Bad night for the Pelicans. Not only did the New Orleans team lose to Joel Embiid and the Sixers, but the team also lost Zion Williamson to injury…
As he went on the counterattack at the end of the third quarter, the Louisiana strong winger visibly felt pain, stopping in the middle of the race before releasing the ball to place himself in the “corner”. He immediately left the field to join the locker room and did not return to the floor.
After the encounter, Willie Green could only confirm that it was a hamstring problem.
“It was at a crucial moment in the match”regretted the coach, the two teams being neck and neck when Zion Williamson (26 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds) had to leave his partners. “We’re going to have to do (MRI) exams and look at all that, hopefully it’ll be okay. It was a complicated loss for us. »
Without their bulldozer, the Pelicans could not resist Joel Embiid and his teammates in the fourth quarter, losing for the second time in a row. And the franchise is now crossing its fingers, while it is still waiting for Brandon Ingram, hit in the toe since November 25, to come out of the infirmary…
| Zion Williamson | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2019-20 | NO | 24 | 28 | 58.3 | 42.9 | 64.0 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 6.3 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 22.5 |
| 2020-21 | NO | 61 | 33 | 61.1 | 29.4 | 69.8 | 2.7 | 4.5 | 7.2 | 3.7 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 27.0 |
| 2022-23 | NO | 28 | 33 | 60.2 | 36.8 | 71.3 | 2.1 | 4.9 | 7.0 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 26.0 |
| Total | 113 | 32 | 60.4 | 34.3 | 69.1 | 2.6 | 4.4 | 7.0 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 25.8 | |
