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How Tyreke Evans Injury Can Become a Blessing in Disguise
Let’s get one thing clear – the rash of injuries that have plagued the Pelicans the last few weeks are a bad thing. There is no way around that. If given the choice, any Pelican fan, coach, player, etc. would choose to have an injury free team as we enter the season. But where some […]
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Can Nate Robinson Become Our Leandro Barbosa?
In September of 2014, Leandro Barbosa was a 31-year-old free agent without any interested suitors. After seven fantastic years in Phoenix, Barbosa bounced around the league and even had to go to the Brazilian League to help resurrect his career. His former coach, Alvin Gentry, along with Steve Kerr and the Warriors brass saw enough to […]
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Pelicans Travel to Jacksonville to Take on Hawks Tonight
The Pelicans take on another Eastern Conference team in their second game, as they return to Jacksonville once again for a preseason contest. In the initial game we saw the key players get significant minutes early, and then rode the end of the rotation guys late to victory. Tonight might be slightly different as injuries […]
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Pelicans Injuries Could Create Ample Opportunites For Role Players
There was a time when Danny Green was an afterthought on the San Antonio Spurs roster. When George Hill was just a surprise first round pick from a school nobody had ever heard of and Patty Mills was a nice international player who couldn’t play in the NBA. When Festus Ezili was just the guy […]
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Who Will Be the Pelicans Second All-Star?
As progressive and forward thinking as most of us think we are, when we project forward, we tend to predict a future very similar to the past. How do most of the experts think the West will shake out this year? Well, pretty much like it did last year. The East? Um, Cavs again. And […]
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Projecting a Pelicans Rotation With a Limited Holiday
Alvin Gentry confirmed yesterday what we had all expected for quite a while – Jrue Holiday will be limited to start the season. Specifically, he stated that the plan for now is that Holiday will get around 15 minutes a game until January. At that point you would assume that he will be re-evaluated and […]
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Handicapping the Race for the Final Two Spots at the End of the Pelicans Bench
With Norris Cole finally signing his qualifying offer, the Pelicans have 13 guys who are a lock to make the final roster – barring a trade between now and the beginning of the season. That means there are (at most) two spots left up for grabs, and at least five players who will be competing […]
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Breaking Down the New Orleans Pelicans 2015-16 Schedule
While we spend the majority of our time discussing free agent acquisitions like Jason Terry, trade possibilities like Markieff Morris, and re-signings like Norris Cole at this time of year, the truth is that none of those things will likely move the needle this season when it comes to the win column. The Pelicans are a team […]
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On Conference Call With Anthony Davis
Anthony Davis took 30 minutes out of his day to answer any and all questions from the media on everything from his contract to Monty’s departure, Gentry’s hiring, recruiting future free agents, and more. He was forthright in his answers and really didn’t hold anything back. More than anything, he sounded excited about the upcoming […]
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Where Dell Demps Can Find Value in the Marketplace
On the surface, the signing of Alonzo Gee seemed like just another low risk move meant to improve depth at the end of the bench and maybe improve the locker room as well. And while it might turn out to be just that, it could also be an example of where Dell Demps can exploit the […]
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New Orleans Pelicans Round Out Gentry’s Coaching Staff With Addition of Phil Weber
The staff was already looking tremendous with the additions of Darren Erman and Robert Pack to Alvin Gentry’s crew, but it got even stronger today with the reported addition of Phil Weber. Weber was one of the guys I profiled as a possible assistant right before Gentry got hired, and like I said in that […]
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Pelicans Scoop: Davis, Ajinca, Asik, and Free Agency
With big Pelicans news coming out in the first 24 hours of free agency, BSS writers give their opinions on five pressing questions. 1. What was your reaction when you saw AD had signed his extension? Michael McNamara: Instant relief. I knew that AD would sign it at some point this summer, but having him […]
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New Orleans Pelicans Free Agency Open Thread (Win NBA 2K16!)
Update: July 1st, 1:04 CST Alexis Ajinca Re-Signs (4 Years, 20.2 million) I’m very excited to say that I will be a Pelican for 4 more years! I’m so happy to be back home.. Let’s win a championship! #TakeFlight — Alexis Ajinça (@AjincaAlexis42) July 1, 2015 The deal seems a little big at first, but […]
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Players the Pelicans Can Pursue With the Mid-Level Exception
Not surprisingly, the 2015 NBA Draft was rather anti-climatic for the Pelicans. Dell Demps sold his 2nd round pick again, and we all should have seen that coming, as he has told us time and time again he prefers young veterans on this team. The last time Dell sold a 2nd rounder, he used that […]
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Don’t Panic if Anthony Davis Does Not Sign His Extension on July 1st
Nearly 10 months ago, I wrote about the most important thing transaction the Pelicans will be a part of in the next few years – Anthony Davis’s contract extension. As stated in that article, the Pelicans are the only team that can give AD that designated five-year max contract and now that we know where […]
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Making the Kevin Durant to the Pelicans Dream a Reality
The idea of pairing Anthony Davis with another superstar is something that every Pelicans fan has contemplated from time to time, and no superstar would be more deadly with Anthony Davis than Kevin Durant. Rumors have been out there for months that Durant is eyeing Washington or LA if he decides to leave Oklahoma City […]
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How Demps Can Maximize Depth and Flexibility this Summer
The New Orleans Pelicans two biggest moves of 2015 were set up by decisions that Dell Demps made way back in the summer of 2014. Though he couldn’t foresee the exact moves at the time, Dell knew that declining Austin River’s 4th year option would make him more appealing on the trade market. In a similar move, […]
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Re-Imaginaing Omer Asik Under Gentry
The lasting image in our mind of Omer Asik is him with his shoulders slumped and his head down as he struggled to make any kind of impact in the Pelicans playoff series against the Warriors. Despite his improvement throughout the season, including a really good stretch after the All-Star break, as human beings we tend to […]
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Pelicans Choose Pace and Experience With Gentry Hire
The Pelicans were at a crossroads after firing Monty Williams. On one side, they had a handful of defensive minded head coaches with experience clambering for the job, and on the other side they had some innovative offensive minds, most lacking NBA head coaching experience. Dell Demps went into the process with an open mind, […]
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New Orleans Pelicans Season In Review: Dante Cunningham
On December 4th, 2014, an opportunity presented itself to Dell Demps and he took advantage of it. Due to a bogus charge, Dante Cunningham was just sitting there on the open market, waiting to be scooped up, and Demps did just that. Within a week, Cunningham was regularly getting 25-30 minutes a night and within […]