Last pod of the week we're gonna get to another one of Danny's battle plans is that that's what you call him for the

The South West division this time. Yeah, I've called them that I am open to suggestions

Also, I don't think it's important enough to necessarily have a name

But that's the one we're using and the the Southwest is a I kind of chose that division because there's some some really

compelling teams not necessarily in terms of identifying the core

But in terms of classifying and all that and I think a good place to start there is the New Orleans Pelicans

The Pelicans did though they entered the highest 28 and 36 there were certainly lots of reasons for optimism

Including Brandon Ingram his improvement throughout the season and Zine Williamson's late debut

But I would say relatively impressive debut

So the first question we like to do with these is who isn't who should be their core?

I think the only two that you can say for sure at this point is Ingram and Zine

Yeah, I would agree with that and I would say Zine is more firmly a part of it than Ingram in the launch

I mean, I fully expecting Ingram to be resigned and or matched

I mean just he'll be he'll be on the Pelicans next year

But if if there is you know, let's say a poor fit like the kind of like something we've thought about at times with

And beaten Simmons it feels pretty clear to me at least at this point that Ingram would be the one to go

Yeah, it's it seems that way and with the way those two players have defended so far in their careers

It does seem to make it difficult to come up with a really good defense

But they did when they had favors out there

They're able to defend at a reasonable rate and so I don't know if that's to be fatal and those two will hopefully both

They get better. They're both very young and you have the problem too where yet Ingram not perfect defensively

But I mean he is still essentially the only guy who's small forward size with any athleticism whatsoever that they've had on the

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