DRAFT TALK Thread: Looking Like Lonzo

If Boston decides to play hardball and draft Ball 1st, we just have to make sure Fultz is the one to draft at 2, which is probably the appropriate choice.

Having 2 combo guards with versatile skillset isn't a bad thing.

 

What's not to like in the interview. Elsewhere it was tweeted that Lakers would love him when they interviewed him. The responses felt very natural and not quite as rote as Lonzo's >>> what he seemed like he was supposed to say. Real confidence which is always great. Only getting a lunch, not dinner or 2nd meal like Lonzo? Maybe everyone's schedule. I wanted to jump through the screen and wipe his forehead, would have solved all the problems he kept half a**ing down lower. Shows though his attention was on the people who were talking to him. No invisible birds he was staring at off in the distance .... thanks OX.

 

There could be a number of factors.

1. Fox got a jump start on the interview with all of the material coming out of Lonzo's workout. He may have had those answers in mind to spite Lonzo based on his reports of fatigue and such. Not a bad thing, smart kid.

2. Lonzo may have been told not to go into much detail about his workout by the Lakers if they didn't want much coming out of them. NO ONE from the media had ANY information from the Lakers workout with Lonzo, so how did information that Lonzo was "fatigued" get out? The Lakers wouldn't do that. I'm guessing it was all speculation from the few press release pictures of Lonzo being hunched over a long workout and looking tired.

It's just funny to see so many articles based on speculation rather than any hard evidence or reputable source.

 

the comment was more directed at how people are receiving the information (mostly the pro-ball contingent).

anyway, people with jackson's profile often look better in the nba game than in college (and people with mason's the reverse). i think too much is being made of the shooting, but time will tell. lebron couldn't shoot for years, imo. didn't matter much.

 

but lebron could score at will in the paint, which opened up his shooting later down the line.

i don't see jackson with that type of ability, though I do see him improving his shot. he did shoot 38% from the college 3 so he is capable.

I see jackson in a role much like a young andre inguodala. he doesn't do any one thing spectacularly, but he does almost everything well on the court. i don't think he's a focal point on offense, but he will contribute and play hard 100%.

 

I rather have a Jason Kidd than a Andre Iguodala and Mike Conley, we need a play maker that speeds up the game with the promotion of Ball movement

 

He's no higher than Lonzo's release point though more traditionally centered on his head. Lonzo 3" taller though. If Lakers take Fox DAR should be happy as he shouldn't be getting as much flak alone here about his hair all the time.

 

If a Jackson/Ingram combo can become at the very least average 3 point shooters, adding in PG13 makes that trio A.) Well rounded to handle the top teams in today's game and B.) Extremely flexible and entertaining with the diversity of lineups we can throw out there

If Jackson is the Lakers' guy and they can trade down to get another asset to get him, that's a win in my book. No one really stands out in this draft, so any player you get is coming with IFs.

Money is still on Lonzo right now though.

 

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If, and I mean if we draft him, then changes need to made to the roster.

 

Not if it's anyone I'm partial to.

 

See. There you guys go. No. At least not until the deadline this coming season. Have to see what Julius looks like this year first.