Throughout the 2017-18 NBA season, much of the attention was on Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball was his poor shooting percentages.
Despite that, the front office and head coach Luke Walton don’t believe Ball needs to change his shooting form, but one major area of improvement they asked of Ball was reshaping his body. The directive was also given to Josh Hart and Kyle Kuzma, among others.
In Ball’s rookie season, he missed 30 games due to various injuries. Lakers trainer Gunnar Peterson discussed how they smartly worked around the circumstances and his long-term message to all players, via Mike Trudell:
“Zo had some injuries, and during the season, he couldn’t just not lift, so we worked around it.