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Zooming out on the complicated rookie season of Lakers guard Lonzo Ball.

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.