Zion Williamson on loss to Boston | Pelicans-Celtics Postgame 3/30/2024
Yeah what you just see uh in the third quarter when they really you know create a lot of that separation um kind of goes back to what I kind of say over past few press conferences uh they up their intensity and we we didn’t match it and when we
Started to match it the game was kind of out of hand at that point um what it just shows what type team they are a great team yeah I mean what do you just think about like the how the pieces fit one through five and they’re starting
Line up arguably just the best um they can switch one through five um especially when they have uh a starting unit out there um they can switch one through five uh they don’t really have like a a pigeon you can really pick on you and if they do you have to watch film
And see where it’s at but um n they just they’re all like size and they can switch and Willie talked about kind of answering that in the fourth quarter by just playing no Center kind of playing you at the five for most of the time uh
With those units what are you kind of seeing out there and how I guess how different it is when it’s you and pretty much four perimet players um it allows us to play faster uh but it also allows us to kind of switch one through five and not really have someone
To pick on so but the small ball unit it works for us but the third quarter when they up their intensity we we should have matched it but we didn’t and kind of getting a chance to measure yourself up against you know the team was by far the best
Record in the league what do you kind of see some of the things that makes them who they are that y’all kind of want to get to at some point um they’re consist their consistency on a uh nightly basis um you know the things that they mess up with
They don’t mess up twice um and you you can see it in their record um they know when to pick up their intensity they know when they’re playing sloppy and uh they make adjustments quick and that’s what makes them great you got off to a fast start on the offensive and then
Like you said they kind of turn things up defensively what were they doing to kind of make it tough for you on the offensive um you can just see it uh where we were starting our offense from we were starting our offense near half court versus starting close to the
Three-point line so just them making that small adjustment by applying pressure higher up uh it changes the offense for anybody you play against um so then you know we’re not really getting the shots we want we’re just kind of forcing up shots their coach talks about the law of averages when it
Comes to leaving Guys open from three I know every team kind of does that to an extent but seems like the Celtics really really Hing in on a couple key players and they’re just going to live and die by like if they’re hitting shots just
What do you make of of that kind of like defensive strategy and just stick into that aggressive of a game plan just no matter even if a guys um I think that’s just the mindset of if they lose like that they’re they’ll be able to sleep at night but if
They don’t lose like that then they they look at film like nah that wasn’t okay so I mean if that works for them I mean their record shows it but you know I think that’s the route they go it works for them so it yields results got to
Give them that respect you mentioned the not matching their intensity are you surprised by that considering know kind like what’s at stake this season um yeah uh you know coaches talked to us about when we start the third quarter and starting it faster with more momentum and uh we started slow and they
Didn’t um but you know it’s not even just about intensity just just making basketball reads we uh we became stagnant and they didn’t you talked about where you’re starting the office from but a couple times in a game Boston went big where you saw Horford pinkas together then tman was out there
With one of the other bigs did that present any kind of more challenges to you personally or to you guys running that offense um did you feel that I wouldn’t say so I would just more so say just that that third quarter for us uh that kind of was the game for us
We we didn’t come ready to play in the third quarter did the end of the second quarter at all kind of affect what happened in the third quarter you guys were I think leading 55 51 you step a free throw line and before you knew it
They’re walking in with a lead in a halftime um I mean that’s basketball it’s a game of runs and that’s halftime it was what one two-point game so there’s nothing to go in a halftime worried about is when you start this that third quarter and we start started
Slow and they didn’t and they were able to get like a 10 13o lead you guys have a great night
New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson’s postgame interview after the Pelicans’ game against the Boston Celtics on Saturday, March 30 during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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Jose Alvarado #15 Guard
Dyson Daniels #11 Guard
Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
Brandon Ingram #14 Forward
Herbert Jones #5 Forward
E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
Naji Marshall #8 Forward
CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
Dereon Seabron #0 Guard
Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
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10 Comments
JB clamped him up bad
The first time I seen Zion get 🔒 up
That’s only because there was no other threat someone has to step up
We need Brandon Ingram!!! 😭
Celtics did an excellent job on Z but yet he still put up 25 and 9. Expect him to go off next game
Much respect to my boy Z but that’s like the 3-4 game I’ve seen him dominate in the first quarter and then maybe score 1-2 baskets early in the 4th but that’s it. Same against OKC. I think he’s gonna have it so hard in the playoffs cuz it’s much easier to defend when you have one strategy only. Wanna see him start working on that midrange just to give a different look.
Trey got to step up.
BI is needed helps Zion from getting a wall on him
Are you serious !!!!! Anyone that has eyes can't see that Zion Williams need to improve his basketball skills other than driving the ball to the basket with Force he has no other skill this guy can't even make free throws he should try to develop a 15 to 10 ft jump shot around the rim at least try and develop your game yes Zion William is a good player but he will never be a all-around player until he develops a mid-range jump shot he's too predictable
As a Celtics fan, Zion was not the problem, he was awesome all game. Pels have a good team, and I expected them to be better this season, but injuries have hurt them. Ingram would have made a difference.