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ANALYSIS: The Lakers are a mess but that's hardly news these days. I mean, it's been like this for two seasons running, so there is nothing surprising in finding the Lake Show not putting on much of one. Lonnie Walker IV got signed for a sizable amount of money and although he is a few levels of talent below his most-famous teammates', the truth is that LW4 has done enough to keep believing in him going forward.
Walker has played 29+ minutes in all three games through Sunday, has started all three of them at the SF position along with Russel Westbrook, LeBron James, and Anthony Davis, and has increased his playing time from 29 to 37 and lastly 33 minutes his last time out against Portland on Sunday night.
Walker had a rough (although complete, all things considered) debut last Tuesday finishing with a 5-3-5-1-1 line shooting a putrid 28.6% from the floor on 7 FGA and hitting one-of-two freebies. Other than that, though, he's been fantastic since. Walker dumped 26 pops on the Clippers (3-3-2 rest of line) and then scored 15 points to go with 4 boards and a 1-1-1 in the other cats against Portland breaking the 53 FG% on 13 field-goal attempts.
Even though he's part of the first unit and plays along with hoggers of the ilk of LBJ, Russ, and AD, Lonnie has commanded usage rates of 28.3% and 20.1% in the last two games. The environment is loaded full of stat-hogging players, yes, but that also means fewer eyes and efforts will be put on Walker so he will have it easier to rack up stats.
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