The Big Ball Theory

He speaks with all the authority of a soccer parent wondering why their spawn was left off the All-County team despite spending most of the season on the bench.

 

No way.

Lonzo is a raw talent that just needs to get out from under the LA spotlight. He would thrive in Phoenix.

 

Thrive might be strong but he’s not some washout bust. The kid can play.

 

I hope Lonzo goes as far away from LA (and Phoenix) as possible. Don’t let him be within a 3-hour flight of LA. Send him to a small market team. It won’t eliminate LaVar’s nonsense, but it will severely curtail it.

 

How many other players in the NBA are young and have raw talent? And this spring another crop of raw talent young players will appear to replace the ones the sprung up 3 years ago.
Given levar credit, he took a generic NBA player and made him a known commodity.
I bet the average NBA fan has more knowledge of Ball than Khris Middleton

Lonzo is about #300 of all NBA players in effective field goal shooting. And #30 in assists per game, 3rd on his own team. In the universe of all men in their 20’s he’s one of the greatest basketball players in the world. In the universe of NBA players, he’s an undistinguished decent player.

 

Memphis. Or Toronto. Please.

 

My main concern with Lonzo right now is that his poor shooting on the floor and especially at the line makes him a liability in the final minutes of a game. He's an accelerated ball handler and defensive player...and you want your best ball handlers on the floor late in a game but he's not even Shaq at the free-throw line.

 

he also seems to be injured a lot

 

A point guard shooting 42% from the FT line is less than useless.

 

Lonzo is a flawed player to be sure, but he has shown the ability to run the point and play defense at an elite level already. I get the urge to label him a bust because of the glaring weaknesses in his game, being so prone to injury, and because of his father. But depending on how the team's roster shakes out over the summer, I think Lonzo might be the piece that the Lakers most want to hold onto. If they can lure another star and add enough shooting, you don't really need Lonzo to be a scorer and his advantages on the floor become even more pronounced.

PS - @heyabbott for the sake of his son's NBA career Lavar would be better served to stay out of the spotlight, but your ability to cede the higher ground on a subject by lacing your argument with misogyny (calling Lavar a 'c***') and racism (Lavar 'shucking and jiving') is second to none.

 

Lonzo's not a bust and he isn't going to be a star. He's a 'guy' in this league and there are literally hundreds of them in this league.

We just know about this guy because of his dad and being a #2 pick.

 

Doesn't Lavar have a team in Lithuania to run into the ground?