What got the Lakers back on track was the suspension. Ball and Kuzna starting instead of Ingram and Rondo.
Sometimes it’s addition by subtraction.
I'm not totally sure but Lonzo is clearly a totally different player starting and playing big minutes as opposed to off the bench. I'm still not totally sure on Kuzma, when his shot falls, like last night, he's great, but when its' not falling he continues to shoot. It's very odd because he was so well coached in college it wasn't apparent to me what a selfish player he actually is. Ingram has clear holes too but he's a much more team oriented guy.
With Rondo/Lonzo it appears like at least so far Lonzo in less minutes just isn't aggressive, he is afraid he won't stay in so he doesn't want to screw up. When he knows he's going to be in there 30 plus minutes he plays not thinks and is much better. He had a bad first half last night but was very good in the 2nd half in the parts I watched.
I pointed this out a few times last year too, Lonzo has become a MUCH better defensive player, he had 5 steals last night, multiple deflections, I think they missed at least 2 blocks he had on drives. Murray put up over 20 points but he had I think 1 assist, he got so focused on trying to score on Lonzo it bogged down the Denver offense at times. I think Lonzo getting up into him and stealing it from him more than once really bugged him and it led to him playing hero ball and not running the offense.
Gary Harris on the other hand that kid is blowing up.
