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Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA Show.

Ding, ding!

How about we can just watch basketball?

I like that idea.

Welcome to the Daily Ding here on The Athletic NBA show.

I'm Jared Weiss.

He is Moe Dekylley of Danielle Lehman, producing this episode.

We've got two games we want to get into it.

The first one is the Pelicans going to Dallas without Zion, without Brandon Ingram, and that means nothing, because they won 113 to 111 because Tray Murphy literally did not miss. I mean, he was unbelievable. I mean, not even that. Just the Pelicans' offense in the first quarter was super impressive. You know, they put up 40 points on the Mavs off the bat. It wasn't just Trey Murphy. It was Jose Alvarado.

It was C.J. McCollum.

They were getting whatever they wanted, Jared. In the first quarter alone, they shot 73.9%. And that's because they missed a couple shots at the end. At one point, it was like 85%. Like, it felt like they were never going to miss all night. Yeah, I love Jose Alvarado coming off the top as a dynamic score in the paint. I didn't even know he had it in him, but there was all these tries he was making to the rack where he's like scoring through contact, through the trees, but everybody had it going for New Orleans. They shot 57.9% from the field. Yeah, I mean, and the funny thing is, CJ's the one that probably shot the worst, went six to 20 for the game. Like, he didn't really have a great shooting night, did a great job distributing, 11 assists, and kind of just diamond it up and keeping the flow of the game going. But honestly, the man of the guy, the matches, is Trey Murphy, the way you said it. I mean, he, he's still making shots. He's A for eight in the game, but if he's shooting right now, they're going in. Like, he was just on fire. It's, I think New Orleans, they really needed him to take a step forward this year if they were going to seriously compete. It really looks like that's happening. It's always interesting seeing these guys that they get to the league. They're supposed to be knocked down shooters. And it just, they just can't get to their usual actions that

rookie year. They're kind of just standing there. They're not fully confident. And you're,

you're just looking for that year to see if they break through. And it really seems like

Troy Murphy or Troy Murphy is finally breaking through. Yeah, Troy Murphy, very different player.

Troy Murphy did it.

Notre Dame Legend Troy Murphy.

No, but it's not just that you really kind of got the vibe from the whole team.

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