Aloha,
Lonnie got off to a horrible start from 3 last year. But he found his stroke after the all star break he shot nearly 37% from 3 on 6 attempts. I’m sure that the Lakers are counting on that trend continuing this year. With his youth, ridiculous athleticism, and 6’ 11” wing spam the Lakers gambled on him with their MLE. Our scouting department has been right far more then wrong with these young dudes. We are seeing it again in summer league and it would be huge if they are right about Walker as well.
Whie we probably only signed Walker because of Klutch telling him to take the one year offer to showcase him, I do think he has potential. I’m very interested to see how all of the new players look like in Ham’s offense and defense.
Looking forward to the changes and seeing the Bucks more modern offense with better spacing for LeBron, AD, and young studs like Lonnie who have the atheticism to take advantage of wide open lanes to the rim.
Still need the elite shooting from Kyrie and Joe or Seth to put it all together but it’s a game plan that I think has a good chance to succeed and elevate the Lakers back into legitimate contention.
I can’t wait for camp. Be interesting to see who is still here and who isn’t. Once that’s settled we’ll be a few weeks away from camp and preseason. Then comes the part of the season where I ignore all the “preseason is meaningless” clickbait and try to discern the patterns and trends that’ll indicate how we’ll do, given good health.