Willie Green’s DEAD MAN Walking Status as Pelicans REFUSE to Act | Franchise SABOTAGING Its Future?

Willie Green’s DEAD MAN Walking Status as Pelicans REFUSE to Act | Franchise SABOTAGING Its Future?

Big congratulations to the Pelicans. They’ve mastered the art of doing nothing. Instead of trying to fix the problem, they’re just letting it drag on with head coach Willie Green. Sure, just keep doing the same things and expect different results. That always works. Brilliant strategy. It’s locked on Pelicans. Let’s go. You are Locked On Pelicans, your daily New Orleans Pelicans podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Welcome to another edition of Locked On Pelicans, the daily podcast covering your favorite team, the New Orleans Pelicans and NBA. Part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day, available wherever you get your podcast and available on YouTube. I’m your host, Pelicans insider, credential member of the media, JakeMadison, Nola Jake on Twitter. Here with youall on this Tuesday, game day for your Pelicans is they’re on a backto-back against the Charlotte Hornets and Dallas Mavericks. And head coach Willie Green is still leading the team, presumably going to coach in both of these games. This is the wrong decision for New Orleans. And I’m going to break down why, frankly, fair or unfair, they should have fired Willie Green on Monday, but they didn’t. and it’s only delaying the inevitable and hurting this team more. And so we’ll look at that. I’m going to look at why it’s not all bad. There are still things to accomplish this year. And there are ways for the Pelicans, even if they don’t make the playoffs or have next year’s pick, that they can salvage this season and even in the future. It’s not as bleak as some people want you to think. But you do you trust management to actually get this team where it needs to go? We got a lot to cover in today’s episode of Locked On Pelicans. Today’s episode of Locked On Pelicans is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase. And of course, thank you for making Lockdown Pelicans your first listen today and every day. We are here Monday through Friday, the number one Pelicans podcast covering everything you want to know about this Pelicans team. Please subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Join us on YouTube as well and on the GF Coast Sports and Entertainment Network and become an everyday means you listen Monday through Friday. You’re going to want to be listening every day going forward because there’s a lot to cover here. So, Willie Green is still the Pelicans head coach speaking to media after practice, letting him run practice. And look, this is a mistake by New Orleans. Everyone knows now later, end of the season, Willie Green will not be the head coach next year. Rip the band-aid off. It’s coming. We all know it’s coming. Everyone knows it’s coming. Everyone inside the building knows it’s coming for New Orleans. This has the vibe from talking to people around the team just has the vibe of like dead man walking. That is what I was told here. People outside the team, media, others see this too. They see this team as a zombie. It’s dead, but it’s still moving forward. Look, you don’t have your pick next year. Tanking doesn’t do you any good and you’re unlikely to make the playoffs at this point, but you have things that you can accomplish this season. But by doing nothing, nothing is going to change. You can see a team that has quit on its head coach. You’re 0 and6 with three losses by 30 plus points. You’re the laughingtock of the league and your move is to not do anything from a head coach that you know you will need to fire. And I’ll explain maybe in a little bit why they’re not doing that just yet. for a reason for why they’re not doing it just yet. But that truthfully doesn’t matter. The right decision needs to be made and the Pelicans are not doing this. They are taking a it’s like a one-way ticket to basketball hell is kind of what they’re doing right now. You’re not going to get different results from this team. We have seen what Willie who Willie Green is as a head coach. We have seen the limitations everything. We know this already. All the reports are like they’re going to debate. They need to consider it more. What more is there to consider? You still have things that you can accomplish this year. Development of Jeremiah Fierce, right? He’s looked good. You want to put him into position to succeed, but the offense looks terrible. He’s going to be your point guard, your lead guard of the future. Let’s put him in positions to succeed. They’re kind of doing that. I’ll give him that one. Derek Queen, who you mortgaged one year of your future for, that’s an important point for later. You need to play him. You didn’t play him at all in the game against OKC when you were down by 30 for mo the mo m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m majority of the game. Did you really think Kavon Looney was going to bring you back? Are you really going to put someone like Derek Queen behind DeAndre Jordan who didn’t even play in that OKC game? We’ll get into that in the third segment because that’s terrible management here. Why not play him at some point? It’s not like anyone else was bringing you back in this game. That’s mismanagement by the head coach here. You know, you have a goal of upping Zion’s trade value, not on an 0 and6 team. If Zion really Williamson looks at this and like, I don’t want to do this anymore, and demands a trade or request a trade, his value drops. So, if you’re looking to trade Zion, you’re potentially creating a ticking time bomb for him asking out. You need to figure out who Trey Murphy is, the number one guy, a number two guy, three, four, whatever it might be. What’s his role? What’s his ceiling as an NBA player? Allstar, not all of that. On a on a offense that looks like garbage, you’re not going to be able to learn from this. You need something to change if you want to accomplish all of those four things that I just said. Not just one, but all four of them need to be accomplished because you need to find some way to get some benefit out of this season. And by keeping head coach Willie Green, you are not going to do that at all. He doesn’t run a ton of plays for Trey Murphy. No, he said I need to do more of that. Look, if you wanted to, it’s the line you all hear like if someone wanted to, they would. This team is showing you a little bit of who they are and it’s not a good look for the franchise. I’ve talked a lot about changing perception. This is a great opportunity to do something of that. We’ll we’ll expand more on that in the next segment here. There are things that you can salvage from this year. I’ve seen everyone say, “This is a lost year. This is a lost year.” Look, they put themselves in a not great position here. Absolutely right. And if that’s the case, you’ve got to do what you can to triage it. There’s only so much you can do in this moment. The obvious one is to make a change at head coach and just see what it does, but they’re not doing even that. What happens here? We said this is inevitable, right? Whether again it’s now, week or two, or at the end of the season where he’s not coming back, right? There’s the idea of ripping the band-aid off. All that, you know, why delay it even more and potentially harm yourself even further. Materialistically, like materialistically, materially, you know, if you make a change at head coach, I don’t expect a ton to really change with this team. It’s good for perception. That’s important, but I don’t think a ton will actually change here. But it can’t hurt to try, I think, with all of that, right? And so maybe that’s why they’re not doing it. But I’ll give you another reason a little bit in the future here. But it does something. Maybe the players wake up and it gives you some answers to these questions because look, we’ve seen this before. At another point, I just completely left with like the anger welling up. Um I’m like sweating under the jacket here. Um for all of this, this isn’t working. You need you need to do something. You need to do something. Because look, if he w that’s this is the point I wanted to make. Then we’ll get into the next segment about maybe why they’re not doing this and some of the optics around it. You know, if you win these games against Charlotte at home tonight and then on the second night of a backto-back against Dallas, you know, both of these games are in theory in theory winnable. You’re not going to fire Willie Green coming off a two-game winning streak, are you? Again, you’re just delaying the inevitable here. And if you want to see material changes, you got to do something. So, it’s coming. Don’t delay it. Don’t let this team be a zombie. Make a change. That I shocking but also not shocking kind of given the situation the franchise is in right now. I want to look at that. Why maybe they’re not making a move and why that’s even worse, but also gets kind of weird. Let’s get into some theories. Not the ones you think. That’s coming up here next in today’s episode of Locked On Pelicans. Today’s episode of Lockdown On Pelicans is brought to you by Game Time. Basketball season is officially here. And nothing beats being in the arena for those opening games. Good team, bad team. It’s fun to watch basketball. But let’s be real, getting tickets can be a real headache. Between waiting to queue, surprise fees, prices that jump right before checkout. 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Actually, you know, up Zion’s trade value, figure out exactly who Trey Murphy is. If you can get those four things done, I think you have accomplished a lot this season in what’s a lost year and you’ve salvaged enough of it and just kind of done what you can. It’s triaging, right? Let’s let’s save as much of the arm that has been like gouged as possible. That’s a terrible analogy. I don’t even know where I was trying to go with that. So, why aren’t they doing this? Why aren’t they firing Willie Green? Because it’s a little bit Everyone knows it’s got to happen. Basically, everyone around the league feels this needs to happen at this point in time because this team does look very broken despite the talent. They should not be this bad. They don’t have to be good, but they shouldn’t be this bad. And it even goes against, you know, what Joe Dumar said, we want to be competitive nightly, and they’re not competitive nightly. They’re failing that through the first six games in pretty awful fashion. There are reasons not to fire Willie Green. So, let’s get into a couple things here. One, it doesn’t it doesn’t change much. You know, it doesn’t change much. I don’t expect, you know, they wasted the off season by not firing Willie Green. Whenever they do this, we’re going to do this big FAQ postmortem on this. This is a mistake, right? You know, if you fire him this early, you’re kind of admitting we shouldn’t have kept him and we wasted the off season. That’s when you install offense. It’s when you install defense scheme and all of that. And by, you know, keeping Willie Green and you put in Berago and maybe Bargo wants to do things differently. You don’t have time to do that anymore. You rarely practice like fullon big practices throughout the season. It doesn’t work like that because of the games basically being played every other day and you need rest and things like that. Your off seasonason is when you do that. So, by keeping Willie Green, you essentially wasted the off seasonason to have things really change on the court in terms of offense andor defense for the New Orleans Pelicans. But the perception also matters. There’s a perception around the team. The open of my show here, the clapping, congratul snarky, but that’s the general feeling of how people are thinking about this franchise right now. This game tonight is not going to be pretty. There might be decent attendance, but it’s going to be booze. It’s not going to be pretty for what’s going to happen to this team. The fans are it feels like a little bit in like open revolt here. That’s not ideal. Like is this what anybody wants? That’s not fun for the players. It’s not fun for me to cover and I’m going to have to. So you have that situation. You need to change that perception. Firing Willie Green would do that whether it’s going to actually change things or not. But here’s how I kind of view it. It’s a binary thing. Either Joe Dumar’s wants to keep Willie Green, and if that’s the case, that’s pretty damning against Joe Dumar’s on top of everything else that he’s done, or Gail wants to Gail Benson, the owner, wants to keep Willie Green and is kind of forcing Joe Dumar to do that. He’s denied this, but let’s roll with it for a second. What’s that say about Joe Dumar and the lack of autonomy he has in his job, the lack of power, the lack of agency he has in his job? if he’s almost willing to be a puppet and do that. Maybe he wants to fire, but he’s like, I want the job more. That doesn’t give me confidence in this front office, in this team to make correct decisions. More on that in the next segment here. But I want to give you a counter to that idea that, you know, if Gail Benson is making Joe Dumar’s keep Willie Green, what’s it say about Joe Dumar? And this was this was some point someone made to me that I think is very very valid. The counter to that is if you’re Joe Dumar, you’re going to go along with keeping Willie Green in that condition. One, it gives them more time to figure things out. You know who your next coach is going to be. They clearly don’t have a problem talking to others about a current job that somebody has. They were very obviously talking to Joe Dumars before they officially fired David Griffin. You can do the same thing when it comes to a head coach, Michael Malone, Taylor Jenkins, or others. We’ll cover them in the future here. You know, it also gives Joe Dumar someone else to blame. He’s made some big mistakes. Big mistakes. You can see it with this roster. Doesn’t look great. But now Joe Numar is going to be like, “No, it’s Willie Green. This wasn’t me.” By making by keeping Willie Green and having more losses pile up. You can scapegoat Willie Green even though he’s got a lot of blame himself. But Joe Dumar can scapegoat him, go to ownership and be like, “Yeah, the reason we’re like this and it’s terrible is that guy, not me. Not that they’re going to fire Joe Dumar’s anytime soon, even if they should be considering it, but it gives him that kind of cover. And when you do fire Willie Green, which will eventually come, it makes Joe Dumar more influential and more powerful. He can go to ownership, Gail Benson, and say, “See, I wanted to fire him. You told me I couldn’t. Now I’m going to, and look at where we are.” It empowers him a little bit more in a sense, you know. This is all an internal power kind of not struggle but game, you know, and it makes ownership, you know, look worse internally. Again, internally and makes Joe Dumar look better. Now, that’s also getting into like some Game of Thrones level thinking and stuff with it. This could also just be incompetence. Really could be just could be this. You know, again, it goes to the perception. I I’m not going to claim that ownership or others are thinking one way or another because I’m not in their heads. I don’t actually know. It’s just a perception of it all. I don’t want to make sweeping generalizations or statements about people’s intents in those sorts of things. But it looks like this team doesn’t It looks like the franchise and the higher up people don’t care. As I said, it’s not going to be pretty in the Smoothie King Center tonight. It’s not going to be pretty in the Smoothie King Center tonight. whatsoever. And that isn’t how this should go. This was supposed to have a season of promise. Vibes in Australia were pretty high and then, you know, reality came crashing in. This is a franchise that needs to absolutely do some self-reflection and it doesn’t appear that they are. Again, I I’m not claiming they don’t know or that they’re not having actual hard conversations behind the scenes, but what more is there to see? What more is there to discuss? What more needs to change or happen for them to make bigger changes here? You need to change the perception around this franchise. I have been saying this basically since the Derek Queen trade, since maybe even before that with the Joe Dumar’s hire. This team has done a very poor job of that. The narrative around them, around all national media, which came up big time on Sunday. And it’s only going to get louder, is not good. If you lose at home to Charlotte, then you lose on the road to the Dallas Mavericks. That’s a possibility, too. Both games are winnable. Both games are easily losable as well. What is that going to look like? Even if you win Charlotte, but lose to Dallas and you start one and seven, what difference is there? If you start two and six, are you going to be like, “Oh, the ship’s rided and okay, let’s give Willie Green a couple more weeks and then no, those wins don’t come and nothing’s actually going to change because again, what’s actually going to change with this team? I I don’t see something coming with the way some of these guys are playing with some of the body language and all of that. They’re healthy for the most part, too, though. Zion Williamson, and this is concerning, is listed on the injury report for this game as questionable with left hamstring soreness. hamstrings and Zion are not something that I want to see together in a statement like ever ever again here. Maybe it’s just they don’t want to play him on back to backs, but again, he supposedly the healthiest he’s been and you don’t want to play him on back to backs. If you’re trying to change the perception, they are not doing a good job of that. So, do they care about the perception is then the question. It’s very obvious what that is. What the perception is? I don’t know whether they care or not. You would hope and that means you do need to take some action here, but it’s only going to get snarkier. It’s only going to get worse. And the fan base is checking out. Once the fan base checks out, they don’t go to games. You’re six games into the year. You’re six games into the year and that’s kind of where we are. That’s not an encouraging sign whatsoever for this season. Now, look, it’s not all bad. I don’t I don’t think it’s as serious long-term as some people want to make it out to be for New Orleans in terms of assets in like the state of the franchise. I’ve seen a couple things written where like this will take years to recover from. I actually don’t think so. And I’m going to tell you why it’s not all bad coming up next. But there is a huge asterisk with that. A big butt, massive butt with it not being all bad. You know what that is? 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I just appreciate you tuning in, listening in whenever it is that you do. And don’t forget, you can also watch us on the GF Coast Sports and Entertainment Network every weekday at 10:30 a.m. So, I we’re talking how it’s bad for New Orleans, right? I just ripped the team in the beginning saying like, “What are you doing here? This is this is dumb, right? They they they need to make a change here. They need to do something. They absolutely need to do and they did the most complacent, lazy, easy thing by not firing head coach Willie Green for whatever reason they decided to make that decision. It’s not as bad as some people want to make it out to be. I’ve seen people being like they’re never going to recover from this. I’ve seen a couple things written with salary cap stuff of like this is the bad situation they’re in. It’s not as bad as you think. For one, the Pelicans, other than this coming draft, own all of their picks going forward. That’s the most important thing is own your own draft picks so that if you are bad in the future, you can take advantage of that. That’s what they’re missing this season. That sucks. That hurts you. That’s why you’ve got to kind of make the most of this year into other ways. But essentially, they they use next year’s pick early. They took a cash advance that comes with interest, right, off their credit card to make their lottery, you know, next year’s lottery pick this year in Derek Queen. Puts a lot of pressure on Queen, you know, but if Queen develops, even if he doesn’t develop as well or is as highly rated of a prospect as one of the guys in this upcoming draft, and he’s not, Zed ends up like a B+ and you could have gotten an A, they’re close enough that like it hurts. And A’s matter more in the NBA than than a B+. And you know, that difference is pretty significant. But at the end of the day, it’s not like one of these crippling crippling things. No matter what the other player turns out to be. So it’s not the end of the world. It’s not like, oh, they’re trying to relocate the franchise and all that. None of that stuff’s happening here, right? It’s just incompetence is truthfully what it is. So you can you can survive this. Sets you back maybe a year, but it’s not something that sets you back six, seven years. You just got your your rookie from next year a little bit early. Okay, that’s fine. I can live with that. You own all your picks going forward. This is a one-year thing. You rip a band-aid off and you move forward. That’s that’s good. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a franchisealtering mistake. Mistake nonetheless, but not necessarily something that basically is like you should contract the Pelicans because they’re never going to be competitive again. I don’t know where that voice came from, but I I’ve kind of seen some of that. So, you’re fine. You’re fine in a sense. in two years you’ll be okay and you can kind of get this team where it needs to go. But let me ask you a question. This is rhetorical. No, it’s not. Answer it. Do you trust the front office to actually get this team where it needs to go? With some of the things they’ve done, with the way they mortgage the future for Derrick Queen, with the lack of awareness they have around this franchise, you know, drafting Derrick Queen, not having Willie Green play him, all of those things look bad. Misalignment there, mismanagement there. You know, you signed DeAndre Jordan to a fully guaranteed deal, basically putting you right up against the luxury tax. How is that going to impact you at the trade deadline? DeAndre Jordan, by the way, didn’t play against OKC. You needed him for a couple of days. You did not need him for the season that when Cavon Looney comes back, he plays above DeAndre Jordan. You also have Carlo Makovich that you want to see what he can do. You have Derek Queen. You You have Eve Mei. You did not need DeAndre Jordan on a three point something fully guaranteed deal. The NBA covers part of that and it doesn’t fully count against the luxury t or the cap, but it’s hurting you. And that’s going to create an opportunity cost where if you try and make a trade, you might need to dump Jordan’s contract and attach future draft capital to it. And it goes back to mismanaging assets, something that this team has already done. Or it’s the opportunity cost of you don’t make a move because of the money that it’s going to, you know, this team shouldn’t go into the luxury tax. You know, even small stuff like keeping Jaden Springer one or two days over basically the NBA cut deadline, the start of the season is is headscratching. Why pay him $70,000 more dollars and put you $70,000 more dollars closer to the luxury tax than you need to be, especially after you didn’t play him at all in preeason? It It’s just weird little things like this. And in a small market where the margins are very tight and thin, you need to actually nail those little things. So, yeah, the Pelican’s future is is truthfully fine. And I don’t think this is one of those things where it’s like, “Oh, you’re never going to recover from it, right?” Um, what’s the Tiger King? I’m never going to financially recover from this. Like, we’re not there with this team. But that’s only if you’re managed well going forward. You know, do you trust them not to trade away future first round picks? Under no circumstances should this team trade away future first round picks. No circumstances. Do do you trust them not to? That’s the concern right now. You know, what they’ve done have given you or should give you no faith in the front office here. The way this process was rushed, the way that they don’t seem to be treating seeing the seriousness of the situation this year, what are their goals? What are they trying to accomplish? If it’s play and develop Derek Queen, you’re not doing that. Is it figuring out who Trey Murphy is? Are you, you know, all of those things? I’m concerned about that. So, while it’s not crippling, the front office can be crippling and that’s kind of the problem. Let me know what you think in the comments down below. That’s going to do it for this episode of Locked On Pelons. We got a game tonight. Let’s see if the Pelons get their first win. We’ll cover it here on the Lockdown Pelicans podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. As always, I’m your host, Jake Madison, Nola Jake on Twitter, and I’ll be back with y’all tomorrow.

New Orleans Pelicans organizational dysfunction reaches crisis levels as the team sits at 0-6 with three losses by 30+ points, yet head coach Willie Green remains employed. Is this incompetence or calculated scapegoating by the front office?

Jake Madison delivers a blistering critique of the Pelicans’ refusal to make a coaching change despite the team appearing to have quit on Willie Green. The discussion examines what the franchise can still salvage this season, including developing rookies Jeremiah Fears and Derik Queen, increasing Zion Williamson’s trade value, and determining Trey Murphy’s ceiling. Madison explores internal power dynamics with executive Joe Dumars, analyzes the growing perception crisis facing the franchise, and explains why the long-term outlook isn’t catastrophic if the front office can be trusted with asset management.

Tune in for an unflinching analysis of how the New Orleans Pelicans are wasting a critical opportunity to reset their season and why delaying the inevitable coaching change only makes everything worse.

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