After a successful two game road trip to start the season, the New Orleans Pelicans return to Louisiana to make their home debut against the Utah Jazz.
Here's the injury report:
Jrue Holiday (left quadriceps contusion) is out for tonight's game vs. Utah.
— Pelicans PR (@PelicansPR) October 11, 2019
With no Jrue (although word is that this is just precautionary and he's pretty much fine), I would suggest starting NAW. I get the feeling they won't do that, because they hate me, but it is what they should do.
Tonight we take on the Jazz. They are 1-1, having won their first game by 52 against the Adelaide 36ers of the NBL, and then having lost their second game by 34 to the Bucks. So for them, there have been no close games so far. I would personally like to keep it that way, with us delivering them their second consecutive blowout loss tonight in New Orleans.
Their main guys are pretty obviously Donovan Mitchell, Mike Conley, and Rudy Gobert, although I have no idea how many of them will play tonight. Possibly all of them, but also, any one of them could be missing and I can't be bothered with trawling through the Utah injury reports: we will know 30 minutes before tip off, when the Jazz announce their starting lineup.
This should be a fun one. Hopefully some of you guys are in the SKC tonight to watch the pre-season home debut, before the Pels head off on the road again.
Let's go, get this win! #WBD