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Pelicans Scoop: First Trimester Review
1) What are your general impressions of the Pelicans after 30 games? Are you disappointed, satisfied, or somewhere in-between? Mason Ginsberg: Satisfied with the offense, disappointed with the defense. Despite gripes from many about how the offense has been run thus far, the fact of the matter is that the Pelicans have been a top-10 […]
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Potentially, The New Orleans Pelicans’ Most Dangerous Game
Tonight, the New Orleans Pelicans will play . . . potentially . . . their most dangerous game. Tonight, the New Orleans Pelicans take on the re-emerging Chicago Bulls. Someone else will detail the game and the Bulls. The Bulls aren’t the problem. Well, not really. The dangerous opponent is Chicago. The city itself. Not […]
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Time for a Change in the Starting Lineup?
After the injury to Eric Gordon, Coach Monty Williams untimately settled on a Pelicans starting lineup of Jrue Holiday, Tyreke Evans, Luke Babbitt, Anthony Davis, and Omer Asik. The prevailing idea, here, was to find a way to still effectively space the floor for guys like Tyreke and Jrue to have room to get into the […]
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Tyreke Evans and the Elusive Free Throw Line
In almost every way, Tyreke Evans is producing at the same high level this season that he reached last year. From a statistical perspective, Evans’ rebounds, assists, and steals are down ever so slightly from last season, and his blocks and turnovers are pretty much the same; hardly enough in total to cause concern over […]
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Don’t Forget about Jrue
Jrue Holiday is having the best season of his career. Yes, he is playing better than when he was an eastern conference all-star in 2012-13. In fact, I don’t think it is even close. Despite having a career best year, there are still some fans who aren’t crazy about Holiday. I am not one of […]
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Watch Party Thursday, December 18th @ Tracey’s!
Don’t forget this coming Thursday at Tracey’s on Magazine Street Bourbon Street Shots will be having our second watch party of the season. It’s a big divisional match up against the Houston Rockets. We had a great turnout last month! So come grab some wings and talk Pelicans with our writers. And maybe if we […]
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Quick Hits
I started binge-tweeting on the site account and then realized I could make a quick post to summarize some things we are seeing with the Pelicans and their players. 1. Anthony Davis is already a historically good offensive big man Davis’s season at 21, as it stands, […]
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The Progression of Anthony Davis’ Offense
Here is a scouting report for Anthony Davis from NbaDraft.net before the 2012 draft: Offensive canvas is raw, with obvious enormous room for improvement … Doesn’t yet have a feel for his jump shot, often rushing the attempt and shooting a flat shot. The rest of their breakdown of AD’s weakness followed the same format. […]
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The Slow But Efficient Pelicans Offense
The New Orleans Pelicans this season, depending on where you look, are ranked 4th in offensive efficiency. It’s a big jump from last season’s ranking, and where the team has been under head coach Monty Williams—generally ranking somewhere in the middle of the league efficiency-wise. It’s a nice improvement to see, especially considering that the team’s […]
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Piecing Together the Pelicans Rotation Without Gordon
Eric Gordon is out indefinitely with a torn labrum. Depending on whether he needs surgery or not, Gordon could miss two weeks, or the majority of the season. He has started all 12 games this season, averaging 9.5 points per game on 39.8% shooting from the field, 34.1% from beyond the arc, and 1.2 steals […]
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Pelicans Scoop: Eric Gordon Injury Impact
A few of our writers give their takes on what impact Eric Gordon’s torn labrum will have on the New Orleans Pelicans. 1) If it were up to you, who would you replace Gordon with in the starting lineup? Do you think this is what Monty will do? Mason Ginsberg: This may be a dark […]
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Anthony Davis: Destroyer of the Basketball-Reference Play Index
The Pelicans are now 10 games into the 82-game NBA season, sitting at 6-4 after splitting a road back-to-back in Portland and Sacramento. The biggest single contributor to New Orleans’ winning record, of course, is the incredible play of Anthony Davis. While trying to measure just how great he has been so far, we can point to lots of raw […]
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Stats v 1.0: The Starting Five
Stats are fun. And though the season is young, some patterns are starting to emerge for the Pelicans, particularly in the starting unit. So I decided to put together a couple of stats that I found interesting and provide a little explanation as to why I found them interesting or what seems to be causing them. […]
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Tyreke Evans and Small Sample Sizes
I’ve been known to get a little salty about how NBA fans, especially those of the Twitter variety, talk about and use statistics. I am by no means a statistics expert, but I’ve studied it enough to know that often what we refer to as “statistics”, as basketball fans, is just arithmetic. But that is […]
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The Pelicans take on the Spurs in a Game that is More than Just a Game
The New Orleans Pelicans travel to San Antonio to take on the Spurs tonight, and while we all know that the guard will change one day in the Southwest division, we don’t know how fast that day will come. In 2007, the New Orleans Hornets were considered a young, upstart team and the Spurs were […]
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The New Normal For Eric Gordon
There is no doubt Eric Gordon is having an absolutely abysmal start to the New Orleans Pelicans Seasons. After talking to various people both inside and outside the Pelicans organization, there is a prevailing theory that his lack of touches is a major factor in his dwindling stat line. When told that I thought, ‘Yeah, […]
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The first-ever showdown between the Charlotte Hornets and New Orleans Pelicans
Tonight the Charlotte Hornets face the New Orleans Pelicans. The last time the Hornets played in New Orleans was April 14th, 2013. The first time the Hornets played in New Orleans was October 30th, 2002. That game was against the Utah Jazz, who used to be the New Orleans Jazz. The New Orleans Jazz last […]
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Omer Asik and Defending the 2-Point Shot
I get it. I get the three-point thing. I get why teams do it (it’s efficient, adds entropy to the offense). I get why analysts grab onto it with a white-knuckled grip (it’s efficient, it’s pretty, and it’s a very, very easy analysis). The truth of the matter, however, is that if all a team […]
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New Orleans Pelicans Season Preview Part Two
Our writers tackle five more pressing questions. For a look at Part One, click here. 6. Do you think Demps will make a move during the season to unload Gordon or to add a small forward? Michael McNamara: Teams should know by All-Star break what the cap will look like for the 2015-16 season and beyond. […]
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Rounding out the Rotation: the Pelicans’ Seventh Man
With only four days until the Pelicans’ regular season opener, the top of the team’s rotation is largely set in stone. The team will trot out a back court of Jrue Holiday, Eric Gordon, and Tyreke Evans, a front court of Anthony Davis and Omer Asik, and Ryan Anderson will serve as a lethal first […]