Hello and welcome to the collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Tuesday evening joining me from San Francisco.

California, where he's on the road with the New Orleans Pelicans is Andrew Lopez. What's up, man? How are you, sir?

Out there on the West Coast with the Red Hot Pelicans, five in a row, and I'm sure by recording this pod ahead of their game against the Warriors tonight. Okay, look, let's just acknowledge something. The Warriors are awesome at home.

Maybe they'll they'll they'll bang up the Pelicans who are playing on a back to back.

Doesn't mean that the Pelicans haven't played great recently. Can we all agree to that? Grows ground rules.

We can agree. We will not talk about the Pelicans opponents during this stretch, but we can't agree that they have played very well.

Okay, and that is the laugh of Anne's capes mark J Spears who's joining us from across the day at Oakland. Hello, Mark.

And Andrew's been complaining about the weather since he's. Yeah, man. Say man, look, whenever you come to New Orleans, I make sure you have great weather. Great.

I'm not going to lose guys. What you're definitely should agree. I get I get flight delays in rain all day. This is this is not great, man. I did get an 80 degree son last week, and I didn't know what to do with it.

See.

This is how I get this is how you're campaigning with. If Louisiana would have said us some of his rainwater, we wouldn't be in this situation right. So we're trying to get out of drought country.

I guess we are at this point.

Speaking of out of drought country, the Pelicans, I'd you like that twist. You like that pivot? Oh, look at you.

The Pelicans who.

They won five in a row. Now you're you're you're integrating their opponents, Andrew, and I think you're trying to be responsible in the Western conference.

Any five game winning streak means you don't say you're sorry.

Correct.

So Brandon Ingram is playing some of the best basketball certainly is best of the season, right. He just won player of the week had another good game Monday night in Portland against the the drags of the Blazers.

And the Pelicans, they were as low as they go as low as 13th.

And they were 12 for sure. I'm not sure if they took they possibly took it. I think at one point they may have though. I think after the after the rocket sauce and they were around there at least tied.

Okay. Well, at the moment they are in eighth and they're basically at percentage points away from from being in sixth.

If they went tonight, it would be incredible because Golden State is head of them by six 1,000ths of a point. Basically, they have one more win the same number of losses.

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