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Originally Posted by WhiteWhale
Jeanie Buss hired a legendary Laker player to be the president. She hired Kobe Bryant's agent. Hired Luke Walton because her ex BF loves the guy.
The nepotism is strong in LA.
I love how Lebron doesn't even give a **** about shooting free throws or playing defense anymore.
And who the hell spends a #2 draft pick on a ****ing point guard who can't shoot free throws? Lonzo makes Shaq look like Mark Price at the charity stripe. That's just a talented player being lazy and that means he ain't trying to be great, and that's not even counting how detrimental that can be when trying to close out close games. Now you have to keep the ball out of your distributor's hands in case someone fouls him and sends his 43% sorry ass to the line.
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Why does Ball need to worry about shooting free throws? Guy's not gonna drive the lane anyway. Spot-shooters who don't work without the ball in their hands can't get to the FT line.
In all seriousness though - that FT% should've sent the Lakers running for the hills because there's a really strong correlation between FT% and a player's ability to improve his FG%. If a guy can't shoot when he's standing stone-still, there's a fundamental problem with his ability to shoot a basketball - period. And the biomechanics involved are so ingrained at that point that a complete overhaul is just unrealistic.
So the Lakers, if they had ANY kind of advanced scouting system, would've looked at that FT% and realized that history says there's nothing they can do to make him even an average NBA shooter. And with his first step being substandard on his best day, he's never gonna be a guy that can drive. So you have a bad jump-shooter with an average handle and poor first step but excellent court vision. Okay - so what happens when nobody respects anything else he can do and just sags into the passing lanes to give him nowhere to go with the ball?
Oh that's right, he becomes a defensive specialist. He becomes Bruce Bowen without a jumper.
That's the most aggravating part of the Lonzo Ball experiment - it took NO imagination to see this coming. He's exactly what a cursory glance at his form, his athleticism and his stat sheet suggests he would become.
And Magic bought his own bullshit and sunk the #2 overall on him just so he could move out a far superior player with an obviously better upside.