It feels very much like: “oh, we need to start Luke so let’s make Z questionable and then bring him off the bench under the guise of being careful with his minutes”

Feels very political and dishonest almost. I don’t like it.

Ziaire had a goal to play all 82 games. I believe he will play.

I see smart as the Brooks replacement personally. I don’t think he’s a point guard. I think he is a SF.

He is leading the league in steals, shooting 45% FG and averaging 5.6 APG. I am happy with that. Ecstatic even.

I don’t think he and Ziaire should be on the court at the same time. That has been my biggest issue with this season so far.

https://preview.redd.it/5lkgkp9715zb1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff3c24624128ae154c53aff124a894497ac5cd37

Kenny Lofton and Santi Aldama checking into the game

I didn’t get to watch the game but what I gather from the boxscore:

• we turned them over and had more FGAs despite losing the rebounding battle.
• we won the Zion, Ingram and McCollum minutes.
• Everyone on the Pelicans shot 50%+ FG except Ingram. And they also shot 44% from 3PT range.
• Matt Ryan cooked us?
• we lacked fastbreak points

There seems to be some encouraging stuff in there and some pretty obvious kinks to work out (fastbreak in particular). Just sucks that we will likely start in an 0-2 hole now that we have the Nuggets coming into town. Losing 2 home games off the bat sucks. Upsetting the Nuggets would be a much needed boost for the team but I wouldn’t bet on it.