{"id":210007,"date":"2021-04-10T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T17:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=210007"},"modified":"2021-04-10T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T17:54:31","slug":"stan-van-gundy-bets-on-point-zion-i-think-thats-where-his-future-is-in-this-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/stan-van-gundy-bets-on-point-zion-i-think-thats-where-his-future-is-in-this-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Van Gundy bets on &#8216;Point-Zion&#8217;: I think that\u2019s where his future is in this game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, in the game against the 76ers, due to the absence of Lonzo Ball and Nickeil Alexander-Walker, New Orleans Pelicans coach Stan Van Gundy decided to use Zion Williamson as point guard, and &#8216;point-Zion&#8217; responded by leading the team to victory with 37 points, 15 rebounds and 8 assists.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkL_xZ4jsSg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just decided tonight that we were going to play him at the point all night. He played the game the way you\u2019re supposed to play the game. He was tremendous. \u2026 He was obviously incredible tonight.<\/p>\n<p>We want to get him more experience with that stuff going forward because I think that\u2019s where his future is in this game. I really do&#8230;We\u2019ve increased it throughout the year, giving him more and more opportunities. We\u2019d like to get him more moving forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The evolution of Zion&#8217;s game is exceeding expectations, in his second season as a pro he is producing 26.5 points, 7.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game, shooting 61% from the field and 70% from the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson is producing 26.5 points, 7.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game, shooting 61% from the field and 70% from the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[1121,1846],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-210007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-zion-williamson"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210007"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=210007"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=210007"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=210007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}