November 2nd - New Orleans Pelicans @ LA Lakers - 4-2

Gameday in the city of angels ⭐️

🏀: vs Lakers
🕤: 9:30pm CT
📺: Bally Sports NO
📻: @995WRNO #Pelicans | @SmoothieKing pic.twitter.com/JmWxMtF1YY

— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) November 2, 2022

Pelicans continue on the road, this time to take on the 1-5 LA Lakers in Los Angeles.

To put it simply, barring any outliers this game should be a win. Naturally, as Pelicans fans, that means that this game will be the one where the team explodes or something.

The injury report is simple: Ingram out, Herb & dyson probable. Nobody else we expected to play is listed (obviously names like EJ, out for the season, don't count).

Let's get it; if we win tonight it's double the value as it also improves the stock of the LA pick, which we want. In a perfect world the Pels win 50 games this year and make a playoff run while also getting a top 4 pick in a stacked draft.

Whooping the Lakers is about as orgasmic as the Saints whooping the Falcons.

I too, was a Laker fan in the mid/late 90s Nick Van Exel era.

Conversely losing to that team gives me the blues.

Schroeder is out.
AD is questionable. I bet AD doesn't play. He doesn't want to guard Zion or JV. Too much beef for his sore back.

Let's get this win and I hope I can stay awake for all of it!

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Originally Posted by Upper Decker

Let's get this win and I hope I can stay awake for all of it!

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Same here. Had a rough few days with my adult daughter in ICU with Covid, flu AND pneumonia. Really shouldn't stay up, but ... its the Lakers.

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Originally Posted by RobertM320

Same here. Had a rough few days with my adult daughter in ICU with Covid, flu AND pneumonia. Really shouldn't stay up, but ... its the Lakers.

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I wish your daughter well, Robert.

I think we see a ton of Naji again tonight. Herb and Naji should get 100% of the minutes guarding Lebron. I'm not really sure how the Lakers keep the Pels off the glass tonight, and I'm not really sure how anyone outside of Lebron and AD score on the Pels.

-3 feels like too few, but we've been in LA for like four days now so we'll see

Lakers are pure trash. 20 point win incoming

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Originally Posted by pelafanatic

I think we see a ton of Naji again tonight. Herb and Naji should get 100% of the minutes guarding Lebron. I'm not really sure how the Lakers keep the Pels off the glass tonight, and I'm not really sure how anyone outside of Lebron and AD score on the Pels.

-3 feels like too few, but we've been in LA for like four days now so we'll see

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Herb just got downgraded to questionable. Which is weird but I guess his knee flamed up. Or they are playing mind games.

I'm not too confident about this one
The old Pels would lose this game.

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Originally Posted by luckyman

Herb just got downgraded to questionable. Which is weird but I guess his knee flamed up. Or they are playing mind games.

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That's concerning. Naji may have to match Bron's minutes if that is the case

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Originally Posted by RobertM320

Same here. Had a rough few days with my adult daughter in ICU with Covid, flu AND pneumonia. Really shouldn't stay up, but ... its the Lakers.

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Hope she makes a full recovery quickly.

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Originally Posted by pelafanatic

That's concerning. Naji may have to match Bron's minutes if that is the case

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naji played 39mins against the clippers...i think he is ready for the challenge....he just cant get early dumb fouls....

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Originally Posted by RobertM320

Same here. Had a rough few days with my adult daughter in ICU with Covid, flu AND pneumonia. Really shouldn't stay up, but ... its the Lakers.

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Wishing you and her the best, hope things resolve quickly and well.

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Originally Posted by 6warddude

naji played 39mins against the clippers...i think he is ready for the challenge....he just cant get early dumb fouls....

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Maybe Daniels can spell him for a few minutes.

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Originally Posted by PELICANSFAN

Maybe Daniels can spell him for a few minutes.

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the last 2 games against us , lebron played 40mins each and scored 39 and 38pts.....both games we won......i guess the plan is to let lebron score as much as he want and hold everyone else down.....i hope the refs dont call silly fouls and kill our rotation on lebron...

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Originally Posted by RobertM320

Same here. Had a rough few days with my adult daughter in ICU with Covid, flu AND pneumonia. Really shouldn't stay up, but ... its the Lakers.

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That crap is brutal, fam. I had a simile bought with COVID I haven’t recovered from fully. Hang in there.

Herb out.
Toni in.

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

Herb out.
Toni in.

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Where can I find this info?

ESPN app apparently for Herb.

Chris Haynes

@ChrisBHaynes
Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis (back) will play tonight against the New Orleans Pelicans, league sources tell
@NBAonTNT

Can't wait for Zion to booty bump AD and aggravate that back strain. Let's go..

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

I'm not too confident about this one
The old Pels would lose this game.

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These aren't your Grandma's Pels

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Originally Posted by AusPel

These aren't your Grandma's Pels

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We'll see.

Interesting that they are helping double Jonas in the post against AD

Another game, another CJ starting 1-5

Just checked the box score and Ad is 1/7 so far which is worse than I thought