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Short-Handed Pelicans Drop Tough One to Jazz 100-96
The Pelicans went into halftime with a 52-42 lead over the Jazz. New Orleans scored a solid 10 first half points off of turnovers against a team giving up 18 points per game in that category, 5th worst in the NBA. The Pelicans made an impressive 9 out of 15 three-pointers against a Jazz team allowing opponents […]
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Game On: Jazz @ Pelicans
Eric Gordon: “No Davis, Holiday, or Anderson? Hold on y’all, I got this.” Tonight, an incredibly short-handed Pelicans team hosts the Utah Jazz. In addition to Jrue Holiday’s absence with his right leg injury, New Orleans will also be without Anthony Davis (right shoulder sprain) and likely without Ryan Anderson (right shoulder soreness… what is […]
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Game On: HaWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWks (soon to be regular Hawks) @ Pelicans
Tonight, the Pelicans welcome the Hawks team that DIDN’T lose the Superbowl last night to the Smoothie King Center. Atlanta is currently riding a 19-game winning streak, easily best in the league this season. The Hawks have not lost since December 26th, and since then rank 3rd in offensive rating, 3rd in defensive rating, and 2nd in Net Rating […]
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Game On: Clippers at Pelicans
Tonight, the Pelicans (24-22) continue their homestand against the Clippers (32-14), owners of the longest active winning streak in the Western Conference (6). According to Hollinger’s power rankings formula on ESPN.com (which takes into account factors such as strength of schedule and number of home and road games), the Clippers are the third best team in the NBA, […]
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Game On: Pelicans @ Knicks
In typical 2014-15 Pelicans fashion, New Orleans followed up arguably their ugliest loss of the year in Philly with one of their most impressive victories of the season last night in Toronto. 24 hours later, they’ll square off with the one Eastern Conference team which boasts a worse record than the 76ers – the New […]
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Pelicans Outplay Pistons from Start to Finish in 105-94 Victory
With Jrue Holiday out with an injured ankle, the New Orleans Pelicans trotted out a starting lineup of Evans, Gordon, Cunningham, Davis, and Asik. This decision was an interesting one, as there is little data from this season to support the notion that it would be good defensively or at spacing the floor. Seven minutes later, Anthony Davis […]
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Game On: Pelicans @ Bulls
The brutality of the December schedule rolls on. Last night the Pelicans flew to Chicago after defending their home turf against the Defending Champions and get to take on a team on a roll with all its major pieces back from injury. Leading the team is, in my opinion, the best two way wing player […]
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Flat Pelicans Performance Leads to 96-84 road loss to Pacers
In the NBA, teams that make shots tend to do better than teams that miss. I know, shocking, right? That fact is true for more than just the obvious reason, though. When a team misses, the opponent gets to start its possession without the defense being able to get set. As a result, that opponent typically has […]
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Pelicans at Pacers: Open Thread
The Pelicans finish up their quick two-game road trip in Indiana tonight with a match-up against the Pacers. Before the game, I recommend reading this nice “bittersweet” column written by Gregg Doyel of the Indy Star about Eric Gordon’s return to Indianapolis and a kindergarten teacher of his who never misses when he comes to town. Other notes to […]
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Pelicans’ Late Game Defense Seals 101-99 Victory over Thunder
Instead of starting this recap with words, let’s start with a beautiful, beautiful picture: This chart, my friends, displays the Oklahoma City Thunder’s shots during the final 5 minutes of the 4th quarter tonight. THIS is what many were expecting when Omer Asik joined forces with Anthony Davis and Jrue Holiday in the Big Easy. While the […]
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Pelicans @ Thunder: Open Thread
The Pelicans travel to take on the resurgent Oklahoma City Thunder, who are 8-2 in their last 10 games. The Thunder will be missing Kevin Durant but are still a very tough opponent. Questions 1. The Pelicans put up a bit of a dud last night- can they move past that and steal a road win […]
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Game on: Blazers @ Pelicans
If you missed the game last night between the San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers you missed an absolute barn burner. Triple Overtime and Damian Lillard taking over to settle matters in the final extra period. Every time the Blazers looked down and out Lillard would some how keep his team in the game. […]
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Game On: Cavs @ Pelicans
After battling against the Mavericks a few nights ago the Pelicans return home to play the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron will play in the game despite suffering a knee injury that head-coach David Blatt said was “nothing major.” Kyrie Irving also is battling through injury and is likely to play tonight. New Orleans has been a […]
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Pelicans @ Clippers: Observations
Though this game arguably provided a better match-up for the Pelicans than the game against the Warriors two nights ago, the Clippers broke things open in the 3rd quarter and never let up, cruising to a 120-100 victory for their 9th win in the past 10 games. This game was by no means one that New […]
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New Orleans Pelicans at Los Angeles Clippers Open Thread
The Pelicans continue their trip through California with their first of two games on back-to-back nights in Los Angeles. Up first is a match-up against Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and the Clippers. First, the bad news: after a pretty vanilla 5-4 start, the Clips have won 8 of their past 9 games (including a 6-1 road trip […]
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Game On: Pelicans vs Spurs
Destruction in the Desert. Violence in Vegas. That’s right. Tonight, the Pelicans take on the Spurs in a game that means everything. Will the upstart young Pelicans defeat the veteran-laden Spurs squad this summer? Will they continue to play well and put down their old division rival and rise to the league playoffs? Some of […]
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FIN (Pelicans beat Rockets)
It was a fun game for a season wrap. While the Rockets organization weren’t taking the game that serious (Dwight Howard chucked a three?) their scrubs were taking it as seriously as the Pelicans scrubs were taking it. Most of those guys were playing to try to leave some sort of impression out there. In […]
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Game On: Rockets @ Pelicans – and Keys to the Off-season
The season ends tonight against the Rockets in a meaningless game for both teams, since the Rockets are locked into the four seed even if the lose due to owning the tie-breaker over the Trail Blazers. Expect a lot of end of bench players to be on the court – the Rockets because they want […]
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Game On: Pelicans @ Thunder
“4 games left, 4 games left..” I mutter to myself as I write this game preview. The 32-46 New Orleans Pelicans travel to OKC to face the playoff-bound Thunder, who are fresh off of a road win against the Los Angeles Clippers. The Thunder are unequivocally one of the best teams in basketball: they are […]
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Game On: Phoenix @ Pelicans
Five games left. Suns, Rockets, Thunder, Rockets, Thunder. Yikes. Tonight they get, by record, the easiest of those three opponents, but I’m not sure that’s really an accurate statement. Those other two teams are pretty much locked into the top 4. Phoenix is battling with Memphis for that final spot in the West. If the […]