May 7th - New Orleans Pelicans @ Philadelphia 76ers - 30-36
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INJURY REPORT; https://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/fo...ist-76ers-game
No Ingram; Adams Doubtful; NAW upgraded to questionable; No Hart
Tonight we head out on the road for game one of our long road trip: with the exception of the final game of the year at home against the Lakers, we do not play at the Smoothie King Centre again this season.
Our opponent is the 45-21 Philadelphia 76ers, a team with the league's 3rd best record, currently sat at the 1 seed in the East. The Sixers have won 6 games straight, and have a record of 21-9 since All-Star Break. They're at a super soft spot in their schedule where they're basically just mopping up a bunch of terrible teams in a row; their six consecutive wins have come against OKC, ATL x2, CHI, HOU, and the Spurs. Now they have us, and tomorrow night they play Detroit. They are just steamrolling garbage teams right now to pump up the record before the season ends.
To that end, the Sixers have the 2nd best defense in the NBA and a top 15 offense.
All of that said the last time we played the Sixers we did win! It was by single digits and we were at home (where we're actually a +.500 team, barely) and it was a game in which we had Adams (who did great against Embiid) and Ingram (though he did shoot 23.8% from the floor that game and only had 2 assists; it was not his best game), both of which may not be true for tonight.
Zion had 37/15/8 on 54% shooting that game.
Can we replicate that win tonight, just on the road? Well, we really need to if we want to try and keep that play-in hope alive, which - whether you personally do or not - the team definitely does.
In games which are relevant to our interests: the Kings play the Spurs tonight. If we win and the Spurs lose obviously that makes up a ton of ground. By comparison if we lose and the Spurs win, the gap widens. Meanwhile the Lakers play the Blazers; do the Lakers continue their slide into the play-in tournament, potentially risking their post-season, or do they pull out a win without Lebron, who will not be joining them? Who knows. Remember, if the Lakers miss the playoffs and luck into a top 4 pick in the lottery, we get the pick this year.
So that's the night, let's see what happens.
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No Ingram; Adams Doubtful; NAW upgraded to questionable; No Hart
Our opponent is the 45-21 Philadelphia 76ers, a team with the league's 3rd best record, currently sat at the 1 seed in the East. The Sixers have won 6 games straight, and have a record of 21-9 since All-Star Break. They're at a super soft spot in their schedule where they're basically just mopping up a bunch of terrible teams in a row; their six consecutive wins have come against OKC, ATL x2, CHI, HOU, and the Spurs. Now they have us, and tomorrow night they play Detroit. They are just steamrolling garbage teams right now to pump up the record before the season ends.
To that end, the Sixers have the 2nd best defense in the NBA and a top 15 offense.
All of that said the last time we played the Sixers we did win! It was by single digits and we were at home (where we're actually a +.500 team, barely) and it was a game in which we had Adams (who did great against Embiid) and Ingram (though he did shoot 23.8% from the floor that game and only had 2 assists; it was not his best game), both of which may not be true for tonight.
Zion had 37/15/8 on 54% shooting that game.
Can we replicate that win tonight, just on the road? Well, we really need to if we want to try and keep that play-in hope alive, which - whether you personally do or not - the team definitely does.
In games which are relevant to our interests: the Kings play the Spurs tonight. If we win and the Spurs lose obviously that makes up a ton of ground. By comparison if we lose and the Spurs win, the gap widens. Meanwhile the Lakers play the Blazers; do the Lakers continue their slide into the play-in tournament, potentially risking their post-season, or do they pull out a win without Lebron, who will not be joining them? Who knows. Remember, if the Lakers miss the playoffs and luck into a top 4 pick in the lottery, we get the pick this year.
So that's the night, let's see what happens.