Gentry already said yesterday he expects AD to play.
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Gentry already said yesterday he expects AD to play.
We belong in the playoffs. We just had a 10 game win streak. Mythrol, you know we’re not going to finish under .500. I know you’re nervous but we got this. We have the best player on the planet.
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He didn't say we were going to finish under .500. He said we were going to have a sub .500 record over the remaining schedule, which is a perfectly reasonable conclusion when looking at the strength of schedule, and more importantly, the lack of rest time between games. 48 wins still gets us into the playoffs easily.
We got the cheat code
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I have no idea. There's never been so many teams so close together with so few games left that I can remember.
I fully expect Utah to make it. Which means 1 team has to fall out.
Who will it be between Pels, Thunder, Spurs, Nuggets, and Wolves?
Out of that list I kind of expect it to be us but I just don't know. I would have thought Denver falls out but their schedule is a cake walk the rest of the way compared to us.
Maybe the Spurs fall but Kwahi is coming back, which makes the game against us next week HUGE.
Thunder and Wolves both could fall but I just don't know. We were expecting GS to get each of them another loss this week and GS failed miserably.
The DPOY and the ROY play for the Jazz.
Well I won't count this team out. Our coaching staff just doesn't seem to run very disciplined practices, so we unfortunately don't see a focused team until they play on the road. Otherwise you see dumb shots at the worst times and dumb turnovers and dumb fouls when they play at home.
Gentry would have been a perfect assistant coach when Monty was here.
entering the day with playoff odds at 77%
root for:
kings @ thunder (kings 12.5 point underdogs...) --- L
rockets vs. spurs (rockets 11.5 point favorites) --- W
heat @ blazers (heat 6.5 point underdogs; wade and whiteside OUT of course) --- L
pretty boring day that probably won't make much of a difference. kings probably won't help us. rockets should win at home. heat probably lose @ portland without wade and whiteside. same ole injury luck for pelicans
no surprises as all the big favorites won. playoff odds still at 77%. tomorrow looks to be a massive day with lots of important games
good news: pelicans won, nuggets lost
bad news: wolves won, thunder won, clippers won, spurs won, jazz won
playoff odds increased from 77% to 80%.
blazers 98%
wolves 96%
jazz 93%
thunder 91%
clippers 58%
spurs 53%
nuggets 32%
two of the above teams will miss it. right now looks like nuggets and either clippers or spurs but long way to go still. our game @ spurs (without kawhi still) on thursday is huge
This team may want to make the playoffs, but do they WANT to make the playoffs?
This is getting intents.
Well, back to the 8th seed:crytear:
Golden state with out their players can the still beat the spurs tonight? Hopefully
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If we win these next 3 games (which is going to be very hard) I think that puts us basically in the playoffs.
I've never watched 3 Pelicans games in a row, this gon be gud
If we win the next 3 (which is our hard 3 games in 3 nights) then that puts us at 43 wins with 9 games left to play.
After that our remaining schedule is:
Houston, Portland, Cleveland, Thunder, Memphis, Suns, Warriors, Clippers, Spurs.
Win 3 of those last 9 and we are at 46 wins, which I think gets us in.
The Timberwolves have an extremely easy stretch coming up after the Clippers game where they play 5 straight tanking teams. Not much help there.
The Spurs have a brutal stretch coming where they play 8 straight playoff teams. So hopefully they take a dive.
The Clippers have a pretty rough run to end the season, similar to ours. 11 out of their last 13 are against playoff (I include competing teams in this too) teams.
The Nuggets have a decently rough end of season as well. 11 of their last 12 are playoff teams. Including their next 6 games being on the road. Only 4 home games left.
The question becomes, if we win 6 more games to finish out the season can the Clippers or Nuggets catch us? That would put us 8 games ahead of them which means they would have to win 8 of their last 12 or 13 games just to go to tie breakers with us. I think that becomes a really hard thing to do.
I peg us at 45 wins. If they get to 47, they're likely in. I think if they get stuck on 46 they have to hope they have the tie breaker.
Miami with a big win over Denver in 2OT. They are 1.5 games behind Minnesota for 8th, 2 games behind us. San Antonio looks like they are probably going to take care of business over a depleted Warriors team too, but still a lot of basketball left in that game.
Miami doing us a solid.
Here's to hoping the Warriors dump the Spurs tonight. Quinn Cook having himself a game. I always thought it was a mistake letting him go.
Well so much for the Warriors helping us out tonight. They decided to REST their entire starting lineup...............geeeeeez!
Every time we need the Warriors to win, they make sure they lose. Lol.
We just need Denver and the Clippers to keep losing.
There's 10 teams fighting for 8 spots so if those 2 continue to lose we are guaranteed a spot. At some point there won't be enough games for them to catch up.
PELICANS are good enough to compete in the playoffs. I hope we make it. I want to get the 5th or 6th seed. If we could get the 4th seed great.... it’s possible. I don’t want the warriors or the rockets in the first round. I do think we could beat Utah, OKC, Portland, Minny or Spurs. I have a feeling we’ll get in and face Portland or OKC or Utah.
Remember, we have AD. Jrue and Rondo can step it up playoff time. I LOVE Diallo and I’m totally on the Diallo bandwagon now. I see him emerging as a very good young backup who plays defense and can score. He hustles. Put him on the floor with AD. The kid is going to prove he’s a steal.
I like our chances. If we get steady offense from Niko and Diallo steps up along with Miller and Moore I like our chances. Okafor is a piece that will help playoff time. We have a team of high bbiq players. If we play DEFENSE and AD explodes in the playoffs anything can happen!!!!
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Thank You Atlanta!
Got damn Atlanta won too? This day couldn't be more perfect for us :D
I'm not worried about catching Portland for 3rd, lock in 4th
The #Pelicans locker room is currently celebrating at Boston going ahead of Oklahoma City.
— Christian Boutwell (@_CBoutwell) March 21, 2018
Anthony Davis: “Talk to me! I swear I’ll listen!”
Down the stretch based on odds favorite:
Spurs - 11 games remaining / Favored in 10: Wsh, Uth, @Mil, Atl, @Dal, Uth, @Den, @Lal, Mem, Den (odds finish 50-32)
Trailblazers - 11 games remaining / Favored in 6: @Mem, Mem, Lac, @ Dal, @Den, Uth (odds finish 50-32)
Timberwolves - 10 games remaining / Favored in 9: @NY, Mem, Atl, @Dal, Uth, @Den, @Lal, Mem, Den (odds finish 50-32)
Thunder - 9 games remaining / Favored in 5: Mia, Por, Den, @Mia, Mem (odds finish 48-34)
Jazz (11 games remaining) - Favored in 5: @Dal, Mem, Lal, LAc, @Lal (predicted finish 45-37)
Odds are Nuggets and Clippers finish under .500 and out.
And Odds say Pelicans clinch the 6 seed (49-33) by winning 8 of 11 - favored in Ind, Lal, Por, Okc, Mem, @Phx, @Lac, and Sas. Predicted losses at Cleveland, Golden State and Houston.
Most critical will be the game against OKC on easter which gives us tie breaker. That would allow us in this scenario to still finish 48-34 and get 6th seed.
If there are any upsets in these odds, likely to be the unpredictable San Antonio Spurs. Odds say they beat Portland at home on Apr 7th and take the 3rd seed, but lose that game and then the final game on April 11th in New Orleans and they could fall down to 7th seed.
Hope for some upsets - and just keep winning. It will not be easy to get 6 seed or above, but considering the events of this past season, i would be very happy if we did.
And as Atlanta over Utah last night reminded us, anything can happen.
Spurs will not be favorite in 10 of 11 games.
BTW- Where did you get your SPURS schedule from? Its completely WRONG! They play New Orleans, Portland, @Washington, Houston, @Clips. They DONT play Memphis, they dont play Utah 2x's, they dont play Atlanta What gives?
I thought that list looked wrong - idk where that came from. Number is right though. Vegas odds currently favor SA in 10 of 11.
Spurs play Wsh, Uth, Okc, Hou, Por, Sac at home - being in SA, they favored in all but the Hou game
Road is @mil, @wsh, @lac @lal, @no - spurs will be favored in all these games.
Like i said, they have been so inconsistent i think it likely they only win 7-8 of these, but still odds are in their favor.
Spurs will not be favorite @[email protected]@NO---@Denver & possibly Pickem vs @LAC !!
Any word on Jrue?
Win tonight against Lakers & we grab Home Court advantage for the moment.
Depending on what Golden St. does with their starters, I wouldn't call it an upset if the Pelicans beat them at their place. That game is up in the air.