In his three-year Clippers career before the start of this season, Lou Williams was the best second-unit player in the league. He had averaged 20.4 points and 5.4 assists in 29.4 minutes per game, a veritable starter who just happened to begin games on the bench.
The start of the 2020-21 season hadn’t been so kind to Williams. Coming into Sunday’s game against the Bulls, Williams was averaging 8.9 points and 2.6 assists in 20.3 minutes per game.
Part of the offensive struggle has been the loss of his tried and true pick-and-roll parter, Montrezl Harrell. Ivica Zubac is a wonderful roller, but he doesn’t catch the ball as cleanly as Harrell did.