Many fans started this season with extraordinarily high hopes for the Pelicans. I even personally wrote an entire column that was dedicated to how grateful the fan base was to have a "good" team to root for. After 53 games, in which the Pelicans managed to go a measly 20-33, it has become clear that whatever hopes fams had of the Pelicans "taking flight" has been thoroughly grounded by the harshness of reality.
There was one person, however, who has never believed in this team and had the audacity to tell us long before the season started, "Hope is not a plan.