Talen Horton-Tucker came out of the gates like a man with his hair on fire when he returned to the Lakers a little less than two weeks ago. In his first three games back, he shot 25-51 from the field overall and averaged 23.3 points per game.
But call it a correlation, causation, or a dramatic regression to the mean, but since Horton-Tucker had his surgically repaired thumb hit in a collision with Giannis Antetokounmpo late in his third game back against the Milwaukee Bucks, he’s looked like a totally different player. Over the next three games, he shot 4-27 from the field overall and averaged just 3.