Grades from the New Orleans Pelicans 92-84 win over Minnesota Timberwolves
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The New Orleans Pelicans entered Friday night’s game with the Minnesota Timberwolves with a chance to win back-to-back games for the first time in a while. After a slow start that saw them fall behind by 10 points the Pelicans fought back to claim a nice 92-84 win on the road.
69. Final. 84. 86. 92
A+. As he has been lately, <strong><a href=. SG. New Orleans Pelicans. ERIC GORDON
B+. It was pretty easy to guess how <strong><a href=. SF/PG/SG. New Orleans Pelicans. TYREKE EVANS
A. All season long <strong><a href=. PF/C. New Orleans Pelicans. ANTHONY DAVIS
B-. It wasn’t a great night for <strong><a href=. C. New Orleans Pelicans. OMER ASIK
SF. New Orleans Pelicans. DANTE CUNNINGHAM. A. Any time the Pelicans can get 14 points from <strong><a href=
B-. <strong><a href=. PG. New Orleans Pelicans. NATE WOLTERS
It never is flashy or stands out much but <strong><a href=. SF. New Orleans Pelicans. QUINCY PONDEXTER. B
FILL IN BOX WITH WORDS HERE. SF. New Orleans Pelicans. DARIUS MILLER. A-
It wasn’t hard to see why <strong><a href=. SF. New Orleans Pelicans. LUKE BABBITT. C-
ALEXIS AJINCA. A. <strong><a href=. C. New Orleans Pelicans
Other observations:
- The Pelicans won and he made a fair amount of the shots but it isn’t a good sign to me when Dante Cunningham takes nine jumpers in one game. It may be time to get Quincy Pondexter into the starting lineup as at least a few of those jumpers will be threes.
- If Ryan Anderson doesn’t play on Sunday it could be a long game. There just isn’t any three-point shooting on the team that is playable besides Gordon and Pondexter and team’s will take that away. With Jimmer not in the rotation teams can clog the lane and make life for Evans and Davis hard. We will see how long Anderson is out.
- The win marked the Pelicans first back-to-back wins since December 16 and 18th against the Jazz and Blazers. Somehow in that time New Orleans remained ninth in the West. I guess that is a good sign? The team still trails the Suns by 3 1/2 games. It won’t be easy to catch them but I guess it is possible.
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