Pelicans vs Suns

A Pelicans Game-6 victory at home to extend their season and force a Game-7 versus the Suns in Phoenix.

Look for Alvarado to get into the game earlier and more often as long as he stays out of foul trouble. Mikal Bridges pushed Phoenix to within one game of the second round with his career-best 31-point, 5-rebounds Game 5 performance. The Pelicans' key to their survival is stopping Chris Paul. Jose Alvarado and Herb Jones will guard Paul for most of the night. The Pelicans have also needed to shoot better all series. Hayes has not recorded a steal or block and only secured five rebounds in the last two games. If we want to fight and be a good team, which we are, we need that fight from the start.

The Suns closed out the New Orleans Pelicans in Game 6 of their NBA Playoffs series with a 115-109 win on Thursday night in New Orleans.

The Pelicans had a 42-15 free-throw edge in Game 4 in New Orleans, a game they won. The Smoothie King Center has been loud during the team's games there this series, but Phoenix took the New Orleans crowd out of the game for a lot of Game 3, a Suns win. The Suns can't afford to be too far behind in free throws and they can't afford to have players in foul trouble, like Cam Payne and Jae Crowder were in for much of Game 5 at home. Deandre Ayton has 12 points for the Suns in the game. The Pelicans have hit 4-of-14 shots. Will Deandre Ayton and JaVale McGee be able to keep Jonas Valanciunas and Larry Nance Jr. off the offensive boards? The Pelicans are 2-for-2. The Pelicans have 19. Perhaps more important, they are 6-for-6 from the free throw line while New Orleans is 2-for-2. Chris Paul has 27 points for the Suns on 12-for-12 shooting. The Suns have been so good all season late in games. Look back at our updates from the game.

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Pelicans Head Coach Willie GreenOn the rookies stepping up tonight and throughout the season:

We all just showed up and continued to put in the work. He checks the boxes with his integrity, how he works everyday whether he’s playing or not, he’s a good teammate, and he wants to compete. You’re going to win games, and you’re going to lose games. That’s why he has been successful, and that’s why he’ll continue to be successful.” We have all world players coming back next season . . . and [we’ll] hit the ground running. I think we hit the ground running. I’m excited about the future and to get back to work.” I feel like we exceeded expectations that a lot of people had on us. But I think we learned a lot about ourselves. I learned a lot about this team, this city, this organization. But I felt like we were right where we wanted to be. You know no matter what our record was, we came in and