re: Name some franchises you wish the Pelicans modeled themselves after...

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I think the flaw with the “minimal improvements” strategy is that we aren’t going to run it back again if we only win 10 more games next year. We can’t. That would be insane.

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Of course. The "minimal improvement" strategy refers to acquiring talent like Fears/ Queen that give us a greenlight to move older players or actually see a path for the future.

People see a shitty, failed team and then see Fears/ Queen and think "great we added 2 good assets to a shitty team".

Instead of thinking "Great maybe we can move on from the shitty, failed past teams now that we have future players to build on".

Fears/ Queen clearly didn't make us contenders but they did do enough for Pels fans to be cool with gutting the entire roster and building around those 2.

The difference between last year and the previous 5 years was not having confidence in future players to build on or allow us to move on from others.

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I remember you saying there were only 4 teams in the west who were better than us, so I guess that checks out.

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On paper yes we should have been way better than we were.

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So it’s safe to say you were way off. Which is fine, I thought we’d be a 50-win team the year before last. No one knows shite.

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Correct but its also not logical to assume we take any step back or even stay nearly as bad.