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FINALLY! Zion gets to play against NBA players... He's standing about 30 feet from LeBron right now. The King showed up to watch his debut.
 
HAAK72 said:
... Can't wait for the Zioff era to officially begin! :devilwink:
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Me as well. Can you imagine how fired up vets are going to be to matchup against him! There will be some downs, I just think there will be way more ups.
 
From all reports, Zion is a good kid, but I just can't see him staying healthy for 82 games at his weight and skill set. I hope I'm wrong.
 
Reep said:
From all reports, Zion is a good kid, but I just can't see him staying healthy for 82 games at his weight and skill set. I hope I'm wrong.
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Big athletic guys do get injured. But to me he looks pretty durable?
 
kjironman1 said:
Big athletic guys do get injured. But to me he looks pretty durable?
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I hope so. I met someone who went to school with him. Had nothing bad to say at all. That's just a lot of weight dropping from height. I know Barkley and Shaq made it work, but there are dozens of others whose bodies could not.
 
Barkley was 6’4 or so. I remember seeing him standing next to Terry Porter and he was barely taller than him.
 
THE HCP said:
You did t watch him at Duke. His defense and assists were amazing.
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I did actually and he had some ok assists but besides some really athletic blocks I thought his defense was awful. He's lazy with getting into his stance, guards were blowing by him pretty regularly, which didn't hurt him as much in college, but in the NBA players are just flat out better I think he's gonna struggle defensively, especially if he gets switched onto a scorer. He's a good help defender though. Really about 90% of his HL's are just dunk packages though. Which there's nothing necessarily wrong with that if you can do it and no one can stop you, the question will be how does all of that translate to the NBA. He's still going to be an amazing athlete even by NBA standards.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
I did actually and he had some ok assists but besides some really athletic blocks I thought his defense was awful. He's lazy with getting into his stance, guards were blowing by him pretty regularly, which didn't hurt him as much in college, but in the NBA players are just flat out better I think he's gonna struggle defensively, especially if he gets switched onto a scorer. He's a good help defender though. Really about 90% of his HL's are just dunk packages though. Which there's nothing necessarily wrong with that if you can do it and no one can stop you, the question will be how does all of that translate to the NBA. He's still going to be an amazing athlete even by NBA standards.
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He's probably going to have to take the Blake Griffin route of slowly adding in more moves and abilities each season until he's more well rounded and can hurt you in other ways.
 
The kid looks a twinkie away from turning into Raymond Felton in the last photo I saw of him....in New Orleans they fry lettuce....everything deep fried....that could be his biggest hurdle this season.
 
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