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Warriors vs. Lakers summer league preview: Jacob Evans trying to find his shooting touch

One of the questions that came up in discussing Jacob Evans’ fit after he was drafted by the Golden State Warriors was whether he’d be consistent enough from the 3-point line to become a complementary threat on offense.

Billed as a 3-and-D player entering the draft, a couple of Lakers blogs raised concerns about whether he had been tinkering with his shot mechanics after a poor shooting workout in L.A.

When we asked Phil Neuffer of SB Nation’s Cincinnati blog Down the Drive about that, he said he wasn’t sure about the shot mechanics but he did note an end-of-season slump:

GSoM: There was some concern that Evans’s jumper looked broken in the Lakers workout video.