{"id":81059,"date":"2022-09-28T21:48:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/zion-williamson-looked-amazing-and-dominated-team-scrimmage-says-new-orleans-pelicans-coach-willie-green\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T21:48:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:48:40","slug":"zion-williamson-looked-amazing-and-dominated-team-scrimmage-says-new-orleans-pelicans-coach-willie-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/zion-williamson-looked-amazing-and-dominated-team-scrimmage-says-new-orleans-pelicans-coach-willie-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson looked &#8216;amazing&#8217; and &#8216;dominated&#8217; team scrimmage, says New Orleans Pelicans coach Willie Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-09-28T19:38:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">3:38 PM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Andrew Lopez<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>METAIRIE, La.  &#8212; The New Orleans Pelicans opened training camp on Tuesday with two practices, a morning session followed by one in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>By design, the morning session was lighter.  The evening session had a scrimmage portion that was going to be the first intense 5-on-5 work for Zion Williamson with the team since May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>One would expect someone to have some rust in that situation, but Williamson isn&#8217;t just any someone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Z looked amazing,&#8221; Pelicans coach Willie Green said on Wednesday afternoon.  &#8220;His strength, his speed. He dominated the scrimmage pretty much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Williamson told reporters on Tuesday that he was excited for the 5-on-5 practice because as much as he could work out during the offseason, it was hard to simulate 5-on-5 work against highly talented players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What stood out was his force more than anything,&#8221; Green said.  &#8220;He got down the floor quickly. When he caught the ball, he made quick decisions. Whether it was scoring, finding a teammate. It was really impressive to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williamson&#8217;s teammates said he took full advantage of the work that he was able to put in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looks like Z,&#8221; Pelicans forward Larry Nance said.  &#8220;Dude hasn&#8217;t played basketball for 500-something days. It&#8217;s not like none of us are expecting that right away but shoot, I got to be honest with you, dude looks good. It&#8217;s going to take time for everybody to adjust to him . It&#8217;s going to take him time to adjust to everybody, but it&#8217;s hard not to be impressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nance said he spoke to Williamson in the locker room afterward and asked him if he realized that he didn&#8217;t miss a shot.  Williamson told him he hadn&#8217;t even thought about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looks like the same wrecking ball we all know and love,&#8221; Nance said.  &#8220;Very pleased to say the least.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Green said that the Pelicans mostly used their projected starting lineup in scrimmages last night &#8212; Williamson, CJ McCollum, Brandon Ingram, Herb Jones and Jonas Valanciunas &#8212; but will switch things up some Wednesday night when they return to the floor for their second consecutive set of two-a-days.<\/p>\n<p>While Nance has played against Williamson before and Green has coached against Williamson, the Pelicans have several players who have not had a chance to play with Williamson since he was injured all of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Murphy and Jose Alvarado, part of last year&#8217;s rookie class with Jones, got their first real on-court look at Williamson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Strong. Very strong. And also ready to play,&#8221; Murphy said when asked how Williamson looked.  &#8220;I will say that. That&#8217;s all I have to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado said it didn&#8217;t look like Williamson had missed much time at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Z is such a special player,&#8221; Alvarado said.  &#8220;But a player we can adapt to. He does n&#8217;t need the ball right away. He&#8217;ll find his way. He adapted really well. It looked like he&#8217;s been playing with us for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3:38 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN METAIRIE, La. &#8212; The New Orleans Pelicans opened training camp on Tuesday with two practices, a morning session followed by one in the evening. By design, the morning session was lighter. The evening session had a scrimmage portion that was going to be the first intense 5-on-5 work for Zion &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/zion-williamson-looked-amazing-and-dominated-team-scrimmage-says-new-orleans-pelicans-coach-willie-green\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zion Williamson looked &#8216;amazing&#8217; and &#8216;dominated&#8217; team scrimmage, says New Orleans Pelicans coach Willie Green<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[68,2370,46,27273,2371],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81513,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pelicans-zion-williamson-dominated-in-first-scrimmage-since-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":81059,"position":0},"title":"Pelicans&#8217; Zion Williamson &#8216;dominated&#8217; in first scrimmage since 2020","date":"September 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Zion Williamson's first scrimmage in what feels like forever apparently went fantastic on Tuesday night.Williamson opened training camp with the New Orleans Pelicans normally on Tuesday and participated in a 5-on-5 scrimmage \u2014 which marked his first real scrimmage with the team since May 2020 after a string of injuries\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":102542,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/zion-williamson-more-than-just-decent-in-pelicans-return\/","url_meta":{"origin":81059,"position":1},"title":"Zion Williamson more than just &#8216;decent&#8217; in Pelicans return","date":"October 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"12:59 AM ETAndrew LopezESPN NEW YORK -- Despite praise from his teammates and coach, Zion Williamson called his regular-season return to the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday night just a \"decent starter performance.\"\"It's a lot of room for improvement,\" he said. \"I'm still learning my teammates. 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