Noonie. This is what my daughter has called her pacifer since she first started to talk. Some children (like my youngest son) go to their thumb, others have a favorite stuffed animal, or even a blanket. Young children cling to familiar soothing objects and our favorite NBA basketball team, the New Orleans Pelicans, are no different. Faced with adversity after a poor start to the third quarter they too reached for their noonie, and once again they were back on track.
We’ve written about this play for ages. I called it the double pick and roll, Zach Lowe called it the “New Orleans Bunch” and I’ve seen it referred to as “Spain PnR” other places as the Spanish National Team rolled it out with the Gasol brothers in recent years.