New Orleans will reduce the number of defensive calls from approximately fifteen to three.
Throughout Media Day, one of the common themes that developed was the players all mentioned how happy they were about the installation of new defensive concepts due to simplified schemes. So much so, many Pelicans, from Anthony Davis to Dante Cunningham, went on record stating their team defense will rank somewhere in the top 10 of the NBA.
Today, we learned the details of the defensive simplification and it's a rather precipitous drop in the number of difference schemes.