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Pelicans thrash the Wolves
In a rare blowout win this season, the Pelicans put 63 on the Wolves in the first half and were up 95-70 to start the fourth. The final score of 116-102 came when the Pels put in their scrubs with 3:30 to go and ceased to play hard. The game ball needs to go to […]
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Pelicans lose Davis, and then a sloppy, sloppy game
The last meaningful shot the Pelicans took was a fitting epitaph for the game. With the Pelicans down three, Gordon received the ball in the corner with space to shoot. He pump-faked, realized he still had room, leaned back, and vomited a three pointer that missed the rim by five feet. It wasn’t blocked […]
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Pelicans work hard to cause bitterness
The Pelicans needed to tread water through the tough part of this schedule. They aren’t. Instead, they are tying lead weights to their feet, just to see what happens. Tonight, they showed another real cost of all the injuries and line-up uncertainties: these guys simply haven’t played together and when the pressure ratcheted up a little, […]
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The Pelicans fall to Thunder
I know they lost, but I enjoyed that game. Every Pelican available played, and every Pelican left everything they could on the floor. Had the Pelicans shot a little closer to their normal percentage from three or not had to deal with a 9 to 40 free throw attempt discrepency, they would have snuck away with […]
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Post-game observations on Pelicans @ Hawks
The New Orleans Pelicans fell to the Atlanta Hawks tonight 100 to 91 after thanksgiving day. Atlanta led for the majority of the game while the Pelicans seemed completely hesitant and void of any confidence. After losing to Sacramento the other night New Orleans has fallen to .500 The first half was where the game […]
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Blazers do enough to beat the Pelicans
For a stretch in the fourth, LaMarcus Aldridge seemed like he could hit everything – and I kept sighing and shaking my head, feeling like he was doing it just because I said he couldn’t in the preview. Then, of course, I looked at the box score, and sure he nough, he was 11-25 from […]
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Pelicans Lose In Ugly Fashion to the Nuggets
And that’s putting it nicely. If you’ve seen the movie Spinal Tap, think back to their album Shark Sandwich. Remember the two word review? That was this game. I said in the Game On post that I wasn’t sure which Pelicans team we’d see tonight. Maybe they’d get a hard fought win. Or maybe it’d be a […]
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Pelicans buried from deep by Blazers
After flirting with it for two weeks straight, Anthony Davis finally got a new career high tonight, scoring 36 points on a variety of dunks and jumpers. It didn’t matter, though, as the Trail Blazers took three after three and managed to hit 42% of the 33 they let fly with. In a game […]
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Pelicans are Foul in loss
It’s not like they had a monopoly on the fouls. The Kings managed to contribute a huge number themselves to a choppy game with no visual flow and multiple calls made 25 feet from the hoop. It was, however, the Pelicans, who managed the though feat of gift wrapping 41 free throws to the […]
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Anthony Davis is Injured in Blowout Loss to Mavericks
That was painful. I mean every part of the game was painful, but watching Anthony Davis walk off the court with a shoulder sprain was the worst. Frankly, the one thing I was looking forward to for the rest of this season was watching Davis and the other young guys develop. Of course, Davis may […]
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Pelicans Lose a “Close” Game to the Bobcats
Results matter, but they don’t matter as much as the process. I know it seems like a tired old sports cliché, but it is true. Let me explain. A lot of different variables and factors dictate the outcome of any game in any sport, and it is impossible to control for all of these variables. […]
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Pelicans pull away in the Third Quarter to Beat Bucks
Well, that was a bit too close for me. Thankfully, the Pelicans did end up winning 102 to 98 after struggling most of the first half. The Bucks were able to stick around most of the game due in large part to Anthony Davis getting into foul trouble early. Brian Roberts also struggled early in the […]
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Pelicans withstand 3-Point barrage and down Hawks
Usually when an opponent drops 14 threes on the Pelicans, the game is pretty much over by the third quarter. Tonight, however, the Pelicans had two things going for them that prevented a loss: Davis was getting to the line, and the whole team (and Stiemsma particularly) were controlling the glass. It was the second […]
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Pelicans find three point shot and Gordon finishes off Pistons
If one team can make a run, the other team is probably capable of doing the same. That’s pretty much what happened tonight as the Pelicans went on a sick 17-2 run, took a nice lead, and then allowed the Pistons to make their own 22-6 run in return. The Pistons were up 10 with […]
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Pelicans snap losing streak against Grizzlies
Anthony Davis left his fingerprints all over that game as he showed just what kind of dynamic two-way player he is in the league. We’ll talk more about him in a bit, but I do need to say this game belongs to the bench. Ajinca, Withey, Rivers and Evans all had important contributions to the […]
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Rockets tighten up enough in fourth to stop Pelicans
This is a little hard for me because it feels so much like last year. I would watch games last season and just enjoy seeing different players develop and learn. But this year the expectations were different. Yes, there was going to be development and growth – but there was also going to be enough […]
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Pelicans fall just a touch short on the Road
That was a weird game. Both teams started out ice cold and sloppy. Then both teams caught fire in the third, putting up 82 points between them. Two factors, however, worked to doom the Pelicans in the end: All their missing big guns, and Dirk Nowitzki. I said in the pregame I wanted the Pelicans […]
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Pelicans reach fourth quarter against Heat, shrug and wait for game to finish
I could talk about how they played with good energy in the first quarter – how they drove and kicked the way they needed to. I could even say they did that in the second quarter, and kinda in the third. But in the fourth? All it took was few plays, the Pelicans were down […]
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Nuggets Streak in the 3rd Quarter, Drop the Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans put up a good fight against the Denver Nuggets for the first two and a half quarters. It was then that the bench decided they didn’t want to score points or stop Denver from scoring. An 8-0 run for the Nuggets in the third period turned a close game into an […]
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Tyreke Evans Hurt, Thunder Win
After an aggressive start to the game which saw no less then two two-handed dunks by Eric Gordon, the Pelicans were smothered by the Thunder defense and had real difficulty springing players for clean looks against a long, scrambling Thunder attack. The Thunder simply realized that without a good roll man (no Anthony Davis) the […]