Pelicans’ Problem Isn’t Joe Dumars – It’s Ownership’s Shortsighted Approach (Shamit Dua via substack)
April 16, 2025
Shamit’s latest piece is a bange
9 comments
*banger lol
This is absolutely what the fans and media message should be. Business as usual is unacceptable. I encourage all the season ticket holders left to cancel and explain exactly why.
Id say it’s both. Problems don’t have to be one or the other. Usually one problem leads to another.
Also can we take a moment to appreciate the nugget of info that Shamit gave us where Griffin tried to fire Willie earlier this season and that was part of what lead to him being dismissed. Just. FFS.
Tough to defend 2 playoff wins in 7 years. It was never the lack of talent. It was always ownership, management and the poor decisions that resulted from them. They could have won 60 games last year and still faltered in the first round. The team needs to be sold. Best case scenario is we get competent people and have a Washington Commanders level revival. Remember, they were stuck in mediocrity for literally decades until they cleaned house last year.
People here finally ready to accept Shamit knows what he’s talking about or are you still in denial?
> But Green, like Allen before him, is beloved by ownership.
I’m a bit confused. Wasn’t the story on Allen the Mrs. Benson overruled Loomis and decided to fire him? If he was that “beloved” why is he gone?
Edit: And then he seems to imply that they don’t want to eat a year of Green’s contract even though they ate 4 years of Van Gundy’s???
The Dumars hire is a symptom of that larger problem.
9 comments
*banger lol
This is absolutely what the fans and media message should be. Business as usual is unacceptable. I encourage all the season ticket holders left to cancel and explain exactly why.
Id say it’s both. Problems don’t have to be one or the other. Usually one problem leads to another.
Also can we take a moment to appreciate the nugget of info that Shamit gave us where Griffin tried to fire Willie earlier this season and that was part of what lead to him being dismissed. Just. FFS.
Tough to defend 2 playoff wins in 7 years. It was never the lack of talent. It was always ownership, management and the poor decisions that resulted from them. They could have won 60 games last year and still faltered in the first round. The team needs to be sold. Best case scenario is we get competent people and have a Washington Commanders level revival. Remember, they were stuck in mediocrity for literally decades until they cleaned house last year.
People here finally ready to accept Shamit knows what he’s talking about or are you still in denial?
> But Green, like Allen before him, is beloved by ownership.
I’m a bit confused. Wasn’t the story on Allen the Mrs. Benson overruled Loomis and decided to fire him? If he was that “beloved” why is he gone?
Edit: And then he seems to imply that they don’t want to eat a year of Green’s contract even though they ate 4 years of Van Gundy’s???
The Dumars hire is a symptom of that larger problem.
Thank You, Captain Obvious! 🙏🏼