波什如果在小球时代 小球时代奥尼尔!你,看好他吗?

小球时代奥尼尔!你,看好他吗?  

Zion Williamson is everything we imagined him to be
and he is only just getting started.
Imagine stuffing Shaquille O'Neal inside of Michael Jordan
and you have Zion — a 6-foot-6
285-pound freak who can bounce around
over or through anyone in the NBA at age 19.
The New Orleans Pelicans are only nine games into this experiment
and they are quickly learning that Zion can practically punish the rim whenever and however he wants.
新奥尔良鹈鹕队目前仅有九场比赛来研究锡安，但他们立马觉察到，锡安几乎能够在任何时刻以任何方式肆虐篮筐。
He is an old-school post plaYer in a new-school body
too quick for bigs and too strong for everyone else. And he isn't 100 percent yet.
With the governor on so soon after returning from knee surgery
Zion's averages extrapolated over 36 minutes are 28 points (on 58/40/63 shooting splits)
10.2 rebounds
3.1 assists and 1.4 steals and blocks.
According to Cleaning the Glass
he is using roughly a little more than a quarter of his team's possessions in the 27 minutes he is on the floor every night
and it feels like it's not enough.
Zion has attempted one mid-range jumper and 10 three-pointers in nine games. Everything else is in the paint.
He is averaging o dunks and nine layups a game. Almost 85 percent of his 125 shots have e at the rim
and he is converting 63.5 percent of them. And all those numbers feel low.
Yet
when you pare Zion's small sample size to Shaq's first season with the Los Angeles Lakers
you see just how dominant Zion already is.
O'Neal averaged o dunks and 4.4 layups in 81 games in 1996-97
taking a bunch more (less efficient) bunnies. He only attempted 57 percent of his shots at the rim
making o-thirds of them.
Here's the thing: Zion gets to the rim in more creative ways. He hustles in transition
either beating the defense for a lob or pinning defenders for a post-up with room to work.
He contorts himself around opponents on the drive and can spin in the blink of an eye for a layup from the high post with a bounce that makes Jordan's free-throw line dunk look routine.
He regenerates instantly when he lands
too
bouncing back to the rim for put-backs before the defense has a chance to regroup.
Do not let the 6-6 fool you. Zion is not just a big
he is big. As small-ball is concerned
he is the big.
According to Cleaning the Glass
the Pelicans are grabbing 34.9 percent of available offensive rebounds when Zion is on the floor
which would rank first among teams by a wide margin.
He has the ability to play above anyone — from Zach LaVine to Giannis Antetokounmpo to any 7-footer on your roster — and if he es down with the ball
he can play above you again without warning.
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