Lakers Tapping Into Brandon Ingram's Experience At Point Guard

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Lakers Tapping Into Brandon Ingram's Experience At Point Guard 

Post#1 » by RealGM Wiretap » Tue Dec 20, 2016 4:20 pm

The Los Angeles Lakers first gave Brandon Ingram a look at point guard in Summer League when D'Angelo Russell sat out their final game.


“The passes that he saw, the plays that he saw, and the way he was able to get his teammates the ball was the way that you see point guards do it,” Luke Walton said of Ingram. “They can still attack the rim while they’re surveying what’s happening and find whether it’s a simple pass or a more challenging pass. You don’t see a lot of non-point guards being able to do that type of stuff.”


Ingram has started three games at point guard and also plays the role on the Lakers' second unit.


“I played [point guard in] youth basketball, AAU basketball,” Ingram said. “When I was in high school I played point guard. Since high school I didn’t play point guard until I got here. When I started growing I still used my guard skills a lot. . . . My college coaches [at Duke], they always put me at the right position to continue to use my guard skills as I grew taller, and it helped me in the long run.”

Via Tania Ganguli/Los Angeles Times

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Re: Lakers Tapping Into Brandon Ingram's Experience At Point Guard 

Post#2 » by 12footrim » Tue Dec 20, 2016 7:39 pm

Sweet 6.9 PER :noway:

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