JCsPops (Fuck Mango Mussolini)

He's not making headlines again, but Bryce is defending well & absorbing fouls bc of the lack of defensive bigs who can soak up fouls (Looney I'm looking at you).

Brook Lopez’s reactions to foul calls cracks me up every time.

DeAndre is in front of Collins when he commits the foul!

For all the grief I gave his play last season, he posted a +2.7 dEPM, which actually made him a neutral player in 2024-25.

If he maintains that, and is slightly better offensively, I may have to give a mea culpa.

Glass half empty:

The Pelicans are down 6 despite having a 61.4 eFG% and a 52.2 OReb rate

Glass half full:

The Pelicans have a 22.2 TOV% and are only down 6.

The perspective is yours to make.

That’s 6/13 from 3, @lawmurraythenu.bsky.social

Dejounte has been a menace defensively since coming back.

JDub has pinpointed the issue with the Pels here. The Pels are solid at the math parts of efficiency & creating shots when they apply themselves. But they have lots of record scratch moments that are compounded by losing the possession game over & over. Borrego has to figure thus out.

I’ll go one better:

I’ve never liked that players could shove bigs, in the air, who attempt to catch lobs.

Any chance where the defender can undercut a player should be reviewed for a flagrant.

Good job by the ref for telling DJM Benn Math didn’t mean to undercut him…

…but that’s a DANGEROUS play, man.

But they turned it over during the winning streak. Matter of fact, the only reason the Jazz scores were “that close”: the turnovers.

Yup!

The Clippers are 16th in forcing turnovers since 12/1 (14.2%)

The Pelicans were 29th in giveaway% during their 4 game winning streak (17%.)

They’ve forced the Pelicans to give the ball away 8x in 15 minutes.

Fears is the only one who came to play. Yves & Trey are working themselves back into shape.

I called this, @lawmurraythenu.bsky.social

THE CLIPPERS ARE 12TH IN OFFENSIVE RATING (116.0)

THAT IS AN ABOVE AVERAGE OFFENSE!!

STOP USING POINTS PER GAME FOR TEAMS!

The Clippers can name their score tonight.

The Clippers are DEAD LAST in transition frequency (13.4%) and already have 6 fast break points.

I’ve seen enough.

3 offensive rebounds for the Clippers so far, for the 7th worst offensive rebounding team in NBA.

Teams know they can constantly attack the glass vs this team.

Sacramento Kings 3-point percentage of tonight's starters at Los Angeles for this season

DeMar DeRozan (33.3%)
Precious Achiuwa (32.8%)
Maxime Raynaud (25%)
Nique Clifford (31.8%)
Russell Westbrook (33.8%)

Tehuti Miles has been under AEW contract for a number of months, FightfulSelect.com has learned.

The former Ashante Thee Adonis appeared on today's ROH tapings

The Pelicans are getting punished for their bad habits, of valuing the basketball.

Zion Williamson has been ruled out for tonight's game against the Clippers. His consecutive games played streak at 35

At its core: Pod Save America only wants to grab as many white voters as possible, just like any other “Liberal centric” media outlet.

Democrats are “the party of working people” if you count Black people and other minorities as people

Jayme Lawson on the #ActorAwards red carpet

Sheryl lee Ralph shines on the #ActorAwards red carpet

Madison Square Garden

On the scene for @blackrosiemedia.com at the world's most famous arena!

Clippers will start Dunn/Jones/Leonard/Collins/Lopez tonight vs Pelicans.

I do wonder if Clippers would start Garland tomorrow or if they bring Garland off the bench as part of his minute restriction to go with Mathurin and Yanic Konan the Barbarian

James Borrego on Zion's status for tonight. "He is getting worked on right now. We'll have an update soon."