Lonnie Walker IV- Guard- Miami

[JMAC3]

Still seems like a reach.

Watch the film of Miami, there offense is all high pick and roll and everybody just stands around. Lonnie has several Backdoor cuts, alley ops behind the defense, and putback dunks. All three say his IQ is pretty good.

As far as defense his per 40 defensive stats.

Walker- 1.4 steals, 0.7 blocks
Sexton- 1.1 steals, 0.1 blocks
SGA- 2.0 steals, .06 blocks
Zhaire- 1.6 steals, 1.6 blocks
Young- 1.9 steals, .3 blocks

He doesn’t seem like a poor IQ defender.

When you listen to him talk, he sounds confident and like he has what it takes to be a leader. It’s not like he sounds like Zach Lavine when he talks.


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[JMAC3]

Only game I saw LW in this year was the season ending NCAA Tourney loss to Loyola. MIA had a 1 pt lead and the ball w 23 secs left. Inbounded the pass to Walker. All Lonnie had to do was catch and hold the ball and wait to be fouled. Instead he tried to advance the ball and turned into a Loyola defender who knocked it off LW's knee, turnover. Some might say being bad at inbound plays makes him a perfect fit for our Hornets. I thought it was a stupid play evidencing poor bball IQ. He also missed the front end of a 1 n 1 w 9 seconds to go that might have iced the game, which LCU won on a last second shot. The kid does pop on video. Maybe he is just young and made a few mistakes that lost one game. At the very least I see those season ending plays as support for those who suggest Walker might be a bit of a wild hair

The play when the ball hit off his knee was the most random play of the game, the defender fell and Lonnie turned to advance the ball and somehow the guy got a finger on the ball causing it hit off his leg. I remember because I had LCU in Sweet sixteen on my bracket and was hyped. When the defender falls you want to move ball ahead and burn clock. He did miss the free throw no excuses. I just watched the game and it seemed like LCU plan was to stay away from him on defense, the player he was guarding didn’t score all game.


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[SWedd523]

Teams are gonna **** themselves searching for "the next Donovan Mitchell"

Every once in awhile, a guy just comes out of nowhere like that. Lonnie may or may not perform similarly but the odds are definitely not in his (or any of these other guys) favor.

I will say that if I'm faced with a choice between Lonnie and Zhaire, I'm picking Lonnie all day long.

If I'm the GM, I avoid non ball handling guards (Zhaire) like the plague. I'll eat that miss the one time out of 50 one of those guys actually becomes a good player.

[UNCNYC]

I would definiately pick Lonnie over Zhaire, but I would not pick him over Chandler and I am not sure if I would pick him over Malik Newman either.