There is no single player on the New Orleans Pelicans who has been asked to do more this season than Jrue Holiday, and there are signs that his overburdened workload may finally be catching up to him.
Jrue’s typical checklist includes being one of the team’s primary ball-handlers, decision-makers and scorers, and defensively, harassing the hell out of the opponent’s biggest threat on the perimeter, whether that’s guarding a fleet of foot point guard or grinding against a larger framed small forward.
And since Elfrid Payton largely vanished from the rotation four games into the schedule, Holiday has been asked to juggle all of his balls in the air much more rapidly and often — and I think we just witnessed the effects of this taxing amount of duties this past week.