Is Zion still the first man of the future?

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Without focusing on exploring the news, onlookers may overlook a big event that could affect the future of basketball: Zion could be reimbursed this season! That's a hypothesis that started being discussed on a small scale before Christmas last year, first coming from the relatively good expectations of management within his club Pelicans. The more fundamental reason is that Zion was injured before the opening battle, which is a pessimistic fact that needs to be re-evaluated at least a month after treatment. However, the reporter with the team concluded at the beginning of the year that Zion was still unable to train, and it was impossible to catch up with the Pelicans' ranking in the case of more than half of the schedule.

Zion may be reimbursed for the season, which makes his "future first man" identity attribute discounted again. Zion started very high before his debut, which can be said to satisfy most of the public opinion's imagination of the first person in the league, and even some conditions are more than any predecessor. Zion in high school with the first visual impact of the same period of history of the dunk and block, became the world's attention of the super Internet celebrity, the university attracted the league's first man James with enough to let the outside world guess the agent Rich Paul to the scene to watch, and even left a phone, which is James's treatment before his debut.

At the level of public opinion, Zion is the first person in the future, which is a treatment that Antetokounmpo or Doncic do not have, and as for Morant, Trae Young and Edwards, they do not have this capital. Zion's future first-man attributes reached the level of Jordan and James. He was competed by major sneaker brands and eventually won nike (Jordan) a highest offer in history, which is higher than James's if it is limited to the amount. Zion has star cards auctioned to a level of 100,000. Before Doncic was invited to design sneakers, Zion had its first generation of sneakers. Zion also made the 2K cover character. Last year, Zion became an All-Star starter (replacing Embiid, who was injured and absent)! Following this trend, I have no hesitation in nominating Zion to succeed Jordan and James as the protagonist of Slam Dunk in the Sky 3.

After all, public opinion can only be assisted, and actual combat is an important material. However, Zion harvested as usual. Zion's comeback debut was enough to go down in history, and even the three-pointers he was later judged not to be good at were thrown out of the realm. Since then, Zion has begun to cash in on his talents, not only for the dunks of the circle fans, but even the end of the empty connection that saved Holliday from an outrageous passing ceiling, and his impact, under the confrontation of pure defensive action, may even be challenged by O'Neal.

In addition, Zion also met the data standards – the standard refers to the epoch-making phenomenon of super-giant. Zion averaged at least one milestone per game, rivaling or even surpassing Jordan, James and O'Neal in the same period. Zion's strength extended to a strategic level as early as his rookie season, so much so that there was a plan within the league hierarchy: an attempt to propel the Pelicans, who had a very small market, against the First Lakers of the West led by the league's first man James and former future first man Davis. It was mainly James, because the biggest topic of unofficial positioning of the series at that time was: let James against Zion reproduce the conversation between Bird and rookie Jordan decades ago.

The League wants to use Zion to build momentum, and the Pelicans are keen to build a team with him at its core. So after the big Van Gundy, who had long been abandoned by the mainstream of the league, decided to hire him as the only head coach to propose a blueprint for transforming Zion into a point guard, and the old man later implemented this plan in actual combat. Zion played point guards more exaggerated than Antetokounmpo and James, and were called "the strongest point guards in history." Of course, the effect is also very remarkable. Zion, like Davis, grew up practicing possession. There is also the so-called "formula" support, in a limited period of time, as long as Zion's number of assists reaches a certain statistic (5), the Pelicans have a very high winning rate. There's just one limitation, and that's Zion's poor shooting, which is the equivalent of grooming contemporary O'Neal into Curry who doesn't regularize three-pointers, which is obviously a great project that tests too many factors in particular.

In addition to shooting, Zion also has height problems, and playing the number four position is easy to be blocked. However, the huge advantage in strength made up for these weaknesses, and Zion's explosive power was even inferior to that of his predecessor Buckley. Zion is also particularly conservative about his body use, and despite having the first actual combat dunk in history, he is not crazy about various shows. Unfortunately, the league encouraged the offense, causing a large number of sequelae, the most obvious being that several players brushed their scores and aggression by making fouls. Zion, on the other hand, like James, was a man who was too strong to be considered to have no cylinder. Before the end of last season's regular season, Zion fractured his ring finger due to various "legal" thugs in the box, which not only reimbursed the season, but also allowed the Pelicans to say goodbye to the playoffs completely.

Zion Williamson, who is back, can still compete for the first man in the future. But first of all, we must limit the weaknesses, especially the spiritual level. Zion has been criticized for not only shooting and playing, but also self-discipline. Basketball has weaknesses, it is best not to jump to conclusions, which is why I never think Zion will be delayed by shooting and become the first person in the future. But if the mental attributes are not passed, it may ruin the career. For example, Zion slept in a video lesson, and although Arenas defended, it was not like the state that the first person in the future should have. The limited mental attributes also led to Zion's lack of control over weight, and Buckley sighed angrily: you have no diet management, too talented as you, you could have become the first person in the league!