‘Win or go home’ is an expression normally reserved for climatic Game 7s yet one can’t help but think it most appropriately describes the Pelicans current rocky situation.
New Orleans has nine games left to play on the 2016-17 schedule. They trail both Portland and Denver by an uncomfortable margin of four games. A postseason berth has hovered far off on the horizon for practically the entire season, but it has never looked any further away than it does at this moment in time.
During the 2014-15 season, New Orleans overcame a 3-game deficit over that schedule’s remaining 10 games to catch and pass Oklahoma City on the final day of the regular season.