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re: Glass half-full

Posted on 4/15/24 at 1:42 pm to
Posted by ghost2most
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 4/15/24 at 1:42 pm to
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If that is peak Zion, it's just nowhere near good enough to be a true #1 on a team. He's awesome, and yet still so far away from the top 8 dudes, that I don't see how he can ever get there.



I don't think it's peak Zion. I think he'll continue to get better and better. Just look at his pull ups and defense the last month. He gets 20 percent better at both of those and he's right there with the top 8 minus maybe Jokic and Luka.
Posted by Pels_Yaz
Member since Apr 2023
9326 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 1:43 pm to
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I think he'll continue to get better and better.


Maybe. I don’t know. Hes played 2 healthy seasons in 5 years. I hope this year is the norm but right now its an outlier.
Posted by shel311
McKinney, Texas
Member since Aug 2004
111237 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 1:47 pm to
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I don't think it's peak Zion.
Certainly possible
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I think he'll continue to get better and better. Just look at his pull ups and defense the last month. He gets 20 percent better at both of those and he's right there with the top 8 minus maybe Jokic and Luka.
Problem is, he is 0 for 5 at showing up to his 1st game of the season in tip top shape and ready for the season. 0 for 4 if we take out the season he missed entirely.


So then, why would anyone have any level of confidence that he is showing up next season for Game #1 in the shape he's in right now? I think the odds of that are very small. Please Zion prove me wrong, he's just given me 5 years of data to think it would be stupid for me to assume or think it'll happen.
Posted by LSUgrad88
Member since Jun 2009
6864 posts
Posted on 4/15/24 at 2:10 pm to
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Just look at his pull ups and defense the last month.


Thats the part that frustrates me. He is clearly more in shape and has some periods where he is actually dominant on the defensive end. But even now, when he’s gotten in shape, he has lapses (way too often) where he just loses focus and falls asleep on defense. While he had six steals against GS two games ago, he gave up about that many layups in the first few minutes of the third quarter in that game just by being mentally lazy. If he ever puts it together . . . But will that ever happen? This team needs him to be a superstar if we’re to be more than just a second round at best type team.
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