So, if the Suns draft Lonzo Ball, do they try to fix that jump shot? Its really funky, but he is shooting 44% from 3.
I say no. He doesn't seem to have any problem getting it off. So I would just not worry about it. I just don't want to watch him shoot it. Its really ugly.
Ball is Jason Kidd with a jump shot. Fultz plays alot like Westbrook.
UCLA messed with it this summer before the Aussie tour and he shot terribly there. When he came back they basically said this is stupid he's a one and done, shoot the way you're comfortable you have years in the NBA to fix that. he shot in the low 30's from 3 in HS but anybody that saw Chino play knew why, they take a ton of bad shots. You knew UCLA wasn't going to let him jack up 35 footers on the break regularly. It has become almost a cliche though for him to hit a 32 footer to beat the halftime buzzer he's done it like 3-4 times now including the UK one, but he was taking that shot 3-4 times a game in HS. So taking better shots has helped his 3%, and he's also tweaked it he turns his feet counter clockwise to they're pointing at like 9 or 10 pm which squares the elbow up better.
He could have problems getting it off in the NBA with better size and athletes but so far has not been an issue. I've seen him get a 3 blocked twice this year and on replay both were obvious fouls, including once against UK where both announcers immediately said how did they not call that foul.
He virtually never makes a 2 point jumpshot, either 3's or layups or dunks.
The real revelation on Ball is he's a much better athlete than people realized in HS, better leaper, quicker, faster, he's already becoming one of UCLA's best defenders despite being asked to guard 3's and now at times 4's. He's just a winner, after the Oregon loss they were talking to Alford about what the team needed and he said we need to tighten up defensive rebounding, and we need to force more To's we need more ball pressure. the 3 games since that loss 17 rebounds(about his average) and 7 steals(about 1 over his average) and in the last game Ball had 4 deflections that weren't steals and caused 2 more To's by jumping a passing lane and causing a travel. It's almost freakish you ask him to do something and he just does it. He even has 18 blocks on the season. There are holes in his game and he'll take time to adjust to the NBA but I have no doubt he'll be a very good NBA player.
