Justin Verrier

Like, they have been gifted...

From the lottery gods to generational prospects in Zion Williamson and Anthony Davis, clearly flaws there, like personality type.

Zion is on a whole nother like different plane of existence most of the time.

But like you probably should have come up with more competitive basketball that they've gotten from those guys.

Uh, and so I don't know.

I kind of think like in a weird way, they're a prime example of why we should like really hold tanking teams to the fire because like you should actually have to do things that contribute to winning.

You can't, you can't just like keep losing and losing and doing things again.

Like you should be motivated by your own malfeasance basically.

I think the unfortunate part of the Pelican season is that if you look at it in totality, they've had like a lot of like really nice stories happening in the midst of the season.

DeJounte Murray, as you mentioned, most players might not have come back.

There's really nothing to play for by the time he did.

He's just showing up and just playing reasonably well.

And I think that's an important thing, especially considering he has a long way to go to get back to the player.

Sadiq Bey, all of a sudden, just a good competitive player.

He's also dealt with injuries all of a sudden pop this year.

Great little story.

Trey Murphy, probably the best season of his career.

Zion, healthy, playing regularly and playing defense.

Awesome.

The Zion sizzle reel that has really just jumped out to me are all the defensive plays that he's been making of late.