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
Is our sweet boy really back? I remain skeptical
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 02:33 (six months ago) link
dont want to jinx anything but he seems back
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 02:34 (six months ago) link
when i saw that video earlier i truly had to double check the date
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 03:03 (six months ago) link
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Wednesday, February 21, 2024 9:16 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
eyes emoji
pic.twitter.com/H8D92RNPTK— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) April 8, 2024
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Monday, 8 April 2024 05:17 (five months ago) link
So proud of him.
― Jeff, Monday, 8 April 2024 10:27 (five months ago) link
Crazy but true: Last night was Zion’s first time making multiple 2-point jumpers outside 10 feet in the same game, per Second Spectrum tracking data.It’s a shot he works on in practice all the time. Using it more in games will help when teams pack the paint against Pels’ O. pic.twitter.com/c3LmQjfoum— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) April 8, 2024
― Jeff, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:09 (five months ago) link
he went off last night mega clutch performance for our guy
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:11 (five months ago) link
both those jumpers theres four defenders in the paint my lord
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:12 (five months ago) link