My biggest gripe is the FT, those should be gimmes. But the team as a whole is shooting like garbage from the free throw line, but 43% is completely unacceptable.
Say it with me guys: all in his head! He's thinking too much out there. These shots look great. Just keep taking and repeating the same motion as you do in practice. Don't overthink it.
I get your point, and I don’t necessarily disagree, but still I’m not really impressed by these shots though. Every NBA player should be able to stand there and make wide open shots. They need to simulate guys running at him, have a defender in his face, make him rush the shots. You don’t get to stand there all day and take the perfect shot in the NBA, you have to hurry except for the occasional bad defensive play that leaves you wide open.
Actually he has been able to stand there all day. He's wide open a lot of the time, he just misses the shot because he's rushing and trying to hard to make a basket. I agree it's better to have some competition out there, but you walk before you run. If he can make these, he can make shots in games where there's nobody within 8 feet of him. The point is the ball goes through the basket for him and he doesn't need to overhaul his jumper, he just needs to make them.
I think the ball has been going through the basket for him all season. He’s been reportedly fine for shootaround. His problem is in games, where even when you’re seemingly wide open, you still rush, because you can go from wide open to contested or blocked in a fraction of a second with how fast and long today’s players are.
Also...conditioning. A lot of his misses are coming late in the game (someone with stats back me up), but from what I've noticed, he usually hits the first ones he takes early in games, but as the game wears on, his shots just start looking bad. And since he doesn't have a lot of lift on his jump shots to begin with, being fatigued makes it worse. I honestly just want him to stop taking them for now, and focus on getting to the rim.
Actually he's pretty consistently bad throughout. 1st quarter: 18/56 (32.1%) 2nd quarter: 18/64 (28.1%) 3rd quarter: 20/59 (33.9%) 4th quarter: 12/41 (29.3%) OT: 1/3 (33%)
it's hard to tell which is more shockingly bad. i try to focus on the 7 reb, 7 ast, 2.7 TO stats, too, which are great for a rookie pg. but it's just really hard to overlook historically bad shooting.
He needs to practice contested shots in practice. I always see him taking wide open jumpers. I need to see a hand in his face every time. Hire some more ball boys to play defense
Again, he made shots consistently at UCLA. Throw out the first Summer League game, and he made them consistently in Summer League. He can make in game shots and make them at a high %. He's simply not doing it so far in the NBA with the exception of maybe two games. Agree with Real. It is in his head. I'll go further and say he will settle down and start making them. When is the issue.
Or maybe, just maybe. Stop taking so many of them and attack the basket, get a rhythm going, build up your confidence.
Just let the boy play. Watch our boy show out tonight. Team Lonzo, lets go baby. I ride or die for my guys.
Sound of crickets now from jacka** LaVar prior to Warriors game tonight with the Lonzo's better than Curry smack.
Just wait when that Ball boy turns the corner and gets the ball rolling. Watch us beat the Warriors after being pissed off and blowing the game VS the slippers when Lou needed fricken 50 points for them to win lolz.
Exactly. Pointing more towards his misses being in his head and not due to mechanics. Wasn't he historically one of the best pg finishers around the rim in college history?
Nice to see Lonzo break out of his shooting slump a bit tonight. Got tough in the scrap too and handles the stitch up well, came back strong.
