The big game with the Lakers is still a day and a half away but as Brian Lewis notes the match-up between D’Angelo Russell and Lonzo Ball may be all about defense. Ball has yet to distinguish himself in his rookie year ... and the numbers show that Russell isn’t much better ... and he knows it.
First the numbers...
The young guard’s Defensive Rating of 117.2 was not only by far the worst on the team, it was 378th of 417 players on the NBA website. He was 10th-worst among all players who had logged at least 15 minutes.