It took UCLA’s Lonzo Ball one play to justify the hype
The 5-star freshman threw down a beautiful alley-oop in his first college game for UCLA.
Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
Lonzo Ball came to UCLA with as much hype as any freshman in the country. The 6’5 point guard captained one of the great high school teams of all-time playing alongside his two younger brothers at Chino Hills, throwing outlet passes and launching threes at unprecedented rates on the way to an undefeated season.
Now that he’s at UCLA, everyone wants to know if Ball can adjust to a, uh, more traditional style of play. Maybe the real question is: can college basketball adjust to Lonzo Ball?
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