Lonzo Ball is taking a lot of heat from fans this season. Lonzo hasn’t been the player the Cleveland Cavaliers were hoping for when they traded Isaac Okoro for him in July.
Ball’s shooting has been dreadful. Entering Tuesday’s game in Indiana, Lonzo was shooting 30.4 percent from the field and 26.4 percent from 3 this season (27 games played). There’s no sugarcoating that.
Even so, some of the Lonzo hate is getting out of hand. Take Jeff Teague, for example, who recently said during the Club 520 podcast that Lonzo is “cooked.