In all seriousness, how do we find our way out of this mess?

I think we should tank and hope we get lucky in the draft. But that's highly unlikely with this FO

We are completely fricked.

Bad coach.

Bad roster.

City that doesn't attract top free agents.

Superstar who we may drive out of town.







Completely fricked.

As Trump would say... "We gotta Drain the Swamps"

I still think this team is better than last years

If New Orleans Basketball is going to survive the Pelicans whole front office needs to be gutted and rebuilt. New young fresh thinkers need to be brought in from the top down and the whole direction of this organization needs to be reevaluated.

I'm not really sure what Dennis Lauscha and Mickey Loomis were brought over to provide the Pelicans but it's safe to say that they have provided little in the way of improvements to the business operations from what I can see.

Sadly I see nothing salvageable with this organization. That doesn't mean that none of its components have value, AD is a rising star, but it will not happen with this team for him, and he should be getting to the point in his career that he sees that. There is no stability in this organization and rebuilding every year is a good way to waste AD's career.

Problem is IMO at Benson's age they will just keep throwing mud at the problem hoping to patch up the weak spots and one day it will take off. I don't see how it ever will.

This is why I said Ettore Messina and Travis Schlenk in previous posts/threads. Furthermore, the basketball Ops side needs to be separated from the Saints. Create an actual infrastructure focus solely on basketball so 100% attention can be paid.

I'm not as high on trading Buddy ATL is but I see where he's going. Of the two, I'd want George but it's no guarantee he'd be dealt.

I know MM has said Benson is the problem and he's right. But I don't think he's in the problem in the way he thinks he's the problem. I think he's the problem in that he's too trusting of Loomis and Lauscha. Even after football season they aren't focused on the franchise because of the NFL off-season, combine, draft, etc. Again, this is why they need to create a separate structure on the basketball side with basketball minds.

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Fire coach and GM.

Pray to God the Clippers get bounced early again and CP3 wants to pull a Lebron and come back to where he started, teaming up with a locked up AD for the next few years.

First things first - buddy cannot suck, or else we are set back even further. He was supposed to be a step in the right direction

Hope Archie Goodwin becomes a useable NBA player every night

Put person in place who will make the right decisions going forward w Evans and holiday and future drafts

Well I think firing demps was understood. He's done a terrible job. I've seen enough over the past 7 years.