Zion Williamson on team expectations | Pelicans vs. Magic Postgame 4/3/24

Zion Williamson on team expectations | Pelicans vs. Magic Postgame 4/3/24

The uh the the Gary Harris dive into your legs I mean obviously did not look like a a fun sequence I mean for you how do you how do you just handle you know like extreme next question uh third quarter I think was you know where they created a lot of

This separation just what did you see in the third there uh kind of going back to what I said kind of in the bossing game um not only did they pick up their physicality but they executed we we tried to match it but we uh offensively we didn’t execute and run

Our stuff with Force yeah and I mean more to that what you just see on the offensive end I guess besides besides Force if anything um we got to attack the gaps I don’t think we’re attacking the gaps uh with a purpose I think we’re going but we’re

Not doing it with a purpose uh call it for us we call it point five decision and we just got to just do that a lot better what’s your feel just on the the state of the team right now after losing four the last five you know big home

Stand and just the frustration building at the end of this game uh it is frustrating but um I’ve said it before the beauty in the NBA is you got a game either the next day or the day after so you know uh I always tell

Myself on the court and off the court uh Don’t Panic cuz when people panic it cause other people to want to panic so so no there’s no need for us to panic uh we just got to come with a higher level of focus into these next two games but

Like I always say one game at a time and I know you talked about execution but how much do you think just matching their physicality was the issue tonight as well um you just got to be physical I mean the end of the day we just we got to be

Physical uh they called a foul they call it but I’d rather I’d rather us uh make the refs call it than not try to match it and uh you left the game with the finger issue I guess how is it feeling and was was there did you feel like you

Would have been able to play at the end if they put you back in um I don’t want to dive too deep into that question CU I don’t want to say anything that’s not right to be honest um but yeah uh I tweaked it a little bit

Um I’ll have more information on it um tomorrow morning I’m going to get a looked at and go from there Z did you hurt that finger on that dunk attempt in the fourth quarter uh earli earlier in the game uh he got hit a few times but uh when I went for

The block on sugs I kind of went with force and just banged it against the backboard really hard six games left um what do you guys have to do to make this playoff push a success uh like I said we we have to have a higher level of focus

We we just do um spoke on it a lot throughout the year um but at a certain point I just can’t keep speaking on it we got to make it happen uh if we want to be one of those contenders we we got to get wins even in tough games like

This we got to figure out how to get a win it’s you know these guys I your teammates obviously but you feel like y have what it takes to kind of fight out of this absolutely um go on practice tomorrow and make sure energy is high make sure

Everybody uh make sure nobody’s tripping over what happened uh cuz like I say you can’t Panic there’s no need to panic we just have to have higher level of focus and taking one game at a time obviously frustration was high at the end but how surprised it was to see

Three guys you know get toss basically 5 seconds so I had I had already started I had already got to room so I didn’t even get to see it happen um but you know coach coach spoke to us about that um I don’t know if he shared it so I don’t

Want to speak too much on it but uh I think that’s something we just got to talk about internally as a team thanks you guys have a great night

New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson speaks to the media following the team’s game against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday, April 3, 2024.

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New Orleans Pelicans Roster
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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
Cody Zeller #44 Forward-Center

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