Steven Adams brings rim protection to the New Orleans Pelicans (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
The New Orleans Pelicans’ defense should be improved this season.
The New Orleans Pelicans went into the offseason with the goal of improving their defense, which was in the bottom half of the NBA last season.
However, they traded away their best defender, Jrue Holiday and let their best interior defender Derrick Favors walk in free agency, so how exactly are the Pelicans going to be better?
It’s first important to know just how the Pelicans were bad.