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    Pelicans December 25th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Miami Heat - 1-0



    After a thrilling second half comeback, the New Orleans Pelicans managed to go 1-0 to start this season. This is a change from last year, where we also debuted on the road against the Raptors but came away with a loss, so the more things change, eh?

    Of course, there were things to be concerned about and things to appreciate in last game, but regardless of anything else it's a sample size of one game, so it's hard to take too much away from it or make any serious conclusions. That leads us to tonight.

    We Have A Christmas Day Game!

    Merry Christmas to all, and hopefully our gift from the team will be a nice W over the reigning EC champions, the Miami Heat. They dropped game 1 against the Magic, who were boosted behind big nights from Aaron Gordon and Evan Fournier. That doesn't mean they were bad though: Butler started his season with 19 points on basically 50% shooting with 7 steals, and Bam threw in 25/11/4 on 11/16 shooting. With 22 turnovers though, they had something of the Pelicans curse for themselves.

    Let's head into the Christmas game with a positive outlook, hope for the good to continue, and keep our fingers crossed for a win in our stockings, or something else similarly festive in theme.
    Basketball.

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    I think Adams is going to be a match up problem. Especially, if this resurgence in rebounding isn't a mirage.

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    It's going to be a tough matchup for us, butler can defend ingram while bam can defend zion... plus they have good shooters if left open kinda like what we did with the raps (even though they missed a lot) could be problem for us... hopefully we get that W though!

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    Hell of a way to start a season. On the road against two of the best coached teams in the league.

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    Quote Originally Posted by luckyman View Post
    Hell of a way to start a season. On the road against two of the best coached teams in the league.
    Yet again, the first half of our schedule is incredibly difficult. I could be wrong, but I think we have the hardest strength of schedule overall based on what's been released so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pelicanidae View Post
    Yet again, the first half of our schedule is incredibly difficult. I could be wrong, but I think we have the hardest strength of schedule overall based on what's been released so far.
    Being in toughest conference in the toughest division will do that. It's probably why I'd die for an expansion and moving us to the east.

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    Butler is questionable.

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    Merry Christmas to all, hope you're all having a great day whatever the circumstances

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    If Butler is out, I hope we take advantage. A strong start would be a Christmas gift

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    One of the only games of the year that Dae gets to watch at a reasonable hour. Lol
    BI, Zion, and CJ had a net rating of +3 when on the court together. BI and Zion had a +13.4, BI and CJ had a +13.2, Zion and CJ was just +5.4.

    BI and Zion worked. BI and CJ worked. It was CJ and Zion and all three together that didn't work.

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    Sucks that Butler could be out for my fantasy team, but love it for my real team lol.

    GEAUX PELS!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pelicanidae View Post
    Merry Christmas to all, hope you're all having a great day whatever the circumstances
    Merry Christmas Pelicanidae!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJackisangry View Post
    If Butler is out, I hope we take advantage. A strong start would be a Christmas gift
    Not sure how I'd feel about not starting the season losing four or five games in a row.

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    Looking for another sting game out of Zo!! Let’s gooo!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eman5805 View Post
    Not sure how I'd feel about not starting the season losing four or five games in a row.
    Bro I swear I was thinking the same thing! LOOOOOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by msusousaphone View Post
    One of the only games of the year that Dae gets to watch at a reasonable hour. Lol
    Absolutely. I love when we have Christmas Day games. 5 in the afternoon and there's NBA basketball on. . . is this real life?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HartOfaPelican View Post
    Looking for another sting game out of Zo!! Let’s gooo!!
    Cut down on TOs and stop looking for bad transition lobs.

    I'm rooting for him. Bledsoe and Ball look good together.

    Still think you'd want to finish the game with Reddick in any game that doesn't include protecting the lead situation.

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    I do think we should extend Reddick another year.

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    Merry Christmas all looking forward to a good game

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    I think the issue with these jerseys is the font for the numbers. That's my biggest take. Looks like default Microsoft Word font.

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    Zo with a 3 and then a great assist with the pass to Zion.!!!!!!

    Let’s go baby!!!

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    Loving the active defense so far

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    It's always fun when Zion catches it in motion

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    Surprised they called that on Bam, it was a call they hardly ever make, but okay

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    Those uniforms lol

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