Blood and sand tonight in New Orleans, a big match against the background of qualifying for play-in games.
The Pelicans are in good shape with 3 wins in the last 4, so they caught the Lakers in 9th place and are looking to keep that position and enter the tournament that will give them the opportunity to enter this year's Playoffs. 8 days ago they prevailed over their next opponents in Texas with 124-91, they will try to repeat something similar tonight and if they succeed they will have a double profit, as they will leave their pursuers even further behind. Last match the home victory over the Bulls with 126-109 after a strong appearance and their protagonists McCollum and Graham. The team scores a lot in general, negative that the defense is not at the same level, otherwise it would have already entered the octave. The good scorer Ingram is doubtful for tonight.
3 wins in the last 4 and for the Spurs of the polynomial Popovic, this is the only defeat by the Pelicans with a difference of 33 points. So extra motivation for the "spurs", although they do not need it as the motivation already exists and is nothing more than the exhaustion of hopes to occupy a place in the top 10 with 2 wins behind the Lakers and Pelicans. On Tuesday, they theoretically defeated the Blazers 133-96, taking a healthy walk. In case they lose tonight, the Spurs will have a very difficult task, not to say unlikely with 8 matches left.
There will be a battle in New Orleans, the point is that despite the character of the match, the teams are structured with attention focused on the attack (even Popovic adapted to old age ..) and looking at their overall picture throughout the season and recently their games lead us to over 225,5 attributed to Stoiximan.