It is not gossip or fake news but this Zion injury . Well he has not touched the court in practice. We are one week away.
https://www.nola.com/sports/pelicans...d0c9c5478.html
It is not gossip or fake news but this Zion injury . Well he has not touched the court in practice. We are one week away.
https://www.nola.com/sports/pelicans...d0c9c5478.html
Im expecting the worse so i don't get mu hopes up... and if when he comes back, he wont even be ready yet because of conditioning (fat) and getting in game shape...
And before his family trashes the organization for not winning much, they have to look closer as well cause he has been injury prone since the start. Not that the organization has no faults in itself cause they messed up as well, but both go hand in hand with the results.
I'm almost ready for him to be traded. What a crap era of basketball. Watching a kid with so much potential that just can't get out of his own way based on immaturity and enabling family members
Just remember Griff. Said it was no big deal. He would be ready for season opener. Christian Clark looking smarter now. Willie wondering what he got himself into here.
Quote:
David Griffin revealed Williamson broke a bone in his foot sometime before Summer League (which began Aug. 8). Griffin said Williamson already underwent surgery, with a team physician in the operating room, and was expected to be “back on the floor” before the regular season started.
Griffin characterized himself as “very optimistic," and shrugged off public negativity emanating from the injury. He said the circumstances were understood for several weeks, allowing for a recovery that put Williamson back on the floor before any harm is done to the Pelicans’ season.
“His rehab has been totally in lockstep with the organization, and we’re totally happy with where it’s at,” Griffin said on Sept. 27.
Quote:
But coach Willie Green revealed a troubling update Monday night.
The New Orleans Pelicans’ All Star still isn’t running on the court. The season is a week away.
Someone lying? Fake news?Quote:
When asked to elaborate on what Williamson can currently do, Green didn’t paint any more promising of a picture.
“Just ball-handling stuff,” Green said. “He can shoot free throws. But we are holding him back on running until we know further from this test coming up.”
Those two things are not mutually linked. I don't think Clark is a bad reporter but much of that story was definitely debunked at media day (even if you don't take everything Zion and Griff say as true). And guys like Shamit are definitely hinging on stuff that they've been fed through Clark. Regardless, yeah it's starting to get soap opera-ish, ngl
Will be checked again in 2 weeks and no timetable for Zion's return...going to be a rough start in a must win season for this team.
How is it must win, exactly? Can’t even get a healthy, conditioned Zion.
I’m basically operating mentally that Zion doesn’t even exist. He returns, he’s good, fine. Whatever. But I’ve lost patience with him. He’s unable to be available and then I’m supposed to belive we’re under the gun from him and his family?
jesus christ man, c'mon
Must win in a way that those outside noises become even louder..griff also definitely gets fired which is good but with how he squandered alot of those assets to be able to compete now and still not show it. Zion's family obviously doubles down on their take with the losing culture and the media smells blood and goes in for the kill.
This team with zion is good enough to be around 7-10th in the west, without him could be brutal.
Atleast we'll keep our pick, tho.
All I know is I just bought tix for the Knicks game last night. Would this information have influenced my decision? Maybe, maybe not. Just sad that the franchise continues to act as someone said earlier “everything is fine”.
And I’ll use the damn hashtag, maybe it’s gets us out this damn funk. #pelslife
2 to 5 weeks. Same exact thing they said his rookie year. See you in January Zion
https://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/zi...ted-2-25-weeks
Anybody surprised? I'm not. I rolled my eyes when I saw this pop up on my phone. He'll be ready when he's ready I didn't expect him to be full-go out the gate. Just par for the course with this team.
So this is going to be a yearly thing with Zion's offseason injuries eh.
Literally every single year this fat boy cannot get serious.
Then the family wants to get pissed and mad at the organization. They need to get mad at hm and control the things he can control which is working on his body and preparing to be a professional basketball player in the NBA.
If the rumors are true...this is 100%. That boy just got into the league. Got his own shoe before Trae playing in big market Atlanta.
But I think folks just need to chill. Foot injuries are no joke. Lots of little bones down there. Griff did say he has started running. And any news around Zion seems to get hyper blown. He can't even lift his eye brow without somebody trying to spin a story around it.
Not a surprise to me but there is still talent to work with this year. Assuming Willie Green doesn't pull an SVG with Temple and Sato.
Unless it is storm damage the banner is coming off the parking garage by the arena. Maybe they will put a NAW banner up?
i was one of the two posters on here that said we should draft ja over zion.....i wanted a good guard and for us to get better by addition by subtraction.....we could have gave Memphis lonzo and received all of the ist round picks from memphis that we could get....maybe some players from memphis also that could have been useful on court or by trade....
i believe ja,,ingram,,jrue,,jj and cast would have got us in the playoffs the bubble year....maybe still trade jrue the following season....
we could have been coming into this season with lakers picks,,,memphis picks,,picks from jrue and whatever else picks that im forgetting....and im guessing some different players also.....the main thing would be no zion drama....
yes zion is a walking 20pt scorer but my main reason was a good guard in ja and a better over all team by subtracting zion because i believe majority of us knew drama would be coming with zion if not winning and national talking heads talking about him leaving...
I don't really care what happens.
I just wanted to stop by and say hi!
that's ridiculous. I don't know why people say this stuff. If someone said they'd rather have been able to keep AD than retain Zion's rights - ok, I can accept that. Or trade Zion for Luka in some hypothetical scenario should he become available. But Ja Morant? Really?
so i cant have my choice?....i said i wanted a good guard...in the last 20 plus years the team that won the title had a dominate guard am im right?.....the bubble year was AD a PF and i dont count that....i also said addition by subtraction by getting memphis picks to make the team over all better.......and if you think zion is staying in new orleans then go ahead and believe that...i believe ja would be a better choice to stay in new orleans over zion......
playa you dont have to accept it...how is things going for us now with zion?....what do the future look like with zion here now?....
dawg, you have every right to think how you want. I'm just offering my opinion is all. I just feel like, yeah there are probably players given the circumstances that I would want here over Zion rn, but imo we need to set ourselves to a higher standard than Ja freaking Morant. Hell, you could argue if we switch places with the Grizz player wise Zion is held more accountable in a org with a better culture and we still hardly get anywhere with Ja considering how incompetent Griff has been for like two years lol. That's a very distinct possibility if roles are reversed.
Also playa I think you're wrong about elite guards winning chips. The only superstar guard that's really won a chip as "The Guy" in the last 20 years is probably Steph.... and unless you're telling me Ja will one day be Steph (which he will never be) than imma have to conclude that swapping out for a way worse player, position be damned, doesn't make much sense. am I wrong?
Zion = Eric Gordon 2.0. Send to the Knicks so he can be healed. Like Davis to LA.
As for Griff. If a Cat 4 hurricane damaged your home and roof, Would you trust Griff. to fix your home?
Disappointing, but whatevs. Let's find out about the rest of the guys and see what Green can do. Like was said earlier, if we don't make the playoffs at least we'll keep the pick. Maybe Green can keep the boat afloat till Zion gets back, but those preseason games weren't real encouraging lolz. Let Zion heal up. Also don't care that the FO lied.
Never forget
Would you do business with this salesman?Quote:
Griffin characterized himself as “very optimistic," and shrugged off public negativity emanating from the injury. He said the circumstances were understood for several weeks, allowing for a recovery that put Williamson back on the floor before any harm is done to the Pelicans’ season.
“His rehab has been totally in lockstep with the organization, and we’re totally happy with where it’s at,” Griffin said on Sept. 27.
Griff deserves a lot of criticism, but he is hardly the blame for Zion's injury.
All the blame for this falls squarely on the broad shoulders of the man-child and his posse'. I'm certain Griff and his team stand ready to assist the man in whatever is required to overcome his trials. You can lead an elephant to water, but if he wants milkshakes instead, what can you do?
This is one time where the inmate is truly running the asylum.
We can win without Zion. Ignore the drama.
Ingram, Devonte, NAW, JV, Hayes?
We can put Hayes or Naji at PF.
Have Satoransky, Murphy, Naji/Hayes, Hart, Hermanogomez, Kira, Herb all come off bench.
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We really should trade Greg Oden part 2 this season
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Now we know why Green was running Temple so much. May have to see him. I honestly wouldn't tho b/c he looked bad in there.
It's also funny how no one believes BI can get us there. Why is that? When is this guy going to prove he can be the guy?