Jonas Valanciunas talks mid-season thoughts, chemistry | Pelicans-Hornets Shootaround 1/17/2024

Jonas Valanciunas talks mid-season thoughts, chemistry | Pelicans-Hornets Shootaround 1/17/2024

In Lithuania right now is it is it cold no it’s a summer in Lithuania yeah it’s it’s pretty cold it’s it’s nice weather refreshing you know uh just at the the halfway point of the Season what are some of your your big pict your thoughts on on where the

Pelicans are and uh what you want to be in this this last half I mean we we played some good basketball we showed that we were really capable winning big games you know going you know showing some great basketball uh now we just got to maintain that uh

Elevate to the next level even um you know everything in it’s in our hands so just got to do it how much do you like that the first 10 games of the Season probably not the the start you guys wanted but yall just kind of hung

In there as a team how much you like that part of it well the you know we kind of kind of every 10 games we get better and better so I hope it’s going to keep keep keep being like that and keep keep improving you know every 10

Games we play so uh we need to I don’t know we need to stay healthy we need to you know Elevate our game to even the next level and and we going to be really good team coach R call this a trap game for you guys he mentioned it yesterday

Today how do you counteract that get out of the Trap get out of the Trap and and uh and win this game you know it’s going to be important you know if we want to be a really good team you know we we really you know no matter the schedule no

Matter what’s going on we got to come out and show that we’re capable winning the games how much of the you know Christian mentioned the the 10 game start that you guys had to the season since then you’ve been one of the best teams in the league I mean um how much

Of that do you think is you guys have shown just that the overall talent that you guys have and the depth as far as the the chemistry coming up showing up you know chemistry uh you know just knowing each other knowing what what players like you know coach too you know

How to put lineups together how to you know how to you know the get Best of You Know The Players so um it’s not going to happen over theight so that’s why we have all this long season you know 82 regular season games to you know to to

Get your elevate game to to to highest point the first year that you were here there was a lot of new players on the team you guys have brought back a lot of the same players how much of an advantage you think that’s been in terms

Of the first half of the Season you’re there’s a few teams in the west especially that that made a ton of changes in there it seems like they’re still trying to figure things out but how how much help you guys to have yeah that helps you know just uh

You know as I said chemistry in the locker room you know we know the guys we we’ve been we’ve been around we’ve been together for for for I don’t know two 2 and A2 years uh you know we need to we need to we didn’t need to you know

Introduce ourselves we know what uh what’s going on so it it it’s it’s a luxury it’s a luxury to have that

New Orleans Pelicans center Jonas Valanciunas’ shootaround interview from Pelicans practice on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024 ahead of tonight’s game against the Charlotte Hornets at 7 p.m. CT.
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New Orleans Pelicans Roster
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Jose Alvarado #15 Guard
Dyson Daniels #11 Guard
Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
Brandon Ingram #14 Forward
Herbert Jones #5 Forward
Kira Lewis Jr. #13 Guard
E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
Naji Marshall #8 Forward
CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
Dereon Seabron #0 Guard
Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
Cody Zeller #44 Forward-Center

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