02/21: Zion Williamson's knee injury was not as bad as initially feared, but it nevertheless ignited a national debate
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Zion Williamson's shoe-busting, knee-spraining spectacle less than a minute into the UNC game was the perfect storm of content creation for national discourse about Zion, Duke, the amateurism model and the NBA. But Parrish and Norlander do their best to cut through the obviousness and get to the things you might not have heard addressed. But also: Parrish got into a Twitter spat with Trae Young (23:00)! The guys also get into Norlander's powerful story about LSU succeeding despite losing a player to murder in the preseason (35:45) and wrap with a preview of six big games (42:05): Virginia-Louisville; Tennessee-LSU; Florida State-UNC; Duke-Syracuse; Kansas-Texas Tech; and Michigan State-Michigan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parish. It's Thursday, February 21, 2019. Welcome back to the I-On |
| 0:12.8 | College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss camera fighting and leaky black mat |
| 0:17.6 | in Orlando is here with me in this full, largely BA Zion Williamson podcast because the |
| 0:22.4 | biggest story in college basketball has been the biggest story in sports the past 24 |
| 0:26.8 | hours and it really is hilarious. So on Tuesday afternoon, Norlander and I were trying to |
| 0:31.8 | decide whether to record late Tuesday in advance of Duke North Carolina or late Wednesday, |
| 0:37.7 | immediately after Duke North Carolina. And we decided ultimately on Tuesday because A, |
| 0:43.8 | that was more in line with our normal schedule. And B, I actually think I said something like this |
| 0:49.0 | to Norlander. The truth is, Duke North Carolina is massive leading into Duke North Carolina. |
| 0:54.6 | But like it might just be a whatever, Duke 12 point win that nothing significant will happen. |
| 1:00.9 | You know, Zion doesn't get a triple double and they just win by 12 and it's not a great game. |
| 1:05.1 | Like there won't be this need to immediately react to Duke North Carolina. So let's just, |
| 1:11.0 | let's just get on in the buzz in advance of the game instead of possibly rushing to late Wednesday |
| 1:19.0 | night talk about a game that nobody else really cares about anymore. And it turns out I could not |
| 1:23.9 | have judged that more incorrectly because since the opening seconds of Duke North Carolina, |
| 1:30.8 | Duke North Carolina has been talked about not just in college basketball circles but sports circles. |
| 1:35.6 | So that's why we're here on Thursday night as opposed to Wednesday night. I made a bad decision, |
| 1:39.3 | Norlander. At Perish, no worries man. Sometimes, you know, we try and gase these things. We've actually |
| 1:45.1 | been on the better side of that with just stuff over the, over the course of the season and, |
| 1:49.9 | and even last but, but yeah, a little bit of swing of the miss. And yes, it has been |
| 1:54.7 | as expected and we'll get into all the facets here. But, Perish, I will, I will open on this. |
| 2:02.4 | It is like, okay, so from the perspective of our like our day to day lives, right? And telling my |
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