NOPJeremiah FearsDevelopmentPresser2d

Fears is working to pressure opposing top guards as a continued development priority.

“We're going to keep asking him to get into the basketball defensively to get into those top guards again. And that's part of, you know, his continued growth and he's, he's coming along very well.”

NOPZion WilliamsonGameplanPresser2d

Opponents are targeting Zion defensively to wear him down.

“he carrying so much weight offensively as well teams are trying to target him to go at him to wear him down But he taken on those challenges And that what we going to continue to ask him to do”

NOPZion Williamson · Karlo MatkovićNewsPresser4d

Matković's hot first quarter kept the Pelicans in it and Zion's shots came later.

“Rudy was guarding Carlo and Carlo was getting all the shots... Carlo got hot. He kept us in that first quarter. And then as you move into the second Z gets in a little bit later you go to him and get some shots there.”