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Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA show.

I'm Jared Weiss.

I am joined by our Pelicans writer, Will Gilleri.

We've got Andrew Seleck producing this show.

Will, you just talked to Zion Williamson's trainer and you wanted to get the skinny,

or skinny, is that a little too

is that too much the the less chubby on what's going on with Zion this offseason and one of the

most interesting revelations from this piece is that he claims that Zion Williamson is now a better

athlete than he was before he got hurt yeah that was definitely a moment during interview. I had to stop him mid-answer and be like, wait, what? Like, Zion more athletic? Like, how is that even possible? But, you know, he said it a couple times during the interview. He was firm and saying, yeah, I think he's a better athlete now. And, you know, does that mean Zion's going to have

like a 50-inch vertical now? I don't know if that's true. But I think he's speaking more to just the way Zion moves on the court, his stop and start ability, his ability to kind of change directions in the air. I think that's one of the things that makes Zion such a unique athlete. You see times, we're here, drive to the lane. He'll jump in the air and just move around a guy where you see guys kind of plow through people or they try to go over somebody to finish a layup. Zion will jump in the air and just kind of move to the left and just end up laying the ball in. It's like one of the craziest things you'll see. And I think they'll, they think we're going to see more stuff like that where he's able to contour his body and just have like ridiculous body control on these drives to the run. Because we know that's where he's at his best when he's attacking the paint. And when he's doing that, he's going to have to go through multiple bodies. So it's about him just being able to move through that traffic and get to the rim the way

he usually does.

And I think now, you know, with just a better physique and just a better ability to move

around on the court, they feel like he could do some stuff that we haven't seen before.

Yeah, Zines is weird player because I think there's a lot of this generation, it's been a lot

of guys that have more of a, like a wing mold that have the size to be a big.

Zion's more of a big mold who just has the speed to be a wing.

Because like a big thing, a big difference between like a big and a wing is that a wing

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