After six games, we're certain of one thing: the Pelicans defense remains too shoddy to give the team a legitimate chance to win, possibly against any team in the NBA. It hasn't mattered whether the Pelicans have played the Warriors, the Trail Blazers or the Mavericks. It's scary but possible to ponder the Lakers or the Sixers could be included.
At any given time, the defensive failures are numerous and frequent. New Orleans goes through sustained lulls, breakdown upon breakdown, into which they dig themselves such a hole they cannot recover.