the League and ESPN ... ESPN is his biggest cheerleader and despite miserable stats (The Ringer) the media continues to hype this guy ... Disgusting display of brown nosing Magic and/or Lakers by all.
Lonzo Ball is making the wrong kind of history. He’s one of two starters in the NBA this season shooting less than 30 percent from the field. He currently has the second-lowest true shooting percentage (35.9) of any rookie since the ABA merger. There’s plenty of time for him to turn things around, but his early struggles have reinforced the doubts about him. Even Lonzo seems to have some. He has swung between not looking to score at all in some games and wildly throwing up shots in others. After shooting the ball twice in a loss to the Blazers last Thursday, he went 3-for-15 the following night against the Nets.
Lonzo’s shot has abandoned him. No coach wants a player swinging the ball across his chest as he goes up for a shot, but his college coaches didn’t try to change his motion because he shot so well from 3 (41.2 percent on 5.4 attempts per game). If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and plenty of guys have succeeded with unorthodox mechanics. The problem is his shot has looked broken as a professional. He is shooting 11-for-47 (23.4 percent) from 3 in his first 10 games this season. Include summer league and the preseason and he is 22-for-89 (24.1 percent).
It seems unlikely that he’s struggling with the deeper range of the NBA 3-point line. He’s missing the same shots he made at UCLA, which regularly came from way beyond the NCAA line. According to the tracking numbers at Synergy Sports, Lonzo was in the 93rd percentile of players in the country last season as a spot-up shooter. He is 6-for-41 (14.6 percent) on those shots in the NBA. Not even the worst shooters in the league are that bad. Andre Roberson shot 22.7 percent on spot-ups last season. Tony Allen shot 25.4 percent. Those guys might as well be flinging the ball blindly at the rim, so Lonzo is unlikely to keep shooting this poorly. Luck alone means he should start making more.
Last Edit: Nov 8, 2017 22:34:55 GMT -5 by Employee8
Nicknamed the "Easy-Eight" or "E8", this tank (Fury in a movie by the same name) is a quicker, slightly better armored version of the M4 Sherman. Tank Commander Don "Wardaddy" Collier and his tank crew's favorite catchphrase? "Best job I ever had!"
Nicknamed the "Easy-Eight" or "E8", this tank (Fury in a movie by the same name) is a quicker, slightly better armored version of the M4 Sherman. Tank Commander Don "Wardaddy" Collier and his tank crew's favorite catchphrase? "Best job I ever had!"
Missed the 4th quarter. We could have put them away early but our defense crumbled a bit and so did our offense. Saw a few dirty not called pushes by Randle. Hate when a team plays dirty cuz they cant beat. What an ugly game Ingram has.
As per the first post, I want to express my hate for the Lakers whom I have hated for over 60 years (same with Yankees). LA has been our long time major foe except the past 9-10 years or so with LeBron & Miami and now the Cavs.
But the hate reached its intensity after game 7 in 2010 playoffs…hate to bring up old wounds…when we should have had another title and sweeter still against the team with the most after us, the Lakers.
I am still lamenting about Game 7 vs Lakers in 2010. I recall a forum then which called the Lakers win/gift a “Tainted Tinseltown Title”. Our coach then, a nice guy but I am not a Doc lover. How he keeps his job is beyond me as he has had some very good talent but, yes, some players have been injured at critical times but just never could bring them a championship…of course, in past 10 years LeBron’s Miami & Cavs have been our main obstacles while Clippers have had the Warriors, Spurs, OKC & Houston, all better than any other of our other East teams, I think.
Might have been a Doc lover had we beaten LA in 2010. Yup, I know we lost Perkins in Game 6 and in the finals they got the egregious difference of 42 foul shots to our 18 and just 21 in critical Qtr #4 when we had a 13 pt lead end of Qtr #3. Doc needed to tell both Rashid Wallace and Garnett, both 7 footers when we were losing the rebound advantage substantially, especially in the 4th Qtr. that they needed to be in the post at all times getting rebounds and not shooting 3s as we had PP & Allen do that with Rondo driving to the basket. They killed us with reb advantage 53 to 40 ( I mean 13 extra chances) and only shot 38% and we did 42% but the extra chances killed us. Gasol schooled KG out rebounding him 18 to 3. I wish we had picked up Gasol a couple of years ago. Not soft…always liked him. I mean when Kobe shoots 6 for 24 or 25% and is MVP it was painful. He’d been a goat had they lost.
Yup, tonight, although I wish it, will not be a blowout especially with Horford out. He, like Wallace and KG, and not as tall but much more of a banger I would prefer him to play more in the post although he is a good 3 pt shooter but out rebounding the opponents is more beneficial, I think. We won 9 in a row but, GOD forbid, if we don’t beat the Lakers tonight, it’ll take much of the joy from that streak.
I remember that loss to LA like it was yesterday...would have truly cemented the legacy of the big three...the differential in foul calls was atrocious, hard playing 5 against 8, and then having to see Russell give the trophy to LA...painful
Marcus Smart makes Larry Bird proud with insane no-look overhead assist By: Jared Weiss
Marcus Smart’s reputation as a distributor from the post is well established. He can back down most defenders and make plays off the dribble from the low block to the high post.
But going against the Lakers, Smart decided to opt for telekenesis when he saw Corey Brewer cheat on the entry pass to his post-up. Smart activated his sonar to see Semi Ojeleye cutting baseline from the near corner while Brewer was stumbling and flipped it blindly over his head.
Right between the numbers.
When Brewer managed to recover in time, Ojeleye hit him with an insane up and under that somehow bounced in.
Red: "Basketball is like war, in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."
God I can't stand lakers fans..............how delusional. We are missing Horford AND we lost Tatum early. The game was never in doubt......never, never ever in doubt.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives!!
It's like the booing thing by Celtic fans ... everyone assumes it's about Ball's dad but I believe it's really about the misplaced hype he keeps getting despite his deteriorating play and historically poor stats. Instead of putting the spotlight on players that deserve the attention, all the NBA/Media keep doing is telling us about the greatness of Ball/Lakers and I don't see it. For that matter, neither does Jason Kidd who Ball's stats were recently compared to ...
Jason Kidd doesn't agree with Lonzo Ball comparisons: 'Right now, it's a stretch' Ball and Kidd have extremely similar numbers through their first 11 career games by Colin Ward-Henninger
Given the lofty expectations, Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball is off to a slow start this season. While his rebounding and assist numbers have been good, Ball has been historically bad when it comes to shooting the basketball. According to Elias Sports Bureau, Ball's 29.5 field-goal percentage is the second lowest in the NBA shot clock era for a player with at least 100 field-goal attempts through his first 11 career games.
Yeah, it's not good.
But there is hope, as Ball's numbers are strikingly similar to those of future Hall of Fame point guard Jason Kidd during the early portion of his career. Kidd, however, says that's where the comparisons should end ... at least for now.
He appeared on ESPN's "First Take" on Thursday to address the similarities -- or lack thereof -- between him and Lonzo.
"It's still early in his career, and it's a stretch," Kidd said. "He has to understand what it means to play hard and what it means to win, and how to win at the highest level. It takes time, and hopefully in three years maybe there is a better comparison, but right now it is a stretch and he has a ways to go."
One big blow to the "similar statistics" argument, however, is the fact that the pace of Kidd's Mavericks team was significantly lower than Lonzo's Lakers team -- 94.7 to 103.3. Faster pace means more possessions per game, which means higher stats.
When you look past per-game stats and instead look at per-100 possessions, Kidd's numbers from his rookie season seem a bit more impressive.
As lame as it might sound I almost feel bad for Lonzo...he will always be rich, but his situation will always be screwed...if he had any balls (pun intended but not originally) he would have not gone to LA...he is screwed
