Through all the hand wringing about his shooting percentage and whether he could ever be a successful shooter with his unorthodox motion, Lonzo Ball maintained one mantra:
“I’m going to keep shooting.”
Now that the shots are falling, his words haven’t changed much.
“Just confidence,” Ball said. “I’ve been missing for a long time, I’m bound to start hitting. I’m going to keep shooting. They’re all good shots to me, so it’s feeling good.”
Ball made 41% of his three-pointers during his season at UCLA. While the three-point line is closer to the basket in college than in the NBA, it wasn’t uncommon for Ball to step back to NBA range and shoot successfully.