Just a random, but the amount of publicity Lonzo gets is sickening. i was lookin at Tatum's summer league highlights from yesterday? 133k views. Lonzo's? 1.1M. it's the same sickness i got with the Linsanity in NY. Lonzo's gonna be a fine player but oh man the attention he gets in relation to Tatum is annoying.
You should see the sportscenter coverage of the game. It was all about how Lonzo redeemed himself, and looks like a major stud. It's like a 3 min bullet point, of basically all Ball and Kuzma highlights, and then they end it by showing 2 Tatum plays, and saying The Celtics won.
ESPN coverage drove me nuts before and during the first half (all I saw). The only think that interrupted that stream of constant "Ball Love" was the storm over Logan and one or two snippets about Tatum. Not sure I can endure that kinda mindless hype. For anyone.
I for one think it's great Lonzo put up a triple dub in a losing effort in summer league. He still shot awful, but they had to play to the LA crowd.
But if you only listened to commentary, you would assume Ball was the best player on the court. He was not. Tatum has easily been the best player in every summer league game he has played in, save for Jaylens first game.
It is just frustrating that the media hypes the Lakers so much. They are still going to be pretty bad this year. London's defense is honestly hilarious at this stage.