Lonzo Ball Discussion: Bulls

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  1. sirronstuff

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    Led the team with 36 minutes. Obviously Luke is having an issue trusting anyone behind him in the depth chart.

    He looked gassed at the end. I think this will need to be addressed sooner rather than later somehow.
     
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    Bad game for Lonzo. Still ended up with 8, 8, 13. Averaging 9 assists per game.

    Don't mind me. I'm just over here dreaming of him playing next to some spot up shooters.
     
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    When he is going 0-for on threes it is going to be frustrating, and yes, his defense isn’t his strength. Still, some great assists and running of the offense, a mediocre game from him is still pretty decent, and that’s a very good thing. If Nance, Lopez or Ingram could hit a shot, he’d have had 15-20 assists.
     
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    hard to believe our best kids are 20 years old or near that.

    Going to have to be patient, but you can see signs of what they will become.

    Luke has a challenging job being patient and letting the players with similar talent levels separate themselves by on the court play. Problem with young players is they are so inconsistent.

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    he needs to play with a sense of urgency

    they went on a big run with zo on the bench because they were playing uptempo and attacking the basket and once zo checked back in, they blew the lead

    slowing things down is good sometimes but zo seems to slow things down too much
     
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    Box score looks good but he didn't really have good impact out there.
     
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    Win or lose...he's super composed. Once he builds an NBA body and with it will be better conditioned, his stronger body will match his strong mentality. Dude already has the head for this game...he just needs the body and I'm sure he'll get there.

    Just a bad game of more to come, but just so promising. I'm sure our patience in him will pay off in spades.
     
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    Not a good ending to the night for Lonzo. Complacent on D when he should have been tenacious. Didn't come through offensively in the end either. The bench outplayed the starters all game.
     
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    Wish ya had a little help out there, my man. You'll be fine.
     
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    He needs help in the starting lineup. But tonight was a learning experience and he did not come through with some of the cats who fought back and got the lead. It doesn't help when you go 3 for 13 and have 5 turnovers. Also bad defense all night long. Doesn't get it done. He takes some blame for this one. He's young, this will happen.
     
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    Yeah. Starting 5 needs to be changed. Badly.
     
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    They dig us into a hole nightly.
     
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    Continuing my spamming ..... Yes Luke could give him a bit more rest with still some dynamic play by letting Clarkson play the point and continue his chemistry as well with Kuzma and with Randle. And with Hart out there. No more Ennis. No more Caruso. Jordan's got more game than those guys and just needs to move the ball more like he's been doing and not trying to score all by himself as much. Which he has been great at doing this year.
     
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    He passes to people's legs a lot. Are we sure he knows this isn't soccer?
     
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    Ill take the 8 reb and 13 assists from my PG in his 3rd game.
     
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    3 games in 4 nights. I'd bet he had dead legs, so -- less aggression on D and less impact.
     
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