November 4th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Atlanta Hawks - 4-1

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Originally Posted by PELICANSFAN

38%? I would love it, but a player is not all of a sudden start shooting 38% from 3 when it has not been part of his game in his career. That is a bit ambitious. Giannis has added it to his game and he is under 29% for his career on about 2 per game.

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I was responding to our resident #1 Zion cheerleader while discussing Jokic, who makes around 38 - 40%.

I said I'd like Zion to be around league average, which is more 35% - 36%. He can do that. His shooting motion is better than Giannis and Draymond.

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Originally Posted by luckyman

I was responding to our resident #1 Zion cheerleader while discussing Jokic, who makes around 38 - 40%.

I said I'd like Zion to be around league average, which is more 35% - 36%. He can do that. His shooting motion is better than Giannis and Draymond.

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That would surprise me, but his shooting motion/style from outside does remind me of Boogie.

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Originally Posted by PELICANSFAN

He really needs to develop a mid range game so that the defense has to make a choice on how to defend him rather than just crowding the paint.

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Just anything at all. It will open the game up for him. If he can stop and hit a jumper, defenses will struggle to ever keep him quiet. If he develops into a 35 percentish 3 pt shooter, we will look VASTLY better as a team. This isn?t about how good Zion is. You can legitimately build a team around him right now and win a title. The way the team is currently constructed (with very good players but not necessarily perfect fits), you want Zion to add another dimension. No player should be a one level scorer. It is very difficult to build a team around that. He is good but it would be insane to try and make that big of a turnover just to build around him. Especially a driver THAT CAN?T MAKE FT?S. It?s all in Zion?s best interests to show the things he showed before the injury. He can do it