re: Check in if you always knew Zion was going to be a bust in New Orleans

I mean like 4 threads have been bumped and I’m being called out in the one thread that I was the very first poster to strongly defend him in.

I’m not even sure what our record was at that exact moment, but being worried about overall team defense and its impact on winning when our 3 best players at the time on the roster were Zion, Ingram, and Jonas was completely valid.

Obviously Herb has become all world on that end. Jose was implemented. Nance was received in a trade. Ingram bought in defensively. We got freaking CJ Mccollum as a leader and 2nd or 3rd scorer. Drafted defensive wizard Dyson. Zion bought in defensively halfway through this year. Etc. It’s obviously an entirely different team situation than what we had at the time.

I still defended an injured, overweight, and rumored malcontent Z more than 95% of people did in that thread. I’ve always been team Z from a human perspective and hell, I even called him an all pro caliber player from a basketball perspective.