While the Lakers head coach was not willing to single anybody out, saying that everyone looked good, rookie Jalen Hood-Schifino stood out to some Lakers players in the first-round pick’s first official NBA practice. “Obviously it’s a new group, but those guys are super talented and super willing to buy into what we’re doing and it showed today,” Reaves said. Everybody looks good, the new guys looked good, Jalen [Hood-Schifino] had a really good day for his first day. So we’re super excited.”The Lakers drafted Hood-Schifino 17th overall out of Indiana, hoping he can eventually be their point guard of the future. Ham names Russell as starting point guardEven if Hood-Schifino is able to earn some minutes out of camp though, it won’t be in the starting lineup as Ham has already named Russell as the starting point guard.

Source: Daily Nation October 04, 2023 05:21 UTC