adam81king
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I think you're all being too generous, but I'll let it go. Zion, by all standards, had a good game, nearly great game. If anyone else on his team could do anything last night, we'd all be talking about how Zion abused Niang. But alas... Zion still got his stuff pretty damn easy. Mitchell, Garland, LeVert, Okoro, etc... had their hands everywhere and were getting in spaces that made it harder to get stuff to Zion. Zion only had 2 turnovers, and one of those for sure was Mitchell's hands.
Anyways, not trying to rain on what was a good game by Niang standards. But I definitely don't think he did a good job on Zion.
Jones and Allen literally too Valenciunus out of the game for instance. Anyways, carry on.
Zion had more TOs than assists *because* of the job Niang did. As I mentioned (a few times), Niang kept Zion from collapsing the defense, which kept everyone under their averages and held the Pelicans to under 90pts (until Naji hit 7 in the last 2min of garbage time). He did it by absorbing Zions drives and making him go through and around Georges. Most guys get bowled over, but Georges didn't. Watch how tired Zion was. Watch how he couldn't/didn't do anything but drive with his head down. That's not "good Zion," despite what the boxscore says. The reason they've begun putting him at PG is so he can put pressure on defenses and get players involved. Georges didn't allow that.