haha yeah he uhhh has a lot going on in his personal life
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 June 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
this is so funny
― k3vin k., Thursday, 8 June 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
if I were preternaturally athletic and very rich I would definitely be a locker room cancer but I’d be taking the zion/harden approach rather than the ja one
― k3vin k., Thursday, 8 June 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
theres really no reason not to
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 June 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
the tweets about how she was motivating him to stay in shape are in perfect balance on the lol/sad axis
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 8 June 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
lmao
― Spottie, Thursday, 8 June 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
Guns and Buns: A South Carolina Addiction Story pic.twitter.com/bjQBidVwci— Hoops (@HoopMixOnly) June 7, 2023
― k3vin k., Friday, 9 June 2023 12:22 (one year ago) link
as always, I recommend the bomani jones podcast from today
― k3vin k., Friday, 9 June 2023 12:30 (one year ago) link
Our special boy
that was certainly a sequence. pic.twitter.com/BVojkQtjke— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 26, 2023
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Thursday, 26 October 2023 06:44 (eleven months ago) link
He did have some trouble with JJJ, but OK for opening night. Funny 23/7/3 on 9/17 is a mediocre night for him. Matt Ryan saved the day.
― Jeff, Thursday, 26 October 2023 10:43 (eleven months ago) link
maybe the Wemby stuff will light a fire under him. can't feel good to lose the title of "everyone's favorite big boy"
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:56 (eleven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9VCfb0XAAApxFO?format=jpg&name=medium
― Jeff, Thursday, 26 October 2023 14:14 (eleven months ago) link
our boy does not seem to have the right mindset for nba greatness.
Zion Williamson doesn't look too happy: "I'm trying my best to buy in right now." pic.twitter.com/uyzuDRAe8M— HoopsHype (@hoopshype) November 13, 2023
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 13 November 2023 23:12 (ten months ago) link
probably not but he’s also playing for a franchise that seems hell bent on never putting the right team around its no 1 overall picks
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 November 2023 23:13 (ten months ago) link
wonder what hes mad about ive watched some pelicans this year and when he was in they were running a very zion based offense
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 November 2023 23:34 (ten months ago) link
hes getting just as many shots as last year but hitting them at 50% instead of 60
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 November 2023 23:41 (ten months ago) link
he and BI dont seem like a good fit.
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 13 November 2023 23:44 (ten months ago) link
idk bi is a pretty all purpose kind of player
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 November 2023 23:49 (ten months ago) link
why's he breathing like that when he's just sitting there
― Clay, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:25 (ten months ago) link
hes mad!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:26 (ten months ago) link
idk i had serious lung problems for years and that trips my "dude see a pulmonologist" wires but when you're a hammer etc
― Clay, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:28 (ten months ago) link
one would think with all the medical professionals looking at that guy all the time theyd catch anything major but also maybe not
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:36 (ten months ago) link
i think hes a lost cause. 23 and already on the decline in every way
Pelicans "have repeatedly stressed to [Zion] Williamson that his diet and conditioning need to improve," but the former No. 1 pick "doesn't listen," per @cclark_13 of The Times-Picayune pic.twitter.com/sl4logTLz4— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 8, 2023
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 8 December 2023 20:25 (nine months ago) link
weird shit
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 December 2023 21:09 (nine months ago) link
he looks idk about ~75 lbs heavier than his duke days
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 8 December 2023 21:12 (nine months ago) link
the dawg in him got overfed
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 8 December 2023 21:14 (nine months ago) link
Watching Zion in person was a different experience than watching Haliburton. Zion will get 30 in a game next week and people will say he’s fine but he isn’t. The bet that he’ll figure it out seems like the wrong side now. Tonight was brutal.— Russillo (@ryenarussillo) December 8, 2023
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Friday, 8 December 2023 21:57 (nine months ago) link
many clips of him during the game standing around or just barely moving
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 8 December 2023 22:14 (nine months ago) link
there is also the quote from after the game where he said he was “too laid back” or something
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 December 2023 23:52 (nine months ago) link
saw a thing that said zion is back, guess he played himself into shape
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 02:13 (seven months ago) link
Eye test says that’s not true
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 02:27 (seven months ago) link
yeah still doesnt seem like he has that old pop but he is playing well, pelicans are running the point zion offense again which might have something to do with it, because thats a good offense
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 02:29 (seven months ago) link
Still waiting for him to become an elite defensive player. When does that happen?
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 03:39 (seven months ago) link
i dont think that was ever the plan
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 03:54 (seven months ago) link
I went looking for receipts and found an opinion of mine so wrong I'm shook.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:33 (seven months ago) link
link?
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:35 (seven months ago) link
i think he was expected to make insane wow splash plays on defense, blocks where he comes from out of nowhere and skies above the backboard and shit. which he did regularly at duke and has not done basically at all in the NBA. but i’m not sure ppl saw him as like a potential elite lockdown defender tho i could be misremembering
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 February 2024 01:10 (seven months ago) link
i'm sure there was some wishful thinking about his defense at the time given his ceiling as an athlete, but his body type is not one of a plus defender
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 February 2024 02:05 (seven months ago) link
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, February 21, 2024 7:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 21, 2024 7:35 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I might have said Simmons > Embiid. Dark times.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 22 February 2024 02:25 (seven months ago) link
(hundreds of thousands of years hence, faint tremors of PBKR's opinion arrive at an advanced civilization on a far off planet sparking a global wave of madness, riots, and rapid social disintegration)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 22 February 2024 02:30 (seven months ago) link
lol oh no
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 02:42 (seven months ago) link
when keeping receipts goes wrong
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:02 (seven months ago) link
in another era (and with another mentality) could have imagined zion scraping being an impact defender in the model of say charles oakley. bruiser making the paint inhospitable. but pretty clearly neither he nor nba basketball are wired that way anymore
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:08 (seven months ago) link
his block and steals rates were through the roof in college, didnt really take much interest in all that in the pros tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:17 (seven months ago) link
Yeah pretty sure people thought he’d be a menace as a help defender
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Thursday, 22 February 2024 04:16 (seven months ago) link
i saw a full zion game last night --
i thought he looked slimmed down and pretty athletic. there were 2 or 3 times where he just jumped much higher than anyone else on the floor -- one for a block that was ruled a goaltend, another on a rebound. i think the thing is you just don't feel that athleticism throughout the game the way that you did w/ idk vintage blake griffin or something. and if you watch the duke highlights that's the kinda thing you start to picture. but he still has a lot of quickness and leaping ability relatively speaking. he got iso'd on jimmy a few times and was pretty easily able to use quickness off the dribble to get to his spot and then his elevation to just sky up and over for the shot. he had more trouble w/ bam tho who can slide his feet and jump w/ zion. the interesting thing is that for as good as he is in the paint he doesn't really dunk the ball -- he's outside the top 30 in the league in total dunks. you see him use the rapidness of his leaping ability to get floaters and other sorta hook shot, post move-y type looks in the paint.
the pels were also w/o ingram and mccollum got hurt in the second half -- the pels played the last like 6-8 mins of the game w/ zion out there w/ herb jones, trey murphy, jordan hawkins & nance, which is a sensible line up on paper: zion + a big + wing role players. but the pelicans literally could not score, i think they scored like 4 points in that stretch before garbage time. the heat were throwing zone at them and have been playing great defense lately in general, idk if those 5 guys have ever played together so i don't want to overstate it, but i do think point zion prob has a lot of strides to make w/ the actual "point" part
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 24 February 2024 17:24 (seven months ago) link
Yah the thing w Zion is he could be the most violent player in the league but he’s really a finesse player at his core
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Saturday, 24 February 2024 20:07 (seven months ago) link
That Naji steal and alley 🤌 pic.twitter.com/MVrasSnAoZ— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) March 20, 2024
― Jeff, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 02:06 (six months ago) link
zion is back baby
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 02:08 (six months ago) link
why does whichever zeller that is look like a newborn baby
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 02:10 (six months ago) link