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  • It's been fun watching Zion play basketball of late pelicans at home, taking on the bowls.

  • He would do it again just over four minutes left in the first quarter.

  • Pelicans down, 21 12.

  • Look at that finish.

  • He's just too big.

  • He's just too strong.

  • He's too athletic.

  • Pelicans trail 21 14.

  • Then he plays some defense.

  • Lonzo ball, then gets up and finds him for the turnaround.

  • Check out this past by Lonzo, where the fall kids can dish.

  • Can't they helped to lead the one we've been.

  • Zach Lavine would take over third quarter.

  • Levin finishes tough.

  • 12 points in the quarter for Levine that on the third level.

  • Yeah, he is.

  • He's not just a dunker.

  • Fourth quarter.

  • Just under two minutes.

  • Pelicans down.

  • Six.

  • Eric Bledsoe finds Jackson Hayes pelicans cut the lead before.

  • Here they come after defensive stocks.

  • Zion gets the pass he's found on the play, so he would head to the line to shoot two.

  • Alright, first free throw.

  • No second free throw.

  • No, that would have cut the lead to two.

  • And the pelicans.

  • I just couldn't stop the Bulls in the fourth quarter.

  • Levin, 36 points and eight rebounds here.

  • Zion in his postgame decision around the game.

  • I just felt like I had to go back on the court, you know, find my flow.

  • I know her from time to time, even sometimes when I feel like I even had a good game, I just want to keep feeling that flow and keep feeling that high.

  • But tonight I was just different.

  • I really feel like I let my team down, so, you know, I just had to find my flow out there.

  • That's one of those things that will eat a pro athlete alive when they have an opportunity late in the game and they just don't get it done.

  • Welcome to our Pelicans reporter.

  • Andrew Lopez Zion Stat line.

  • Good.

  • 28 9 and five.

  • Pretty good game in the box score, but what changes have you seen in Zion that may be unique from his post game habits of the past?

  • Well, for one, we've never seen him come back on the floor and shoot that way.

  • We've seen other players do it into the rotation guys Jackson, Hayes, Nikkila, Alexander Walker, but never Zion Williamson.

  • Now Zion told us last night There's times where he'll he'll go to a gym.

  • Uh, that he would not name or the facility to get shots up after a game, sometimes after losses, sometimes after wins.

  • But as you heard just now, he was that those miss free throws at the end and for miss free throws to start the game.

  • We're really eating at him.

  • Uh, and he felt like he let his team down.

  • He never wants to waste the possession, and he really felt like he he kind of lost the game.

  • Even though, uh, the defense is probably what did it for them.

  • Stan Van Gundy talked about that last night.

  • Uh, he wishes some guys would take pride in, uh, what they're doing on the defensive end and getting beat so many times.

  • Uh, and they'll have a chance to correct that tonight against Miami.

  • Alright, based on your time covering the team, would you characterize this as a growth moment for Zion, going right back out on the court and trying to get back what he couldn't finish?

  • Absolutely.

  • And it's been it's been a month of growth for him, whether it's point Zion being more of a playmaker trying to be more of a leader on this team.

  • Uh, last night was definitely just another step in the right direction for him trying to get out.

  • He knew what he was doing.

  • He knew how to correct the shot.

  • Uh, and he's talked with Fred Vinson, their pills assistant coach, about doing so, Uh, and last night was just about getting that flow back.

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It's been fun watching Zion play basketball of late pelicans at home, taking on the bowls.

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