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A Holiday Weekend – How the Former Allstar Will Immediately Help the Pelicans’ Defense
During last week’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers, the best word David Wesley and Joel Meyers came up with to describe Jrue Holiday’s offense was “smooth.” After the game Alvin Gentry praised the “flow” of the offense throughout and even went on to say it was their most complete performance of the season. Yes, […]
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Pelicans Finally Defend a Little
The New Orleans Pelicans (9-19) handily defeated the struggling and shorthanded Portland Trail Blazers (11-20) at the Smoothie King Center 115-89. The Trail Blazers were without Damian Lillard, and it affected them on a number of levels. They were unable to assist at a high rate, it affected their attacks from the perimeter, and it […]
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New Orleans Pelicans Host Portland Trail Blazers
Tonight, the New Orleans Pelicans (8-19) finally host the Portland Trail Blazers (11-19), a team they lost to twice, for the first time season. The Trailblazers are the team just above the Pelicans in the Western Conference standings, so, 13th compared to 14th, and a Pelicans win will place the Pelicans just a half-game behind […]
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Pelicans Mount Furious Comeback but Fall Short in Portland
It was over almost as soon as it began. In almost a carbon copy of last night’s demolishing by the defending champs, the Pelicans out did themselves, getting blown out by the Portland Trail Blazers. It took New Orleans a half to get to where Portland was after the one quarter, as the Pels got outscored […]
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Game On: Trail Blazers Host Pelicans on Second of Back-to-Back
The Pelicans look to bounce back after a shaky start to the season in Oakland against theTrail Blazers in Portland Wednesday night (tip off for 9CT). The Blazers lost 4 starters from last season to the competition this summer, while the Pelicans are missing 4 regular rotation players of their own to injury (Omer Asik, […]
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The cap situations of the Western Conference playoff teams
The other day Michael McNamara analysed the Pelicans options for the mid-level exception for this years’ NBA Free Agency. However, one of the most important things to remember is that not only will the Pelicans be wanting the services of these players, so too will other teams. Today I’ll have a look at each of […]
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Pelicans Lose to Trail Blazers
The Pelicans lost 99-90, their first in 5 games, dropping them to 1 game behind the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Pels got off to a hot start, leading 14-4 after 5 minutes, but couldn’t sustain it, as the Blazers closed the the first Q on a 9-4 run to close it to 24-22. In the […]
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Game On: Pels at Blazers
What a week for the Pelicans. Just last Friday the Pels were coming off a 4 game losing streak and sat 3 and half games behind OKC. That night the Pels got a much needed win against the Sacramento Kings to stay within striking distance of the 8th seed. Then just last night the Pelicans ran […]
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Pelicans lose big to the Trail Blazers
Tonight nothing seemed to work. The Pelicans strength has been their offense and a lot of that is due to Anthony Davis’ stellar play. For proceedings this evening Davis was struggling. The Blazers did an excellent job defensively forcing him into tough shots and making sure that when he missed they pushed the ball up […]
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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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Hornets Survive Late Push to Sneak by Trail Blazers 98-96
Despite Portland finishing the game’s final seven minutes on a 19-11 run, New Orleans was able to hang on and notch a solid victory. We’ve seen this act before. With 6:53 remaining in the 4th quarter, the Trail Blazers called timeout immediately after a Greivis Vasquez 3-pointer gave the Hornets a 87-77 lead. However, not […]
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Game On: Blazers @ Hornets
In a game that figures to be much different than the two teams’ last game in New Orleans, the Hornets host the Trailblazers tonight in the rubber match of their three-game season series. About 3 1/2 weeks ago, Portland traveled to New Orleans less than 24 hours after a tough road loss in Miami for […]
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Game On: Trail Blazers at Hornets
In both teams’ last game before the All-Star break, Portland heads to New Orleans less than 24 hours after a double-digit loss in Miami. The Blazers are 25-27 so far this season, surprising many people (including myself) by being just three games out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference. Portland has exceeded my […]
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Scouting the NBA: Week Seven — Anthony Davis Returns to Hornets Lineup
The New Orleans Hornets schedule doesn’t get any easier and despite the return of Anthony Davis they still will be heavily unfavored in many of their match-ups this week. However that doesn’t mean that this week can’t be successful and that the Hornets can’t win. No, I’m going to say that New Orleans can win a […]
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An early look at the 2012-13 Western Conference Playoff Puzzle – where do the Hornets fit?
Mason tries to determine how the Western Conference standings will play out in 2012-13 and whether or not the Hornets could be playoff-bound by projecting PERs and expected player rotations.