The New Orleans Pelicans are not a good basketball team right now.
Sugarcoat the defeats in any manner that suits you most — whether blaming injuries, the laughable defense, contemplating if only Jrue was Jrue and/or D-Fave was D-Fave, the poor execution in crunch time, etc — but this team is going to continue to lose many more games than they win until a whole bunch of things change. And that’s potentially a crying shame because Brandon Ingram deserves to represent the Western Conference on the 2019-20 All-Star team.
Ingram has been fantastic all season, but tonight he was absolutely brilliant, scoring a career-high 40 points on just 24 shots while adding five rebounds, five assists and a couple of steals.