While the Lakers are looking for consistency around LeBron James and the Big Three, Talen Horton-Tucker provided the stellar support needed Sunday.
Before Sunday, the best way to watch Talen Horton-Tucker play this season was with your eyes closed. That way, you could see whatThat’s when the team saw a key piece of the future — someone worth investing in and trusting sooner than later. The Lakers imagined someone who could be a terrific perimeter defender, a capable outside shooter and sometimes an unstoppable driver with a mature understanding of how to score.
“The way he’s defending right now, the way he’s shooting it and shooting threes, and the way he’s always a threat to knife through the defense and get a layup or a paint-to-great [pass], those are attributes that we did see in him and why we invested in him and a role that we thought we would have for him,” coach Frank Vogel said Sunday.LeBron James, who led the Lakers to a 3-1 record last week and is averaging nearly 30 points in his last 8 games, is the conference player of the week.
“I’m just feeling comfortable now, just trying to settle down into the role that I’m gonna have to play for this team,” Horton-Tucker said. “Just trying to figure out where my shots are gonna come from and doing the things I got to do defensively is going to come. So just trying to take my time with that and I feel like as the season keeps going on, it’ll keep getting better.”
, Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis. With the Lakers seeking players who can contribute on both ends of the court, the team’s vision for Horton-Tucker would solve a lot of early season problems. He also will be the name mentioned most in any trade rumors — the Lakers’ best young player with a contract value almost guaranteed to be necessary for the team to acquire anyone of significance.
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