Zion Williamson details what caused brawl between Heat and Pelicans | NBA on ESPN

Zion Williamson details what caused brawl between Heat and Pelicans | NBA on ESPN

That whole thing uh between you guys kind of happened right after Kevin Love wrapped you up did you did you expect it to just get that hot was your reaction to everything kind of happening after that fou uh nice shoes man um no uh Caleb

Uh I I wasn’t tripping about K LOVE cuz he actually protected me on my fall so uh I just kind of just got up and was walking away and I think uh all of a sudden I see Butler uh kind of lunging towards Naji so I’m trying to get there

Like yo relax like what’s going on I think a minute kind of went by and all of a sudden um Brian and Jose kind of getting at of it and it was a lot of lot of stuff going on um but when I watched the film I was

Like okay you can like clearly see how it happened but I mean like I said before it’s hard not to love like that it’s just competitive it’s people competing uh people riding for their teammates um so that’s all that is yeah I mean you you have to play through a

Lot of physicality a lot of contact just because of the way your game is how what do you mean by that can you go into detail about that uh you just get hit a lot around the rim I think okay I just do any you guys agree with that don’t set me up

I got family Fe I can’t uh I’m sorry but Contin you the question just how do you how do you manage like taking that much contact every single game uh just got to find different ways to score at this point I mean especially if I’m not going to get

The call um you I got to just figure out another way to score in that situation cuz if I rely on a foul call that could cost us a key game down the line so just got to be creative with scoring are you kind of going expecting teams to kind of

Hit you at this point like that’s just the way the teams are guarden you oh yeah I mean at this point there there’s nothing I can do about that uh but just kind of go up strong and then even when I try to sell some of the fouls uh it’s

Tough cuz it almost feel like you wasting a possession especially when you don’t get the call so uh you just pick and choose your spots is that kind of weird for you having to kind of ADD that to your game kind kind of feeling the need to kind of

Show that you’re getting hit on certain plays uh yeah n it is is definitely new for me cuz uh I wasn’t taught to play the game like that but uh with the league we’re in yeah I got to if I want to get a call sometimes I

Have to sell it in order for the ref to see it cuz sometimes the ref don’t see it I give that sometimes it is hard to see but I just got to sell it better and the guys have kind of expressed that we know stuff like this might happen with Z

At certain times it’s our responsibility to step up and be by his side and help him during those moments what’s it like when you see your teammates kind of come to your Aid during those type of moments they’re my dogs like I said like if it was fake they wouldn’t do that if

That love wasn’t real they wouldn’t do that they just they looking out for their brother and I I I daed them up I’m like man appreciate that cuz like I said that just kind of that get everybody going and see before the in it happen did it feel like this game was really

Chippy could you feel it leading towards something or no uh I can feel leaning towards something but not like that it was probably just I felt it more like on some this is just going to be a battle it’s going to have to toughen it out do you think this is

What maybe the playoffs is going to feel like all that emotion on the court having to deal with all sorts of stuff whether you’re getting the foul call in your favor or not uh I can’t speak from personal experience but from what I’ve seen yeah cuz the stakes are bigger every game

Matters and that’s how we’re playing the rest of the season every game matters we want to be in a good spot for the playoffs so moments like that happen um it’s almost preparing us for the playoffs that was kind of my question how does this kind of benefit you all in

The playoffs with that kind of atmosphere um it benefits us because when moments like that happen uh we could be on the road and the crowd could really be into and championship teams execute no matter what’s going on they execute so uh we didn’t execute too well after that but I

Mean it was a learning experience for us and take it and learn from it is on y had like I think it’s five different starting lineups in these last 10 games what does that say about this team that y’all were able to with stand at and go

Eight with eight and two I guess over the last 10 games we saying it all season we got a lot of depth on this team um you know coach always preaches the his conditioning test and it’s not something he does at the beginning of the season it’s just staying ready whenever your

Number call whatever your minutes increases be ready for that that’s the real condition to test for this team fourth you got no CJ no find space for yourself and get you wanted to on the court I think I was just kind of in my

Own head a little bit I I still got to be aggressive to score I just uh I didn’t know which way the foul call was going to go so I was just trying to find the best shot in terms of who can who who is open but I just still got to

Be aggressive cuz I feel like I still could have gotten my spots come on NBA on the

Zion Williamson provides his perspective on the altercation between the Miami Heat and New Orleans Pelicans that led to four players being ejected. Zion also speaks about the way he’s defended and how referees call fouls.

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