January 5th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Los Angeles Clippers - 21-14

[Pelicanidae]

See you at the Blender! 😏

🏀: vs LA Clippers
🕖: 7:00 pm CT
📺: @BallySportsNO
📻: @99.5WRNO #Pelicans | @SmoothieKing pic.twitter.com/ihoI1Unp1Y

— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) January 5, 2024

As of right now, the Pelicans are the 6th seed in the West with a .600 winning percentage.
At the same moment, the Clippers are the 4th seed with a .636 winning percentage.

These numbers are close. This will be a tough, competitive game in all likelihood and the Pelicans need to take it as a challenge. This is about home court playoff position and it cannot be understated how valuable these games against real competition are. Thus far this season, the Pelicans have played well against good teams (and annoyingly poorly against bad teams) but seem to be getting into a new gear as 2024 begins to unfold. The question is, can the Pelicans continue their recent good form?

Fun piece of trivia: Chris Paul is the all-time win share leader for both the Clippers and Pelicans, having picked up 76.4 WS for the Pelicans (AD with 72.0 in second place) and 78.2 WS for the Clippers (DeAndre Jordan in second with 76.3).

Let's see if we can keep 2024 looking positive.

[Pelicanidae]

Injury report remains the same: Trey questionable, Matt Ryan out.

[6warddude]

just want to show ingram some love on the defensive end.....

in the pelicans last 9 games , ingram leads the team in steals and blocks with 12 apiece...it seems like our 3 allstars are engaged on defense and following behind our defensive players and imo thats a scary thing for our opponents ..

[P_B_&_G]

Wasn't it expected that Trey would give it a go tonight?

[hornetsrebirth]

Wasn't it expected that Trey would give it a go tonight?

He had just come back from knee surgery when Smart dove into his knee. Dude is going to be managing this injury for the rest of the season

[Fedupfan]

Yeah I can see him being questionable for weeks at a time.

[P_B_&_G]

I just can't wait to see a Zion, CJ, Ryan, TM3, and Hawkins lineup. No defense at all just run you off the floor with shooting and wrecking ball Zion.

[Pelicanidae]

Trey Murphy will warm up and is a game-time decision, Willie Green said.

— Christian Clark (@cclark_13) January 5, 2024

[P_B_&_G]

Trey Murphy will warm up and is a game-time decision, Willie Green said.

— Christian Clark (@cclark_13) January 5, 2024

Thank you sir

[granola]

Keep the winning fellas

[WhyHornetsWhy]

Is it me or does BI sure turn the ball over alot?

What are the stats in rankings, fellas

[hornetsrebirth]

Naji isnt giving me what i need from him right now. he is good as a hustle/energy player he cant be lazy on the court

[hornetsrebirth]

Is it me or does BI sure turn the ball over alot?

What are the stats in rankings, fellas

Its not you, bad passes are the weakness in BI's game.

[hornetsrebirth]

terrible set defense on the inbounds play. thats coaching

[WhyHornetsWhy]

Can't say I'm too happy.

lost an 8 point lead

[As I See It]

Against this team, it should be Dyson ahead of Jose'

[PaKwAn]

Not a good way to end the quarter. Russ was huge for the clips when he came in

[donato]

Is it me or does BI sure turn the ball over alot?

What are the stats in rankings, fellas

He and Zion average 2.6 TO per game. I don't know how that compares, but it doesn't sound insanely high for how much they handle the ball?

[donato]

This lame interview is lasting way too long.

[djrnno]

There was a smoothie king commercial and a basketball game broke out SMH

[donato]

There was a smoothie king commercial and a basketball game broke out SMH

[hornetsrebirth]

Zubac is under rated he always is effective against us

[WhyHornetsWhy]

I do worry that this is the game that JV will get exposed on defense.

[WhyHornetsWhy]

This is when we really show that we just don't have enough offensive power

[hornetsrebirth]

I like that they are giving us this double team look against BI, its something the Pelicans need practice against