LOS ANGELES — Before the Los Angeles Lakers took on the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night, Lonzo Ball had to warm up, just like he does before every game.
But something was different on Tuesday evening. Ball was cashing almost every shot he took. From different spots around the 3-point line. Pull-ups and catch-and-shoot attempts. It didn’t matter what kind of shot, he was abnormally unconscious from distance.
However, because warm-ups are a notoriously fickle indicator of whether a player is going to have success that night or not, I didn’t think too much of it, even indicating in my caption of my video of a portion of the display that it probably meant nothing.