The New Orleans Pelicans have made a surge since point guard Jrue Holiday‘s return to the lineup, but despite boasting the top scorer and shot-blocker in the league, they still find themselves navigating through the bottom of the Western Conference.

Forward Anthony Davis has been tasked with shouldering the load at the offensive and defensive end, but hasn't received enough support from his teammates to materialize into wins.

“I hear it. I see it. I'm on social media, so I see it all the time,” Davis told ESPN's Marc Stein. “But I think, for me, it's just about the guys in that locker room. I know they come out here every day in practice and every night in the game and fight and leave everything on the floor. It's nothing that I try to pay attention to as much. But you see it. You have to pay attention to it.

“For me, that's not my M.O. to get into all the media and all that stuff. I just worry about what's going on in that locker room and on the floor with the guys I have in the locker room,” he added.

Davis is boasting career-highs in scoring, rebounding, steals, and free-throw shooting — he's played like a man possessed and already has nine 30-point games, two 45-point games, and a 50-point game to tip-off the season.

“Of course, my rookie year, it's really the first time people are really, really talking about you,” Anthony said. “Of course we had it at Kentucky and a little bit at high school, but when you get to the NBA and of course you're the No. 1 pick, all this media's going to be around you.

“And so when they start [saying], ‘Oh, injury prone,' ‘He's not a leader,' ‘He can't carry [a team],' all this stuff, you start to see it. But after a while, as you get older and more established in the league and more experienced, you kind of find a way to tune it out. I think that's the point I'm at right now.”

The Pelicans (6-12) had a dismally unexpected 0-8 start to the season, but have bounced back to win six of the last 10, slowly clawing their way out of the bottom pool of a very competitive West.

“We were very worried,” Davis told Stein. “We didn't envision ourselves being in that situation. But we dug ourselves a hole. We're slowly climbing out of it, and we just have to keep fighting. Nobody wants to start 0-8. Nobody wants to start off on the wrong foot. But it happens.

“Some teams have whoever on their team where they're able to do whatever they want on the floor. For us, we have to be blue-collar guys who are coming in, work, being scrappy, first to the floor, rebounding the ball, sharing the ball. That's how we have to be. That's how we've been the past couple weeks, and that's how we've been able to get wins.”

Despite his blazing start to the season, the big man is looking to improve in other areas in an effort to make a more complete player of himself.

“I watch LeBron [James], Steph [Curry], all those guys make their teammates better,” he said. “They find them. Even Draymond [Green]. He plays the same position and does the same thing, and he's able to find his teammates in a way that I can't right now. That's definitely what I want to get better at.”