During the off-season this year, Pelican did not make any big moves when many teams made drastic personnel adjustments. So, how will such a Pelican perform in the new season? Today, I will take you to review the personnel changes of pelicans this summer and see what noteworthy highlights pelicans have in the new season.
Major new players:
Dyson-Daniels (8 in the first round), EJ-Lidel (11 in the second round), Carlow-Matt Covic (22 in the second round), drien-siblon (two-way contract)
Major players leaving the team:
Jared Harper, Tony Snell
New season start & main rotation forecast:
Starting: Dyson-Daniels, CJ-mccorum, Ingram, Zion, valanchusa
The five-person group with the strongest substitutes: graham, alvarado, herbert jones, larry nansi, jaacson-hays
Estimated record: top eight in the west
I. Review of last season
For Pelicans last season, the core of the team, Zion Williamson, was unable to play due to injury, but they got Graham through trading, making up for the vacancy of Lonzo-Bauer leaving the team. However, Ingram also suffered injuries at the beginning of the season. They only won one victory in the first 13 games. Such a bad start made the outside world think that Pelican would directly prepare for next season, but they got CJ-mccolum in mid-season trading and began to reverse the unfavorable situation.
CJ scored 24.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 5.8 assists in 26 games after joining Pelican, with a two-point hit rate of 49 percent and a three-point hit rate of 39 percent.
In the end, Pelicans achieved a record of 36 wins and 46 losses in the regular season, and entered the play-off game strongly. In the play-off game, Lianke Spurs and the Clippers marched into the playoffs tenaciously. Then, they showed strong competitiveness in the first round of the playoffs against the Phoenix Suns, which ranked first in the regular season. Under the leadership of the team’s twin stars Ingram and CJ, he fought hard with the sun for 6 games and finally left with his head held high.
II. Renewal of the top salary on the 8th visa of Zion selected Daniels
The biggest action of Pelican this summer was to renew Zion Williamson in advance in 5 years and 0.19 billion years. Zion has played only 85 games in 3 seasons so far. His injury is a big hidden danger, however, Pelican did not hesitate to offer it a top-salary contract.
The risks and benefits of Zion have not changed. He is still the super talented player. Before that, his status and injury problems once made the future look dark, this uncertainty also spread to the problem of whether Pelicans could make Zion willing to stay on the team. At least this problem does not exist now.
Another core figure of the team, Ingram, rarely appeared in public view during the offseason, but after Durant applied for a deal to basketable nets, some reporters showed that pelican was very interested in the deal of packaging yingge for KD, but the team also quickly refuted the rumor later, calling yingge not for sale and would never put him into durant’s deal, while stabilizing the military, it also showed its intention to continue to form a lineup around zion and yingge.
In addition, it is worth noting that in this year’s draft conference, Pelican chose Dyson Daniels, a 2.03-meter-tall defender with strong defensive strength in the 8th round of the first round, it can cover the number 1-4 and make Pelican’s lineup more creative with comprehensive technology.
3. The biggest black horse in the new season
Pelican may be the biggest dark horse in the NBA New Season. With the recovery of Goda Takeshi, he and Ingram will become one of the strongest strike-line combinations in the West. If two people inside and outside can play a tacit understanding, it will become the existence that no opponent can despise.
In addition, the performance of CJ and Daniels’s “young and young back court Suncha” is also worth looking forward to. Their Inside Line also has Varan sitting in town. Although he moves relatively slowly, he has a very powerful rebound, but also has good offensive ability.
In addition, pelicans have internal lines with certain frame protection strength, such as small nans and hays. They can greatly share the defensive pressure of zion, and the substitute control guard alvarado has a strong defensive awareness, his obsession with paul in the playoffs left a deep impression on the fans.
On paper, Pelican’s new season is at least a playoff-level team with a high ceiling.
Pelican coach Willy Green’s coaching ability has been recognized by the outside world. His performance in the first season after he came to the team is indeed remarkable, and he has experienced a season of running-in, now there is the return of General Zion. How far can he lead this pelican? It is worth looking forward.
IV. Summary
The health of Zion!!! Due to the fracture of the right foot during the offseason last year, Zion received surgical treatment, but during the recovery period, the weight soared, which extended the recovery time and did not appear again throughout the season, his importance to pelicans is self-evident. The attack line composed of healthy zion, mccolum and ingram will certainly have great power.
In the final analysis, the upper limit of a team depends on attack, so Zion’s health will influence Pelican’s record in the new season.
It is not too much to say that pelican is the biggest dark horse team next season on the premise that he remains healthy.