Luke Walton takes a direct approach if he feels that Jordan Clarkson is over-dribbling the ball.
“We keep it pretty simple,” Walton said at Tuesday’s practice. “We tell him to quit doing it if he does it.”
Clarkson has heeded Walton’s instructions to the benefit of the Lakers’ second unit.
As the team’s backup point guard, Clarkson is third among all bench players in scoring with 15.5 points per game.
On a collective level, the Lakers’ bench is providing the NBA’s fourth-most points among reserves (41.8) on the second-best field goal percentage (50.8).
Much of that has to do with the way Clarkson has matured as a ball handler.