I'm happy with him. Just fix that jumper for God's sake. He isn't making any so he might be better of bricking them with solid shooting mechanics. I think he should fix his shooting Form. He is young enough now. In 5 years it doesn't make sense anymore. With his current shooting he will always be limited to awkward 3s and layups but he will never be able to develop a midrange shot or a jumper off the dribble turning left and right etc...
i'm guessing he'll get half a season to start making them, and if he's still a 20% shooter, he'll be forcibly committed to the shot doctor.
Blame dumba** know-it-all-basketball-guy Pop for not doing that when he was a kid. No way anyone messes with it now. Too late.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the shot, he's just not taking with it with confidence. When he's open, he has to shoot but he's hesitating. When he just shoots and doesn't think too much, he's fine.
Yeah, he's still in process of trying to be a facilitator vs knowing when to be aggressive offensively. I'm sure he gets told time and time again just to shoot or attack, but he's trying to figure out the placements before he does anything. I don't blame him really. Come on to a new team and you're gonna start chucking up shots when you're brought in to be a facilitator? That's tough. He needs to let the game come to him and take what he gets.
Shot is fine. He just needs his reps plus he's trying to be a facilitator and get other guys going first...can't blame him for that.
to read these most recent comments, you'd think lonzo wasn't getting threes up, and thus lack of rhythm could be blamed. but he's getting them up at (and i'm guessing here) a 5 attempts per game clip including summer and preseason. he's just not making them. if he's picking the wrong spots, that's one thing, but i think you can rule out the explanation that he's trying to get others involved, and that's why he's a 20% three point shooter.
My argument is that he's inefficient when he's uncomfortable. When he's in rhythm, he's perfectly fine. So far in the preseason I've seen him take maybe a handful of comfortable threes. He's 2/8 in the preseason and I don't think that's terrible. He needs to improve obviously, but in the SL he was most effective when he was confident and in control. I haven't seen that from him yet. Remember he struggled early in the SL. The same can be said I think for Pope who has looked generally very uncomfortable shooting in the preseason thus far.
he struggled with his longball throughout summer league, while everything else got better. what would that suggest?
He started 2/16 and then went 8/26 so I think he improved over time as he got more comfortable. His last two games he shot 50% (3/6 from the field). His numbers are horribly skewed by his horrendous first game where he went 1/11 from deep.
he was advertised as a shooter, so i'm not sure we should be pleased with improvement to 8/26. it's possible these are hiccups, but people need to be open to the idea that he might not be a great shooter. i think rodg was trying to warn of that before he got run off.
I don't think he was run off. I'm saying he improved, I didn't say it was the end goal. He clearly became a better shooter as he got comfortable though which is what my point was originally. If he shoots 30% the whole year, it's not a great percentage, but it's not the end of the world either. Most guys don't show up from college shooting lights out from outside. I expect him to improve as he finds his footing. I'm not sure he was brought in as a shooter. I bet I could find at least twice as many articles about how his shot wouldn't work over articles saying he was a shooter.
No. Rodg did not get run off. IMO. I don't understand being that attached to DLO, not seeing the game changer in Lonzo Ball (whether he's hitting 3s right now at 19 or not) and being unimpressed with Kyle Kuzma taken with that pick from the trade (his own words), nor Lopez coming back nor getting rid of Mozgov's near impossible contract to get rid of without getting bent over come crunch time. I love trodgers (no homo) But he seemed really thin skinned about everything after that trade happened. As it turns out Kyle Kuzma is a better prospect by far than DLO (again my opinion) due to his size, repertoire, actually jumps on his J, may be a better and more consistent shooter (?) and can play defense. But he still left and has not said BOO since. I just didn't feel he was getting beat up. There were valid differences of opinions. Like every other 2-3 week period around here.
I'm driving this Lonzo fan bus, but stopping at the ER every 3rd game is ridiculous. Dude made of glass?
