Second game of the back-to-back tonight!
— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) November 13, 2021
🏀: vs Memphis
🕕: 6pm CST
📺: @BallySportsNO
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Simple story here: we play like we did last game vs Brooklyn tonight and we win.
Memphis's record is 6-6, but it's kind of a sham 6-6. They've yet to have any real dominating wins against anyone, good or bad, and many of their games have been barely won, in the same way that many of ours have been barely lost. Despite being 6-6, good for 8th in the West right now, they have the 5th worst Net Rating as a team in the NBA and are one of the only teams challenging us for ineptitude in some ways.
Memphis have the 29th worst defense in the NBA, second only to ours, and their offense is bottom 10 as well.
Does that mean we're guaranteed a win? No, of course not. The reality is that, as bad as Memphis are, we've been worse. But we have shown signs here and there that we can play better than our record might show: last game as an example of that. If we show up like that again, we win. That's my belief. But if we play shy of it then we'll lose and be 1-13 and we'll deserve it.
Let's see which Pelicans team shows up.