“Zion Williamson is dominating the NBA” – Perk tells McAfee about Zion’s impact on Pelicans’ success

“Zion Williamson is dominating the NBA” – Perk tells McAfee about Zion’s impact on Pelicans’ success

How they like you know their culture when it comes down to the way that they they train their mindset and if I’m a GM and this this a real conversation if I’m a general manager and I’m looking at International Players and I’m looking at American players and I’m saying you know

What I’mma take a gamble on this seven-footer International player right that’s skilled or that’s athletic and he may be a raw talent right now but history has shown us when you look at Yannis anopa when you look at joic when you look at Luca right those guys all

Have something in common they’re married they show up to work every day they compete at a high level gratitude probably and you could trust them gratitude yeah like very you you could trust them we don’t we don’t we’re not reading anything about yoka Jan’s getting to you know altercations or

Anything outside of the lines like we’re not reading anything about those guys sh Gill at uh SGA from Oklahoma City you know from Canada like these guys are setting a high bar W and wmy true professional think about Victor Wy y he came on our show and talked about the

Universe but but think about it a rookie with that much hype he goes down to summer league and when he left summer league he could have went anywhere right like and said hey Pap I see you at training camp he went back to San Antonio put on 12 pounds of muscle start

Working in like that that’s like this is how he was brought up yeah so we’re playing catchup when it comes down to America it’s a it’s a wild thought like that you know CU we see the videos of what those International games are like to with flares teenagers going through it and

It’s like then we saw I think I saw the gym that yanis was training in in a documentary it’s like the the Gratitude is also but also the experience of not getting shook like we had people throwing fire at us when I was growing up 15 16 year olds now you’re going into

Utah and you got some chirpy Mormon like that’s not that big of a deal it’s like it is interesting how life experiences can definitely shape how you are and who you are work ethic too another big massive not saying anybody doesn’t have it but it’s like feels like if you’re

Trying to get out of things or going through things you’re going to be mature at a lot younger age that wemi thing when he when we heard him talk about the universe all this other we’re like damn this guy’s a 90y old man everybody everybody in the NBA you know in the

Next three years they need to go ahead and try to win their defensive play of the Year Awards the MVP because they’re going to resign in San Antonio with Victor W Bea he’s going to own that he’s going to be the best player in the league on both sides of the floor like

In he show hey Aton let’s make sure his interpreter and he let’s make sure he speaks about eight languages that’s good that’s good news and we won’t get caught up in anything but I do appreciate that OG’s are saying this about Wy to because when there a

Little bit of a conversation early with him down in Spurs like the teammates seemingly were a little bit jealous of maybe one yeah like the Luca Donan situation in Dallas like where they had to completely rehaul the team because they weren’t really using him as he

Needed to be used will they do that and I call it short-term memory because you got to ask yourself if you’re on Victor win B team and you were on the San Antonio Spurs last year how many tele games did you actually get I think it

Was two right like so I understand and look all young fellas go through this where you have these national televised games and they they they think it’s their moment to actually show the world who they are right you got your family members that’s tuned in friends tuned in

Whatever but you always got to go back to say why do we have these national televised games damn it it is not because of you it’s because of the alien yeah there because of him and it’s and it’s the same thing with Luca like you need to be

Appreciating these guys Doc Rivers had a conversation with me when I was young and he was when I was you know on that 2008 Celtic team H yeah and I was getting outside of my damn body right like I was starting to complain like you

Know hey throw me the ball a little bit more so one morning I come in he’s like come meet me in my office he was like do you know why you starting to get attention it’s not and Ray Allen you need to embrace that and appreciate it and it was a real

Thing like it was the truth did it click at that moment or did it take a little bit for it to settle in no it clicked oh okay yeah it clicked you you’re right coach now mentioned that yeah very coachable perk I understand how this whole thing goes I appreciate that you

Know another person was supposed to change the entire league Zion and we always bring up Zion because we are big Zion fans actually whenever you talk about like uh teammates with a young player and everything like that the first game he debuted for the Pelicans they made it a nationally televised game

And he was introduced like third or something so I tweeted I’m like why are we introducing this guy third okay he is the reason why the game is on TV this whole thing so they reach out to me the Pelicans actually go like we don’t want

To put too much on his shoulders it’s like his there’s a there’s a mural of him on the building literally right across the street by the way from the arena by the way not make enemies with the Pelicans social media that’s not what you want to do I saw Stephen A did

That yeah you do not want to do Pelican social media is actually who reach out to like the Pelican social media were the one they are talented they are a talented Bunch they get the internet yeah did have you been on the wrong side of the Pelican social media

Yeah yeah I I I look I jumped off the porch one time I was just like disgusted with it and I was like you know what the Pelicans you know they they really need to consider selling this franchise and that was the worst three weeks of my

Damn life on that was the first time that I actually wanted to delete social media but Zion wow so it was made per quiz thankful you didn’t thankful you didn’t thankful you didn’t but like um Zion now best sh of his life he’s dominant they’re playing that team could

Go on a run all of a sudden they can they can they have to give Brandon Ingram back but Zion what he’s been doing I love Brandon Ingram’s altitude in which he plays the best I like the altitude plays high flyer yeah high he

Is a high when I was down there when I was down there to intro the team so they had me come down and intro the team perk okay so I do a full intro boom boom boom we’re standing on the court beforeand it was pretty sweet like we were in the

Middle of warm-ups and Brandon Ingram walked by and I looked at him and the clip I think in the video is I look at the camera I go that guy’s higher than me right now I don’t know how that’s even possible and then we watched him

Play the entire game and it was like yeah filling up the bucket was he was fantastic with it but Zion has since the allar break he’s been the most dominant player in the league in the paint he’s been making love to the paint that’s what you want like brute Forest playing with

Passion talking noise confident like this is what you want to see out of Zion it’s amazing Dro yeah dropping 25 pounds like K do for you is he running like point forward for them now to here’s the point for it I think you know last night 10 assist you know so he’s facilitating

I mean he’s so skilled but this is the Zion we’ve been waiting on so like whenever you think about Zion’s future we’re thinking the same things we were thinking when he was coming into the league still well this guy could go on to be the guy we still only we we’ve

Only seen the appetizer of it okay we still need to get the full well let’s not do food reference What’s your deal we get it we get it I do I do it for myself you know what I’m saying but what I’m saying is is that we need to see it

For an extended period of time right he still got win us over you got to remember it was LeBron James and then it was Zion before Victor like when we talk about greatest prospects you know he’s supposed to be on that level right now of how we view Anthony

Edwards yeah so my thing is like when Zion was potentially getting pushed out of the league because he was maybe a little bit too big sure in the S uh Pelicans wouldn’t put him on the court if he was a tight end oh my God in

The NFL he’d be so dominant now I think he might eat himself The Tackle sure but guess what he would be a tackle dominant dominant as well and if he was to eat his way to Guard uhhuh we’re moving bodies it’s like his explosion doesn’t

Come out of like I don’t know where it comes from how many humans have it but it feels like he’s only getting better and more explosive as time goes on with his weight loss he’s one to one do you think he’s do you think he’s like

Experiencing and be like oh this is what I can be or do you think there’s a chance that we we fall back into the no no no no no we fli the switch yeah he’s flipped the switch let’s go Zion let’s go Zion need that all right let’s Pi it

Away from the NBA although we got NBA champion 14year NBA vet joining us perk it’s great to see you hell yeah best great to see you perk then enough the seat would be good enough for 6 fo 10 guy hello for for e spe spe for e e For e spe more

“Zion Williamson is dominating the NBA” – Perkins tells Pat McAfee about Zion’s impact on Pelicans’ success