Even though he broke his foot in the offseason and had surgery, Zion Williamson is expected to be well for the start of the regular season. We will see him in any case not on the field during the preseason and, in the meantime, the phenomenon of the Pelicans endeavors to reassure everyone about his future in the bayou.
“I love being here”, he repeated again in relation to the rumors. “Anyone who knows me knows that I love New Orleans. This city is made for me ”.
Zion Williamson also confided that he had spent the summer developing his game, working in particular on his floaters and his shots at mid-distance, no doubt to avoid having to finish in contact with each penetration.
The goal of the strong winger is to play the playoffs, to avoid reliving the same feeling as last May.
“It really made me sick” he explains thus. “We weren’t in the playoffs, I watch the playoffs and I’m like, ‘Dude, we can be there’. I know we can do it this year. Something grabbed me and I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s not going to happen again. It won’t happen again ‘. When I first started training, everything, every repetition, everything felt personal. It was as if: ‘No, nothing this year is going to prevent us from going to the playoffs’. I’ll make sure I do my part and more, that my teammates see me working. “
| Zion Williamson | Percentage | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | MJ | Min | Tirs | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Fte | Int | Bp | Ct | Pts |
| 2019-20 | NOP | 24 | 28 | 58.3 | 42.9 | 64.0 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 6.3 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 22.5 |
| 2020-21 | NOP | 61 | 33 | 61.1 | 29.4 | 69.8 | 2.7 | 4.5 | 7.2 | 3.7 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 27.0 |
| Total | 85 | 32 | 60.4 | 33.3 | 68.3 | 2.7 | 4.2 | 7.0 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 25.7 | |
