They were playing a team without two of its starters, and there were still way too many turnovers, but CJ looked great, BI looked unstoppable, and Zion got 23 points despite a bit of a slow start. And Matt Ryan looks like the off-the-bench 3-point threat we needed (though Jordan Hawkins will probably take over that role and more sooner or later).

All in all, a promising win that shows a good base to build on, and a lot of room for growth.

The passes were lazy, the defense was atrocious, and Naji Marshall got injured.

There were a few bright spots. Jordan Hawkins looked great from 3, and EJ Liddell looked good as well, but the game was not nearly as close as the final score might indicate.

The Pels looked as dead as this Lemmy community.

First preseason game against the Magic happening now at the blender. Hard to get a read on everything after just a few minutes, but everyone is looking pretty spry.

It was nice to hear Joelvenile announcing the Saints game. He’s such a good announcer: always calm, , astute analysis, asks good questions to the color commentator, etc. etc.

Can’t wait for him and AD to get back to what they do best.

Bubble size represents cumulative quality of players lost for games

DraftKings has the over/under on wins at 43.5, that’s two wins lower than last year’s prediction, and a game and a half higher than our record last season.

Thoughts?

I’m hungry for Pels news, but we’re at a really quiet part of the off-season. With the draft done and Summer League over, there’s a real dearth of new information about the Pels’ upcoming season.

What do y’all focus on during this fallow period?

I love this guy’s work ethic, humility, and attitude. Herb lives and breathes basketball. One of the most criminally underrated players in the league. Not on Herb!

I hope he tears it up over there.

Zion's saying all the right things. I really hope he follows through on everything he's talking about here.

The moves so far have been:

• letting Jaxson walk
• waiving G.T.
• extending Herb
• signing E.J. Liddell
• signing Cody Zeller
• drafting Jordan Hawkins

Oh, and I guess they extended David Griffin's contract as well.

Let me know if I missed anything, and let me know what y'all think of the moves.

Edit: forgot to add letting Willy walk Edit 2: also failed to mention letting Josh Richardson go

Reddit refugee here hoping to find some other Pels fans here on Lemmy. There aren't many posts, but are there people lurking just waiting for something to happen?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1074368

[Scotto] Sources: The New Orleans Pelicans are waiving Garrett Temple, @hoopshype has learned. Temple’s $5.4 million salary for the 2023-24 season would’ve been fully guaranteed by July 7 if he remained on the roster.