{"id":851197,"date":"2026-10-05T05:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/851197\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T05:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:51:14","slug":"what-to-watch-for-in-new-orleans-pelicans-first-preseason-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/851197\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Watch For In New Orleans Pelicans First Preseason Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As good as it is to see the team placing an <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/nba\/pelicans\/news\/new-orleans-pelicans-hiring-jamahl-mosley-was-music-to-herb-jones-ears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increased focus on defense<\/a>, it certainly wasn&#8217;t the only issue last year. Spacing, consistent shot-making and overall offensive creativity were all lacking. Pretty much every player has focused on their jump shot this offseason, plus having a veteran like Murray at point guard should lead to a more trustworthy baseline, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As good as it is to see the team placing an increased focus on defense, it certainly wasn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,652,6,478,470,4073,4072,826,179,675],"class_list":["post-851197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-defense","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-offense","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-pelicans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117386745184072320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}