FIRE GREEN: New Orleans Pelicans Must ACT Now—Why Willie Green’s Job Is on the Line After Blowout
New Orleans Pelicans’ woes hit a breaking point as frustrations boil over following another blowout loss to the Phoenix Suns. With the team plummeting to 2-8 and defensive performance hitting rock bottom, Jake Madison demands accountability—insisting the time to fire head coach Willie Green is now. Has the locker room quit on its leader? Are front-office decisions further deepening this crisis?
Key topics include the abysmal defense that let Grayson Allen torch the Pelicans for 42 points, Zion Williamson’s lingering injury woes, and signs of life from rookies like DerIk Queen and Jeremiah Fears—even as they struggle. Jake Madison also questions Joe Dumars’ leadership and ownership’s willingness to make tough calls to reignite fan interest. Can a coaching change—or renewed fight from Trey Murphy III and the young core—steer New Orleans back on course?
0:00 — Pelicans Blowout & Coaching Crisis
11:40 — Defensive Struggles & Coaching Analysis
22:00 — Rookie Performances & Future Outlook
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49 Comments
People who attend the games DO NOT VOTE WITH THEIR WALLET!!!!!!!!!
Gayle not Joe stale gayle
Reality bites.
Starting loon over queen is when I'm done u gonna lose anyway
Rookies are gangsters the vets/coach are wankers
Willie said we got punched in the mouth we are soft but your the coach they flow your lead dummy
Fire Willie Green Now. Its insane
If your best player is trey Murphy u won't win much
Yves missi DNP???
As soon as they won those 2 games, I knew they'd use that as an excuse to not fire Willie
How MANY MORE GAMES DOES WILLIE LOSE AND STILL HAVE A JOB!!! WOW I WANNA WORK FOR BENSON & LOOMIS THEY ARE NICE PEOPLE LOL
He should have been gone after that Brooklyn loss last year. It’s way overdue. I’m a broken record at this point but truly the team takes on the personality of the best player and head coach. If you look at the two guys who have been the defacto faces of this team, it makes plenty of sense why the attitude and culture of this team are the way they are
MOLOTOVS, FAULTY WIRING, SMOKING, CANDLES, OXYGEN-HEAT, CHEMICAL REACTION, ARSON — Pels need a "FIRE"
Everydayer
I have a sound suggestion,
If the MANAGEMENT does not want to fire Willie, BUT is seeing this and cares about winning, the city, the fans,
Make him announce that he is sick for a string of games, let SOMEONE ELSE COACH the team and see if there's CHANGE!!
-Simulate it, Pels!!
Attending fans need to protest, this is ridiculous! There are so many other better coaches out there…Thibs, Mike B, and the list goes on! Get it done now, Jake is 💯. 🏀🇬🇧
We jus the need the LEADER of this team back on the floor which is Dejounte Murray
just protest the games until they fire willie this is insulting
Yeah, I think I'm done with Willie Green. It's clear he didn't learn from the OKC sweep. I get the inclination to chalk last year up to injuries, but the strategtic shortcoming of not prioriitizing perimeter defense to start games is something even fans can see.
It's funny how increasingly depressed you look as the season goes on.
Many since he been the coach he been without his starters year after year. This year missing 4 starters. Chill with the rage bait like another coach will do a better job with what they have at the moment
This man was playing Zone all night against shooters… and in the interview said he felt Zone defense gave us a boost… 🤨 even the commentators during the game said if they were a shooter against zone they’d be salivating… Willie has to go… he really doesn’t know what he’s doing… worst coach in the NBA for sure
Straight up terrorist organization
stop it. it’s not willie greens fault his star player is NEVER available
Jake means more to NOLA than Willie, Joe and most of the organisation. Do it for him, Pels. Do what's right.
Every dayer comment
I stopped watching before halftime, same story 9 times out of 10. Didn't help i had the suns broadcast 😂
Trade Trey, Herb and Zion. Pels are wasting these guy's careers. I would love to see these with a competent coach and organization.
Not fun to watch. I stopped watching before the half. This happening way too often. Need a spark, a reason to watch. Hard to see a respected coach come into this mess at this point of the year.
It seems like the pelicans rookies have higher IQs than the veterans. They look so dumb sometimes and lost on the court
I thought once the Pelicans are 3-9…Billie Green would be fired. Now, it's starting to look like once this team is eliminated from play in contention…Willie" Play-in" Green will be fired.
Hey Jake. Great video. I have one quick question. I saw a discussion from a bunch of people that the Pelicans weren’t doing a promotional calendar, and they stopped doing the watch parties. Is this a sign the pelicans will leave New Orleans once the 2029 lease expires?
Hi Jake
I told y'all that Willie green should have been fired. Maybe in the second game that he coached when you keep doing the same thing, getting the same results and thinking it's gonna work. We know what that's called. It seems like every coach that the Pelicans get don't have sense enough to know when to call a timeout. We let teams go on long runs on us before we call a timeout. Then, we gotta fight so hard to come back. It's been happening over and over. We go on the run, then we gotta coach stupid enough to call timeout for the other team.😢😢
My fellow small market fans, I feel for yall. Magic fans have had their pitchforks out for Coach Mose this season due to missed expectations and just now temporarily set them down after last nights game winner from Bane. Pels have good young talent, hang in there !!
Just change the channel name to locked on fire Willie green. We are a joke of a franchise
It doesn’t matter what coach you get the result will be the same. And by the way Zion is missing games already!
Every dayer
I went to bed in the 2nd quarter
bruh same offensive sets,same defensive struggles wide open shooters, No adjustments on booker or allen
I said to fire Willie Green 2 years ago. He is like PEnn State Football, BEST at being th eworst. Just terrible. HE takes Zion out of the game 1st. Show me a street ball gaem, High school, College, Pro where best player comes out of a bball game 1st………………………………………………………………………………………….ONLY WIllie Green and ZION
I still think they are fun to watch specially dq but god damn we need some wins 😂
I watched that whole thing. I wish I could be one of those fans to jump from team to team. I’m stuck with this team and I’m just so tired, tired of having good players but the team sucks, so the players leave and let’s try another rebuild. Then eventually it fails and back we go again. Loved the 07/08 season and 17/18 season. I guess we have a good team every 10 years
Hire Mark Jackson
Firing Willie is definitely step one. The problem is, you can't really take step two, because everyone's trade value is low, and we don't have our own pick. It's pretty clear we need to blow this up. Zion is not ever gonna be available on a regular basis, and this roster construction doesn't make sense without him. Doing that this year is not a good idea, cause no team that wants him is gonna have a better pick in the draft than us. Also, Zion's contract is terrible for a guy who should be a roleplayer. His skill set is not broad enough to build a contending team around (he is like a Giannis with no defensive upside and less length, and a worse shot), but we're stuck paying him superstar money. I think the reality is we're just gonna be bad with no hope for at least this and next year and if the organization finally comes to their senses, they will have a fire sale for picks and upside after the draft this year. Until then I'll just watch OKC and actually enjoy watching people play basketball well.
Willie is NOT the problem!
I was on here before the shows went to video I believe. At least 5 years 🤣🤣
What you're likely missing, him playing the rookies is likely his excuse as to why we are losing. Dumar likely made that deal
Zion is the problem. The Pelicans should have gotten value from him. Stupidity is why the Saints and Pelicans are hot garbage.