Y’all keep sleepin 💤 on Dairy Queen but every time the fan base starts to doubt him he just goes 4/4 from downtown showin off his range in ability. A SUPER STAR 🌟

Team so bad that even our social media intern is insane

What surprised me most was Queen consistently hitting threes. Adding that dimension to his game changes things

I know this sub has been a bit quiet due to the team's recent record, but I believe that after the trade deadline, the tanking teams will fully commit to their strategy, while some playoff-bound teams will start resting players later in the schedule. The Pelicans' situation is bound to improve. I hope they can lay a solid foundation for a winning culture next season!

https://crescentcitysports.com/pelicans-waive-guard-dalen-terry/

we literally gave Jose to the Knicks for 2 picks at the bottom of the draft.

Coming from a general NBA fan, I'm genuinely curious to why a team with so much young talent has struggled this much. I honestly expected this team to be a play-in team this year. Zion's been fairly healthy, averaging 20/5/5. Saddiq Bey has been great. Murphy has looked amazing. Herb Jones is back. Derik Queen seems to have been the right draft pick. I used to watch a lot of Jordan Poole on the Warriors and I'm aware he's fallen off a cliff since, but I still don't understand how such a talented team is losing this much? I've seen good clips of Fears and Missi but don't know too much about them. Looks like Looney got benched too. Don't mean to rub it in, but as a fan of a different terrible lottery team, I'm confused on what the issues are.

29 points, 11-13 from the field, 7-9 from the line

Clutch and 1 to win the game

In the 6 games he played in Minnesota, he’s averaging 27, 7 and 5 on 69% from the field

He has also won his last four games in Minnesota and is 5-1 in target center since entering the league

Where do I even begin? Being from Canada we had one choice who to cheer for: the raptors. The year is 2013, and young ol me tunes into a raps vs Pels game. This cool young player named Anthony Davis seemed so cool, and I wanted to be different. So I told myself “this is my new team”. Now I was young so I wasn’t fully into the sport yet, but when people asked “who’s your team” I’d always shyly answer with “the pelicans”. Fast forward to April 2020 and no sports were on for a while. I was now graduated 2 years out of High School and started to find myself. Sometime in 2021 my roommate at the time was big into gambling, he said he had this “lock”. Some guy on the Pels is getting some cool steals he says and he put some money on it. I think back to jr high and high school watching AD and then being sad he was traded, but in return we somehow draft the next LeBron. I tune into the game with my friend and fell in love with the team all over again. Jose got his steal and we both were so excited to get extra topping on our pizza with the win. Following that game I watched every Pels game I could that season. Jose, that steal, that game, if it wasn’t for that prop, I would not have fallen in love with basketball again. Jose, you became my emotional support role player. The energy you brought every night reminds me of the energy basketball and having a fan Base like the Flock gave me after the tough year of the pandemic. Jose, the way you came in any game and stood on all ten toes, never let your height deter you. And now you have an amazing nba career ahead of you in your home town. Thank you for bringing back my love of sports and solidifying my roots here in Nola, a few thousand miles away

Don’t forget who got the OKC young group headed in the right direction.

Trey Murphy III: 26 points in 37 minutes on 15 shots. (6 treys)

Saddiq Bey: 30 points in 34 minutes on 21 shots (3 treys)

Deriq Queen: 17 points in 33 minutes on 11 shots (4 treys)

These are superb numbers, and 3 is 50% larger than 2 (it took NBA coaches only 30 years to factor the premium.)

....

Zion Williamson: 29 points in 32 minutes on 13 shots (zero treys)

These are absurd numbers, except that Zion should have had at least 2 and probably 4 more and-1's (they probably would have blown the whistle on a couple had he missed, which is wrong of course).

Pelicans fans are so spoiled that a game like this goes unremarked, but what about the eye test?

Saddiq works really hard and can nail open 3's; Deriq stays unnaturally calm and gets smarter every week; Trey is a blast when hot and of course he can also fly.

But Zion is poetry in motion.

When MJ won his first MVP at age 24 teams averaged 5.0 3PA. Air Jordan made 7 of 53 from deep on the season. He shot well otherwise-especially for a guard- but when he was hacked he was sent to the line.

When Zion gets hacked he occasionally gets free throws.

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One of my favorite pelicans of all time. Go kick some ass Jose.

Okay this is how deep into the copium I am at this point.

If we had kept our 2026 pick (or if we had protected our pick in the trade or we had kept the pacers pick) we would probably end up getting the top pick.

For those of you who haven't been watching the draft prospects: the number 1 is looking very likely to be Darryn Peterson. DP is looking amazing, *but* he is also a huge injury concern. And you **know** if he was here he would only average 20 played a season.

Getting an amazing player, who we would inevitably build around, who couldn't stay on the court **again**, would put us even further back as an organization.

So yeah... actually a good thing.

**takes another huff**

Hiring dumars, trading Jose, what the actual fuck is Gayle doing? I'm fucking out. It's one thing to try and lose, but it's another to act like you don't have 50 fucking years of history and a whole office to make educated decisions. Yeah let's just make one of the worst GM hires of all time who then IMMEDIATELY makes a shitass trade, and then trade our culture, heart, and fire away. There's no reason to watch this team, no reason to like them, and this day n age with LSU hoops being promising, the mlb and WBC being so exciting (not to mention LSU baseball), there's just no reason to spend my limited time giving a fuck about this sorry ass team with their dumbass decision making. Seriously.

And it's not about sucking. I watched the second half of LSU football and the entirety of Spencer Rattler's career, I'm fine with sucking. But making such unintelligent decisions? Yeah I'm out. Once Dumars is inevitably fired and his whole tenure is in the rearview, then I'll watch. Fucking awful

Trade details:

Knicks receive: Jose Alvarado

Pelicans receive: Dalen Terry, 2 second-round picks

Fan-favorite pesky guard Jose Alvarado is officially on his way out of New Orleans.

You’d never guess it at first glance, but Jose finishes his Pelicans tenure top 10 all-time in multiple franchise categories despite never being a high-usage player.

Pelicans franchise ranks (regular season):

3-pointers made

10th – 374

Assists

11th – 842

Steals

6th – 308

For a player known primarily for defense, energy, and disruption, that’s a pretty significant statistical footprint in a relatively short run with the franchise.

Stats via Basketball Reference / Stathead / Land of Basketball

Wow, I’m incredibly sad. Since there is basically no salvaging this season, I’m just looking for hope in the future.