sportsfan225

This is the first topic I've ever started on Pelicans Talk. I don't like to be dragged down by a lot of negativity. Why be a fan of a team if I'm miserable all the time? I'd rather stop being a fan. I've been a season ticket holder for some years, since before we drafted Zion (I dropped them this season).
I've been slow coming to this point, but I've come the feel the last 6+ season of the Zion fiasco has been a cancer to the soul of being a Pelicans fan. Every season we hope he'll be healthy and then he's not. We build a team around Z and then he's gone.
I used to be able to sell the tickets I didn't use for reasonable money but for the last few seasons, less and less, to about nothing last season. The spirit is dying.
A finger can be pointed at other things, owner, our GMs. coaches, other players, this or that trade, etc. But the Zion situation is the cancer.
Will our current GM cut out the cancer, find a miraculous cure or will all life be sucked out of being a Pels fan?

- Team mostly healthy
- Zion plays most of the games
- after about 30 games be close to .500
- by end of season be at least .500
- draft picks show promise

How do we keep BI with his contract demands? Is he worth it to the Pels to pay the contract he wants?

I haven’t seen anything. Anyone know if he’s playing? It’s second night of back to back.

Annoying to me is not getting the replay that I pay for thru Ballys. I usually watch the replay of the parts of games I’m interested in. Live I can get on one of the “free” streams.
Another hiccup is people have written here signal is too weak to get over antenna in Gonzales. I haven’t tried an antenna, but that would not help me with replay.

I’m an unapologetic Pelicans homer and I’m glad Zion was named starter. And seeing the players voted Z 3rd, Markkanen 4th and Sabonis 5th, it seems to me there is justification for it. However, I’d point anyone who has issue (or not) to Oleh Kosel’s article on this topic on the bird writes this morning.

4th

Comparing playoff offensive statistics, Ingram (age 24, 2022) much better than Randle’s (age 26, 2021). Small sample size though, 6 and 5 games.

I’ve read many posts in multiple threads on JJ’s falling out with Griff.. And I’ll make two observations.
In all of JJ’s telling his side of the story I’ve never seen where he’s said that he was willing to give back any money back as part of any buy out. Seems I remember Aldridge gave back $6mill with his buyout. I suspect JJ was unwilling to give back any money to help facilitate what he wanted as other players have done.
Secondly, my feeling is a lot of JJ being bent out of shape had its roots in his wife giving him a hard time and not wanting to leave their house in Brooklyn. Understandable with Covid but, again my feeling, JJ was and is p…. whipped (like many of us). .

There’s also Will Magnay, our two way center. Don’t think he’s playing yet (visa problem maybe). He might be worth a closer look.

You guys have done a great job exploring the “did we overpay” question.
Am thinking Adams will be a bigger contributor to our success under SVG than Gentry.
Much bigger emphasis on defense vs run run run.