The Pelicans are facing some great challenges, particularly Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram, as the injuries continue to pile up, wrote Will Guillory of The Athletic.
New Orleans did manage to pick up a home win over the Pacers on Friday despite the absence of CJ McCollum, Herb Jones, Trey Murphy and of course, Dejounte Murray.
“If the Pelicans have any hope of surviving the flood of injuries that have ravaged this roster early in the season, it’ll require Williamson and Ingram lifting the remaining pieces and carrying them as far as they can, just as they did in the fourth quarter on Friday night,” Guillory wrote.
“Good isn’t going to be good enough for these next few weeks. Williamson and Ingram must be consistently great to give this team a chance to compete in its current form. Failure to do so could lead to New Orleans falling into a hole that will be exceedingly difficult to recover from in a hyper-competitive Western Conference.”
The Pelicans are expected to be a darkhorse in the West. They very well still could become just that. But it will take a total team effort — and that means the team being healthy enough to stay afloat.
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