re: What to do about Lonzo Ball?

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I just don't see Ball as a SG. He has great size and might develop the strength. But he is not a scorer. In my mind, a SG is an explosive scorer with the ability to score in bunches. In three seasons, Ball has never cracked 30 points in a game. He will get better as a shooter, but he is never going to get his own shot or take a guy off the dribble. I get why people want to put him there. He's just never going to be anything special in that spot..

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That's the problem with Lonzo, he has such a mix match of skills and also deficiencies that you can't peg him into one hole

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In my mind, a SG is an explosive scorer with the ability to score in bunches.

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So a point guard always has to be the one to handle the ball, and the power forward always has to be the strong but agile big guy, and the center always has to stay in the middle of the paint?

It's a fricking name. There have been HUNDREDS of shooting guards who weren't scorers, some of whom were also pretty bad shooters to boot.

The labels are/were more about size/body types than they were roles. When the game was new the names probably made sense, but have greatly evolved since then. Even in the 60s, and especially the 70s, those standard notions were changing.

And over the last few years the size/body type of the roles have been bending more and more. You have 6'6" guys playing center at times, and they don't always man the middle on either side.

Lonzo and Zion are the same height, for instance. Would you play Lonzo at PF or C or Zion at either guard spot?