It seems like just yesterday that Frank Vogel was telling reporters in the NBA bubble how incredible Talen Horton-Tucker looked in practice.
Great things seemed destined for Horton-Tucker — some people may have gotten carried away — after Vogel sprung him on the Rockets in Game 4 of the 2020 Western Conference semifinals, and THT followed that up with an epic preseason. Despite having a 10-man rotation of capable veterans in the 2020-21 season, Vogel moved aside Wes Matthews and Markieff Morris to make time for Horton-Tucker during the middle of the year; the Lakers had a point differential of plus-8.