Pelicans Offense EVOLVES: Zion Williamson’s Hub Role & Adaptable Strategies | Jordan Poole KEY

Pelicans Offense EVOLVES: Zion Williamson’s Hub Role & Adaptable Strategies | Jordan Poole KEY

Zion is still the hub, but the change to a flexible offense built around multiple threats really could be the Pelicans key to contention. It’s the Wednesday episode of Locked On Pelicans. Let’s go. [Music] You are Locked On Pelicans, your daily New Orleans Pelicans podcast, part of the Locked Onet. Your team every day. Welcome to another edition of Locked On Pelicans, the daily podcast covering your favorite team, the New Orleans Pelicans and NBA. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day, available wherever you get your podcast and available on YouTube. I’m your host, Pelicans Insider, credential member of the media, JakeMadison, Nola Jake on Twitter, here with you on this Wednesday and we are going to get into a little bit of X’s and O’s looking at the Pelicans offense. Zion Williamson’s the offensive hub. I’ll explain what that means, but there are limitations to that kind of offense. The Pelicans know it and they’re trying to adapt already and I’m going to tell you why it’s smart. And then we’re going to also look at how Derek Queen factors into all of this as well. So, it’s a lot to cover in today’s episode of Locked on Pelicans. Today’s episode of Locked on Pelicans is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you’re going to get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Head to fanduel.com to get started. And of course, thank you for making Lockdown Pelicans your first listen today and every day. We are here Monday through Friday, the number one Pelicans podcast, covering everything you want to know about this Pelicans team. So, please subscribe wherever you get your podcast and join over 11,000 Pelicans fans on YouTube as well and become an everydayer. That means you listen Monday through Friday to the Locked On Pelicans podcast. So, let’s get into it here. What is the concept of an offensive hub? Because that is what Zion Williamson is. And when I just say that out loud, you probably kind of kind of get it when I just say it, right? Like the offensive hub is usually considered someone that is not a guard. So a wing, more likely a big that you run your offense through. You kind of put them somewhere on the court. They have court gravity, draw people to it. Guys work kind of around them. You know, they can score themselves or they can operate from there and kind of create for others. And that’s what the Pelicans often do with Zion. You hear Point Zion. Point Zion is just the offensive hub. It’s an effective offense. The Pelicans have used it to a good extent when they’re healthy, but you also see other teams doing things like this. The Sacramento Kings, who’ve basically had a top 10 offense the past couple of years, use Demanis Sabonis as their offensive hub. You see it with the Houston Rockets and Alper and Shenun. A lack of like a traditional point guard there. So, you go with an offensive hub in Shenon. You’re big. the Nuggets. Joic, not that anyone is at his level. Similar idea, right? That’s why you don’t have like a true point guard with those teams. You don’t really need it. Instead, what you need are complimentary and other go-to scorers to make it work. And for the Pelicans, that has largely been Brandon Ingram and CJ McCullum. But Ingram missed a ton of time while he was here in New Orleans. CJ at times wasn’t always consistent. But when all three of those guys played, which was very limited, the Pelicans were by and large winning and it worked. And now you have Jordan Pool to replace Ingram or CJ who’s more aggressive than them. You have Trey Murphy ready to take a leap. You throw in someone like Jeremiah Fears and actually things kind of look a little bit better for what this Pelicans offense wants to be in the half court, something that they have largely struggled with. Zion can stay healthy. their offense will be good just because yeah, he is an offensive hub and it tends to work. There are some limitations to that and we’ll get into those in the next segment here because that’s where the Pelgans are trying to get more adaptable and when you look at the moves they make and talking to head coach Willie Green that interview even with kind of spotty audio it was tough recording in there on on on that day we had some technical difficulties but you hear him talk about the adaptability that they want to have. You’ve heard Joe Dumar talk about the adaptability that they want to have. So, they’re still going to run this kind of hub-based offense, which is what it is around Zion Williamson, but now they have other players that I think just are going to fit a little bit better. In a hub-based offense like that, you don’t necessarily just want spot-up shooters. You don’t want it to be Zion’s at the free throw line or the elbow or somewhere, he gets the ball, he draws to the ball, then just kicks it to an open shooter. That’s actually still pretty easy to defend. NBA defenses can make those kind of rotations around a, you know, kind of hub type of player like this, you need other guys that work well off the ball, that are threats in their own right from three. You know, you need guys that are willing to cut, willing to do that offball work like that. That did not describe Brandon Ingram at all. It it somewhat described CJ McCollum. It really describes like Herb Jones more than anything, I think. So, you’ve seen some limitations with the players, I think. you know, and there were some spacing issues there too with Brandon Ingram, but you put in Jordan Pool now and he’s the type of guy that could work off ball alongside Zion Williams. And we talked about this in yesterday’s show, actually this whole week so far at locked on Pelicans of what exactly is his role going to be. And we’ll get into a little a little bit more in the next segment, too, because I think it’s going to be a hybrid role. But as someone who is a good spot up shooter who can cut and work off ball a little bit, you know, did some of that with the Golden State Warriors, too. This is someone who could fit in next to Zion Williamson and maybe be a little bit more willing to do that kind of stuff. Trey Murphy has the ability to relocate better than anybody. We’ve seen him kind of be a lob threat and cut and things like that. So, he fits in a little bit more and he’s going to have a much larger role here in New Orleans than he has in the past. So, this type of offense, you know, really can work. And as you look at this league that is really starting to trend more to like dribble handoffs and things like that rather than just like spread pick and rolls, but I keep teasing the next segment because these are very much tied together. You know, that will work. And I think as you kind of use Zion in those actions, we’ve seen how good of a facilitator he can be, how he can create for others in those dribble handoff actions where he’s got the ball and someone kind of cuts behind him and he just hands the ball off that way. All that stuff really, really, really works. and you see it being run inverted more. You know, normally in a dribble handoff, it’s kind of a big doing that and giving it to a guard, but you can also see that the other way and that’s a good way to get Zion going once the ball has moved around a good bit. So, I like what their their plan is with Zion as still the hub of the offense, but there are very real limitations to it, particularly of a big that doesn’t rebound or shot block like Zion Williamson does. You know, if you’re playing him at the four or the five, we’re kind of your hub guy. If you’re looking at a hub offense, you know, it’s usually a power forward or a center, less so a wing. So, that becomes kind of a problem because you’re limited in other areas. This goes to something I’ve talked a lot about of how it is very difficult to build around Zion Williamson because of the lack he has in certain areas, rebounding mainly being one, and then not being able to kind of fill that with another big because Zion’s playing the four for you. He’s not a five. We’ll talk about him kind of playing the three in a minute here. So, there are limitations to it and if those other guys don’t work well off ball either, there’s there’s not a whole lot you can do and we’ll find out pretty early on. This is why I’m excited to watch them, you know, in these games in Australia to just kind of get an early idea of what this team is looking to try and do. And I think this is kind of what you’ll see. Zion Williamson still is the hub. Those guys kind of working around him and trying to kind of fit into the right kind of roles that they really want to have. It’s also one of the reasons why they drafted Derek Queen. Should Zion Williamson go down and you still want to run this hub offense, Queen can actually do that. I think he actually might be better suited for it in a more traditional sense than Zion Williamson actually is. More on that in the third segment here. So, you have some insurance for that, too. Queen. I think if you were to look at a high high high-end, not that I think he even gets close to it or they’re a similar player, I I think his high-end comp is kind of like an Alper in Shenon, but there are limitations with Shenun, too, in the Houston Rockets. Namely, was they needed another score to make that offense work. They got it in Kevin Durant. While the Pelicans don’t have Kevin Durant, I do think adding someone like Jordan P in a little bit more is going to just fit what they’re looking to do with his shot diet. He’s willing to cut. He’s willing to attack the basket and not just settle for mid-range jumpers, which is where everything gets really, really crowded and no one’s going to have success on this team. Zion, you know, Ingram was the one kind of taking those. It limited what he could really do. Now, I think they have better pieces that better fit this kind of hub type of offense and hopefully guys that can stay healthy, too. Jordan Pool has been a little bit of an iron man. That’s a really important thing for this squad because it all falls apart. You can’t run the hub offense if there’s not other offensive threats out there on the court. Now they’re hopeful in P in Trey out there alongside Zion Williamson with presumably Herb Jones who fits into that and then me if he can become more of a lob threat. I think really looks like it can be a scary scary offense here. But as we said there’s limitations and if that doesn’t work you got to have a backup plan. You know it’s it’s somewhat easy to scheme teams away from this kind of offense somewhat. Not like it’s an easy thing to do, but it’s doable. So, the Pelicans are trying to be more adaptable. And Willie Green talked about this. I played the clip for y’all yesterday about that. And I want to talk about what that looks like. Let’s talk about what that is coming up here next in today’s episode of Locked On Pelicans. And I’ll tell you, it involves kind of a position change for Zion Williamson. 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So, we just kind of talked about the hub offense, some of the advantages of it, how it works, all of that. you know, there are some limitations to it, right? There are limit Sorry, I’m trying to look up something here. There we go. Um, in, you know, there’s some limitations to it, too. There are definitely advantages um, in the NBA. I think it can work, especially when you have a playmaker at a unique position like Zion Williamson, but the limitations are being, you know, you can kind of scheme out of it pretty easily. If you just double triple team Zion Leonson and force the ball out of his hands, the whole thing kind of falls apart or you’re forcing him to go through two, three guys, that can lead to turnovers. It can lead to frustration. All of that stuff is is really not great, you know, and if you don’t have those other go-to scorers, whether they’re injured or they don’t exist on your team, it it just doesn’t work. That’s why, as good as Alperun Shenun is, and he was an all-star last year, the Houston Rockets offense stunk. Stunk, right? and you know using a big man in that role like you’ve just got to have the exact right team around it. It’s why as good as Nicola Joic is the Denver Nuggets have struggled a little bit in the postseason. They haven’t had the success that they want and that’s led them to really overhauling their roster this past off season. You know that’s partially why you didn’t see the success in Sacramento that you would have liked between Sabonis and Fox. you know you it can just be really tough to do that and the Pelgans realize that even with Zion leaves and healthy this can fall apart. So they are trying to build in some versatility to know that okay if a team kind of counters our offensive system the offensive hub in Zion we got other players that are going to be able to make a difference and I think that is very important right so I think here they’re taking the right approach to like I don’t want to quite call it futureproofing their offense but at least having other options of that like, well, this is an off night. This is a bad matchup and we’re going to lose. They’re eliminating that idea, I think, from it. Look, Brandon Ingram, for as good of a score as he is, one time all-star here in New Orleans, isn’t like a downhill attacking player. That’s just not what he did. There were limitations to what he tried to do, you know, to the type of player that he is. What we’ll see, we’ll see what he does in Toronto. But, you know, when he was traded, that was the immediate question, right? Well, now you have Jordan Pool who’s more aggressive than Brandon Ingram was, more aggressive than CJ McCullum was. Well, you don’t want him being like the primary primary ball handler. You need him to attack the basket and create off the bounce like that. He can absolutely do it. He can absolutely do it. While he’s not a pure point guard, he can absolutely do that sort of thing. You know, when you look at the trade for Dejonte Murray last year, it was to take some of the pressure off of Zion Williamson a little bit and they’ll get him back eventually. They drafted Jeremiah Fierce to be that downhill attacking point guard and oh boy is he ever going to be that kind of player. I’m working on like a big, let’s call it study on Jeremiah Fears right now. Um, compiling a lot of data. I don’t want to spoil it or let someone steal the idea truthfully. So, I’ll have something coming on Jeremiah Fears O hopefully early next week if I can get some time this weekend to kind of finish doing the deep dive that I’m trying to do. You know, this show was kind of me looking at Derek Queen a little bit too and doing a bit of a deep dive on him. And when I started to see the opera and Shenun comparison there, it started to make sense and then you kind of adapt it to other things. That’s sometimes my thought process and how these shows kind of come together and looking at it. And we’ll talk about Queen in the next segment here. So, you know, now if there’s a limit to that hub offense, the Pelicans have someone in Jordan pool who just fits it a little bit better. Jer Jeremiah Fears who fits it a little bit better to go, okay, this isn’t working. We actually have plan B when the Pelicans haven’t really ever had a plan B in the Zion Williamson era. And I think this is really exciting because I the everydayers have heard me say this a lot. You know, I I would prefer to build around a lead guard. If I were like to just pick create a team and you got to pick like an archetype of player, not a specific player, but just an archetype of player. Give me a lead guard in the mold of Shay Gilgis Alexander. That’s the type of player that I would want to build around, right? I would take Joic first overall if we were doing this. But if we’re looking at just archetypes, you know, in kind of the the general sense, I would take a lead guard because I think it’s easier. then I can just take a rim protecting center or a three-point shooting center and I feel good about it. But when you have kind of, you know, or a rim protecting big or a three-point shooting big later and it’s going to fit next to that kind of player perfectly, when you don’t have that because Zion’s supposed to be that guy and that’s your center, your big man position, it can be really difficult to kind of build a team around these types of players. Again, look at Alper and Shenun. It’s been a little bit difficult for the Houston Rockets to, you know, have the success they wanted, at least in the postseason. this past year because of some of the limitations it has. You’ve got to build the exact right team around these really type of unique big men. Just give me a really good guard and I can just kind of take what I need anywhere else and it’ll work a little bit better. So, if you switch your offense a little bit to Jordan Pool kind of call it running point, right? Being your lead guard, your your advantage creator, you don’t need to play Zion at the four or the five. Not that he plays the five. you you can move him to the three at this point in time and that makes the best use of him, right? Could you run some sort of offensive scheme that involves me at center, say Carlo Makovich at the four, which is where he better is than a five. Zion at the three. So now you’re you’re big. You have you have height down there and that’s going to help with your rebounding. It’s going to help with some of the rim protection, right? Zion’s now on the wing. You’ve got Jordan Pool at the one and you could put Herb Jones or Trey Murphy at the two or however you want to put it, right? And what does that look like? That seems to just like fit a little bit better. And you know, you can still get your offense, but then you don’t need to worry so much about rebounding or rim protection because Zion just doesn’t provide that if you’re playing him at the four in this kind of offensive hub system. So, when it’s just not working or the Pelicans need to change, they now have an adaptability that they did not have before. You don’t want them to do that the whole game, but do you need stretches where that is what you need and then you force the opponent to adapt to you? Absolutely. And when they do that, you can go back to punishing maybe their other lineups. You know, the counter to the counter to the counter to the counter gets into that chess matchy kind of thing. And I think you can. So, this team is well positioned to play multiple offensive styles, I think, which is kind of what they need to do given that the offensive style they normally want to play, Zion with the offensive hub, is very difficult to successfully pull off because of, you know, the limitations that that offense can have, but also where where it hurts you in other areas that have nothing to do with it, the defensive rebounding, rim protection, and those sorts of things. You know, you could argue Zion’s a more natural three at this point in time in the NBA than when he came into the league. And maybe that’s what they should be looking to do. And they could, but then you’re not maximizing kind of the rest of the team that you have, the rest of the players you have. You know, Trey’s not really a four. Then you’ve got, you know, do you put Trey or Herb Jones and we get back into that question again that has always been a question and then there’s always injuries so we never need to deal with. you get into all that stuff and I don’t want to get into that stuff and I want them just to maximize their players and play the best players that they have available, right? Could take Jordan Pool out, put Jeremiah Fears in with that group, let him try and create playing downhill and it will open it up. You could spread it out a little bit if you needed to run a spread pick and roll kind of offense. That could be a really important thing for this team, too. So, it gives them just flexibility when what they were doing before isn’t working. They have that plan B, that backup plan that they haven’t always had. And you’ve heard Willie Green preach about the, you know, adaptability that this team is going to have this season. You know, part of that is also availability. If Zion gets hurt, you don’t need to throw Derek Queen into the fire. We can just run a different offense because we actually have the players to be able to do that this time. And I think that’s going to be really important. If these players are bought into the system that the Pelicans want to run, which has not always been the case, the players are bought into it, and I’ve talked about this with Brain Ingram in particular, then they’re going to be in a much better spot than they’ve been in in the past. So, this is the type of thing that could really elevate the Pelicans offense, maybe elevate them as not to contenders necessarily, but being a much better playoff team than they would be otherwise. What do you think about the kind of multiple adaptable offensive styles the team could play? Let me know in the comments down below. So, coming up next, this is what makes the Derek Queen trade interesting in both a good and bad way. 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Just drafting Queen for Zion insurance makes a lot of sense. And I do think the high-end NBA comp for Derek Queen can be an Alper in Shenun. Right. Queen is a post up big back to the basket post up big who is highly skilled, very good facilitator that Maryland ran their offense through. Very similar to what Houston did with Alper and Shenut. He’s a good enough rebounder that he might not hurt you in that area too. But he’s not a rim protector. He’s not a defender and that can make things really difficult. So having him as Zion insurance, yeah, I I totally get that. Just needing some Zion insurance so you can have some continuity. It’s great. Z goes down, you can also run the different offense too, but you still want to just kind of go with what you’ve been planning for all off season. What makes it interesting though, right? So, so in one hand, I get it makes a lot of sense. would still wouldn’t have given up what they did to do that. But I understand it more and we need the proper context around it rather than just people trying to clown on it as they’re doing. But then it also adds in this other layer to it, right? You know, if both of these guys, Zion and Queen are kind of your offensive hubs, you really can’t play them together, right? That’s where people are like, I don’t see the fit between Queen and Zion and Yeah, I get it. Right. If if you run queen at the five, Zion at the four, they both kind of need the ball in their hands to succeed a little bit more. You know, queen for sure, Zion a little bit less. So, how does that work? That’s not making the most of either of those two players. And that can, you know, just where is the fit there? So to invest essentially two first round picks, that’s what it was to into Derek Queen and he doesn’t fit with your best player that you’re still committed sorry to building around. Yeah, that’s questionable, right? Like that’s where some of the the clowning of the trade and stuff is like what are what are you doing here? You know, could you have gotten someone else, right? Austin Newell who would fit next to Zion Williams and just get him at 23 where where he was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks. And you have a player that fits immediately with Zion, not as Zion insurance. And then you still have future draft capital, but maybe that insurance is that much more important. You know, if your house floods, you’re going to play pay a higher premium, right? If you live in a dangerous area, your house is going to have a premium on it. your insurance is going to cost more. That’s how it goes. You know, when I was on ESPN radio with one of our locked on Lakers hosts, you know, he’s like, “Well, if if you view Derek Queen, you know, that’s the that’s the most expensive insurance premium I’ve ever seen.” It’s like, yeah, that’s what happens when you have something that’s risky and Zion has missed a lot of time, so you’re going to need to overpay. And it makes sense to me that you kind of need to do that. Maybe it means you should move to a different area, but the Pelicans didn’t trade Zion Williamson, which is what that analogy would would would equate to here. So, they’ve got to kind of deal with what they have. So, on one hand, it makes a it does make a lot of sense to me, especially as we’ve kind of talked about it, right? He can play with his back to the basket. Guys cut around him. He can facilitate from there. He will have court gravity because if they leave him one-on-one, he is a skilled big man. Derek Queen is who will score down low and score over and through. He’s a very strong player. A lot of guys, he’s going to be good, I think, in the league. He has such a unique skill set. But that skill set is also very tough to build around. It doesn’t work with another unique skill set like that. You know, do you want to run this kind of offense? Do you want to build this type of team, this type of identity? Or would you like to go with something more conventional where the players to kind of fit that conventional offense that’s still effective, conventional does not mean bad here, are more readily available and it’s easier to construct a team. That’s kind of the I keep using the word paradox a lot this offseason. Paradox around Derek Queen in that decision. I think you know it’s more nuanced than people how than they want to look at it. And that’s what I think makes it kind of interesting. All right. Tomorrow’s show because the game on Friday is at 4 in the morning. We’re going to preview preseason. It’s coming up in tomorrow’s episode of Lockdown Pelicans. As always, I’m your host Jake Madison. Nola Jake on Twitter. This is the Lockdown Pelans podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. your team every day. See you all next time.

Zion Williamson: Offensive Hub or Limiting Factor for the New Orleans Pelicans? Exploring the team’s evolving strategy and recent roster moves.

Jake Madison breaks down the Pelicans’ offensive approach, centered around Williamson’s unique talents. He examines the advantages and limitations of this hub-centric system, discussing potential lineup changes and the impact of new additions like Jordan Poole and Trey Murphy. The analysis extends to the recent Derik Queen trade, questioning its fit with the team’s star player and overall direction.

Tune in for an in-depth look at how the Pelicans are adapting their offense to maximize Williamson’s strengths while building a more versatile attack.

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