basket every possession to be like Brandon Ingram He go to ball do what you got to do now Brandon Ingram did not have a bad game as far as statistically and other than you know The miss free throws at the end of things like he was having a good game But after he missed two to three shots down the stretch eventually you like okay Let's give let's give Zion the ball this man is having the best playmaking game of his career so far How about we let him get a full head of steam to the basket to kick out to Brandon Ingram? Maybe a catch of shooters better than him doing turnarounds and doing all those type of things And then deeper than that right a thing you got to do first damn it gonna give Zion the goddamn ball Thing to is work on them defensive assignments when I came into in the third quarter Lanzo ball was guarding Damian Lillard and he was doing a pretty solid job at it Then in the fourth quarter the assignment gets switched to Eric Bletzo like I just it gets switched to Eric like like I'm not saying Lanzo was clamping up Dame. It's hard to clamp up day. The man is unguardable He was doing a damn better job. They were Eric Bletzo ended up doing I don't know how we get to that final play and Eric Bletzo has the assignment over what Lanzo ball was doing in this game defensively And it's just Eric Bletzo. We've said it before he's just not really here. He's just not here I don't you know, I hope it's that he's not here and he's not like done You know I'm saying he had always been a good regular season point guard all of his years in Milwaukee You can count on Eric Bletzo to be a good defensive point guard He's gonna get out and run and transition all of those type of things but this year. I feel like every time I'm watching them I'm watching 30% of what we saw just like three years ago So this is this is just a bad And I mean a bad bad loss and what makes it worse is they actually got a good look at the end of it with their Full court pass some Lanzo ball they wasted a 17 assist game from Lanzo I feel like I'm talking about it like a couple days ago We're gonna bear had a 26 rebounds or whatever whatever it was and they end up losing This is supposed to be a moment and people NBA Twitter like that man Lanzo about to get paid and sure they can still say that But it's just like it means a little bit less because they weren't able to close out this game the Q Alex in the Walker got to get his hands up, but that's like a Things like that happen. Of course, you don't want it to happen when it's three seconds left for the clock But things like that happen Brandon Ingram missing the two free throws is crazy almost a 90% free throw shooter There's nobody else in this team that you want the ball in their hands going to the free throw line other than him And he missed both and the call on Eric Blatso first sure of foul I don't understand the people on Twitter they're trying to argue that that wasn't a foul The last two minute report is gonna say that the refs got that right the refs have a bad track record Especially this season though missing calls or calling Phantom calls especially this this week has been a tough one That one was right because I know I think I think it was Reggie Miller. That was saying this or C web I don't even remember he was saying like a lot of people believe that the hand of part of the ball in It is but when you hit the hand and it alters the actual shot It's a little bit different. I don't know how to explain it 100% a foul 100% a foul You know Damian little do what he got to do. He's gonna make those free throws. So I yeah, Stan Van It's it's it's a mixture of coaching. It's a mixture of composure Like they have they have some veterans on this team like of course their core players Lonzo ball Brandon Ingram Zion wisdom these are younger players But like if Eric Bledster is gonna play big-time minutes you want him to show that veteran leadership I'm Steve Steven Adams set out a lot of the the last court and I'm like why is he not in the game when you really need him They have some vets here, but they they don't have that composure. They don't have that composure 11 double-digit blown leads is crazy at this part of the season now teams are gonna blow leads If the NBA basketball in general is a game a game of runs, but 11 out of I gotta see 11 out of their 23 losses are blown tip. That is As a crazy statistic crazy crazy statistic So that that is what was on my mind again This is supposed to be a low management day for me like like I planned on not really doing one of these episodes people like Kenny Please talk about how the Celtic shot for free throws. I didn't get to watch this game It was low management night. I would have to go back and rewatch this But like whenever I see a great change in free throws, I'm not immediately saying that this is rigged I have to rewatch and see plays that should have been fouls or watch the foul calls that were Against the Celtics and see like oh, maybe that wasn't a foul I can't just look at the box currency for free throws be like man the refs or well, wow Because sometimes there like sometimes one team is just more aggressive now I'm not saying that's the case tonight because again, I didn't watch this game, but it could be I'm gonna have to Go back and rewatch that I did watch the Bulls as I always do Zach Levine putting up 40 was pretty cool But more than that I just realized how much or how important daddy as young gets to the success of this team and successes and quotation marks Because we were better than then we were last year So that is successful for me and that that's that's pretty much it Those are all the games of basketball. I got to watch it. That's literally it But I do want to take the time to talk about in these last couple minutes of the show Talk about the weirdest spot that the NBA finds itself in at this point and of every NBA season as a die-hard fan I will most likely watch as many games as I can every single night But for the casual fan, we're at this point in time where it's after the all-star break But before the playoffs and I would just guess that the ratings are down during this period of time Like for example, if I wasn't a hardcore NBA fan, would I have watched? Nick's versus 76ers Probably not when I've watched heat versus cast probably not like they have this I don't there's no remedy for it because they've been talking about it for years and years and years But we're in that great spot like the die-hard fans will come in and watch basketball Regardless is the first game of the season or the 80 plus game of the season. They don't we don't care We're gonna watch ball, but the casual fan may not be tuning in like honestly speaking Do you think the casual fan that's not invested in Utah or the Celtics watch the first prime-time game? Probably not Do you think the casual fan got to tune into that that collapsed between the Pelicans and the Trailblazers? probably not Because we're at the point of course every game matters because we're talking about standings at the same time This game between the Timberwolves and the Lakers won't matter in the grand scheme of of the season Again, there's no remedy for it But this is this is very interesting It is very very interesting I would love to see a graph of like these are the ratings where at the beginning of the season And we slowly watch it plummet until like the last week where the games really really matter for like seating And then we see a little spike and then we get to the playoffs and it's back back up Okay, I just wanted to talk about the pelicans. Um, very very bad loss I will go back to rewatch jazz versus Celtics, and I'll give my opinion probably on twitter. All right. Appreciate y'all I'm out call game