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Omer Asik and Potential Pelicans Lineups
The Pelicans are in the process of acquiring Omer Asik, the soon-to-be 28 year old center from the Houston Rockets. Asik has split his 4 years in the NBA between the Houston Rockets and Chicago Bulls and has fostered a reputation as an elite defender and rebounder. This article will focus on understanding Asik’s strengths and […]
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Glory Days: Dwight Howard Eats His Wheaties
Glory Days takes a look back at the thirteen magical games where the Pelicans were actually healthy. For past articles in this series, click here. A lot of Pelicans fans have argued (with evidence in hand) that the Pelicans are a better basketball team with Anthony Davis playing as a 5. The argument has validity and […]
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Glory Days: Pelicans Skunk Nuggets
Glory Days takes a look back at the thirteen magical games where the Pelicans were actually healthy. For past articles in this series, click here. The Pelicans came into December 27’s game on the heels of a 5 game road stretch and with a chance to climb to just one game under .500. Eric Gordon sat […]
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Glory Days: Pelicans Get Back on Track, Defeat Kings
Glory Days takes a look back at the thirteen magical games where the Pelicans were actually healthy. For past articles in this series, click here. Though we have covered numerous games so far in our Glory Days series, it wasn’t until this very point when I started to get excited about how the Pelicans were […]
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Glory Days: Neither Team Plays Well, So The Score Is Close
Glory Days is a series that takes a look back at the 13 magical games where the New Orleans Pelicans core was healthy. For past games in this series, click here. I find the New Orleans Pelicans’ game against the Portland Trailblazers on December 21st 2013 to perhaps be my ideal game to talk about. First […]
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Glory Days: Clippers handle Pelicans 108-95 because, well, they’re the better team (for now)
After two to losses in Denver and Golden State to start 4-game road trip, the Pelicans entered Los Angeles to play the Clippers on the second game of a back-to-back. Obviously not an ideal scenario, but the game did provide the return of Anthony Davis after missing eight games (fewer than expected) with a non-displaced fracture of the fifth […]
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Pelicans Scoop: Finals Edition!
1. Once again, the NBA Finals is the Heat and the Spurs. Assign probabilities to each of these outcomes. 2. Explain why you think the Spurs or Heat have an advantage in the series. McNamara: I think the Spurs know how to play Wade and they have the type of versatility at center to contain […]
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Glory Days: Balanced Offensive Attack Leads Pelicans to 121-105 Road Win over 76ers
Glory Days is a series that takes a look back at the 13 magical games where the Pelicans key players were all healthy and playing together. This is Game #6 in the series. For a look at all the Glory Days posts in this series, click here. After winning their first three games with all key […]
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Season in Review: Ryan Anderson
22 games. That was all we saw of Ryan Anderson this season. Luke Babbitt played in 27 games. Little used Darius Miller played almost the same number of total minutes. It was rough for us as Pelicans fans, but for him, it must have been a nightmare year. His off-season was tragic. He got […]
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Season in Review: Jrue Holiday
The Acquisition It would be hard to start a Jrue Holiday season recap without first mentioning how he was acquired. On the night of the 2014 NBA Draft, the Pelicans traded the #6 pick (Nerlens Noel) and next year’s pick (which became the 10th pick after the lottery) for Jrue Holiday and the rights to Pierre […]
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Season in Review: Anthony Morrow
Where He Started Anthony Morrow agreed to a one year minimum contract with a player option for a second year on July 9th after the Pelicans had made big moves for Jrue Holiday and Tyreke Evans. They had agreed to terms with Al-Farouq Aminu at SF after missing out on Martell Webster and Morrow gave them […]
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Season in Review: Jeff Withey
Last offseason the Pelicans sent Robin Lopez and Terrel Harris to Portland and Greivis Vasquez to Sacramento for Tyreke Evans from the Kings. Oh, and they also got a skinny seven footer from Portland named Jeff Withey. The one word came to mind when I heard news of the trade, “steal”. See I figured it […]
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The San Antonio Spurs and the Path Ahead
A few years ago, I hated the Spurs. I was entering college and the Pelicans (Hornets) were fresh off of a devastating series against them. But New Orleans has since taken a descent into the cold lottery waters and now I find myself admiring bits and pieces of other teams.. no more so than the […]
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Season in Review: Brian Roberts
Writing a Brian Roberts 2013-14 season review is a tricky thing. He isn’t a particularly unique player, but he splits fan opinions like crazy. Some love him, while others love to hate his defense and ball hogging. Let’s look at the facts, the raw numbers, and the data to see how Brian Roberts actually preformed […]
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Season in Review: Eric Gordon
Heading into this season our writers were optimistic about the possibility of the real Eric Gordon showing up.We wanted it, the fans wanted it, Gordon himself seemed to expect it. In a lot of ways it seemed possible that if we just willed it to happen, it would in fact happen. McNamara wrote in our […]
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Season in Review: Luke Babbitt
Luke Babbitt is a tougher player to review than any other on the Pelicans in the 2013-2014 season. His limited minutes and more or less one-dimensional skill set doesn’t leave a lot of room for individual analysis. Yet, when we were signing up to review players, I jumped at the chance to take Babbitt. Let […]
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Season in Review: Jason Smith
There were high hopes for Jason Smith following a promising 2012-13 season, despite the injury that left him riding the pine for the final two months of the season. Let’s head way back to the long long ago and see what McNamara had to say about J-Smitty after last season. “It was a tough season […]
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Season in Review: Anthony Davis
“ There’s no other place I’d rather be.” – Anthony Davis, when discussing the city of New Orleans at All-Star weekend, 14th February 2014. In the two years since New Orleans won the draft lottery there has been mass transformation to a franchise fighting to get back into the playoffs. The team has evolved its roster […]
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Season in Review: Alexis Ajinça
Nearly two months into the 2013-14 NBA season, the New Orleans Pelicans announced the signing of 7’2″ center Alexis Ajinça after buying him out of his contract with Strasbourg of the Euro League. Ajinça was the 20th pick in the 2008 NBA draft, playing sparingly in his first three seasons before deciding to head back to France to […]
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Season in Review: Al-Farouq Aminu
Before the start of Anthony Davis’s first season, our own Jason Calmes and I had a talk about Monty Williams. It was regarding his ability to develop players, and whether he deserved a contract extension. We talked about his ability to have fringe guys become rotation players in the league (Marco Belinelli), but how do […]