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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaBarrel, post: 4032842, member: 363"] kind of a catch 22 thing with Zion now who claims he wants to win and stay in New Orleans which is debatable at best because he hasn’t been able to keep weight off and show a commitment but he didn't hurt his foot sitting around in the off season. Injuries are one thing weight another. He and griffin come on in preseason and say he will be back for the regular season. It looks like following the timeline he will miss 30 games. At that point the Pelicans will be out of it, most likely about 5-25. So basically another season lost. Zion kind of has to play if the pelicans are going to be any good. all that said the team has some nice pieces and has been built around Zion and Ingram. J valanciunas (SP) has been great. Graham as well. They have couple rookies in Herb Jones who have been great defensively and Murphy has been streaky 3 point guy. Now Ingram and graham are day to day. The new head coach willie Greene has the team playing better defense and is obviously much better liked that Stan van. Griffin has been a disaster but the one thing he did is bring in Nelson who was the renowned head trainer from the suns but it appears that Zion and his family are not happy with the way he was rehabbed from the knee injury two years ago but 2 years later here we are again with the foot. I think there was a setback a month or so ago and nobody has said anything about it the problem is I’m not sure either Zion or Griffin will be in New Orleans long term. zion is a phenomenal talent when on the court, he was almost all nba last year and probably should have been. He needs to start with the weight as that he can control, at least 265. Then see if the injuries diminish because of it, at least if not than so be it. I don't think it's a shock that a guy with a foot injury would put some weight on and get out of shape while spending time off his feet. He will be back in game shape when he finally plays which I bet will be some time around Christmas and the season will be lost by then. [/QUOTE]

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