Lonzo Starting

You post this thread when he's playing well? Bledsoe is the one that's the liability on offense right now brah.

Lonzo has been a bright spot...

And JJ is 0-2, Hart is 0-2, Bledsoe is 0-4, no need for you to make that claim

Lonzo was putrid today

I think the problem we will run into if Lonzo can not become a consistent three point shooter(or by some miracle, Bledsoe) is that in a vacuum each player is fine, solid defenders, can move the ball and occasionally hit jumpers and get to the rim.

But paired together and their high variance runs the risk much more than pairing either with a more consistent 3 and D guard of having nights like this where they go 4 for 18 combined and we are essentially playing 2 on 5 with Ingram and Zion. We need guys that when Zion and Ingram are getting swarmed, or when Adam’s sets a hard screen for Ingram and the defense sells out to close out on Ingram and Zion, that our two starting guards can make them pay.

Need to get Adams more involved on pick and rolls as well. Dude is a good scorer, we just haven’t asked him to do much of that yet

Can’t believe we got rid of Jrue and kept Ball

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Honestly I think I'd prefer to see Lonzo and JJ as our starting guards and let Bledsoe run the "second team".

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I say keep getting some more data and tape and then play around.

Personally I think there’s a case both ways.

With Bledsoe and JJ you have two legit half court facilitators in Bledsoe and Ingram and the additional, reliable, outlet spacer Bledsoe desperately lacks with his play style. Bledsoe is also currently the better and more consistent defender.

With Lonzo you are going to be leaning a lot more on Ingram as your half court facilitator which Wednesday showed might not be a bad thing, with Ingram then having one great and one streaky outlet option in JJ and Lonzo as opposed to two streaky, neither well respected by defenders shooters. But that lineup than consequentially lacks the additional perimeter playmaker that is nice to have to use Adams elite screen setting and set Ingram and Zion up off ball. As Lonzo is not good shooting off the dribble(Bledsoe is) or in the half court and Reddick isn’t a PnR ball handler.

All three choices have benefits and trade offs and I think it’s simply going to take time to find out which combination works best.

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You post this thread when he's playing well? Bledsoe is the one that's the liability on offense right now brah.

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Bledsoe has been worse but that doesn't mean Lonzo hasn't been an offensive liability. He's shooting 35% from the field and averaging as many turnovers, 4, as assists in this short sample size. He needs to settle down in transition, I feel like his turnovers are the most frustrating because they are so easily preventable.

He's getting to the line more and has seemingly improved from there (67%); and he's maintaining his 3 point percentage from last year, those are the positives.