Zion threads do numbers: Pelicans vs Chicago 8est ESPN (link's in 1st post)

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

He cant dribble doe

Coli got some of the dumbest people.
How can people watch this kid play and think he will be bad
At worst he will be an overrated all star who is also a highlight reel.

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

@Heelhook Change your thread title fam

 

[Regular_P]

Zo refuses to drive even when a big is on him. Gentry and them are going to have to be on him about that if they want him reach his potential.

Zion has a decent dribble drive game. I haven't see him post up and but if he can do that and get his shot together the sky is the limit.

Breh, it isn't gonna happen. He has no internal drive like that. Zo doesn't want to compete like that on the offensive end.

 

[Brozay]

Bulls have so much more depth this season

 

[ISO]

Breh, it isn't gonna happen. He has no internal drive like that. Zo doesn't want to compete like that on the offensive end.

Dude just seems like just goes through the motions out there too fukking cool he really wants to just play in the open floor and mostly catch and shoot in the half court

I’m a Zo fan but shyt is frustrating

 

[Morethan1]

Bulls have so much more depth this season

And we might miss that 8th seed to the Knicks

 

[The G.O.D II]

Man some nights NO is gonna be ugly to watch

 

[Guile]

Breh, it isn't gonna happen. He has no internal drive like that. Zo doesn't want to compete like that on the offensive end.

I saw him drive against bigs in college and in spurts with the Lakers (usually followed by season ending injury). The coaches just need to stay on him.

 

[jwinfield]

And we might miss that 8th seed to the Knicks

 

[The G.O.D II]

And we might miss that 8th seed to the Knicks

The knicks breh? Who’s best player is Julius Randle?

 

[ISO]

And we might miss that 8th seed to the Knicks

We have a lot of depth too literally 13 deep once Reggie Bullock comes back

But I feel like y’all have more talent at the top than us

The bottom of the East will be interesting I think

 

[O.T.I.S.]

He has a post game though.
It's as if people didn't watch Zion play at all.

This shyt is really fukking confusing

like NONE of these dudes watch ANY of his games???

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Randle put up similar if better numbers across the board while only starting 49 games and playing 30 mins a night,

See, this is the problem when you only look at the surface [box score] numbers, and not what's actually taking place on the floor.

Julius spammed easy scoring opportunities off defensive breakdowns and in transition, which hindered the fluidity and functionality of the Pels offense. Any player with size/athleticism can score those sort of points. He did that because he knows he can't score against a set half-court defense. Meanwhile, Zach had to carry the #1 option load, up against the best perimeter defenders, and against set-defenses, on the regular, and he was creating for himself all over the floor - something which Julius is incapable of doing.

Nobody that's actually paying attention would ever suggest that Julius even comes close to LaVine; one is a 2nd/3rd option-type talent and the other is a role player.

won over 10 more games in a tougher conference despite his team basically being forced to forfeit at all-star break due to AD

Why are you speaking as if Julius was leading the team, and also wasn't surrounded by far superior players? I mean, really, what's the point of throwing this generic shyt at the wall in hopes that it sticks when you know damn well that Julius was far from a centerpiece that had the Pels winning 10 more games?

Julius would've been glued to the bench if Mirotic didn't go down injured.

Like at some point the "smoothness", hops and scoring has to translate to something more than 20 wins a season. Zach still hasn't elevated any team to anything more than that

Well, for starters, one man can only do so much (look at LeBron and the Lakers last season), and the Bulls dealt with a number of injuries, player-turnover, and a general lack of talent, where only the elite players would've elevated the team above where they performed last season. To use it as a reference point as if you swapped LaVine for Julius and he would've elevated them is some dishonest bullshyt.

These are the #s of the Bulls players that played 60+ games last season:

LaVine: 23 ppg
Felicio: 6 ppg
Harrison: 6 ppg
Lopez: 9 ppg
Arcidiacono: 6 ppg

Put LaVine on the Pels instead of Julius last season, and they would've had a far greater chance of making the playoffs.

 

[10bandz]

I saw him drive against bigs in college and in spurts with the Lakers (usually followed by season ending injury). The coaches just need to stay on him.

Zo struggles with consistency.....all the shyt people want him to do, he CAN do it....he just can't find consistency smh. Hopefully he's just rusty still

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

It's a shame Zion ended up in NO.
He would have set the garden on fire
Those dunks w/ the crowd's energy feeding him
There's still a chance he can have a reunion w/ his buddy Barrett in a couple of years
If Barrett turns out to be good, that could be the next great future duo.