This is genuinely wild..

This is genuinely wild as the worldwide leader in sports claims that they are going to predict the next three years of the pelicans in their power rankings the crazy thing is they didn't predict anything over the next three years they're just focused on this season and i'm going to point out this nonsense inside this edition of pelicans digest what's going on my people as well so the mic happy thursday almost to the end of the week and thank you for tapping in with us here on pelicans digest thank you for subscribing and if you haven't done it yet man go hit that subscribe button man this is where you get the best analysis opinions and more about the new orleans pelicans right here on pelicans digest you can also follow us on x right now at pelicans digest as well um espn and i'm gonna get to and i'm gonna get to this in a minute i'm gonna explain this to y'all in a second you know they've never been kind to the new orleans pelican they've never they've shown us no love and you know a lot of it is understandable but i can tell listen i've been media trained i have been in the media business for close to 20 years before i started this channel i've worked under these corporate umbrellas at these companies okay i can tell you when there's an agenda at hand and when there's not an agenda at hand and this that we're going to talk about today is definitely agenda driven and i'm going to explain it to y'all in a matter of minutes but first we gotta take our sponsors at anson belt and buckle and here's a quick message from them you know everyone's a great outfit fast and old beat up belt that doesn't fit right most guys are still wearing belts with stretched out holes that either pinch your waist or sag and throw off your whole look that's why i'm excited to have anson belt and buckle as the sponsor of today's video instead of holes anson uses a micro adjustable track system with quarter inch increments so your belt fits perfectly every single time and once you experience 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power rankings and i and listen what i read this article i was like how do y'all come to these numbers they don't give you any explanation on how they come to these so-called numbers with player score and their ranking and the management and their ranking and the draft and all this other stuff and they don't say how what's the math and the method that they use behind this you just say look these are the numbers that we got for it take it and leave it and run with it so according to them the pelicans in their future power rankings have moved up three spots from 29 to 26 uh this year and you know as you go through the breakdown of this it's you can start that you can read between the lines all you want and you can tell real quick that this is agenda driven this is another way to just crap on new orleans and bat in new orleans basketball okay so let's start with the first day because this is the article this is the complete article in the complete new orleans section of the article okay now they start the article by saying that this is going to be a three-year outlook for the pelican and so they say the new all new orleans was already bad last season with a 26 and 56 record and the team's current brain trust hasn't inspired much confidence with his move or lack thereof since coming into power add in the worst market situation in the league and new orleans might be stuck near the bottom of these rankings for a while yet okay and the part that sticks out to me is worst market situation in the league now if you've been a subscriber to this channel i've showed you repeatedly that over the last three seasons the pelicans have outdrawn at least four or five teams in this league but yet we always call it the worst situation we've outdrawn memphis we outdraw atlanta every year and all these and washington and all these other teams every year even last year we outdrew the clippers i mean the season before that we outdrew the clippers in attendance but somehow we continue to be the worst situation i know it's because the smoothie king center ain't up to to to the bells and whistles and everything like that but this fan base has shown his love and his support and has continued to do so even through this struggling time and through these years that we've been so i can tell right there that that was an agenda that day to try to crap on new orleans and before you go ahead and say well you know espn you know is is this uh you know they're the journalists the standard they fired all their journalists they don't have any journalists there they got people that's going to shield for the company look for no example if you've been watching lately what commercials have you been seeing more and more every day on that channel the protect college sports act because they are because they have a vested interest in that and they're going to pump that hard they gave ted cruz 10 minutes of air time on college game day while he's getting booed and heckled to get him time to show for this act so yes there is an agenda with that network and trust me if they have an agenda for that they have an agenda against new so let's be clear on that again it's deserved the publicans have not done anything to inspire more hope more excitement more change that this team is going to turn it around and this franchise is going to turn it around that that is all granted and good and real i can read an agenda from a mile away because again i've been media trained i understand when an agenda is being put in front you and they're not looking at this as fairly as we think they should or giving us a fair shake but again this whole article is about the next three years okay so they only talked about this year that's upcoming nothing about what could happen down the line but here's where they start talking about some things that are down the line unlike last season new orleans controls his first round pick in 2027 the unknown is how the same returning roster that won 26 games responds to a new head coach in jamal mosley president of boxing basketball operations joe dumars and mosley have to evaluate the upside of the roster when healthy or whether time has run out and change is needed and we believe that that is real and what's going to happen this season one of the things i talked about a lot during this off season was the fact that they are rebuilding the front office first and it tore down to the studs and now they're going to focus on the roster and what kind of product is going to put out there on the floor this season and if it doesn't work out you have every method and every way and all the capital and all the players and the talent that you need to start the rebuild almost immediately so you know that's now this is where it starts to get funny for me and they start talking about this future power ranking nugget to know the pelicans are tied for the worst rating in management when looking at the bottom five scores don't know how they came to these scores but whatever you look at the scores the average three-year win percentage of these teams has been 38 percent the equivalent of a 31 win season there were a handful of teams that actually got above 50 percent but not many so we had the worst management but not that many teams are that far off from us oh okay whatever man whatever man whatever whatever but according to them their bold prediction their so-called bold prediction for this season when it comes to the pelicans will be involved zion williamson and they believe that the zion williamson era will come to an end this season with the pelicans according to this article uh the zion era will end with little fan fair more than seven years have passed since the pelicans won the 2019 lottery and selected williamson with the top pick nuance has a little to show for its good fortune williamson has played fewer than 40 games per season while dealing with multiple injuries and he has yet to make his playoff debut so according to them and they continue on because they went and lit with zion williamson's contract is set to expire after the 27 28 season and new orleans has already started accumulating this next wave of young prospects to carry the franchise into the future whether new orleans trades williamson or he eventually departs at free agency his exit will unfortunately be a blip on the national radar i don't care i don't know who cares if it's a blip or or a big red beam on it if he leaves he leaves okay that's the thing too is is this this thirst for relevancy you gotta be relevant like somebody told me the other day you're never gonna be like somebody left in the comments a few days ago you're not gonna be a top 20 i don't care if i'm a top 20 top 100 podcaster i do this with the love of the game i do this with the love of my team because i know that there's agendas and stories being written to make basketball look terrible in new orleans i do this with the love of the game all right so you know i don't thirst to be relevant i don't want to be on espn i don't want to be on these networks talking i would rather rock with y'all the reason why independent media and independent blogs like this one are on the rise and getting subscribers is because people are figuring out and they're starting to see with their own eyes the agenda that's being presented in front of them when it comes to these sports leagues and these tv networks because there also are you know espn also co-owns some of these uh part owner in some of these teams and some of these networks now but i do have one bold prediction i'm going to give you my bold prediction for this season all right y'all ready for this because in my opinion if jamal mosley can fix this one issue with this team we're going to the playoffs i'm going to tell you what that issue is right now here it is if jamal mosley can fix the pelicans clutch minutes problem we're going to the playoffs the new orleans pelicans had 42 clutch games tied for fifth overall last season and a clutch game is a game that is within five points in the final five minutes of the game we finished with the fifth overall most clutch games last season and they finished with a clutch record of roughly 12 and 30 in games within five points in the final five minutes which was the worst in the league if jamal mosley can fix that clutch minutes problem we're going to the playoffs not the play-in we're going to the playoffs that's my bold prediction and the reason why i say this is because just imagine half of your games last season were winnable within the final five minutes half more than almost more than half of your games last season were winnable if you can turn that 12 into 20 or maybe even 30 and flip that record around to 30 and 12 then you're in the playoffs you're one of the top six teams in the league that is going to be the thing that i think jamal mosley needs to fix number one defense and all the other stuff is cool everything else is cool the talent is there fix that clutch minutes problem that is the number one thing if you fix the clutch minutes you're winning way more games next season if you're the pelicans that's my bold prediction if he can he fix it i think he can i think he can because now you have a healthier roster you have a healthy lineup you got a lot of depth finally in the first and the second unit you had you've just bought a bit mattering into the second unit he's he i seem to john t murray win games in the clutch late in this game last season you and you fix that clutch minutes problem we're going to the playoffs i think that's something that a lot of people are overlooking about last season the coaching turmoil didn't help a lot of that stuff didn't help fix that one problem and you're going to the playoffs those are my thoughts on that but be careful of the agendas that you're getting and they're going to start feeding you over the next couple of weeks when it comes to this team all right just just trying to get you hit to this to the game man we'll love to know your thoughts what is your bold prediction for this season what is your bold prediction what do you think is something that the pelicans need to fix to get back on the winning track the roster is set in stone it looks like it's it's it's going we're going to rock with it so we'd love to know your thoughts man clap back with your thoughts in the comments thank you so much for subscribing to us and for the most of y'all who's still watching and haven't subscribed hit that subscribe button man this is where you get the best analysis opinions and more about the new orleans pelicans right here on pelicans digest follow us on x as well at pelicans digest it's mel talking about those bells i holla at you