Lakers, Pelicans 会合，会う with 同一の 記録，記録的な／記録するs, different directions
After reshaping their roster, working their way through impactful 傷害s and managing to give themselves a chance at a プレーオフ 寝台／地位 with a month remaining in the 正規の／正選手 season, the Los Angeles Lakers have no 意向 of slowing 負かす／撃墜する now.
A matchup against the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday will start a quick two-game road trip, with the Lakers 事実上の／代理 like the プレーオフs already have started. A 112-108 home loss to the New York Knicks on Sunday has only 高くする，増すd their sense of 緊急.
The Lakers entered Sunday's game as 勝利者s in seven of their previous nine games, fashioning a remarkable run without 星／主役にする LeBron James, who 行方不明になるd six of those nine games with a tendon 傷害 in his 権利 foot. James' return isn't likely for at least another two weeks.
Fellow 星／主役にする Anthony Davis has been 主要な the Lakers' 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金, but his 最近の 得点する／非難する／２０ing burst has slowed a bit. The 今後 has 普通の／平均（する）d just 12.5 points over the past two games after he 普通の／平均（する）d 33.0 points over his previous five contests.
Davis did have 16 回復するs Sunday, and D'Angelo Russell had 33 points to continue his own 最近の 得点する／非難する／２０ing uptick, but the Lakers were unable to reach the .500 示す for the first time this season. Los Angeles opened the 2022-23 schedule with five 連続した 敗北・負かすs.
"If we're 説 we're a プレーオフ team, which wholeheartedly we all believe we are, everyone in the organization, from 最高の，を越す to 底（に届く）, believes this newly 組み立てる／集結するd group can do big things in the postseason," Lakers coach Darvin Ham said, によれば the Orange 郡 登録（する）. "But we gotta get there. We gotta do our work."
Now Davis goes up against his former team in a matchup その上の 高くする，増すd by the fact that both the Lakers and Pelicans each have a 33-35 記録，記録的な／記録する. In fact, four Wes tern 会議／協議会 teams have the same 示す まっただ中に a cluster of clubs trying to get their 長，率いるs above the プレーオフ line.
Once の中で the 最高の，を越す teams in the West, the Pelicans are in 緊急発進する 方式 now after losing seven of their last 10. But they have been better of late, winning two of their last three, 含むing a 127-110 victory over the Portland 追跡する Blazers on Sunday.
The Pelicans' Trey Murphy III 得点する／非難する／２０d a career-high 41 points in Sunday's victory, making a career-best nine 3-pointers. CJ McCollum 得点する／非難する／２０d 22 points and had 11 補助装置s as New Orleans 回復するd after a 110-96 home loss to the Oklahoma City 雷鳴 on Saturday.
"It just showed what Pelicans basketball is," said Murphy, who is 得点する／非難する／２０ing 13.3 points per game but has 普通の／平均（する）d 20.8 over his past five contests. "What we showed that night against OKC wasn't our level of (play), 特に at this time of the year. I definitely felt like we 答える／応じるd 井戸／弁護士席."
The Lakers will try to 勝利，勝つ the season series against the Pelicans after a 120-117 victory in overtime Nov. 2 and a 120-102 victory Feb. 15, with both games at home. The Pelicans won the first 会合 at New Orleans, 131-126 on Feb. 4, when former Laker Brandon Ingram 得点する／非難する／２０d 35 points.
Ingram, who is 得点する／非難する／２０ing 22.9 points per game, has 行方不明になるd the past two contests for New Orleans with a sprained 権利 ankle.
--Field Level マスコミ
