Winners of consecutive games for the first time since the middle of November, New Orleans is inching closer back to .500. To get win number 20 and their third straight victory, New Orleans takes aim at the team that started this much needed pseudo-win streak the Cleveland Cavaliers.
It’s hard to say the Pelicans “righted the ship” Saturday night in Cleveland. Dispatching the league’s worst team fully embracing the tank is mandatory after all. But it would be equally hard to say that no other team needed a 35-point win more than these very same Pelicans.