It’s become almost cliche at this point to argue that Lonzo Ball was better than the numbers from his rookie season suggest.
There are a few reasons for this. For one, Ball’s rookie season efficiency numbers were harder to look at than one of his wayward jump shots. He had a few stretches of the season in which he shot effectively, but on the whole Ball made just 35.3 percent shots overall, while going a clanktastic 27.5 percent on threes.
When you combine those stats with the fact that Ball managed just 9.