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Zach LaVine is playing hurt, and playing badly in his playoffs debut

Zach LaVine waited 8 seasons to get to the playoffs. Unfortunately, in his postseason debut he has not played well at all. In four games, just 19.3 points per game on 55.3% True Shooting at a 23.5% Usage Rate, all numbers down from his past two regular seasons where he broke out as one of the elite scorers in the NBA. His turnover percentage against the Bucks is higher than any season since his rookie year.

That includes getting blocked a lot. Anecdotally it seems to be happening way more than usual, NBA dot com stats say it’s happened 5 times this series so 1.