If a team misses the playoffs 3 out of 4 seasons, gets a good trade package in return and there's regression and barely any upward trajectory where is the direction of the franchise. Yall said it's levels earlier at this point yall in between basement and treadmill team. I expected too much from a team that never got past the 2nd round in their history so you're right. It's not meant for you to understand lls
That eastern conference arrogance got you really spicy right now fam lol
You talking apples to oranges right now and don't realize it but again, you seem to think that shit supposed to happen overnight and it don't work like that without a ton of shit happening right and in most cases, a Titanic sized exception and luck play into that which may result in overachieving and not give you a real sense of where you are as a franchise. OKC with Harden, Durant and Westbrook thought they were going to contend for years to come, until they didn't reach the finals after that again. Harden gets traded, OKC makes a few playoff runs then KD bolts, then Russ is traded.
You look at a team like Phoenix and it took Chris Paul to get them over the hump but how many CP3s are there in the league?
So again, after let's just say one full season of Zion between the games he played his actual rookie year and this season, one full-ish season of him and BI playing together, how do you come to the conclusion you do?
You act like they both are where AD was when he requested a trade and it's not fair to them. Don't compare Griffin to the Demps era. You brought up the Demps era for having rosters that made the playoffs but niggas was bashing those teams too. You can't have it both ways.
So it's not title or bust for this iteration of the Pelicans contrary to what you might think their trajectory is or what you think it should be at this point in the rebuild.