With wide-ranging expectations entering the 2017-18 season, all things indicate the New Orleans Pelicans are probably about what they will be, when this season reaches its conclusion.
Perhaps of all the voices here at The Bird Writes, this one has waxed the most negative, or realistic, depending upon your take on my logic over the acquisition of DeMarcus Cousins and new era of Pelican basketball.
Never have I sounded an alarm that New Orleans was on the verge of contention. Rather, since the beginning, it has come with a foreboding warning that the Pelicans may have stacked the deck at two positions, but have done little else to secure much more than a mediocre outcome to the 2017-18 season.