This edition of the games of the week will focus on the New Orleans Pelicans, who have a pretty entertaining four games on the schedule.
Timing is a fickle thing. Too often have we been the victims of bad timing, while equal times we’ve been its beneficiaries. It’s an abstract concept we use to properly tell jokes and convey a message that may be stronger than on the surface. Sometimes we can control it — say throwing an alley-oop the moment your big man rolls to the basket off pick-and-roll. Other times we just happen to be walking down the street at the exact moment a $20 bill glides across the ground.
But timing is also simple and meta in its description. Timing is about timing. This edition of games of the week are built on being at the right place at the right time when the money skipped past. This week we’ll focus on the New Orleans Pelicans, perhaps my most intriguing team in the NBA, and I’m a Sixers fan who holds his breath every time Joel Embiid hits the ground, whether on his feet or on his back and fears Kevin O’Connor spontaneously combusting if Ben Simmons does begin shooting right-handed.
The Pelicans play four times this week, which feels like a lot in the NBA’s first season without four games in fight nights and limit on back-to-backs. All four games are at home and all four aren’t on national TV, which means we’re all treated to four games of Joel Meyers’ soothing voice on League Pass. And all four games have context surrounding them that make the Pellies arguably the most interesting team of the week.