Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: the New Orleans Pelicans don’t have enough perimeter shooting. If that sounds familiar to Crescent City basketball fans, that’s probably because it’s been a popular national preseason opinion about their favorite team – for two consecutive years. Entering the 2019-20 season – despite the addition of free agent JJ Redick – it was often speculated in previews and podcasts that a lack of overall three-point prowess would greatly hamper New Orleans. For a variety of reasons, including career-best shooting seasons by starters Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball, that proved not to be the case.
Pelicans expect to have ‘plenty of shooting’ after impressive 2019-20 from three-point arc
