re: NBA / Pelicans Schedule Release thread

6pm

McNamara has a good article on the importance of the schedule.

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46 games are fixed. We will play each of our division opponents four times and each Eastern Conference team twice. The other 36 games are divided up between the ten Western Conference teams that are not in the Pelicans division. You get six of those teams 4 times and four of those teams 3 times. Playing Phoenix four times and OKC three times would probably lead to one more win than if you flipped that, so that can be huge.

Then, with the teams you play three times, you get two matchups where you get 2 home games and 1 road game and two matchups where you play 2 road games and 1 home game. Again, I don’t want to go to Denver twice if I don’t have to. I would rather play the Lakers twice in LA, because Lakers games in New Orleans are road games for us anyway. Again, if this plays out perfectly, we are talking about a 2-3 game swing as opposed to the worst case scenario. So, what is the best case scenario? Glad you asked!

Play Four Times: Kings, Jazz, Suns, Lakers, Wolves, Blazers

Play Three Times (2 on road, 1 at home) : Clippers, Thunder

Play Three Times (2 at home, 1 on road) : Nuggets, Warriors

You get the worst teams four times. You concede victories to the Clippers and Thunder in that swing game, since it will be tough to beat them at home anyway, and then you get two great home teams that are similar in talent at home in the swing game. Best case scenario in my opinion.

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He actually writes good articles pretty often. Where he usually gets into trouble is passing on rumors he hears, because people are just crazy when it comes to rumors, and when he states things in over the top absolutist terms. Like when "Trey Burke doesn't fit what Monty and Dell have been looking for" is all that needs to be said, he goes a step further and says "There's a zero percent chance they draft Burke" only to have to back track later and say there's a 40% chance.

It sounds like we play in Memphis on MLK day. That's the only one I've seen.

They're going to screw up our name until the end of time. Bloody tarts.

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They're going to screw up our name until the end of time. Bloody tarts.

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People kept calling us either Charlotte or the Bobcats. Now we'll be known as the Hornets to them until our next rebrand.

Pacers at Pelicans opening Wednesday night

Open on the 30th Vs pacers

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Open on the 30th Vs pacers

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