By bringing Aaron Nelson, the Suns’ chief physical trainer, to New Orleans in 2019, the Pelicans thought they had found the rare pearl. Phoenix’s work in this area had been praised for years and with such a resume, the franchise hoped to be able to properly handle an oversized Zion Williamson.
It is clear that it did not work at all. The All-Star interior, but not only him, has accumulated glitches year after year and this 2022/2023 season has even looked like hell since Williamson therefore, but also Brandon Ingram, CJ McCollum, Jose Alvarado or Larry Nance Jr. missed a lot of matches, thus hampering the group’s progress.
Like the Lakers in 2021, and even if the details are still unknown, the leaders have therefore decided to make changes within the department related to the physical preparation and the health of the players, tells us the Times Picayune.
A strong but logical choice given the poor results of recent years. However, after the “play-in”, David Griffin, the vice-president of the Pelicans, had dismissed the idea of a medical problem in New Orleans…
“What I don’t want is for our team to be said, ‘Oh my God, they have to fix their medical problem. No, we have to sort out a lot of things,” he said. ” This is only one aspect of the question. I really don’t like people talking about player availability over and over again. »
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| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Zion Williamson | 29 | 33.0 | 60.8 | 36.8 | 71.4 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 7.0 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 26.0 |
| Brandon Ingram | 45 | 34.2 | 48.4 | 39.0 | 88.2 | 0.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 24.7 |
| Cj Mccollum | 75 | 35.3 | 43.7 | 38.9 | 76.9 | 0.7 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 20.9 |
| Trey Murphy III | 79 | 31.0 | 48.4 | 40.6 | 90.5 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 14.5 |
| Jonas Valanciunas | 79 | 24.9 | 54.7 | 34.9 | 82.6 | 2.8 | 7.3 | 10.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 14.1 |
| Herb Jones | 66 | 29.5 | 46.9 | 33.5 | 76.4 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 9.8 |
| Naji Marshall | 77 | 23.3 | 43.3 | 30.3 | 78.9 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 9.1 |
| jose alvarado | 61 | 21.5 | 41.1 | 33.6 | 81.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 9.0 |
| Josh Richardson | 23 | 23.2 | 41.9 | 38.4 | 76.2 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 7.5 |
| Willy Hernangomez | 38 | 12.0 | 52.7 | 27.3 | 77.9 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 4.7 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 6.9 |
| Larry Nance, Jr. | 65 | 21.2 | 61.0 | 33.3 | 69.6 | 1.6 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 6.8 |
| Devonte Graham | 53 | 15.3 | 36.8 | 34.7 | 74.6 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 5.3 |
| Jaxson Hayes | 47 | 13.0 | 55.1 | 10.3 | 69.9 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 5.0 |
| Kira Lewis, Jr. | 25 | 9.4 | 45.5 | 44.1 | 86.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 4.6 |
| Dyson Daniels | 59 | 17.7 | 41.8 | 31.4 | 65.0 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.8 |
| Garrett Temple | 25 | 6.5 | 40.0 | 42.3 | 75.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.0 |
| Dereon Seabron | 5 | 2.3 | 40.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 |
