October 8th - New Orleans Pelicans vs Chicago Bulls - Preseason

[Freyfamilyreuni]

Also worth noting, in preseason, Lonzo has played 2 games. During those 2 games he averaged;

13/4/5 on 58/63/100 splits, taking 12.2 FGAs and 7.7 3PAs per 36 minutes.

Through his first 2 preseason games, NAW averaged:

20.5/2/4 on 48/47/83 splits on 20.0 FGAs and 12.0 3PAs per 36 minutes.

When you consider that Lonzo was playing basically a lot of his minutes alongside Vucevic and LaVine, both of whom have taken the majority of the defensive attention, and pretty much all of Lonzo's shots have been c&S, whereas NAW has yet to play a single minute this year with Zion and only has played a few with Ingram and has had to create the majority of his shots himself, the fact that NAW's efficiency is that good on that volume compared to Lonzo's volume, there's a very strong argument that NAW was better through 2 games this preseason than Lonzo has been.

Of course, NAW had a rough game 3 and that dragged his overall numbers down, and for all we know Lonzo has his best game yet to come, but comparing them through similar game times (and actually similar minutes played as well) shows that Lonzo's role replacement has actually been doing just fine for us so far.

Good post. Lonzo certainly improved last year, but he still remains a player with serious flaws in his game that will probably never be corrected. Based on that I think Chicago overpaid him.
I think NAW’s overall game has the potential to be better than Lonzo’s because NAW doesn’t really have some of the huge deficits that Lonzo has.

Now having said that, NAW definitely needs to get to a point where he can consistently come in and have a decent game. He’s not there yet. That’s probably the hardest part about the NBA. Stringing together good games, where the stinkers become the exception.

[AusPel]

Lonzo has definitely picked up the intensity on the defensive end

[PELICANSFAN]

You know what...this is such a simple and idiotic recast of what I actually said and replied to, not going to waste the time.

Channel your energy someplace else.

idiotic? Typical of you to start name calling when anyone disagrees with you. Better to stick to discussion and not name calling.

[luckyman]

idiotic? Typical of you to start name calling when anyone disagrees with you. Better to stick to discussion and not name calling.

Given some of the actual, real, personal attack name calling that goes on here.

All I can say to that is...okay.