Zion Williamson Bust Watch

[ALonelyDad]

Blame the pelicans organization for holding him out for so long

Did you see him in the bubble? He was not ready to play. They did him a favor

 

[Lakerman0834]

Did you see him in the bubble? He was not ready to play. They did him a favor

tbh he still doesnt look ready

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

This proves to me you don't know a cotdamn thing about hoops, and are once again, incapable of seeing the bigger picture.

The proper adjustments?

The only proper adjustments he can make is getting a muh'fukken jumpshot. Scoring his points entirely inside the paint at 6"6' ain't it in 2021; it's why he's an opportunistic scorer rather than a legitimate #1. I told you all about this from the very beginning, but you didn't wanna listen....

I'm convinced that you just like seeing yourself type..yes adjustment...he hasn't been stopped inside yet. Teams aren't even forcing him to shoot from the outside, the offensive pacing is trash and they are playing a very slow tempo...

I doubt you even played varsity basketball let alone college...you seem like one of them know it all cats that never made a team outside of rec and playing at the park

 

[Michael's Black Son]

tbh he still doesnt look ready

and on a team where, depending on the night, it seems like no one wants to step up, Zion easily has the chance to do damage quickly in “low“ minutes. But he’s sloppy out there in some of these in the paint situations. Time to get these breh a lil mini mid range shot that he can rely on.

But he will never be close to some type of primary dude, and that’s okay. This team has some decent pieces but no one person who consistently looks like the facilitator. The pressure is on Zo to finally wake up and get it together and for his sake I hope he does.

 

[L&HH]

Not really sure what some of ya'll are getting at in this thread. He's averaging 22 & 8. Shooting 55% from the field and a 21.7 PER. Of course he's got some things to work on and add to his game but he's 10 games into his second season.

 

[Crack Daniels]

NBA culture is to gather around quickly to say someone isn't going to be great.

Basketball discussion is centered around negativity 90% of the time... it’s exhausting.

“Why *insert player here* is actually overrated/trash/washed”
“Why *insert team here* are frauds and should trade everyone”
“The game was so much better in the 90s/00s/10s. Everything sucks now”

A never ending contest to see who can shyt on the sport the best

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Funny cause lebron used to barrel down the lane too when he was younger. That was a big criticism.

bron could dribble tho lol. He also could bring the ball up court. Zion can’t do either without dribbling off his foot

Why would he not take shots in the paint if he can score this many points this efficiently at them??? Would you tell sophmore Shaq to start shooting 3s and mid range jumpers instead of posting up too?? Would you tell Curry to stop shooting 3s and start posting up instead??? Y'all really want professional NBA players to NOT play to their strengths that are enabling them to produce at a historic level so you can win capping ass arguments on internet forums. Your bolded stats are the perfect illustration of this (if they're even true, which I doubt); sophmore LeBron was shooting better than 70% at the rim.... yet his overall FG% wasn't even 48% (again how does this bogus ass math add up )??? Maybe he should've taken a page out of Zion's book and kept attacking the rim more

this a stupid argument. You can’t be stupid enough to think a 6’6 pf can be a number one option on a winning team when his main shot is a contested throw up at the rim and he has no real skills outside of the paint on offense and horrible on defense.

his jump shot is never gonna be one you can shot off the dribble.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Not really sure what some of ya'll are getting at in this thread. He's averaging 22 & 8. Shooting 55% from the field and a 21.7 PER. Of course he's got some things to work on and add to his game but he's 10 games into his second season.

The bigger picture....

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

bron could dribble tho lol. He also could bring the ball up court. Zion can’t do either without dribbling off his foot

this a stupid argument. You can’t be stupid enough to think a 6’6 pf can be a number one option on a winning team when his main shot is a contested throw up at the rim and he has no real skills outside of the paint on offense and horrible on defense.

his jump shot is never gonna be one you can shot off the dribble.

Hallejuah!

Someone that watches his game and can contextualize its current state and projection. Cats wanna run up here reciting box score #s and basketball platitudes either don't understand this, or they don't want to.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Hallejuah!

Someone that watches his game and can contextualize its current state and projection. Cats wanna run up here reciting box score #s and basketball platitudes either don't understand this, or they don't want to.

Yea watching his game as a pels fan is frustrating. It’s really ugly for the most part cause the team has no defense and he for sure is probably the worse defender. To small to guard a lot of 4s and to slow to guard other wings.

never looks like he in shape.

and his only move is a pretty much what Julius Randall does he just does it a bit better with more athleticism and bounce. At lest Randall worked on his mid and 3 to become a semi complete player.

And I hate how his stans blame them team for everything with him.

They blame them for protecting himself from injury, they blame him for not allowing him to take the ball up court when he can dribble, they blame them for not allow him to be the facilitator when he just can’t do it lol.

can bi be a 1 option, if he doesn’t gain weight I would say probably not but he game is much more complete then Zion and is closer to a first option

 

[NYC Rebel]

Basketball discussion is centered around negativity 90% of the time... it’s exhausting.

“Why *insert player here* is actually overrated/trash/washed”
“Why *insert team here* are frauds and should trade everyone”
“The game was so much better in the 90s/00s/10s. Everything sucks now”

A never ending contest to see who can shyt on the sport the best

its the worst. I tune all that corny shyt out.

its a toxic fan culture

 

[Guess Who]

Maybe we can wait until he’s played more than 40 or so NBA games before we say Zion isn’t a complete player. He has lots of time to develop a mid range, a catch and shoot three ball, dribbling with his off hand and a couple post counters.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Funny cause lebron used to barrel down the lane too when he was younger. That was a big criticism.

lebron was doing sh1t like this as a rookie




Zion is out here basically playing like Julius Randle

 

[DetroitEWarren]

It's a big difference between CANT shoot and DOESN'T shoot fool ass nikkas


Internet NBA experts can look at a nikka that made the shots in college and shot better as the college year went on, hit 5 his first game and literally stopped shooting them. Then go and say

He can't shoot at all and he never will be able to . Clown ass nikkas

34 games in and nikkas can't consider the simple fact that young nikkas are gonna play to their strength.

We even got a Julius Randke comparison saying "even Julius can shoot" when dawg is in his 7th or 8th year .

Man shut the fukk up talking to me

 

[DetroitEWarren]

lebron was doing sh1t like this as a rookie




Zion is out here basically playing like Julius Randle

Zion outscored Lebron last year with 34 points to LeBron's 32