After losing 117-123 to the Knicks, the Pelicans finished first in the league with 1 win and 6 losses in their first seven games of the season.
In the 2019 offseason, when the big deal of the thick eyebrow brother was completed, many fans joked: pelicans and Lakers who enter the playoffs faster, not necessarily.
2 years later, the Lakers won the championship, and the Pelicans are still the same old way. This season, the Lakers continued to storm the championship, and the Pelicans started with 1 win and 6 losses, and the playoffs became far away.
The Pelicans did not start well, which has a lot to do with Zion's absence due to injury. According to Pelicans general manager David Griffin, Zion underwent surgery for a fractured right foot during the offseason. Fractured right foot? It sounds serious, but it's not too serious, Zion just suffered a fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone in his right foot, which can be completely healed, and there will be no tail after the injury.
According to US media reports, Zion is expected to be re-examined next week, and if the problem is not big, he can make a comeback soon. David Griffin said in an interview: "Zion is expected to be reviewed this weekend, which will determine his progress from one stage to the next, and now he has not been allowed to play, he is doing some confrontation-free training, only running in a straight line. ”
Before the Pelicans' game against the Knicks, Zion did some no-match training on the sidelines. The US media posted a training video of Zion, which immediately caused a heated discussion among fans. In the video, Zion is training to move laterally, with clumsy steps and a little slow movement.
After all, it is still recovering, the footsteps are clumsy, the movement is slow, these do not matter. What matters is that Zion's figure is fat again!
Some fans retweeted Zion's training video and said: "The returning Zion looks like a ladder. ”
Note that the ladder mentioned by fans is not a fire fighting tool, nor is it an ancient siege war instrument, but a street ball legend. Cloud Ladder is known as the most flexible fat man, he once weighed 170 kilograms, gave a strong visual shock on the field, and was famous in the street ball industry.
Ladder is playing street ball, and it doesn't matter if you are heavy. But Zion plays professional basketball, and Zion's weight makes many fans worry about him.
According to US media reports, Zion's weight gained 16 kilograms during his recovery. Zion's latest weight is 318 pounds (about 144 kilograms), and he has surpassed the Lone Ranger's Boban Majanovic (290 pounds) and the Cavaliers' Taco Farr (311 pounds) to become the heaviest player in the NBA.
Some fans processed the photos of Yunti playing street ball, P into Zion's appearance, and the basketball in his hand was also replaced by McDonald's. Fans believe that Zion's indiscipline has made him a big fat man walking, fat into a ball.
Whether Zion has gained weight because of indiscipline, there is no clear report on this for the time being. But Zion being so fat wasn't a good thing for his career.
Zion is only 1.98 meters tall, weighs the heaviest in the NBA, and he is still a flying style of play, which makes his lower limbs, especially his knees and ankles, too heavy.
As early as when the draft entered the league, the discussion about whether Zion should lose weight began. One view is that weight is Zion's advantage, and with weight, zion can hardly carry him when it comes to the basket. If the weight is lost, Zion's advantage is reduced.
Another view is that weight makes it difficult for Zion to stay healthy, and if attendance can't even be guaranteed, what advantages are there?
Zion missed most of the season in his rookie season due to injury, and missed the opening game of the season in the offseason this year due to injury. The weight affects his physical health, not entirely without reason.
And some fans have said that even if Zion does not lose weight, he cannot gain weight. Zion was fat when he entered the league and is getting fatter and fatter now. Coupled with his flying style of play, the risk of this injury is also too great.
Industry analysts believe that Zion is now equivalent to pulling the spring, the longer it is pulled, the greater the rebound. But if the spring loses its elasticity after passing the critical point, the spring is also abandoned. Zion, let's hang out!