They did lose a couple of role players, and Green is getting old for his role, so there’s that. They’ve looked great at home though. I believe they have the best home record in the NBA. They’ve just been awful on the road. It’s hard to explain why they could be so good at home and so poor on the road, but if they get that figured out then I think they’ll be in a position to do some damage in the playoffs. That is if Steph comes back.

Agree. If I'm not mistaken Cavaliers are down as much as 20+ points in that game but the patience to make a rally applies.

In today's NBA, a certain team is really not considered safe or on the verge of winning a game even up with huge points.

22/34 FG is an impressive stat. We can't just say that his 71 points is made in a force attempt but rather pure skills.

Bad news for the Pelicans. Adrian Wojnarowski (Woj) is reporting that Zion has strained his hamstring and will miss several weeks of action while he recovers. Not great for the Pelicans that have been one of the best teams in the league this year, but hopefully they can get healthy and stay that way for the playoffs. Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson have barely had a chance to play together this year.

No, I don't think so. Not because he is not good but because the offense is divided well in the Cavaliers' roster. When Garland is back the minutes for them are divided again. It's cool because it's avoiding injuries as stars are well rested and it creates a bigger chemistry for them to trust their teammates to be able to win their games.
That's the goal, a complete championship roster until the playoffs and the Finals. They are not about stats in that team, very unselfish plays.
And Ingram is not yet positive to be back in a week or more. This means more minutes for McCollum and Valanciunas, they may be able to defeat a weak team but their schedule doesn't look pretty. After the Rockets, they will be against the Nets, Mavs, Wizards, and Celtics. Ouch.

In terms of career high double-double, no doubt that Donovan Mitchell owned that record now. 70 points with 10 assists in a single is not an easy job to pull off because the league now is getting more intense and crazier. But him for MVP, he definitely got a chance, but he still needed to at least join the Top 10 before we could start discussing it.

Just now, Giannis Antetokounmpo dropped 55 points with 10 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks defeats the Washington Wizards. And for the Celtics, they were defeated by the undermanned OKC with a 33 points deficit. The Celtics started 2023 with a loss against the Nuggets and now they are defeated again, don't know what happened to them but it really looks like they were played by the OKC.

Yes, it will be a hard task for McCollum to lead the team and bring a W without the help of Zion. Brandon Ingram's return is still unknown as there's no timetable laid about him and Zion might be the first one who will recover first before him. But I guess the Pelicans can still handle their situation impressively even without their 2 stars, it's just a few weeks though, they won't be falling that steep as Zion and him managed to get the team at the top before the injury happened.


I don't know what is the basis why they needed to drug test Donovan Mitchell, is it just because he managed to put a 70 points in a game? That's unreasonable. Luka Magic put up 60+ but they were silent. I guess 70+ is where they drew the line to get a player tested for drugs. Just kidding! Mitchell is a great player, NBA should test someone if that's an ordinary player who suddenly achieved a 50+ career high.

Well, maybe he is just basing his understanding on the current standings, and right now the Golden State Warriors was on rank 9 in the West, and yes it is not a bad position to be in now that the season is just starting, for me the Warriors are doing great right now with the tandem of Jordan Poole and Klay Thompson they are reining supreme with those deep 3 shots, but the 1 thing that I am disturbed about the way the Golden State Warrior is playing away, surely they are playing great at home, and it was a remarkable play for Klay Thompson against the Hawks when the game goes beyond an OT, it was surely remarkable to watch, Klay is doing offense and defense at the same time, I think for this play he will likely be the one in charge with the away games,


But what if Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram are both injured Williamson has a hamstring and may come back on January 29, and Brandon Ingram injured his Toe and may return on January 11 this is a big loss of players for the New Orleans Pelicans right now without these two players I think they will surely struggle a lot,

With Nuggets if the joker can not play that will be a problem for the Nuggets, but for now, they are still playing with him, and has good health right now,

While Ja "Almost" Morant I think the Grizzlies will play properly even without him I think Dillon "Dynasty" Brooks and Desmond Bane can make a good combination without Morant,

I also don't suspect that he has taking any enhancing drugs for that matter. We have seen him scoring even when he was still in Utah, maybe he just woke up on the right side of the bed and just decided to take over that game and win it for them.

And now it's Giannis turn to have a 50 point game performance, Klay had one as well. And so as we have discussed, this season is going to be a special one with this kind of scoring and specially if Lebron will break Jabbar's record it will be the ultimate scoring record.

That percentage is really impressive and the way the really help the team to win the game, it's not just the offensive attacks but also
the hassle that really bring greatness in him.

I can say that a lots of situations where teams who got a decent lead in the last few minutes of the game can't be feel comfortable
and stop being aggressive to keep doing the play.

Before Mitchell, Luka also deliver that magical play to push the game into overtime against NYK.