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Game On: New Orleans Pelicans @ Atlanta Hawks
The New Orleans Pelicans visit the 31-35 Atlanta Hawks, who are riding a 5 game win streak. The Hawks may be hot now, but their recent win streak came after a devastating run in which they went 1-14. They are without their best player, Al Horford, but have still managed to stay in the Eastern Conference […]
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Suns Execute Down Stretch, Outlast Pelicans
What a bizarre day. The Pelicans reported that Jrue Holiday will be out for the rest of the season after he underwent successful surgery. This piece of news left me in a terrible mood, and after an hour of moping around and playing NHL 14, I decided to try to move past it. A couple […]
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Game On: New Orleans Pelicans at Phoenix Suns
Well, I certainly didn’t see it. Phoenix enters tonight’s game at a 33-24 record, good for 8th in the West and a far cry from what I expected the team to be. But I wasn’t alone. Las Vegas has Phoenix’s expected record at around 21 wins for the season. Phoenix is exceeding expectations under first year […]
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Pelicans Drop Heartbreaker to Wizards
The New Orleans Pelicans dropped a heartbreaker to the Washington Wizards tonight, losing 98-97 on a last second Nene dunk. We’ll talk more about the end of this game in a second, but generally, it was an ugly game, and one that the Pelicans should’ve won. Anthony Davis went to the line with the Pelicans […]
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Game On: New Orleans Pelicans @ Washington Wizards
The 23-31 Pelicans will be visiting the 26-28 Wizards on the second night of a back tonight. The Wizards, though below .500, are in the playoff hunt in the East and currently rank as the 5th seed. Bourbon Street Shots is privileged to welcome John Converse Townsend of Truth About It to answer some questions about the Washington Wizards. […]
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Chris Paul and the Tales of Yesteryear
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -Arthur Schopenhauer The NBA is graced with magnificent athletes- guys who can do things that most of us can only dream of doing. Players who can windmill dunk, hoist 3s from ungodly distances, throw full-court outlet passes […]
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Understanding the Trade Market: the Problem With Redundancy Redundancy
Picture this. You’re playing an NBA video game and you’re creating a player. You have no limits on the amount of skill points you assign to him. If you’re me and you’re 13 years old, you’re cranking the created player to a 99. You’re 7’2 and you move like Russell Westbrook, you shoot like Steph […]
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Pelicans Beat Magic, Anthony Davis is a Monstar
Box Score The game set up so well for Anthony Davis. Orlando is still missing Nikola Vucevic, and they played a lot of small ball versus the Pelicans. They simply had no answer for Davis’s length and activity, and the product was a monster game. [youtube id=”0l5YsoopKPo?t=1m35s” width=”620″ height=”360″] ..But of course, this […]
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Game On: New Orleans Pelicans vs. Orlando Magic
Tonight, the 17-25 New Orleans Pelicans take on the 12-32 Orlando Magic at home fresh off a hard-fought victory against Detroit. Without Jrue Holiday, Ryan Anderson, and Jason Smith, the narrative has changed some, and the Pelicans have had trouble beating just about anyone recently. However, the effort is there and this team is finally […]
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Anthony Davis: the Beginning is the End
Amidst a season of disappointing losses, a rash of injuries, and horrible defense, there has been a bright spot in the Pelicans’ future, and it’s Anthony Davis. His production has hardly been a secret, as national writers and fans have taken notice of his gaudy statistics, but one storyline has surprisingly stayed well beneath the […]
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Eric Gordon and Changing the Cast
Much has been made this year about Eric Gordon being the odd man out, long-term, for this franchise. Anthony Davis is the foundation and is here to stay, and though there are no guarantees that Jrue Holiday, Ryan Anderson, and Tyreke Evans are here forever, there is little doubt that moving Gordon’s contract would help […]
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Shorthanded Pelicans Dropped by Mavericks
The news that Jrue Holiday would be out indefinitely with a stress fracture carried with it the assumption that the Pelicans would be a pretty bad team until he got back. And tonight, that’s what we saw. I don’t want to get overly critical of our performance tonight, though it would be fairly easy to. […]
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Game On: New Orleans Pelicans vs. Dallas Mavericks
The more things change, the more they stay the same. While I’d like to be able to write a preview detailing how the Pelicans could beat the Mavericks, there was news this morning that Jrue Holiday is out indefinitely with a stress fracture in his right tibia. Combine that with Ryan Anderson’s indefinite absence, and […]
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Pelicans Squeak by Boston, Ryno Gets Hurt
Good NBA teams should be assassins. Good NBA teams would see a Boston team on the second night of a back to back and lick their chops. The Pelicans are trying to be a good team. Truly, they are. But they have so far to go. They have only beaten 2 teams with winning records, […]
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Game On: New Orleans Pelicans @ Boston Celtics
Bourbon Street Shots is privileged to welcome Adam Lowenstein of Celtics Hub to talk about the new-look Celtics and their season thus far. 1. What is the goal for the Celtics this year? Adam: If there is one main goal for the Celtics in the 2013-14 season, it is team development. From head coach Brad […]
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Clippers Beat Pelicans Because of Only One Reason
Coaching. It’s everything. Monty Williams is in complete, total control of every single thing that happens on the court. Did a player miss a shot? His fault. Did Chris Paul carve up our defense? His fault. Sadly, I left this game with a bitter feeling, and it had nothing to do with actually happened in […]
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Game On: New Orleans Pelicans @ Los Angeles Clippers
The 11-12 Pelicans travel to Los Angeles to face the Chris Paul-led Clippers, who are fresh off dominant wins against San Antonio (though the Spurs lost Tony Parker in the middle of the game) and the Washington Wizards. The Clippers are 9-2 at home this year and have beaten some good teams pretty handily in […]
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Pelicans Scoop: Priorities, Guards, Aminu, and the Division System
We are Nineteen games into the season and it’s still unclear who we are. Heck, we’re multiple years into Aminu’s New Orleans career and it’s still not even obvious who he is. Some nights he’s sitting the first half, and others he’s looking like the best player on the floor for us. Ah, life as […]
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Life After Davis: The Rise of Ryno
Ryan Anderson spun, stuck his right shoulder into Joakim Noah, rose up for the shot.. and buried it. Noah’s shoulders slumped: all night, he had been put in the impossible position of choosing to help and leave Anderson open or to stay and allow an easy shot at the rim. This time, he was right […]
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Should Ryan Anderson be Starting?
Put me in, damnit. No. I don’t care that Ryan Anderson isn’t starting.. for Ryan Anderson. He gets his minutes, and though I do think that it may affect some NBA players’ attitudes, I don’t see it as a huge problem. Ryan Anderson has been professional his entire time here, and most often, he comes onto the […]