Lakers rookie Austin Reaves has impressed a lot of important people over the team’s six preseason games. LeBron James. Rajon Rondo. Me.
But more important than any of us, at least for determining how much Reaves will see the floor this season, is the opinion of one Frank Vogel. And after the team’s final game of the preseason, the Lakers head coach was asked if Reaves had done enough to earn a role in the team’s injury-riddled rotation.
Vogel mostly ducked the first part of the question, but did admit that Reaves had impressed him.