I was taking a look at Zion's stats and though he is lauded and promoted like crazy by the NBA's media partners, I am surprised by how much his numbers are lower than last year in very similar minutes.
He's scoring 3.5 PPG less. Rebounding 0.8 RPG less. FG% almost 5% points less. Shooting 1 FGA less. His PER is down 4 points his TS% down 3.5% points.
And for a guy that strong and dominant underneath the basket, he grabs less rebounds a game than Jaylen Brown and has a rebounding percentage equal to Jayson Tatum.
What gives? I figured him to be a monster 30/14/5 guy like Giannis but he is falling well behind that. Is he just too, I'll be nice and say, "big"?