Sentences with phrase «when pelicans»

Two first - round picks lose value when the Pelicans string together more wins, and while a frontcourt featuring both Cousins and Anthony Davis sounds incredible, it's not a scenario that makes much sense for Sacramento.

Or when the Pelicans drafted Jrue Holiday and Rondo even?

Not exact matches

The first chance to win with Steph IQ will be Friday, when the Golden State Warriors face the New Orleans Pelicans in game three of the Western Conference semifinals.

The Pelicans are more than nine points per 100 possessions tougher to score on when Jrue Holiday is on the court, and Holiday has played 1,000 more minutes than Gobert.

Seeding could diminish Davis» case, but that argument becomes weaker when you realize the Pelicans are just 1.5 games back of the Spurs for the three seed and are knocking on the door for home court advantage.

It was during a brainstorming session when Ben Hales, the senior vice president of marketing and business operations for the Pelicans, heard the seven most perfect words: «I know we'd never do this, but...»

Flashback to three years ago when 21 - year - old Davis led the Pelicans to the playoffs.

When Boogie tore his achilles, many wrote the Pelicans off.

When Curry rests, the Pelicans go wild.

A few questions later, though, Cousins said «give me a break» when asked about trade rumors, says he hadn't heard from the Kings front office and answers a question about a potential trade to Pelicans with, «If that's what happens, it happens.»

A surreal moment happened after the 2017 NBA All - Star Game, when DeMarcus Cousins appeared to be told about his potential trade to the New Orleans Pelicans seconds before addressing the media.

The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.

Most of the games have been close, but even when behind the Pelicans have dug in, and fought their way back.

If the Pelicans have discovered the resiliency to keep fighting through games even when not everything is clicking, it could be big down the stretch.

Opposing ball - handlers shoot just 39.4 percent in pick - and - roll scenarios when guarded by the Pelicans» point guard.

«When he does speak, everybody listens,» Pelicans forward Solomon Hill told SB Nation.

Barnes played for the Sacramento Kings until days before the trade deadline when he was cut at the expense of the DeMarcus Cousins trade to the New Orleans Pelicans.

The Pelicans don't have a tremendous track record of success in the draft, especially when selecting in the mid-lottery.

A week later, Curry endured a gnarly ankle sprain against the Pelicans when he mistimed an attempt to jump the passing lane.

When they get a tern or pelican to drop a fish, they plunge down and grab it off the surface of the water, which may have been how this bird got oiled.

Crucially, R / V Pelican happened to be in the area when Deepwater Horizon blew up.

In more recent history, you know, we have examples, like when we saw the decline of peregrine falcons and bald eagles and ospreys and pelicans as a result of DDT.

However, when Eddie discovers that the mystery buyer is Scoop Pelican, the owner of a seafood restaurant, his conscience kicks in.

Washington is now approaching his 60th birthday and he's spent more than a quarter of a century on the big screen, breaking into the big time when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on the back of 1989's Glory and became a household name in the 1990s with the likes of Malcolm X, The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia, Crimson Tide and Courage Under Fire.

The bear is not long lost again when a seal finds him, plays with him deep in the ocean and deposits him in some seaweed, where he is scooped up by a pelican and flown higher than he's ever been before.

When you think of the Pelican State, think JCF Lending Group.

When an Englishman with a long lineage of innkeepers in the British Isles chose the site and the name Pelican for his inn on the California Coast, he looked both to his own past and the the historic landing of Sir Francis Drake.

When searching for the perfect setting for your wedding in Ft. Lauderdale it is rare to find a more beautiful backdrop than that of the Pelican Grand's oceanfront location.

When it comes to oceanfront dining, the Pelican Grand Beach Resort gives you options.

Pelican beach is my favorite beach in all of Belize and South Water Caye is a stunning tropical island you shouldn't miss when traveling to Southern Belize.

When the bill touches the surface of the water the pelican will push its legs and wings back creating a bit more force, under the water the bill opens and the pouch stretches out wide allowing the pelican to scoop up fish.

However, when the scientists looked more closely, they realized with horror that the pelicans were unable to nest successfully because the eggshells were too thin to withstand incubation and thus were crushed in the nest.

On Santa Barbara Island, the pelican nesting area is closed to visitors and trails are closed when birds are nesting.

There were exhilarating moments of recognition, when I stumbled upon a rare plant species that I had read about in a journal article, and moments of incredible beauty that no amount of reading could have prepared me for: the tiny adrenaline rush of a bat, illuminated by headlamp, just inches from my face, or the joy of watching comical, clumsy pelicans diving for fish in the kelp forest.

They practice addition and subtraction when the California brown pelicans fly overhead in formation.

Martinez has described how the lyrics «Pelican, lend me your wings so that I can fly,» refers to his childhood separation from his father when he was left behind in Honduras while his father went to work in the United States.

When you have finished people watching, shift your gaze to take in the Malibu Pier, and perhaps some passing dolphins and pelicans, too.

You can also grow your relationships with the residents of Pelican Town by talking to them, engaging in dialogue options when they come up, and by giving them stuff they like.

Totally clueless when presented with 3 sub-commanders, 10 Pelicans and way too much eco.

I believe that the game has found the perfect port since the Switch can let you visit Pelican Town when you're on the go, or in front of the TV sitting on the couch.

When turned on, the visitor becomes a witness of the robbery that is taking place right in front of his eyes: all birds have multi-coloured little pills in their beaks which they are about to steal — they are all feathered thieves caught in the act: there is a parade of six seemingly dancing smaller birds that appear to be surprised by their discovery and that seem to run away from the crime scene; a big blue pelican strides away gingerly with his loot in his beak whereas a dark brownish owl seems to pause and reconsider her deed; a bright red and orange bird on one leg almost falls off the table while trying to escape the crime scene... Their facial expressions are manifold but their actions are always the same: to flee their discovery and the nosy glance of the beholder and to leave their sites of crime behind.

I had attended a term of lessons with a very good watercolour teacher when I moved to Pelican Waters Qld.

Scraper, I have a theory that a compound called geosmin which is produced by a bacteria and which is a very light windborne compound is the key to how Pelicans determine when the water in lake eyre arrives.

I first learnt about The Coorong — a narrow lagoon that runs parallel with coastal dunes for 140 km in southern Australia — when I saw the 1976 film «Storm Boy», the story of a boy and a Pelican.

Since that day at Pelican Cays, I have been fortunate to travel to many sites around the globe, ranging from the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean to the crashing surf along the Pacific coast of North America, and what I see matches the observations made by what now is an army of scientists: The Earth's flora and fauna are changing — shifting their geographic locations, altering when they reproduce or dying wholesale — as a result of human - induced global warming.

When you think about the habitat of pelicans, you think of... Wait, where do pelicans live, anyway?

When you see what quotes come back, simply swoop in like a Pelican and grab the prized one.

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