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I hadn’t heard that so I avoided this game in my daily picks. Cleveland seemed like they might be a bit tired after last night’s game and back to backs are never fun. They’re off to an early lead now so it seems the Pelicans taking the night off is going to cost them a chance at beating the best team in the league. They should’ve gone all out knowing it was the second half of a back to back. This is the sort of stuff that makes you wonder what is going on with the Pelicans.
TBH, I don't think that they have the chance to beat them especially with almost half of your players suffering from injuries.
It's a road game for them so I think they don't care at all especially when you look at their starters and it's composed of bench players. Right now, the Cavaliers have a 31-point lead with less than 4 minutes remaining. An easy win for the Cavaliers and a good way to redeem themselves after that first loss... I guess.
Dalton Knecht is doing it.
It's funny that JJ Reddick said that the assistant coach wants Dalton out when he was contributing a lot to that game.
I don't understand that there's a real politics in there and coaches like JJ are standing for these kids that are on the momentum. When there are some of these assistant coaches want to cut the fun and want the kid out.
He's just the assistant coach and JJ's their coach, and like you said, it's frustrating that there are people who are letting their player out of the court when they feel that it's their night. I mean if your Knecht and that happened, you'd be frustrated and worse, you might speak it out on the media. It's good that Coach Redick is giving him more time now as a rookie, and he got the starter position as well in exchange for Russell which is working for them currently.
Their biggest concern that I'm seeing is their defense, and if they want to compete for that title and be a playoff contender, they must defend way better than they are currently.