re: Is Zion miscast?

People don't remember his low post game because the opportunities aren't there anymore with the wall. If you go back to his rookie year and even during the SVG season, you see the team utilize him a lot more on the low post.

He can spin to both the weak side and strong side as well as both baselines.

He has an effective drop step.

Has has several pivots and jabs and can transition from back to the basket to face up off the dribble. He can back you up then seamlessly transition into face up and blow by you.

He has a variety of shots off the turn around if he gets you within 5 foot of the basket.

He's a good passer out of the post both inside and out to the perimeter.

He can seal you on the low post and gain favorable position for an entry pass for a quick spin and blow by dunk and that was a stable in 2019 and 2020 with Ball.

He's also very skilled at establishing position and slipping the low post defender for an alley opp or to get under the basket.

He's not a traditional back to the basket technician but he is very skilled down there. I'm hoping we see a lot of these missing offense that's been gone since we moved on from ball. I forgot all the all the actions Gentry used to run for him off ball in 2019 that was pretty nasty. He did way more screening then than he does now. Hope Murray unlocks Zion's lethal offball game again.

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He's somewhere around year 6 blake griffin.

Elite near the rim. bad elsewhere. can handle the ball in spurts.

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Jfc no. He's a far better passer/shot creator and scorer than he ever was.

If Zion can consistently make that 10 foot shot TSpoon tried getting him to use so much more than he has then he would be as unstoppable as any player in the NBA. He can have any defender on their geeks and then pull up and knock down the short jumper.

I don’t get why people only think of Zion as a power player when he may have the best touch in the league around the rim. Zion rarely dunks. He uses his burst and strength to get near the basket and then uses his freakish touch to lay the ball in from 100 different positions.

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In the interview, he basically said that he views Zion basically as a dunker. I've always thought along the same lines

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I think you need to rewatch the games, or go look up the stats and post them here.

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Dude could average 30/8/8

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February-April version of him was good enough.

33 MPG
55.0 FG%

23.9 PPG, 6.2 RPG, 5.5 APG, 2.9 TOV, 2.3 STOCKS

It takes too much effort for him to get to 8 assists. you're talking another 5-10 possessions where he's the lead facilitator over Murray. Defeats that purpose IMHO.

If Ingram is on this team, him being a 25/8/5 guy is all you honestly want. Less ball handling, more efficient setups, and more rebounding. Ingram becomes closer to his role when lonzo was here at 23/6/5. CJ continues to regress into a lesser role at 18/4/4. Murphy gets more time and shots up to a 17/6/2 guy, and Murray becomes somewhere between Peak SAS and ATL-without Trae at 20/6/8.

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want Zion to average double digit rebounds, like 12-13 a game. He has the ability and it's what we need. He should be dominant. Instead, he has rebound numbers like a big guard. That isn't weird to anyone else?

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You want 6'7" zion to rebound like he's 3-5 inches taller? Because the only guys in the league last year that did that were 6'10" plus

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Westbrook averaged 10rpg a few seasons ago.

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On a shite team that legit had him on the box grabbing every rebound after a ft miss. I don't need zion doing that. Spend your energy on amazing switch perimeter defense and offense. Rebounding is 3rd

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We are a shite team too.

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We won 49 fricking games last year man. We are anything but shitty.

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What are you talking about? Zion doesn't pad his other stats?

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Even on that team russell averaged 10.7 boards pg. If that's what you want out of zion I can understand somewhat. I think 8 is fine. But 12-13 is ludicrous. He simply isn't tall enough to do that