James Borrego: Saddiq Bey has played extremely well/made clutch shots

Here’s New Orleans Pelicans interim head coach James Borrego on if he foresaw Saddiq Bey scoring the ball like this to start the season following missing last year recovering from a torn ACL (averaging 14.7 PPG/6.1 RPG/2.2 APG/1.0 SPG/0.1 BPG/0.6 TOV/1.0 PF/45.5% FG/53.7% 2-PT/35.0% 3-PT/77.8% FT/29.4 MPG through 27 games played).

(via New Orleans Pelicans):

“I honestly didn’t know what to expect of him. He’d been out a year. I’d always respected him from afar, but I saw him as a tough, hard-nosed, competitive two-way player. I knew about the 50-point game, but I didn’t know that he could consistently go score 20 points a night. And that’s why you never know until a player’s in your house what you have. You really don’t know, especially Jose [Alvarado]. Until you coach these guys, you really have no clue. You can think you know somebody from afar, but once they’re in your building, that’s when you really get to know them. So yeah, he deserves a lot of credit. He’s played extremely well and made big shots for us and clutch shots in big moments.”