February 5th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Toronto Raptors - 28-21
Back at the SKC! See you tonight!
— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) February 5, 2024
🏀: vs Raptors
🕖: 7:00 pm CT
📺: @BallySportsNO
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Today we take on the 17-32 Raptors.
They're 24th in Net Rating, as a result of being 19th and 20th in ORtg and DRtg respectively, and their recent record reflects that. They are 5-12 thus far in 2024. Now, in fairness to them, they've also had a fairly tricky schedule over that time (losses to Boston, OKC, Sacramento, Clippers, etc) but nevertheless, it's true. That 5-12 is probably an overestimation of their current strength as well, because in that time they've made trades and 3 of those 5 wins came right at the start of January. Since January 10th, they're 2-10.
They're bad.
The Pelicans, meanwhile, have recovered for a few wins after a short skid and are hoping to continue their recent success. Let's see if they can do it - this could be a trap game.