New Orleans Pelicans rookies are showing mixed bag through 7 games

The New Orleans Pelicans have struggled out of the gate, but their rookies have shown some promise despite mild frustration with early returns.

Out of the gate, the New Orleans Pelicans haven’t been able to find their stride as a whole. Much of this season would hinge on how the team’s young players performed.

The team added four new faces to the organization on draft night, including three picks in the first round and two selections inside the top ten. Granted, the team better get used to making a helping of draft picks each year, as they own 16 draft picks over the next four seasons.

Zion Williamson, the most anticipated rookie of the last eight years, still hasn’t made his first trot onto the floor for the Pelicans, though the team’s other two first-rounders have each played a small share of minutes out of the gate.

Eventually, they’ll get Zion back on the floor, which hasn’t held other rookies on the team from showing some strides. It’ll be great for the organization to reveal the star to fans, while also making the stumbling team a little stronger headed into the latter two-thirds of the season.

Truly, it’s been the young players on this team looking the most impressive out of the gate.

The team needs more out of their veterans, but in the meantime, their young players are doing a lot to help carry this team through their surprisingly underwhelming team effort to begin the 2019-2020 season, something that isn’t ideal through seven games.

However, when VP of Basketball Operations David Griffin changed this roster to the tune of 12-of-18 new faces entering training camp, there was always going to need to be adjustments in the team’s chemistry to make their wheels roll.

While some rookies have shown more than others across the league, the Pelicans have to feel at least somewhat good about the general performance from the young bunch.