Pelicans scheduling inequality……13 of 19 against playoff teams

I’m just fascinated with how this always seems to happen to the Pels. It’s like they can’t ever catch a break.

Starting with the December 30th game against Philly, the Pels will see a top 6 team from each conference 13 of the next 19 games. And as we know thus far, largely without our two best players while those teams have somehow become miraculously fully healthy(and injured directly afterwards). That’s a wild stretch.

For comparison, in the following 23 games, we will only see 4 games against current top 6. And those four are two against Sacramento, one Cleveland and one Dallas.

I know it feels like we do the schedule talk every season. But just based on tanking etc, we will certainly tack on a lot of wins on the back end.

I just can’t believe how brutal the schedule gods have made things and can’t wait for February.