Wow, I was about to rag on the Hornets for picking Cody Zeller (whose career high is only 23 points apparently) 4th overall, but I somehow had forgotten how absolutely garbage that draft was. My bad. Not every team drafted a Giannis that year. Whoops. Sorry about that.
Zeller hasn’t been an amazing stat-stuffing type player, but he has been fairly solid for the Hornets. In that draft, solid is really good. He doesn’t actively harm the team when he’s on the court other than the fact that he can’t really shoot jumpers. Speaking of which, why can’t he really shoot jumpers? I SWEAR I saw a pre-draft thing with him hitting threes and stuff. Did they photoshop that video to make his draft stock go up? He’s only hit 1 three his entire career but that video made me think he was gonna be an outside shooting hyper-athletic stud muffin!
He did hit a jumper in this game, which was pretty sweet. Other than that, he got spoon-fed a bunch of easy looks at the basket. Not his fault for taking advantage of what was given to him, but don’t go in to this one. expecting a dominating offensive showcase.