Zion Williamson Was Supposed To Be One Of The GOATs

Zion Williamson Was Supposed To Be One Of The GOATs

People what I want people to know about me is and I just want to hoop I want to be out there don’t nobody want to just sit on the sign I think that’s theis want people at least to understand like I don’t want to be on the Seline y’all think I want to

Sit over there hurt I don’t but uh like I said uh like Coach K taught me got to own up to my responsibilities there are a lot of things that I could have done better that didn’t and I’m in the process of you know fixing those wrongs

Bro you how you’re talking like you in your third it seems like every decade in the NBA we get a new group of players that climb the alltime rankings in the 9s we had MJ and hakee the 2000s had Duncan Kobe and Shaq last decade we had guys

Like LeBron KD and Steph and we’re still early in the 2020s but it seems like guys like Giannis and joic are already making their cases early on but one guy I expected early in his career and I still do think he can get there if all

Goes right is Zion Williams I mean we’ve been following Zion since high school truthfully I don’t know if there’s ever been a more viral High School athlete than Zion was Zan Williamson everybody knows this guy been watching him for the last couple of years just a bull in the china

Shop yeah freakish athlete like once in a generation type athlete strong left obviously can finish goodness good finish good touch around the rim and transition is kind of hard to stop this dude it’s like nearly impossible wow he going to go block every shot yeah you can’t play he can’t have

Any space around if you give him space he taking off Z is actually one of the most dominant high school basketball players ever too his senior year he averaged 36 and 11 that’s like 2K numbers Zion could have went anywhere he wanted for college but ultimately we all

Know that he chose Duke I want to take this time to thank all the coaches who saw something in me and thought I could be a valuable addition to their program as I end this chapter and begin the next with the support of my God and my family

In the fall of 2018 I will continue my basketball Journey as I will be joining the Brotherhood of Duke University what would he do at Duke though uh nothing really honestly besides become one of the greatest college basketball players of all time this year in 2023 ESPN put out an

Article of the top 25 college basketball players of the last 25 years and Zion ranked number three only behind Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis two players who made the NBA 75th Anniversary team but Zion was an absolute monster in college he averaged 22.6 points and 8.9 rebounds

While shooting 68% from the field but his numbers don’t even justify what he was able to do out there the team was simply better every time he was out on the floor this was recognized by everybody too including maybe the best player of all time LeBron James speaking

Of a 7 foot 11 year olds there’s a young man that weighs 285 lbs and a 68 Zion I’ve I’ve watched him a lot over the last year obviously I was with everybody you know him coming out of high school I was like okay all this competition that

He’s playing against these little short ass white kids he’s dunk dunking over every single time can he play can he play like can he play ball and you know the one thing that I noticed this with his one year at Duke that his energy was infectious man like every possession it

Seemed like he could make a difference on the outcome of the game should it come out absolutely he is the most talked about guy in a long time I want to read this stat though in Zan’s one year at Duke he got over 500 points 50 rebounds and 50 steals the only freshman

To ever do this joining guess who else Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis once again I know a lot of people don’t like to ad use van stats but this is another Co one in Zion season there he had a PR of 40.84 PR’s player efficiency rating for all you stat amateurs out there

40.84 is the highest PR since um ever I like numbers especially cool ones like there and I’m going to tell you a few more throughout the video cuz Zion had some awesome ones Zion likeed the 45 in vertical while being measured and this ranks number one of all time of any

Prospect 240 lb or heavier when you think of big guys who can jump who comes to mind Blake Griff maybe well Blake Griffin’s about 40 lb lighter than Zion and his ma ver is about 35 1/2 in 10 in less than Zion Zion’s just a freak athlete that we’ never seen before also

Anyone who watches basketball just respects hoopers you know what I mean when I say hoopers those guys that will go crosscross tween and take you to the basket while you’re still trying to lock them down on the perimeter guys like Monte Ellis and Jamal Crawford it’s cord here

Shalom that one when he was on the Knicks is one of the nastiest crossovers ever but I found the stat its highest field goal percentage of players with less than half of their shots at The Rim being assisted so in other terms highest field goal percentage of iso drives silent did this at

77.1% insane the other two guys in the list were animals as well TJ Warren is forever a bucket don’t forget what he did in the NBA bubble and don’t let current state of Ben Simmons fool you before he got hurt he was a multiple time Allstar and all NBA player and even

In college where the stats from he was getting LeBron comparisons and was the unanimous number one pick another Elite college basketball season maybe I got to make a video of Ben Simmons’s college career that would go crazy a stat though that’s become very common in basketball throughout the last few years is plus

Minus if you don’t know what plus minus is it’s pretty much like um it’s just how much your team goes up or down while you’re on the floor that’s basically it of players that played 400 minutes in college basketball Zion ranks first in plus minus by over a point the other

Four guys are all really good Pros too Davis towns and ol Ado are all all NBA players and Brandon Clark is a great backup and steps up anytime he has to anyone who watches Memphis knows that but after having one of the best college basketball seasons ever there were still

Some doubters including his current teammate specifically with Zion obviously I played with him and he did some incredible things is there is there moment is there a play is there something that he does that particularly stands out you know which way he’s going he’s going left right so I no one can

Stop us he tells you you think I’m going to shoot no you can’t stop me going left so in college he was at Duke I was at J Tech I remember him guarding me and um I went back door and I thought I had a free layup and next thing you know he

Jumps and blocks it with two hands I think his face is at The Rim after that I wasn’t a big fan I’m like ah Z might not make it to League you know whatever ah and then little you know I’m his teammate you know he is one of the best

I’m a big fan of him and man I can’t wait to get him back all right there weren’t that many doubters cuz not many of us got blocked by Zion but I just thought the video was funny but it was clear that Zion was the first pick and

It really wasn’t even a question trust me when I say the Pelican stab was pretty excited when they landed the first pick [Applause] got that’s amazing but there’s only been a handful of players in NBA history who have been the solidified number one pick overall months before the draft even

Happened you know that’s the case when you can say the whatever the player’s name is and then the NBA draft 2003 was the LeBron draft 2012 was the Anthony Davis draft 2016 was the Ben Simmons draft and 2019 was the Zion Williamson draft but being the first pick in the

NBA draft obviously comes with pressure too understand exactly some of the things that he’s going through you know being a number one pick and everybody is saying you should be this you should be that you face the franchise you got to do this you got to do that and then when you’re

Not playing you know they like he well is he going to be this is he going to be that kids done nothing but just keep his head down and keep pushing I said I know matters to nobody unless you allow it to um and uh he’s in great shape right now

Um great talent some we never seen a talent of his size his speed his athleticism just like a Banis just like a Barkley a shank just certain tals that come into our league that you just never seen before and it’s you know it’s so funny when you hear

People like okay stop them from going left just stop them from going left just same thing I heard so many years with Jano stopping from going left Mar stopping from going left you know you’re just you’re great and no matter what you do they going to figure out the

Way so um Zion is on on the verge of being um great it’s going to be great in this day for a long time so tonight he showed um you know why he’s going to Beed but after the Pelicans took Zion with the first pick in the

Draft the hype started ASAP I remember in the summer league Zion literally snagged the ball out of Kevin knox’s hands and then dunked it and then they caus an earthquake and the game ended Williamson touches the rock blew it inside Robinson tapped it out to knock Z rips it punches it

Home oh yeah it’s time to get him the gym on a real note though that was the only game I’ve ever seen End early from an earthquake that’s wild but after the summer league came the preseason and unfortunately for Zion and Pelicans fans and just basketball fans in General Zion

Tores miniscus in the preseason and missed the first few months of the season on January 22nd Zion made his NBA debut and honestly it was one of the coolest games I’ve ever watched he kind of struggled for majority of the game until the fourth quarter we’re in a 3

Minute stretch in the fourth quarter he scored 17 straight points and it was obvious that Zion was that guy stepping back pulling the trigger and hitting a three and they give up a basket on the other end to D rozan here’s a to Zion and he finishes

Over D rozan five straight for the rookie put the fans back in their seats I think ncoo Melly is coming in for him right here here’s Zion for three hit it again if I’m Zion Williamson [Applause] I’m they want Zion to get it here he is

And purle blocked it Zion gets it back and finishes 10 points in just over a minute gets it back Furious again got it again and Alvin jentry over at the bench frustrated because he’s about to send a Zion for four for four welcome to the [Applause]

NBA in just 18 minutes in that game Zion finished with 22 points and seven assists and after Zion’s first few games in the league getting regular minutes he was a star already look at this shot chart I mean you know he’s going in the paint and you still can’t stop him all

Those greens around the perimeter probably came from the 3 minute Span in the Spurs game too all right check this one out here’s a list of every rookie in NBA history to average 28 points and 10 rebounds per 36 minutes Zion Joel embiid and well Chamberlain now look at the

Ages Zion was 3 years younger doing this a teenager coming off of miniscus ter in his first nine games averaging 28 and 10 per 36 like I said before video game numbers in the last 30 Seasons Zion’s just the third player with 7 20o games

In the first 10 games of his career the only other two players Shaq and Grant Hill a top 10 player and a guy that would have been been an alltime great if it wasn’t for injuries here’s a crazy one even though it’s an ESPN stat if I

Ever seen an ESPN stat but since 1976 Zion was the first player ever to have a 30.5 rebound and five assist game in 30 or less minutes since the great kazzy Russell just kidding who the hell is kazzy Russell do I even have ball knowledge sorry to the kazzy Russell

Stands the last stats a little skewed because players more often come into the league as teenagers now than ever before but Zion’s only the sixth teenager in league history through record five straight 20-point games LeBron Melo Kyrie Wiggins Luca and Zion but out of

The six Zion’s the only one to do it in his first nine games just insane numbers all around Zion finished his rookie season averaging 24 and A2 points per game with 6.3 rebounds while shooting 58% from the field in just 27.8 minutes per game along with that he made the all

Rookie first team and if you have any doubt how popular Zion was he was the cover at NBA 2K 21 just after playing 24 games in the NBA ridiculous comes Zion second season he only got better his teammates knew it too the team was always better when he was on the floor

Shout out Z too when he plays oh oh God nah nobody nobody can you can’t stop you can’t stop Z you can’t stop him can’t stop the man’s a Manchild so literally right when he get right yeah it is it’s gonna be scary for the league I’m GNA tell you that right now

Yeah it’s going to get real spooky Zion made his first All-Star team this season and finished his second season averaging 27 points 7.2 rebounds and Rose his field goal percentage to 61% one of the things that makes Zion so special is his athleticism if he misses a shot he’s

Going to follow it and lay it back in and really there’s nothing you can do that’s the difference between those two guys like Zion though like it’s his second jump is ridiculous like that’s the thing about him which makes him so hard to guard is like when he misses

That first layup he’s getting getting up before you even have a chance to get the rebound so unless you have like a Rob Williams back there or somebody else that can get the rebound over him like it’s difficult the next season though is when Zion would start to get completely

Underrated in my opinion though the reason for this of course would be because he missed the whole season and people forgot how special he really is Zion had to get surgery on his foot and at first the Pelicans were hopeful he’d be back for the regular season but it

Was eventually announced he missed the entirety of the Season then during all this there was a commercial Zion was featured in and to be honest he didn’t look the best in the commercial he’s been like Charles Barkley the analyst not the player that’s crazy bro but actually Charles Barkley is someone who

Had a similar story to Zion in his career and he spoke up on it as well Don Williamson yo man I don’t know you we’ve never met but somebody got to tell you like yo man you got to get in shape cuz you’re going to keep getting hurt if

You’re out of shape I don’t think the coach has enough power to tell you what to do I don’t think David Griffin who’s A friend of mine has enough power to tell you what to do I’m so blessed for Moses Malone told me me to get my fat

Ass in shape and made me lose 50 lbs it changed the whole dynamic of my life I hope you don’t take this the wrong way I want you to be a great basketball player I’ve been in your shoes being very talented being overweight and like I say

I thank God every day for Moses rest in peace you’re playing the Moses role for Zion I would love to let me tell you something I’ve seen dozens guys eat their way out of the NBA it can happen quickly because once you start getting hurt you going to keep getting hurt my

First contract was 4 4 years $2 million I got in shape for $2 million you going to make another $500 million all you got to do is get in shape but Zion actually spoke out on this recently when he was asked if it was hard to diet and he

Straight up said yeah is it hard to diet at your age uh she be honest since it’s you I’ll be real uh there are times when I will say that man that hard M it’s it’s hard man like you 20 22 got a a lot of money all it feel like

All the money in the world man it is hard but uh I’m at that point now where because of certain things I’m putting back like the wisdom around me bunch of like I don’t want to say older cuz they took offense to it and I’m just putting people around me

With wisdom put me on game to certain things and just go from there though if I wasion and there’s one guy I was going to listen to in this situation it would be Charles Barkley Barkley came into this league a little heavier and ended up having one of the best careers ever

And they’re similar in some regards too both short power forwards who use their strength if you end up having the career that Charles barley had you 100% had an elite NBA career and the good thing is Zion is listening to these players and he does understand that people want what

Is best for him uh man I think it just go back to like I said standing back there man it’s it’s just an invincibility trade uh when you young you feel like can’t nothing stop you but uh but then you look back back on your life you really look at like man

The people who gave me wisdom who like tried to nurture me tell me man like you don’t need to do that you you need to do this uh I mean they didn’t try to force your way force their way into your life so at this point in my life I’m just

Looking back at it like man who really gave me wisdom who really tried to put me on game of things and like I said man at the end of the day people going to get their opinions and what I can say is I do respect brutal honesty I’d Rather

Somebody be brutally honest with me than try to sugarcoat it cuz at the end of the day if they honest with me I know how I know what I need to do to fix it that’s a good sign when a player that young is willing to listen to what

Veterans and alltime grades have to say of course no one wants to see a wasted Talent like Zion just sit on the sideline and watch his team play someone I mentioned a bunch in this video already is LeBron Zion says that LeBron is someone he looks to when he thinks of

How to stay healthy as an NBA athlete and it comeing play not being able to maintain that so just I mean uh Braun got the blueprint yeah yeah yeah try my best to no no no Ser serious like you know like I’ve watched him I watched

Him from when he first came in we still talk now and just it it’s crazy because it’s it’s a job for him fast forward to the 2022 2023 season and Zion started the season great he averaged 26 and 7even and 29 games played and throughout

The first 100 games in his career he had some more absurd stats in his first 100 games no player has ever averaged 25.2 points on 60% shooting except for Zion with Will Chamberlain included how about this one in his first 100 games Zion scored 1,898 points in the paint second ever to

Shaq this one might be the craziest in his first 100 games Zion has 42 games with 20 points in the restricted area in the last 25 Seasons no player has ever done that even 10 times Zion at 42 okay for you LeBron fans how about this Zion

In his first 100 games scored 20 points at 83 of those games the last guy to do that Michael Jordan sorry LeBron fans don’t hate me but to ruin it all in early January he was ruled out 3 weeks with a hamstring injury he made another All-Star team this season but didn’t

Participate in the All-Star Game and actually ended up missing the rest of the season and that’s when people started to write them off I saw this video the video that actually inspired me to make this one but this guy is listing players he thinks is better than

Zion and he just lists some absurd names I think Zion’s in the same tier as Jordan that means you can damn near get the 39 guys that are better than Zion W I’ll try and get as many names I can Luca Janis Steph JW and be Tatum KD

Mitchell SGA Dame dearon Fox Devin Booker Trey young cakam Kyrie dear Jaylen Brown pa George yo kit Desmond Bane LeBron Brandon Ingram ad Zack LaVine Tyrese Maxi James Harden Jimmy Butler Bradley Bill cat’s better than Zion I think Anthony Edward’s better than Zion Deon marray Drew holiday Bam’s

Better than Zion I’m getting a lot of names he’s not that good that’s just crazy and yeah no one fully knows what’s up with Zion in his health but he has repeatedly said he just wants to play basketball and hates sitting on the sideline you know what I’m saying and I

Just like hooping yeah I’m just is that the most frustrating part that you just hoop man you got to understand you I think you of all people would understand man I’m a Hooper so when I’m sitting on the sideline watching my teammates and certain games they losing

I’m like man I know I know if I was out there I can change the outcome of it so whether people want to believe it or not when I’m on the sideline man that hurt me more than anything I I just want to H now I know every NBA fan wants the

Best for Zion and we all hope he’s healthy I mean anyone who hat on greatness is just missing out for themselves and don’t be surprised if Zion comes back and climbs the alltime rankings throughout his career he’s still only 23 years old let’s come back

To this video in 20 years this is either going to look really good for me or really bad for me

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