Gameday in the Bay 🌉
— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) November 5, 2021
🏀: vs Warriors
🕘: 9pm CT
📺: @BallySportsNO; @espn
📻:@ESPNRadioNOLA pic.twitter.com/aNJi6wZZDu
On a 5 game losing streak, the Pelicans go to the Warrior's home ground in what is expected by pretty much everyone to be another loss.
Not only are Ingram and Herb still questionable on the injury report, but the Warriors are also actually a good team! Currently 6-1, the Warriors are 2nd in the West right now, led behind a healthy Stephen Curry and a Draymond Green who is having perhaps his most effective scoring season in a long time - if you don't count his all-time bad FT%.
The Warriors lead the NBA in 3PM, and are top 5 in percentage. Not only that, they top the league in both DRebs and ASTs. Plus, even being turnover prone can't stop them from having the league's best rated defense right now.
Losing tonight would give us a 6 game losing streak and take us to 1-9, our worse 10 game start to a season since 2016-17, when we also opened up 1-9. That was the year we saw 26 players take the court in at least one game for us, including names such as Axel Toupane, Anthony Brown, and Archie Goodwin. Since 2016-17, the Pelicans have: new GM, new POBO, new HC, new training staff, and an entirely new roster - not a single player remains from that season. And yet, the more things change the more things stay the same.
Can we avoid that fate tonight, or do we fall to 1-9? Who knows, let's see.