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Last edited by Pelicanidae; 01-23-2020 at 12:12 PM.
Basketball.
lol everybody trying to turn us against each other **♂️ it’s not gon happen on my end super proud of my boy & he deserves everything dats coming his way @Zionwilliamson https://t.co/vQswxezKgu
— Ja Morant (@JaMorant) January 23, 2020
Gotta say, big fan of how supportive Ja has been of Zion publicly.
Impressive numbers for #Zion's debut on ESPN (Fast Nationals from Nielsen):
— Ben Cafardo (@Ben_ESPN) January 23, 2020
2,357,000 viewers. Peaked w/2,777,000.
⬆️Viewership up 88% vs last year's comparable game.
1.6 US rating, matching ESPN's highest-rated NBA game this season (Non-XMas). Up 100% year over year. pic.twitter.com/9ZSbz6zGQv
My gut feeling is that Gentry wanted to bring Zion in off the bench so as not to disrupt the chemistry that the starting unit had. My guess is he got overruled. I understand why the powers that be wanted Zion in the starting lineup, but I do wonder if it would have been a smoother transition, chemistry wise, to have brought Zion in for instant offense off the bench.
I'm a little disappointed in the crowd. BI trying to knock down some free throws, then the crowd starts chanting we want Zion.
Need to be better than that. Especially when that man been available and ballin all year.
Now we are whining about Zion chants. This did not affect Ingram at all.
Read!
https://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/br...n-anything-yet
Crowd was hyped to see their #1 pick playing and dominating! Of course they were going to be chanting "We want Zion".... even if elephants were mating half court! Ingram plays slightly above average = we win this game (one or two missed FTs didn't lose it).
Actual proof Greivis Vasquez can throw Anthony Davis an Alley-OOP on an (kinda) fastbreak!
I really dont care what you want to call it. It was extremely tone deaf and not a good look.
You cant be so stupid to start chanting that while your own player (and a different one you are chanting for) is trying to concentrate on the line. On national television no less.
It always seems those not at the game are the ones who complain about the crowds. I was there and did not like it, but it is not like one or two people in a section can shot down the majority of 18000 fans. Face it, given the weekday game against a not-flashy opponent, why do you think many of the fans were there?
Just looked up some other famous first games from historical names, just for a bit of trivia.
Zion Williamson: 22 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists. 8/11 shooting (72.7%). 18 minutes.
Lebron James: 25 points, 6 rebounds, 9 assists. 12/20 shooting (60%). 43 minutes.
M. Jordan: 16 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists. 5/16 shooting (31.3%). 40 minutes.
Kobe Bryant: 1 rebound. 0/1 shooting (0.00%). 6 minutes.
Shaq O'Neal: 12 points, 18 rebounds, 2 assists. 4/8 shooting (50%). 32 minutes.
Larry Bird: 14 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists. 6/12 shooting (50%). 28 minutes.
Magic Johnson: 26 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists. 10/21 shooting (47.6%). 41 minutes.
Kareem A-J: 29 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists. 12/27 shooting (44.4%). 48 minutes.*
Tim Duncan: 15 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists. 6/9 shooting (66.7%) 36 minutes.
The Admiral: 23 points, 17 rebounds, 1 assist. 6/11 shooting (54.5%). 34 minutes.**
Kevin Garnett: 8 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist. 4/4 shooting (100%). 16 minutes.
Dirk Nowitzki: 2 points, 4 assists. 0/5 shooting (0.00%). 16 minutes.
Karl Malone: 8 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists. 4/11 shooting (36.4%). 24 minutes.
*Yes, Kareem apparently played every single minute of his debut It was not an overtime game.
** Robinson was 5 years older than Zion currently is when he debuted; 24, compared to 19.
Zion's debut stacks up really nicely among these guys. I think the closest statline is Magic's, but Zion was far more efficient and Magic played 23 minutes more than Zion did.
And then a few other modern players (that is, guys who debuted in the last decade):
KAT: 14 points, 12 rebounds, 1 assist. 6/10 shooting (60%). 32 minutes.
AD: 22 points, 7 rebounds. 6/12 shooting (50%). 29 minutes.
Blake: 20 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists. 8/14 shooting (57.1%). 39 minutes.
Luka: 10 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists. 5/16 shooting (31.3%). 32 minutes.
RJ Barrett: 21 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists. 9/13 shooting (69.2%). 37 minutes.
Morant: 14 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists. 6/12 shooting (50%). 25 minutes.
Zion stacks up well against the more modern guys too. He played fewer minutes than all of them, and yet outscored 4 of the 6, met or exceeded the rebounds of 3, and racked up more assists than 3 of them, all while being the most efficient of the lot.
Good to know how his debut stacks up against other historical ones, even if ultimately it's meaningless.
Some of you sound like ninnes. Would you rather no crowds at all like we had during the Davis years? Again fans chanted MVP to Kobe at the line at Staples back in the day. No problems. Did you here Ingram complain? No.
Please stop acting like sissies about it. People were excited.
My last time addressing this, but that's an awful comparison.
A more apt comparison is if Kobe is at the line and the crowd starts with We Want Shaq.
Kobe demands a trade the next day.
Go watch Gentry's post practice interview from yesterday. You can actually hear Lonzo mocking BI about it in the background. The players may make light of it, but it was just extremely bush league by the fans to do that.
I'll be a sissy all damn day I'd I gotta tell the truth. Don't care. I'm done.
It was disrespectful. Not only because it was while he was trying to "concentrate". It was also a slap in the face to the guy who has been our MVP this year. Last game, he got greeted with "M-V-P" chants. Now he goes to the line to try to keep us in the game, and he's greeted with "We want Zion!" Are you kidding me?
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Just wait till Sunday when you got the Boston bandwagoners in the blender.
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