LAKE GOOD VIEW, Fla. – New Orleans Pelican rookie Zion Wiliamson was explosive Thursday at HP Field House, scoring thirteen problems in 15 minutes in the Pelicans’ defeat to Jazz.
Williamson does not appear to have missed a level in the FOUR-month nbaories fired from the coronavirus pandemic. He had many physical exercises, strength education and basketball training with his stepfather in his forty-year-old.
Unfortunately for New Orleans, his limited minutes had expired in the final minutes of the game, leaving Williamson on the bench to watch the head escape, at one point 16 problems. Rudy Gobert of Utah, the first player known to test positive for coronavirus, made the winning loose pitches.
“They didn’t stop me,” Williamson said after the game. “Yes, I sought to be there, but we are returning to my food. That’s all.
After Williamson finished a pre-game warm-up, the Pelicans decided he could start and play in limited minutes, despite Williamson’s suggestion a day before he was in a position to go all the way.
“Of course we would have liked to play with him, but you use the minutes they gave us. That’s the way it is. I mean, we wouldn’t take him there,” Pelican coach Alvin said. High bourgeoisie. I think he looked smart. I think he had a great time and, obviously, we’re a much bigger and very different basketball team when he’s on the ground. “
Williamson missed the 3 Pelican scrums due to his nine-day absence to attend what he called “a pressing circle of family affairs.”
He spent four days in quarantine as part of the league’s health and safety protocols for players that receive approval to leave the campus for personal reasons. Williamson also had to receive negative tests daily for COVID-19.
The pelicans treated Williamson carefully earlier in the season, but for other reasons. After missing the first 44 games from a surgically repaired right knee, Williamson averaged 25 minutes in his first five games. Pelicans gradually increased their minutes with 10 games in February (30.6) and five games in March (33) before the NBA stopped operations due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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