re: Zion is fat, slow, lacking hops and agility, still shooting 60% from the floor.

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Where do I start with this conversation? Let's see. Let's go Zions skill for skill abilities and what he is lacking at this weight.

Zion is suffering as a ball handler and can't explode past people because he has to load up to get that big arse frame in motion. There has been numerous times where he had his defender hip to hip, but could not explode towards the basket in the open lane.

Even worse, he doesn't have any of his GOAT level abilities to break down the help defender off the dribble. He hasn't been able to split double teams this year, his spin step has not worked barely at all this year, he fumbles his handle a lot because his body is used to moving faster than he currently can, so when he tries to explode, he is getting no separation.

Even his ability to explode from the triple threat is slow ASF this season. He has the fastest first step from the triple threat in the NBA, but right now it's super slow.

His hops has also suffered a lot and he barely even tries to jump over defenders, jump into traffic, and only tries to dunk when the basket is wide open. His 2 dunks last night were so damn unathletic it's crazy. He is pulling so much extra weight around that it's so easy to see that he is MUCH slower and MUCH less athletic.

I don't think this is regular athletic decline, and I think he will be right back jumping thru the roof as soon as he drops all the extra weight. However, when he got bigger in other seasons he was never this slow and never lacked this much mobility. Even rookie year, fresh off the meniscus and fluffy as hell, he was still the fastest player on the court. That is not the case right now and he is MUCH bigger than he was at that point.

This dude needs to REALLY get down to 285, Duke size ONLY abd no less than that because right now, he is at least 320.

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