Thursday edition of locked on NBA Lock and Goliver and joining us is Ben

Goliver from the Big Easy he was there to see the Zion debut which I joked on our broadcast actually interrupted the impeachment

hearings because it was such a big story. It felt almost overblown then

throughout the day the way everyone was reacting. It certainly felt that way at halftime,

and then all of a sudden it didn't feel that way.

Well, look, color me guilty. I was completely all in obsessed with this game I've been

counting down for you know probably more than a week at least in my own head

about what this would look like obviously we've been waiting for months to see

Zyan Williamson back on the court and for the first

three quarters I think you were probably feeling pretty good if you were in the camp of

oh this is all overdone what's happening you know why are we paying so much attention to a

guy who's coming off a knee injury

and is he going to be 100% you know, healthy or even capable of contributing, especially when you

see him out there in kind of four minute shifts and they're you

utilizing a pretty strict minutes limit and basically taking things you

know easy on him but I do think you know that fourth quarter run 17 straight points I think four three

pointers a little lob finish in traffic and you know some pretty monstrous defensive

rebounds and a couple of nice passes too.

That was the flash that, you know, Zion Williamson fanatics, people who have been following him

since his high school days, you know, all the fans he picked up along the way I do

that's what they were hoping for that's what they wanted to see from that

number one pick and it was just a very uh... narratively rich game because

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