Nicolo Melli #20 and Jaxson Hayes #10 of the New Orleans Pelicans d (Photo by Ashley Landis - Pool/Getty Images)
The New Orleans Pelicans have not gotten off to the start they wanted and everyone from Lonzo Ball to Stan Van Gundy to Eric Bledsoe has been blamed.
The truth is that the Pels’ problems all revolve around one thing and it was easy to predict.
Two months ago I wrote about the Pel’s three biggest needs after the draft and free agency were finished. I named “wing depth,” “shooting” and “a playmaker off the bench” as the Pels’ three biggest needs.