Hello, everybody and welcome to another edition of the Knicks Film School Pre-game show.

My name is Andrew Claudio, aka GM-A-C, and it is time to to preview another next matchup this time on Sunday night.

Finally,

back home at Madison Square Garden against the New Orleans,

Pelicans,

the next five-game road trip that apparently all the players felt was very long,

and they were very ready to get home,

as probably evident by their performance in Charlotte

on Saturday.

And that matinee in North Carolina, the Knicks will be back home at MSG.

And they welcome in a Pelicans team that last year was top seven in net rating.

I kept looking throughout the season and how good they were and wondering what this is and what

this ceiling might be.

You know, we follow the advanced page on NBA.com a ton when we evaluate teams and how

good you are and where you are in offense and where you are in defense and all of the

above.

And the Pelicans, this 49 win team, borderline 50 win team, they just kept performing last year.

And then this year, the injury bug seems to have really hit them.

If you are just tuning in and are unaware, they're going to play this game without Zion Williamson, without Brandon Ingram, without Jose Alvarado, without Herb Jones, without Jordan Hawkins.

They do now have Tray Murphy the third.

Old friend Alfred Payton is back on the roster getting rotation minutes.

And I feel bad because my guest for today,

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