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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 2328932, member: 1674"]
I love watching Lonzo play, but the Lakers gotta be creative with how they use him. He's going to be awesome in transition...I think literally everyone can agree with that. In the half-court though, he's just not a traditional PG at all. He's not the type that can dribble the air out of the ball, operating pick and rolls left and right and just picking defenses apart that way. He's more like what Jason Kidd was like down the stretch in his career, where he wasn't the initiator but he was the guy that would make good cuts, spot up, and make the extra pass; they need to sort of create transition opportunities within the halfcourt for him, meaning to get him the ball while the defense is already off-balance. He's not a very good ball-handler and is a pretty stiff athlete, so he's going to likely struggle to break his man down and create opportunities for himself and teammates the traditional way, but if for example you can throw a skip pass to him and let him attack closeouts, he'll be able to destroy defenses that way. For this reason, I think the development of Ingram and Randle will be a huge key to how Lonzo pans out (at least in the short-term). If those two can put pressure on the defense and be willing passers to find Lonzo, he can do the rest from there, but if the Lakers expect Lonzo to make everything happen on his own in the halfcourt, I think he's really going to struggle.

And he definitely needs to get that shot of his to start dropping; seems like that's been a struggle for him dating back to summer league.
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