Lonzo Ball has received plenty of criticism for the way he’s shot during his rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers, but for one night that all changed in the team’s loss to the Detroit Pistons on Monday.
Fifteen points isn’t usually thought of as a huge scoring night, but the nearly perfect 7-for-8 clip Ball scored those points on was worthy of praise during a nearly season-long shooting slump. The evening was also Ball’s second-best shooting performance of the year, trailing only his 4-for-4 shooting against the Atlanta Hawks.
That type of peformance probably isn’t a reasonable expectation for Ball on a night-to-night basis, and the Lakers probably don’t need him to shoot quite that well to beat the moribund Dallas Mavericks, but some solid shooting from Ball would certainly aid their efforts.