November 22nd - New Orleans Pelicans vs Sacramento Kings - 7-7

Thanksgiving Eve hoops 🏀

🕖: 7 PM CT
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— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) November 22, 2023

Today will be an interesting game. Of course, last game we crushed the Kings - garbage time is the only reason it wasn't a 40 point loss for them. But that was the SGB2B for them, and that almost certainly played a role. Tonight, they'll be back with a little bit of rest and almost certainly ready for some vengeance; we've been there ourselves this season, as we lost to Dallas by double digits (at one point, they were up 116-87) and then played them again two days later and won 131-110. The bounce back can be real.

So we have to be ready for that. We also have to be prepared for our shooting to be worse than last game; Ingram probably isn't going to go 5/5 from 3 again, for example, and outside of that we had very little shooting through the majority of the night. Can we find a way to generate some more looks there tonight, or is it just a case of having to hope that we can dominate the paint and glass in the same way as last game? Fingers crossed that it's both, but who knows.

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Let's see if we can pull off the consecutive wins, or if the Kings have made the adjustments - both to gameplan and pride - to take one back.