Fans of the New Orleans Pelicans have no shortage of legitimate gripes this season. They are often lost, however, in the seemingly endless supply of illegitimate ones, poor support for legitimate gripes, and just incessant, poorly-directed ax-grinding for whatever justifiable personal reasons people have. Picking apart a play or two in each game, focusing on this run or that run or this player or that player, second-guessing strategic and tactical decisions all have a place, but this can sometimes lead to a forest-trees kind of problem, or perhaps the swirl of disentangling cause-effect and correlation, or even a category mistake.
Which Way Is Up?
