Earlier, the Pelicans beat the Rockets 120-107 on the road, and while enjoying a wave of three consecutive wins in the recent past, they also raised their rankings to the top ten in the West, squeezing out the Blazers into the playoffs. The biggest contributor to the team's victory in this game is by no means Ingram, who started 35 minutes, shot 12-of-21, 3-of-5 from three-point range, had 33 points, 3 rebounds, 12 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, and his plus-minus of +16 was also the first on the team. After the game, Pelicans coach Willie Green also praised the beloved disciple: "Brandon is better than the publicity, he has extraordinary talent, and he has a very high basketball IQ. ”
And that's not the first time Green has praised Ingram, who also said of Ingram after the Pelicans' victory over the Clippers in January: "The beauty of what he's done is that he trusts his teammates, and when you do that on the offensive end, the sky is your limit. ”
In last year's offseason, the Pelicans chose to sack the old coach Stan Van Gundy, so that Willie Green, who had previously served as an assistant coach at the Suns, became the new manager of the team, although there was no head coach experience, but after retiring as a player in 16 years, Green chose to join the Golden State Warriors as an assistant coach and won the championship with the team, and after that, Green also chose to switch to the Suns, assisting Monty Williams, actively accumulating valuable coaching experience.
Officially becoming the manager of the NBA team this season also made Green not smooth in the early stage of coaching, at the beginning of the game, the Pelicans only achieved a bad record of 1 win and 12 losses, but after a period of adjustment, Green finally found a coaching trick, leading the Pelicans to catch up and successfully enter the playoff ranks now. And he and the core of the team, Ingram, are definitely complementary, without Ingram, the Pelicans are unlikely to bottom out after that, and without Willie Green, the Bole, Ingram will not completely become a real leader of the team this season.
As a 16-year list show, Ingram debuted in the Los Angeles Lakers in his career, but unfortunately met Luke Walton, who is not very good at cultivating newcomers, in the Lakers' three years, although Ingram is constantly improving, but it is still far from the expectations of picky Lakers fans. And just in order to help James find the second superstar, the Lakers also packed in Ingram, Ball Brother, and Hart, the "Three Lessers of the Lakers", to the Pelicans. After switching to this new team, Ingram also completely ushered in a complete outbreak, joining the Pelicans in his first year, Ingram improved his stats to 23.8 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.2 assists, and was on the All-Star stage for the first time in his career.
I thought that when I came to the Pelicans, I would become the well-deserved core of the team, and it turned out that the Pelicans just picked up the talented player Williamson of Zion with a sign in the season when Ingram joined, and it is true that they are nominally "double cores", but most of the time the tactical starting point is basically in Zion's hands. Finally, this season, thanks to Zion's injury absence, Ingram was also directly pressed to the absolute core of the team by the new coach Green, wanting to build him into an all-round organizational striker. As far as the current situation is concerned, Ingram and the Pelicans are indeed on the right track under the leadership of Green, the rookie coach.