緊急 setting in for Pelicans in 戦う／戦い vs. Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are 長，率いるd to the NBA プレーオフs.
The New Orleans Pelicans 直面する an 上りの／困難な climb to reach the プレーオフs.
Both those things were true when the season was 一時停止するd in March, and they're still true in the 早期に 行う／開催する／段階s of the 再開する. The Clippers (44-21) are in second place in the Western 会議／協議会 and the Pelicans (28-37) are four games out of the final プレーオフ 位置／汚点／見つけ出す as the two teams 準備する to 会合，会う Saturday.
Both teams lost in the final seconds of their first games Thursday after the 20-week hiatus.
The Clippers lost their first game of the seeding schedule to the Lakers, 103-101, when Paul George's last-second jumper 行方不明になるd. That happened just a couple of hours after the Pelicans lost to the Utah Jazz, 106-104, when Brandon Ingram's last-second jumper 行方不明になるd in the game that tipped off the 再開 of the season.
"We've got to use these games to build some habits and just build team chemistry," Clippers 今後 Kawhi Leonard said. "It was a good game, still had fun out there. It was 広大な／多数の／重要な to be 支援する on the 床に打ち倒す."
The Clippers are short-手渡すd as Lou Williams is in 検疫 and Montrezl Harrell is tending to a family 事柄. They gave up 29 points off turnovers against the Lakers.
"We can't have self-（打撃，刑罰などを）与えるd 負傷させるs and I thought we had too many of them," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.
New Orleans had won eight of its last 13 games before the season was interrupted and rolled to victories in each of its three scrimmages 主要な up to the game against the Jazz. After a slow start it appeared to be building on that 勢い when it built a 16-point lead against Utah.
But the Pelicans' 罪／違反 went 冷淡な in and they were outscored 27-17 in the fourth ４半期/4分の1 as Rudy Gobert's two 解放する／自由な throws broke a tie and made the difference with six seconds left. Brandon Ingram, who led New Orleans with 23 points, 行方不明になるd a 3-pointer in the final second.
"It's very disappointing," g uard JJ Redick said. "We all know how 価値のある every game is 権利 now for our team. We played like a 42-minute game."
新人 Zion Williamson was on a minutes 制限 after 行方不明の all three scrimmages because he was tending to a family 緊急. He wasn't on the 床に打ち倒す at the end because he had reached his minutes 限界 始める，決める by the team's 医療の staff.
"We wish we could have played Zion 負かす／撃墜する the stretch," coach Alvin Gentry said. "But he had used the minutes that had been given to us. That's just the way it is. We weren't going to stick him 支援する out there."
Williamson, the No. 1 全体にわたる 選ぶ in the 草案, 行方不明になるd the first 44 games of the season after を受けるing arthroscopic 膝 外科. He said he felt healthy and in good 条件 as the season 再開するd.
"It's just getting my flow to the game 支援する," Williamson said. "This is the NBA. These are the best players in the world. You want to feel comfortable. I don't want to 傷つける my team more than I help them."
--Field Level マスコミ
