Now the joooooy of my woooorld is in ZIIIIION — thread for Zion Williamson

big baby new year won't you bring me a thunderous dunk

Zion testing that knee with some alley-oops 👀 pic.twitter.com/cB9qD2tRpg

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 4, 2020

Now we’re talking

my friend and i bought tickets to boston/new orleans (next saturday) a while ago gambling that he'd be back....think we're just going to miss it : (

drop step between the legs its time baby

Zion appears to be progressing well enough to go between the legs and slam at MSG in warmups (h/t @darrenelwood) pic.twitter.com/SA2BAGcEPi

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) January 10, 2020

Good god man

dammit zion, why don't you just play tomorrow for my personal benefit

help a board out

jesus let the man play!

this was a good read
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28485732/zion-williamson-preparation-preservation-no-precedent

yeah good stuff, i love all that technical athletic form how the body is aligned and so forth

me too

Specialists at P3 and elsewhere note that it's easier to repair such issues in younger players than older ones. One veteran Western Conference scout says recent reports for prospects have often included the phrase "tight hips."

"At first, I would kind of laugh at it," the scout says. "But now I notice it more and more often, especially when they move laterally while defending. A lot of these guys can't get low to the ground."

Ok so are there any theories as to why young guys today have this issue?

mb due to more sitting around, p well documented that kids spend more time indoors these days

kids need to get outside and play some damned four square

maybe not getting the calcium from hose water or the vitamin D from the streetlights

facts

my parents still live in mid class suburban home I grew up in and man there's nooooobody ever playing outside. Was staying there few months ago and heard children's voices but that was from the grade school's recess ie the time they're forced to play outside

hello to basketballs favored son

Pregame Zion action. pic.twitter.com/v0Ld6554gc

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) January 20, 2020

That was so much fun.

👀Impressive numbers for #Zion's debut on ESPN (Fast Nationals from Nielsen):

📺2,357,000 viewers. Peaked w/2,777,000.

⬆️Viewership up 88% vs last year's comparable game.

🏀1.6 US rating, matching ESPN's highest-rated NBA game this season (Non-XMas). Up 100% year over year. pic.twitter.com/9ZSbz6zGQv

— Ben Cafardo (@Ben_ESPN) January 23, 2020

the savior

the NBA’s freak out over ratings this year is so obviously dumb

I think a much bigger worry is cable companies refusing to pay for RSNs

lol its literally the only reason i tolerate paying for cable tv

Altitude TV still hasn’t resolved their fight with Comcast and I think a couple midwestern RSNs have died

might f around and post every zion game highlight vid until further notice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox9DxNyStxw

he grabs an alleyoop from behind the backboard and switches to his other hand and makes it somehow

duke steals it @ unc in ot after trailing like the entire game

also i was watching the end of ark/missou & the announcersaid somethinglike "i need to apologize for the deeply offensive statement i made earlier abt college gymnastics" ? lmao what did dude say

whoops meant this for the cbb thread obv

Zion did some stuff 31-9-5-1. 14 fta

+25

What's highest fg% for a rookie averaging 15+ ppg? Shaq? Wilt?

I can answer that question, Granny.
Deandre Ayton! 58.5%
Buck Williams 58.2
Zion 57.4
Shaq 56.2
Chris Webber 55.2

In his rookie season in the ABA, Artis Gilmore averaged 24 ppg on 59.8%

1st I remember being aware of Artis was in Guiness Book for highest career FG%

Artis had the misfortune of being Kareem's exact contemporary, so he was always overshadowed.

Deandre Jordan gonna smash that record

Isn’t gobert even better

nah .670 vs .638

zion posting in transition

Zion Williamson is here to save the Pelicans, and along the way, he just might save the low-post game, too. https://t.co/4rLrZo0cgI pic.twitter.com/1qZarE73yn

— Rob Mahoney (@RobMahoney) February 13, 2020

Cool. Has he been coached to do that or is it hoops instinct?

the article credits coaching but theres not any proof of it in there quotes or whatever

the one time my ex-D2 hooper friend wanted to make a point that I had no chance of guarding him if he played at >75% of his capabilities, he'd just sprint down court, get in the key, seal me off, and I was as helpless as a newborn

I miss PGs who would back down into the post, a la Magic. I guess Giannis does that fairly often huh.

westbrook does it a little. chauncey was good at it iirc

oh yep Russ. Chauncey was who came to mind as one of the last to do it. Andre Miller too.

gonna just keep upping his career high til he drops 100 hopefully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv53nav7Eao

He's even less comprehensible in person.
https://i.imgur.com/yQIli9nr.jpg