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We have been very outspoken about how Zion Williamson gets officiated.
I finally have time to sit down and watch EVERY SINGLE Zion shot attempt so far this season.
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I finally have time to sit down and watch EVERY SINGLE Zion shot attempt so far this season.
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Trying my best to be unbiased through this process. All I can say is that I will only include situations where I know fouls have been called for less.
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Situation: Zion on the break catches a shoulder/elbow from Duncan as he turns the corner.
Hardly affects Zion because he is a mountain. Still whistle worthy.
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Hardly affects Zion because he is a mountain. Still whistle worthy.
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Situation: Zion gets the offensive board. Can't tell if there a is bit of a hold by Bam... But he is definitely all over Zion's back and arms as he goes up.
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Situation: Zion Drives. Bam comes over to defend and jumps laterally into Zion causing body contact. Zion finishes anyway.
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Situation: Zion drives on Meyers. Meyers uses his forearm to deter Zion as he begins his shot motion.
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Situation: Zion drives on Harkless. He gets through a pretty clear arm bar(that nearly catches Zion in the Jewels) on his way to the rim. Bam does a half decent job at being straight up and down. Lots of contact on the shot.
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Situation: Harkless nearly rides Zion piggy back style as he goes to the rim. Herro tries to be a hero and take a charge... Changes his mind a jumps into Zion with an arm while trying to contest.
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Situation: This one is kind of weak I guess. But still pretty clear contact to Zion's Shoulder and arm.
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Situation: Zion has the ball on the low block. Siakam makes clear contact with Zion's arm while in the shooting motion.
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Situation: This one is kind of ridiculous. There is a ton of contact from both OG and Boucher throughout this attempt. No-Call
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Situation: Nothing on the initial attempt. Appears to get hit in the back and arm on the putback attempt.
Hesitated to include this one. Wish there was a better angle.
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Hesitated to include this one. Wish there was a better angle.
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Situation: Zion catches a slap from DeMar and then a lot of body contact from Aldridge who was not straight up and down as he was leaping almost backwards.
Might have been some contact on the arm, but I can't clearly tell from this clip
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Might have been some contact on the arm, but I can't clearly tell from this clip
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Situation: Aldridge comes over the top of Zion. Body contact.
You could argue Aldridge was straight up and down. It's close.
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You could argue Aldridge was straight up and down. It's close.
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Situation: Zion splits the defenders and catches lots of body contact from Jakob who is clearly not completely vertical.
Wasn't super upset with this one... but still have seen less be called.
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Wasn't super upset with this one... but still have seen less be called.
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Situation: Bazley looks to intentionally throw his hip into Zion as he explodes up. This also causes Bazley to end up underneath Zion which is pretty dangerous in any situation.
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Situation: Pascal uses his hips and knee to try and drive Zion off his route. Looks like Boucher leans into Zion as he rises. Can't tell if there is any contact at the apex.
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Situation: Baynes pretty clearly launches himself and his knee into Zion... Eventually ending up on top of him. Lowry gets Zions whole arm wrapped up for a second.
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Situation: Another iffy one with lots of contact. It appears that OG gets into his body and arm as he tries to recover from the spin cycle.
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Situation: Baynes gets straight up at first, but then comes down all over Zion's body and arm...
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Situation: Len tries to hold his ground and instead pins Zion's arm as he tries to rise... Len then swipes across Zion's shoulder and arm making a play at the loose ball.
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Situation: Stanley Johnson with a clear blocking foul as Zion gets down to the baseline.
Also note that Zion looks to step out after the contact from Johnson
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Also note that Zion looks to step out after the contact from Johnson
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Situation: Zion grabs the offensive board. Sabonis is out of position and uses his hand to try and hole Zion down from attacking. Also contact on Zion's arm as he goes up.
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This one is good.
Situation: Zion gets the ball. Sabonis rips at his arm. Oladipo acts like he wants the charge but then moves his feet after contact. All of this physically impedes Zion's progress and allows Myles to get the "Clean" block
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Situation: Zion gets the ball. Sabonis rips at his arm. Oladipo acts like he wants the charge but then moves his feet after contact. All of this physically impedes Zion's progress and allows Myles to get the "Clean" block
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Situation: Sabonis does a good job of getting vertical but still makes contact with Zion's arm. Holiday also jumps into Zion from the side as he goes toward the rim
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Situation: Zion gets the mis-match down low. Defender looks to be Holiday. He presses down on Zion. Then wraps his arm around him while using his other arm to completely stay on top of Zion's shoulder/arm
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Situation: Zion looks to get the contact on the drive as the defender is unable to hold his ground... Then Looks to get contact from 2 more Pacers' at the rim.
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Situation: Zion goes up with Myles ALL OVER HIM.
Another clip of SVG giving the refs a piece of his mind.
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Another clip of SVG giving the refs a piece of his mind.
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Situation: Brogdon armbars Zion the entire way. Myles comes in from behind with a lot of contact to get the "block"
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Situation: Myles Turner is all over Zion's arms before he even leaves the ground. Contact continues from Myles' arm and body throughout.
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Situation: Looks like Bazley gets Zion from behind as he tries to go reverse.
This one looks weak as well. Hard to tell from this angle. Definite contact though.
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This one looks weak as well. Hard to tell from this angle. Definite contact though.
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Situation: Bazley pushes down on Zion the entire way through his attack... Plus contact on the contest.
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Situation: Zion's agility has Gordon grabbing at him to not get left in the dust. Still does.
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Situation: There's 3 shot attempts here. The second looks clean... But take your pick on any of the infractions on the 1st and 3rd.
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Situation: The block at the rim looks pretty clean, But Terry definitely got him on the way to the rim.
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Situation: Bismack with the contact as Zion tries to avoid it. Plus Zion gets held after the shot trying to go for the loose ball.
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Situation: Bismack trying to leverage his strength so much the he loses balance and catches Zion while he is exploding up.
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Situation: Gasol get a whole lot of Zion's body and arm as he gets the shot up
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Situation: Zion has to fight through a clear blocking foul from Wes at the top and then Morris appears to catch his arm on the way up.
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Situation: This one is actually REALLY close to being charge worthy, but I don't think he got his left foot set. Should have been called something one way or the other.
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Situation: Here I feel like Holmes does a good job at getting straight up. Lots of contact, but after the shot Buddy is clearly shoving Zion forward just below his neck while he deals with other arms all over him.
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Situation: After the loose ball Metu is clearly all over Zion's shoulder and back on the attempt.
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Situation: Zion absolutely DESTROYS Metu... But Metu also catches Zion in the head inadvertantly.
I've seen less be called a flagrant 1.
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I've seen less be called a flagrant 1.
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Situation: Bagley looks to grab the back of Zion's Jersey twice on top of body contact on the attempt.
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Situation: Favors gets the worse of this situation, but he gets away with the contact...
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Situation: Rudy gets him on the arms while driving plus body contact at the rim.
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Situation: Zion gets by Rudy's shoulder. Rudy then comes down on Zion's Shoulder as he goes up.. plus the body contact.
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Situation: Bogie attempts to push off the spin move.. But Zion is a mountain. Should still be a call.
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Situation: Tried to remember the live replay of this play but couldn't. Couldn't find another angle anywhere either. I'll just take SVG and the entire benches word for it.
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Situation: He's Literally in Zion's lower half as he's about a foot or 2 from the basket. Running full speed. Into Zion's lower half.
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Situation: Rudy pushes Zion with his left forearm as he begins his launch and it continues through the shot.
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Situation: Rudy is grabbing Zion by the jersey the entire way from the drive through the shot.
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Situation: Niang clearly throwing his body into Zion as he blows by him. Rudy jumps early with a stiff arm and then what appears to be a knee to follow it up.
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Situation: Ed again with a lot of Body and arm contact prior to the Jaden block
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Situation: First Jaden is pulling Zion backward on the entry pass. Then gets into his chest with his arm. THEN wraps Zion around the back while contesting.
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Situation: Hard to tell here, but it sure doesn't look like Naz got all ball.
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Situation: Can't see it from this angle, but it looks like Zion gets pushed backwards on the attempt. Can't tell for sure exactly what caused it from this angle.
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Situation: Anthony Gill gets SO out of position that he has to jump with his back to Zion to try and contest along with Len... Needless to say theres a TON of contact here that should have been called.
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Situation: Len reaches. The Len grabs Zion's Jersey in a downward motion... forcing Zion to the ground and Len gets a "block" lol
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Situation: Lots of contact from Bobby here.
Not one of the more egregious ones, but enough to make the LIST!
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Not one of the more egregious ones, but enough to make the LIST!
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Situation: Lopez loses position on Zion and ends up with one hand in his back and the other all over his arm while Giannis gets the block.
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Situation: Portis just flailing having no clue where or when Zion is going to go up. Arm contact. Body contact.
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Situation: Lopez with a subtle jersey grab on Zion's back to maintain position... Plus body contact.
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Situation: Tate gets into Zion's body and looks to hit his arms on the attempt as well.
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Situation: Once again Oladipo lacks the heart to fully commit to taking the charge from Zion.... I don't blame him. lol...
Something should be called.
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Situation: Zion blows by Harrison who then grabs onto Zion's shoulder and followed up with a stiff arm to Zion's back as he is going up.
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Situation: Ayton actually leaves his feet first to stay on top of Zion as he explodes up. LOTS of contact.
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Situation: Ayton looks to hook Zion a bit as he enters the paint followed be a lot of contact in the body and possibly on the arm as well with the attempt.
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Situation: Sabonis kind of lowers his shoulder into Zion on the drive(not mad about it) but then it sure looks like Turners get more than just ball on the attempt.
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Situation: Instead of going straight up, Turner puts his arms into Zion as he attacks the rim.
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Situation: Sabonis jumps into Zion and across his arms and gets a jump ball.
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Situation: TJ reaches. Sabonis gets away with being in Zion's back plus a little push off while Zion is in the air.
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Situation: Sabonis again here. Just completely throwing his body into Zion on the drive which funnels him into Myles who also gets Zion on the arms on the attempt.
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Situation: Sterling Brown gets into Zion's body while he is in the air on the attempt.
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Situation: Don't see anything glaring on the strip.. But Zion does take a pretty good shot to the head on the shot attempt.
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Situation: Dillon rides Zion all the way to the rim before jumping into his back on the attempt.
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Situation: On the second attempt, DJJ looks to get Zion on the shoulder and arm(and possibly the back of the head)
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Situation: Ayton looks to try and take the charge but can't stick with it. He then grabs on to the back on Zion to keep his balance while back peddling.
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Situation: Theis Jumps into Zion Sideways... Tristan jump into Zion's back while pushing him forward into Theis with his arm to "Peel it clean"
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Situation: Jaylen with the old Cornerback move of holding onto Zion's outside hip to come over his back to the other side for the attempted breakup.
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Continuing this thread with the recent games against DET, MIL and SAS.
Wanting to be clear here again. I'm only adding clips where I've seen less egregious contact be called a foul. However, I do not expect 100% of these to be called 100% of the time.
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Situation: Zion catches the pass while catching a hip from Smith Jr. Plumlee then comes over the top of him and makes body and arm contact with Zion as he gets his shot up.
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Situation: Bey tries to bump Zion off his spot as he gets to the FT line. Zion then catches contact from Plumlee as he goes by for the layup.
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Situation: Not much on the initial attempt. After Zion corrals the loose ball, Stewart clearly leverages his body on top of Zion trying to keep him down. Then seems to catch A LOT of arm for the "block"
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Situation: Not a whole lot on the attempt, but prior to that... Bey rides and bumps Zion as he's making his way down court including a reach in attempt. Basically that same foul that CP3 gets like 3 times a game as he comes across halfcourt.
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Situation: Zion faces up Plumlee after the entry pass. Plumlee looks to throw a shoulder and forearm but Zion gets by anyway. Somehow out off the Pels? wish I had another angle.
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Situation: Zion spins off his man and gets up for the attempt. Josh Jackson catches him in the body and on the arms. Meanwhile, Stewart comes in from behind with body and shoulder contact turning Zion into a sandwich.
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Situation: Zion blatantly misses an easy dunk. He gets his own board. As he goes back up, Brook grabs hold of Zion's left shoulder pulling down while using it to also launch himself up. Brook also makes contact Zion's head and other shoulder
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Situation: Donte jumps into Zion's body trying to make a play on the ball. Zion doesn't care.
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Situation: Brook makes contact with Zion's arm on the first attempt... Does the same again but gets called this time. Brook looks baffled lol. Almost like "I just did the SAME THING and you didn't call it!"
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Situation: Brook appears to hit Zion's shoulder and arms before getting the ball.
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Situation: Giannis looks to get A LOT of contact on Zion while meeting him at the rim.
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Situation: Portis gets a lot of Zion's arm going for the block attempt. Zion looks to the ref trying to figure out what he needs to do to get a call. One of the few times he looks to complain.
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Situation: This one is more about the contact from Bobby on the entry pass. He's kind of over the top of Zion and appears to even have Zion's arm hooked over the top. Ref 40 is looking in that direction the entire time.... idk
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Situation: Not too much here, but Bobby definitely catches Zion's body and arm on his way to the rim. Zion finishes anyway.
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Situation: NBA looked at this in the L2M report and said Brook didn't make contact with Zion's arm. This is the same clip they cited.... There's no justifying this one.
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Situation: Don't see a lot from Aldridge here, but it looks DeRozan should have gotten called for the swipe attempt on the drive.
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Situation: Zion gets turned into a sandwich again here. Jakob gets him on the arm while Lyles gets him from the back. Lyles also makes incidental contact with Zion's head.(which we all know is grounds for a Flagrant 1 when the Pels do it.)
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Situation: Lyles 100% does not get straight up and down. He even flails as he makes contact with Zion.
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Situation: Zion gets hit across the arms from Aldridge. Luckily, "Ball don't lie".. Zion gets it back and scores.
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Situation: Lyles looks as if he wants to try and take a charge... Zion gets ahead of him. Lyles then throws his elbow and knee into Zion as he goes by.
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