Apr 9, 2023 - New Orleans Pelicans 108 at Minnesota Timberwolves 113

Jeremy Sochan's Game Is A Minor Protest Against The NBA's Orthodoxy

Jeremy Sochan breaks the convention and structure of the game. He plays a hyperactive, improvisational style that feels like watching a basketball randomizer.

James Harden's Purgatory

by Micah Wimmer

James Harden is having a year that only seems underwhelming when compared to his past self. But what we are seeing is not exactly a lessening of ability as much as it is a shift in priorities.

LSU Vs. Iowa, And The NCAAW's Great Explosion

by John Wilmes

The more fractured, more brief series of men's youth recruitment pipelines has made it so that women are now more consolidated in, and committed to, the college game. They are the new stars of March Madness.

The Harden-Embiid Rom-Com

by Jack Tien-Dana

Here's James Harden: the work-hard, play-hard perma-bachelor who traffics in such excess that he's never made room for the seemingly perfect partners. There's Joel Embiid, the hardened romantic who's learned to rely on only himself after a long-term relationship went sour.

	1	2	3	4	Final
NOP (42-40)	30	25	30	23	108
MIN (42-40)	18	29	36	30	113

Advanced	Poss	ORtg	DRtg
NOP	103	104.4	109.2
MIN	103	109.2	104.4

Four Factors	eFG%	TO%	OR%	FTR
NOP	.461	0.145	0.224	0.278
MIN	.555	0.164	0.190	0.268

#	Player	Status	Pos	Min	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	FIC	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	PF	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
3	C.J. McCollum	Starter	PG	38:50	9-24	0-5	5-8	6.2	0	5	5	3	5	2	0	2	23
17	Jonas Valanciunas	Starter	C	21:41	5-14	1-3	0-0	13.5	4	14	18	1	3	0	1	2	11
14	Brandon Ingram	Starter	SF	42:13	16-28	1-3	9-9	32.4	3	9	12	7	2	2	1	4	42
5	Herb Jones	Starter	SG	38:49	1-4	0-2	2-2	7.2	1	2	3	4	5	5	1	3	4
25	Trey Murphy III	Starter	PF	40:05	6-10	1-4	7-8	12.5	0	4	4	0	2	2	0	1	20
2	Josh Richardson	Bench	SG	29:05	1-5	0-2	0-0	1.0	2	3	5	1	3	1	0	2	2
22	Larry Nance, Jr.	Bench	C	17:04	1-2	0-0	0-0	3.8	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	2
8	Naji Marshall	Bench	SF	12:13	1-3	0-2	2-2	-0.5	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	4
	Team										7
				240	40-90	3-21	25-29	100.1	11	38	56	18	24	13	3	15	108
					44.4%	14.3%	86.2%

#	Player	Status	Pos	Min	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	FIC	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	PF	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
10	Mike Conley	Starter	PG	34:27	5-11	1-6	6-7	13.1	0	2	2	7	3	1	0	1	17
27	Rudy Gobert	Starter	C	13:04	1-1	0-0	0-0	3.5	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2
32	Karl-Anthony Towns	Starter	PF	36:06	10-19	5-8	5-6	18.5	2	6	8	2	5	0	1	2	30
1	Anthony Edwards	Starter	SG	39:05	8-21	3-9	7-13	18.4	3	10	13	4	3	4	4	8	26
3	Jaden McDaniels	Starter	SF	09:07	0-1	0-1	0-0	-1.0	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	1	0
5	Kyle Anderson	Bench	PF	36:51	4-7	0-1	0-0	14.8	1	8	9	4	0	1	2	2	8
12	Taurean Prince	Bench	SF	35:23	7-14	2-6	2-3	7.4	1	2	3	0	3	0	0	0	18
6	Jordan McLaughlin	Bench	PG	17:33	1-1	1-1	2-2	10.0	0	2	2	5	0	0	0	0	5
9	Nickeil Alexander-Walker	Bench	SG	16:20	1-4	1-4	0-0	0.5	0	0	0	3	3	0	1	2	3
13	Nathan Knight	Bench	C	02:00	1-2	0-0	0-0	-2.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	2
7	Wendell Moore, Jr.	Bench	SF	00:04	1-1	0-0	0-0	2.2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
	Team										8
				240	39-82	13-36	22-31	103.4	8	34	50	25	22	7	8	17	113
					47.6%	36.1%	71.0%

New Orleans 108, Minnesota 113

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Today's Games

	PG	SG	SF	PF	C
Starters	C.J. McCollum 20.9p, 4.4r, 5.7a	Herb Jones 9.8p, 4.1r, 2.5a	Brandon Ingram 24.7p, 5.5r, 5.8a	Trey Murphy III 14.5p, 3.6r, 1.4a	Jonas Valanciunas 14.1p, 10.2r, 1.8a
Rotation		Josh Richardson 10.1p, 2.7r, 2.7a	Naji Marshall 9.1p, 3.6r, 2.5a		Larry Nance, Jr. 6.8p, 5.4r, 1.8a

	PG	SG	SF	PF	C
Starters	Mike Conley 11.9p, 2.7r, 6.7a	Anthony Edwards 24.6p, 5.8r, 4.4a	Jaden McDaniels 12.1p, 3.9r, 1.9a	Karl-Anthony Towns 20.8p, 8.1r, 4.8a	Rudy Gobert 13.4p, 11.6r, 1.2a
Rotation	Jordan McLaughlin 3.7p, 1.4r, 3.4a	Nickeil Alexander-Walker 6.2p, 1.7r, 1.8a	Taurean Prince 9.1p, 2.4r, 1.6a	Kyle Anderson 9.4p, 5.3r, 4.9a
Lim PT			Wendell Moore, Jr. 1.4p, 0.6r, 0.6a		Nathan Knight 3.7p, 1.5r, 0.3a

Boston Celtics	120
Atlanta Hawks	114
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Brooklyn Nets	105
Philadelphia Sixers	134
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Chicago Bulls	103
Detroit Pistons	81
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Cleveland Cavaliers	95
Charlotte Hornets	106
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