The Pels have largely produced mid results at home for the last decade-plus:
[https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/pelicans-won-loss-record-home-each-season](https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/pelicans-won-loss-record-home-each-season)
Currently at 14-10, they are on pace for 23-24 wins at home this season. The top 4 teams in each conference this season are currently on pace for 30+ wins.
Some of the home losses include:
a 28 pt loss to Golden State
a 14 pt loss to PHX where the Pels were down 20 to start the 4th
a 24 pt loss to OKC this past Friday
a 16 point loss to LAC where the Pels were down 24 to start the 4th
a 12 pt loss to Dallas where the Pels were down 24 to start the 4th
I’m not sure why the performance has been what it has been at home this season. You could point to the spotty attendance, particularly in the upper bowl during mid-week games, but some of those blowout losses have been with some of the best SKC crowds thus far (PHX, Golden State, LAC).
by tulsuduke
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This team is what it is. I don’t see it changing.
It will have to start with the roster, Pels don’t even have an allstar on it
Zion and BI need to step up, we’ve been saying this for like two months and nothing has changed. In fact, they regressed it’s depressing to see.
I don’t think the crowd size has anything to do with it. Even when the blender is only half full, when the team is playing well the building starts rocking.
This is just a wildly inconsistent team full of above average players with a below average coach. If they don’t start out hot, the team energy seems to deflate and they turn the ball over and let the opponents go on huge runs of open shots.
Also, Trey’s slump since he came back can’t be emphasized enough. When those high arcing shots are falling the team looks like world beaters. But he can’t throw a rock in the ocean right now. The rest of the team can’t rebound, and they get cooked in transition. He has to keep shooting though.
Seems like last nights game brought most of us to the same realization. No point in deluding ourselves. We’re an average team.