After his early struggles in the NBA and G League, Bronny James is starting to hit his stride.
Over his last three games for the South Bay Lakers, he is averaging 20.7 points on 43.1 percent shooting while showing flashes of the perimeter defender the Lakers hoped he could turn into when they drafted him No. 55 overall this year. Furthermore, Bronny’s three-ball is finally starting to connect after he bricked 14 consecutive shots from deep across seven games in the NBA and G League.
Lakers head coach JJ Redick — a vocal supporter of Bronny since the Summer League in Las Vegas — couldn’t stop raving about the growth of the 20-year-old while speaking to reporters on Tuesday.
“He’s very coachable,” Redick said of Bronny, via ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “I think he’s got to get to the point where it’s OK to fail. And I think he has a real reservation to fail. And I think a lot of that is he’s had a camera on him since he was eight years old… He’s had attention on him, I’m cognizant of that. I think, once he develops that, he’s going to take off, like literally take off.”
Redick said Bronny “has done anything” asked of him by the coaching staff and has bought into the Lakers’ plan for his development.
