Los Angeles Lakers rookie guard Lonzo Ball is doing some early work heading into his first season in the NBA. As the projected starting point guard of the Lakers, the UCLA product is busy learning the tendencies of his teammates as well as their strengths and weaknesses for him to handle the position and run the team’s offense as smooth as possible.
Among those that Ball has picked up is center Brook Lopez’s relatively deft touch from the outside. In an appearance on the Lakers Nation Podcast, Ball praised Lopez’s long-range game and sounded excited of working with the nine-year veteran come the regular season.
“It’s going to help a lot just based on the fact that he can spread the floor. Anytime you have a seven-footer that can shoot like that it’s always going to help the team. I’m looking forward to playing with him this year and seeing what we can do together.”
Big men who can shoot from distance have become a necessity for teams in today’s NBA. Lopez gives that to the Lakers and adds another dimension to the team’s offense that ranked just 22nd last season in three-point shooting percentage (34.6).
Brook Lopez, who was traded over the offseason by the Brooklyn Nets along with a first-round pick in the last NBA Draft to the Lakers for D’Angelo Russell and Timofey Mozgov, didn’t start shooting threes regularly until last season in which he shot 34.6 percent from deep on 5.2 attempts per contest.
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