What is spooking Lonzo Ball?
All the potential of Luka—but so unwilling to draw fouls his NBA viability is in question.
| Dec 13, 2019 | 1 |
BY DAVID THORPE
On a Monday night in New Orleans, Lonzo Ball used a “brush screen” set by rookie Jaxson Hayes to zoom past his defender—the Pistons’ Derrick Rose—with a right-hand speed dribble. Rose, hair flying, kept after Ball, trying to get back into the play, or at least steer him to the formidable Andre Drummond, a top-ten NBA shot blocker, who pro…