Whatever happened to the Zion is just Julius Randle with hops crew

[pimpineasy]

@pimpineasy, congrats come on up

Thanks ma guy.
Tell your momma not to to burn the fish okra and crackers .
Go to the store and me a crate of hot guiness.
And a pack of rizzla.
And take the change go see a movie.

 

[Torrential]

@#1 pick come on down

Pop shyt then hide when you lose brehs. You can’t talk to no one bytch

 

[Dr. Fauci]

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Pop shyt then hide when you lose brehs. You can’t talk to no one bytch

Pop shyt and hide?

Nobody gives a fukk about your ducktales; I've already embarrassed you enough. Now move along.

 

[Torrential]

Pop shyt and hide?

Nobody gives a fukk about your ducktales; I've already embarrassed you enough. Now move along.

You’ve embarrassed yourself ho. You hide like a battered woman every time your team loses

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

All that wear and tear at his weight will catch up to him eventually if he doesn't cut down. It will be inevitable.

For starters, he's NOT going to last long in the league if he stays at 285lbs (I highly doubt his trainers/prep team will let him enter his rookie season at that weight), so he's not going to have that same size advantage at the next level, like he does now. Second of all, his strength/athleticism won't mean shyt if he doesn't have the height/wingspan to finish over longer, smarter and experienced defenders. Tweeners with strength/athleticism as their main attributes have limited ceilings in the league. His success will be predicated on him developing an outside game, because he's not going to dominate at the NBA level with his current style of play.

@#1 pick come on down.

 

[Regular_P]

@#1 pick come on down.

Let's give it some time before we dance on his grave. Westbrook didn't lose his explosiveness after tearing his meniscus.

 

[feelosofer]

Julius Randle has stayed healthy for most of his career.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Let's give it some time before we dance on his grave. Westbrook didn't lose his explosiveness after tearing his meniscus.

I think he'll still be explosive, but don't you now see why his success in the league is going to be through him developing an outside game? The writing was on the wall a long time ago; he was never going to simply rely upon dominating with his current style of play. Like I said in the other thread, I don't like that I'm right, but everything I said was exactly spot on - shyt, I was proven right before I even thought I'd be.

 

[Dwight Howard]

I think he'll still be explosive, but don't you now see why his success in the league is going to be through him developing an outside game? The writing was on the wall a long time ago; he was never going to simply rely upon dominating with his current style of play. Like I said in the other thread, I don't like that I'm right, but everything I said was exactly spot on - shyt, I was proven right before I even thought I'd be.

Define "success"

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Define "success"

Reaching his ceiling as a franchise player.

 

[Regular_P]

I think he'll still be explosive, but don't you now see why his success in the league is going to be through him developing an outside game? The writing was on the wall a long time ago; he was never going to simply rely upon dominating with his current style of play. Like I said in the other thread, I don't like that I'm right, but everything I said was exactly spot on - shyt, I was proven right before I even thought I'd be.

Blake was dominant on pure athleticism for years until he had to adapt. Don't see why it would be any different for Zion.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Blake was dominant on pure athleticism for years until he had to adapt. Don't see why it would be any different for Zion.

Blake is 2-3 inches taller, and had some resemblance of an outside shot in his rookie season. Not to mention he wasn't dealing with weight issues like Zion is, and needing an outside game is even more essential now than it was when Blake first came into the league.

And you even admit "until he had to adapt", so I take it that Zion will need to adapt also? You don't think he'll need to adapt even sooner given his injury?

 

[Regular_P]

Blake is 2-3 inches taller, and had some resemblance of an outside shot in his rookie season. Not to mention he wasn't dealing with weight issues like Zion is, and needing an outside game is even more essential now than it was when Blake first came into the league.

And you even admit "until he had to adapt", so I take it that Zion will need to adapt also? You don't think he'll need to adapt even sooner given his injury?

So Zion wasn't hitting threes in college?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

So Zion wasn't hitting threes in college?

I've probably posted this about 20 times by now:

"73% of Zion's shots were at the rim last season
He only took 80 jumpshots in total (71 from behind the arc, and only 9 inside the arc)
Only 18% of his total shots were jumpshots - at a completion rate well below average D1 standard
He only took 38 NBA-standard 3s in total, most of which were uncontested, which he completed at 31%.

/

Only 18% of his total shots in college were jumpshots - the efficiency of those made-jumpshots were below D1-average (a large amount of them were uncontested)
He's only hit one jumpshot in his four games against NBA competition - out of nearly 50 total shot attempts."

Just to put that into perspective, 40+% of rookie Blake's total shots were jumpshots.