36 pts, 11 asts, 8 reb, 5 stls and 2 blks is still impressive. Yeah it's summer league. Lonzo #1 in assists all time? Did I read that right? btw, you can make 6 TOs if you also make 5 steals with that much ball handling. He and Ingram are going to be a FORCE. I have higher expectations for them than Fultz/Simmons. Pick and roll and penetration will get you so far Benny. Same with the high-flying act, ask your foot.Also P&R works a lot better when you have a jumper to keep them from packing inside. Most important numbers tonight was the 103-102 though. Got to get that winning mentality and defensive mentality.
I'm kind of reminded of Kevin Johnson when Lonzo dribbles all the way to the hoop. Some old school stuff from Zo
Hella good points! I love you can already tell he has a great sense of things...just all around,all in all. It seems like he had extra boost/juice. Is it as simple as ,yes Lonzo...you see yourself whats there and you gotta exploit if theyre gonna start playing the perimeter more.
i'm sure i'm late to the party, but getting all the way to the hoop and finishing is huge. glad to see that it's possible for him, as it was one of my biggest worries from the first couple of games (and really, a lot of the college games i saw).
Yeah. That was good to see. The first games he was getting to the hoop but wouldn’t shoot. I like that he always looks to create for teammates but he has to look for his own shot as well.
Man, his passing is so special. This is how a PG should play. Never bought into the narrative of pure PG's becoming irrelevant in the "modern" NBA. Pass-first, dynamic PG's like Magic and Kidd are more valuable than any of the "modern" score-first PG's. It's just that players with a transcendent passing ability only come around once in a decade. And I think we may have landed that player in Lonzo.
When I watch Lonzo pass the basketball I can't help, but think of some of the great quarterbacks in the NFL as an avid football fan. Guys like Brady, Manning, Favre, Rodgers, etc. The ridiculous and accurate throws in tight windows. Lonzo is the same way. The way he can fit a pass and put it right on the money in a tight window is uncanny. He doesn't need to pound the rock either. He can be a guy who simply makes an extra pass when they swing the basketball and not having to hold it for 14 seconds like some of these cats. Just an incredibly rare type of playmaker.
Remember some gave Pelinka crap for comparing Lonzo's precision passing to Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady?
And there were some PnR plays... foul on Bryant as a result etc. The guy knows PnR too, I am sure of it... to high of an IQ to not being able to figure it out.
It was GREAT to see him become aggressive and try to score. Everything opened up so much when he turned that switch on. He is already pretty special, I don't see why any player would not want to play with this guy.
Lonzo will have the same impact Dak had on the Cowboys. No doubt in my mind and that's coming from a huge Cowboys fan.
the one to kuzma is getting all the press, but the one where they ran a cramped and late pick and roll near the baseline and he managed to drop it to zu between two guys (good catch and finish by zu there, too, keeping it high) was just incredibly difficult. carlesimo caught it in-game, and i agreed, that one was crazy. and yes, elite passing ability does seem to take some sort of unique, unconscious understanding of, i guess, physics? the great quarterbacks seem to have something innate that the others don't. hopefully, lonzo has that same thing. it's still not enough on its own to make one a transcendent basketball player, but that's why i was encouraged by him finally getting some buckets in the paint. start bringing all that together and you''ve got something...
Hope this scoring outburst is not what one of those: see, I'm unstoppable when I want to score moment. Lonzo needs to keep being a scoring threat like Magic did averaging in 18 ppg in his early years. If not then he'd be Ricky Rubio.
