Game ID: 22400086
New Orleans Pelicans @ Portland Trail Blazers
Friday, October 25, 2024 at 10:00 PM ET
Moda Center, Portland, OR
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
POR 27 20 37 19 103NOP 15 22 38 30 105
NOP @ POR ScoutingNOP @ POR Scouting
Welcome to the scouting desk. The coffee is cold, the film is play-by-play, and somebody has to explain what happened.
Every game has a hinge — a stretch where it was decided, usually while everyone was watching something else. Start where the evidence lives: the Lineups' face-offs say which five actually won their minutes; the Possessions ledger says who ran ahead of the night's own pace; the Shot Chart says where the points really came from, which is rarely where the highlights were. When all three agree, that is the story. When they don't — that is why this desk has a chair.
POR availability going into 10/23 · season opener
full strength
POR availability going into 10/25 · 1 day's rest
full strength
POR availability going into 10/27 · 1 day's restOUT Sharpe missed 2 since 10/23, out tonight
OUT Thybulle missed 2 since 10/23, out tonight
OUT Williams III missed 2 since 10/23, out tonight
POR availability going into 10/28 · back-to-backOUT Sharpe missed 3 since 10/23, out tonight
OUT Thybulle missed 3 since 10/23, out tonight
OUT Williams III missed 3 since 10/23, out tonight
POR availability going into 10/30 · 1 day's restOUT Sharpe missed 4 since 10/23, out tonight
OUT Thybulle missed 4 since 10/23, out tonight
OUT Williams III missed 4 since 10/23, out tonight
POR availability going into 11/01 · 1 day's restOUT Sharpe missed 5 since 10/23, out tonight
OUT Thybulle missed 5 since 10/23, out tonight
OUT Williams III missed 5 since 10/23, out tonight
NOP availability going into 10/23 · season opener
full strength
NOP availability going into 10/25 · 1 day's rest
full strength
NOP availability going into 10/27 · 1 day's restOUT Jemison III missed 2 since 10/23, out tonight
NOP availability going into 10/29 · 1 day's restOUT Murray missed 2 since 10/25, out tonight
OUT Jemison III missed 3 since 10/23, out tonight
NEW Hawkins 24 to 30 min over the last 3
NOP availability going into 10/30 · back-to-backOUT Murray missed 3 since 10/25, out tonight
OUT Jemison III missed 4 since 10/23, returns tonight: 1 min (13% of 10)
NEW Hawkins 24 to 29 min over the last 4
NOP availability going into 11/01 · 1 day's restOUT Murray missed 4 since 10/25, out tonight
OUT Matković missed 2 since 10/29, out tonight
OUT Reeves missed 2 since 10/29, out tonight
BACK Jemison III back 10/30 after 4, 1 min since (13% of 10)
NEW Hawkins 24 to 31 min over the last 5
10/23 vs GSW 104-140 — POR notes
POR lost 104-140. POR shot 39% (36 of 92) to GSW's 52%, 8 of 34 from three. The glass went 42-57 against them. Henderson led with 22 (7 of 18, 0 of 5 from three, 8 of 9 at the line); Grant added 16, Simons 15. Q1 was theirs, 21-21, but the other 3 periods went 119-83 against them. Henderson's -31 in 28 minutes was the worst on the floor.
10/25 vs NOP 103-105 — POR notes
POR lost 103-105. POR shot 41% (37 of 90) to NOP's 42%, 13 of 37 from three, and got to the line 20 times to NOP's 31. POR turned it over 19 times to NOP's 14, and NOP turned those into 12 steals. Grant led with 34 (11 of 23, 8 of 17 from three); Simons added 24, Henderson 15. Q1 was theirs, 27-15, but the other 3 periods went 90-76 against them. They led by as many as 16.
10/23 vs CHI 123-111 — NOP notes
NOP won 123-111. NOP shot 46% (45 of 97) to CHI's 49%, 14 of 37 from three. NOP turned it over 11 times to CHI's 21. Ingram led with 33 (13 of 23, 3 of 5 from three); McCollum added 23, Murray 14. The hinge was Q3, 36-25: a lead of 1 became 12, and the lead reached 16. Ingram was the night's best plus/minus at +18.
10/25 @ POR 105-103 — NOP notes
NOP won 105-103. NOP shot 42% (36 of 86) to POR's 41%, 12 of 32 from three, and went to the line 31 times to POR's 20 — 21 points from the stripe to their 16. NOP turned it over 14 times to POR's 19. Hawkins led with 24 (8 of 12, 4 of 7 from three); Ingram added 21, McCollum 20. The hinge was Q4, 30-19: NOP came in trailing by 9 and left it ahead by 2. NOP trailed 37-47 at the half and won the second half 68-56. Theis was the night's best plus/minus at +14.
11/01 vs IND — I Know, the desk before tip-off
Written before tip-off, from the five games each side brought in.
New Orleans comes in 2-3 over its last five, scoring 105 a night and allowing 113, shooting 44 percent and 35 from three, 24 free throws a game; Ingram at 22 and McCollum at 19 a game. That is 3 straight losses. Without Murray (4 straight), Matković (2 straight), Reeves (2 straight). One day's rest. Indiana comes in 2-3 over its last five, scoring 115 a night and allowing 120, shooting 48 percent and 33 from three, 27 free throws a game; Siakam at 21 and Mathurin at 16 a game. It has lost the glass by 4 a night. One day's rest.
So: New Orleans wins, and the game turns on the defense, New Orleans allowing 113 a night to Indiana's 120. Call it New Orleans 114, Indiana 113, Indiana keeping it close.
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
PORAS A. Simons
DA D. Avdija
DA D. Ayton
DC D. Clingan
JG J. Grant
JW J. Walker
KM K. Murray
SH S. Henderson
TC T. Camara
NOPBI B. Ingram
CM C. McCollum
DT D. Theis
HJ H. Jones
JA J. Alvarado
JG J. Green
JH J. Hawkins
JR J. Robinson-Earl
YM Y. Missi
ZW Z. Williamson
POR/NOP the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
END the clock ran out, ball in hand
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur
Brandon Ingram hits game-winner to earn Pelicans 105-103 come-from-behind win over Trail Blazers
PORTLAND, Ore. -- — Brandon Ingram hit a jumper with 4.9 seconds left and the New Orleans Pelicans rallied from behind to beat the Portland Trail Blazers 105-103 on Friday night.
New Orleans trailed until CJ McCollum made a 3-pointer and floater to tie it at 91 with 8:20 to go. Jordan Hawkins made free throws to put New Orleans in front. The Pelicans extended the lead to 97-91 on Daniel Theis ' layup.
Anfernee Simons ' jumper put Portland back in front with 2:24 left. It was back and fourth down the stretch until Ingram's game-winner.
Hawkins led the Pelicans with 24 points.
Zion Williamson was in the starting lineup for the Pelicans after missing the team's opener against Chicago with an illness. He finished with 16 points.
Portland jumped out to a 27-15 lead in the first quarter and held on to a double-digit lead through most of the half to lead 47-37 at the break.
Takeaways Pelicans: Dejounte Murray is expected to miss four-to-six weeks because of a hand injury he sustained in the fourth quarter of New Orleans' season opener against the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. Jose Alvarado replaced him in the starting lineup.
Trail Blazers: Rookie big man Donovan Clingan played just seven minutes in the first half but had three blocks. In the third quarter, he stripped Yves Missi of a rebound from behind, got the layup and drew a foul. Clingan finished with four points and four blocks in 14 minutes.
Key moment Ingram drove into the paint on Simons and made a contested turnaround jumper to give the Pelicans a 105-103 lead with 4.9 seconds left.
Key stat Jerami Grant finished with 34 points, including eight 3-pointers, for the Blazers, breaking his previous best of seven set against Cleveland in 2022.
Up next The Pelicans and the Blazers play again at the Moda Center on Sunday afternoon.