Four losses. That's what the New Orleans Pelicans delivered last week with the possibility of clawing back into the playoff picture. A deficit of three and a half games ballooned to seven as the Utah Jazz, finally on the edge of healthy, reeled off four victories of their own.
Playoff odds for this team ten games under .500 were bad. The recent run of ineptitude has turned those odds microscopic. Four different models place the Pelicans with the sixth worst record in the league and finishing between 32 and 33 wins. The over/under on this team in October was 47.