New Orleans Pelicans: 3 reasons this frustrating season was a success
The New Orleans Pelicans just completed an up and down season that left many fans feeling frustrated.
This is largely because the expectations for this young team were set way too high considering their experience and the fact that they had a new coach with very little offseason to prepare.
There were definitely some things that didn’t go well. The Eric Bledsoe experiment was a bit of a dud, though he did lead the team in minutes, something most fans wish wasn’t true.
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We still have no idea what is going to happen with Lonzo Ball, whose inconsistency this season was really the hallmark of the team as a whole.
Much like Lonzo himself, the Pelicans would look spectacular one night only to look like a lottery team the next, which is what you would expect from a team whose best player is 20-years-old.
There were some bumps and challenges but this season was a success in several ways.
New Orleans Pelicans: Brandon Ingram’s quiet consistency
The Pelicans had a lot of drama this season, most of it centering around Zion Williamson and Lonzo Ball, which made some people forget about Ingram.
There is a small but extremely vocal group of “fans” on Twitter who think Ingram is the reason the Pelicans weren’t good this season, but there isn’t much evidence to support that tinfoil hat theory.
Ingram is not the greatest defender in the world, something the Pelicans are going to have to deal with, but he is an elite scoring option, who showed his consistency this season.
Ingram improved or stayed the same in every offensive category except for slight dips in rebounding and 3-point percentage.
He once again averaged 23.8 points per game and his season was largely overlooked with all of the hype around Zion.
It’s easy to forget that Ingram is just 23-years-old and is already a 24 point per game scorer in this league who is going to get better.
He might not have gotten much attention, but Ingram’s consistency was one of the big success stories of the season.