Zion Williamson talks defense, second quarter | Pelicans-Lakers Postgame 2/9/24

Zion Williamson talks defense, second quarter | Pelicans-Lakers Postgame 2/9/24

Defensively tonight and did Miss shots I like seen them Miss shots they hit they were hitting a lot of shots at a high clip um but there were things we could have definitely avoided I got back door cut too many times I think we were overh helping times when we weren’t supposed

To and a lack of communication you came out firing scoring at a super high clip early on when you go into a game you going with the mindset of hey I want to assist or hey I want to score or is it just a matter of reading what the defense is

Giving you I get the lay of the L and if it’s there for me to score I’ll score the uh the second quarter was kind of when that game flipped a little bit just just what you see in those 12 minutes um granted they were hitting shots

But we’re fine with that if you’re going to hit tough shots that that happens but we can’t give up just easy layups and transition baskets we can’t do stuff like that cuz that’s when the game get out of hand seemed like espe after you started C man I guess we that what’s

Kind of your mentality uh that’s a tough basketball question because uh people don’t know our Scout and that’s just what it is when you don’t know our Scout certain things look a certain way and that’s not what it is but uh in situations like that when a

Team is trying to attack me I got to play defense I gotta play better defense and when you kind of feel just the team as a whole the physicality the mentality as there on the defensive end guess what do yall have to do to respond in those

Moments kind of get the tie turn other uh get one stop at a time you got to stack your stops instead of looking at like three stops in a row just now we goingon to get a stop on this possession then we going to get a stop on the next

You got to stack your stops ours yeah uh we have a extremely high potential uh when it comes to our defense uh but we still just got to build chemistry on that end uh with different groups some units get out there and then our defense is really

Really good other units it’s not like that but uh I think the more we communicate and the more we trust each other on rotations the better we’ll become got T start that first quarter and kind of slow down a I guess what they kind of do to adjust things more difficult for

Yall I personally don’t think they really made things difficult I think we just started trying to get our teammates involved and started and choosing spots but we were scoring we just didn’t get no stops you guys have a great night

New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson’s postgame interview after the Pelicans’ game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday, Feb. 9 during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
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Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
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Zion Williamson #1 Forward
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