IGOTGAME
04-28-2016, 09:05 PM
Three of those players grew up in the same house, and all of them are committed to UCLA. LiAngelo Ball is a junior, LaMelo Ball is a freshman and Lonzo was the star of the show. Lonzo averaged 25.4 points, 12.9 assists and 11.5 rebounds per game -- stats that seem impossible until you watch how Chino Hills actually plays.
"My dad told me that you can always slow down but you can't always speed up," Ball told SB Nation. "He taught me how to play fast, and ever since then I've been playing fast."
To watch the Ball brothers play is to observe something that only vaguely resembles basketball. They take 30-foot threes more confidently than most players take free throws. They rifle the ball the length of the court all game long with zero discretion. They make the "seven seconds or less" mantra once employed by Steve Nash's Phoenix Suns look like a team that walks the ball up the court.
The Ball brothers have always been insulated, playing together on the same grassroots team since LaMelo turned 11 years old. That team -- Big Ballers NXT -- isn't part of the shoe company circuits that dominate AAU basketball. Instead, the Balls chose to play under their own circumstances: all in the same starting lineup, playing a brand of ball no one else could dream up.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/3/31/11326940/lonzo-ball-ucla-mcdonalds-all-american-game-2016
http://media.masslive.com/republican/photo/2016/01/18/19573274-large.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCoPkgKILWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V63LRWlvHNE
"My dad told me that you can always slow down but you can't always speed up," Ball told SB Nation. "He taught me how to play fast, and ever since then I've been playing fast."
To watch the Ball brothers play is to observe something that only vaguely resembles basketball. They take 30-foot threes more confidently than most players take free throws. They rifle the ball the length of the court all game long with zero discretion. They make the "seven seconds or less" mantra once employed by Steve Nash's Phoenix Suns look like a team that walks the ball up the court.
The Ball brothers have always been insulated, playing together on the same grassroots team since LaMelo turned 11 years old. That team -- Big Ballers NXT -- isn't part of the shoe company circuits that dominate AAU basketball. Instead, the Balls chose to play under their own circumstances: all in the same starting lineup, playing a brand of ball no one else could dream up.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/3/31/11326940/lonzo-ball-ucla-mcdonalds-all-american-game-2016
http://media.masslive.com/republican/photo/2016/01/18/19573274-large.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCoPkgKILWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V63LRWlvHNE