Lonzo Ball Quotes

If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it's a cookie jar - think Michael Jordan's last shot as a Bull.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.

I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.

I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.

To improve my free throws I went back to the mechanics and really learning how to have form and shoot the ball, so I have to get comfortable with that.

When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.

Corner is the easiest three in basketball.

If you're open in certain spots, you just shoot the ball. It doesn't matter if you're good from that spot or not.

I just try to focus in to what I'm supposed to do at the line and shoot the basketball.

A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.

Everybody watches free-kicks, and when you watch them, you enjoy them. You have got to learn how to shoot and connect with the ball and how to move your leg. For everybody, it is different, but if you want to score lots of goals, then free kicks is an extra way to do that.

All truly great shooters - Dale Ellis, Larry Bird, Craig Hodges, Chris Mullin - we always believed that we were the best shooters in the world.

There's got to be a fine line where I can find I'm still throwing the ball how I usually throw it, but it's able to dive down after a certain height and get to the guy.

There aren't too many left-handed guys out there who can handle the ball and shoot it.

I love thinking about mechanics and having your mind agree with the mechanics. Sometimes you can shoot it correctly, but your mind doesn't think that it's right. So it's like, how do you get your mind to trust that that's the right way to shoot it.

I do realize that it's important to be a threat at the 3-point line.

Everyone wants to criticize my mechanics, but maybe I've got good mechanics that make the ball go up.

People say I don't have a jump shot, so that's what I've been working on.

I'd just shoot until I got tired. I wanted to improve my outside shooting and my ball handling. I wanted to improve everything.

I'm two-footed. I prefer to dribble with the left and shoot with the right.

I'll see some random guy and really like how he's locking his wrist when he's shooting or how a guy is catching the ball. It can be a little reminder that that's something I have to think about today.

A lot of playcalls are for the corner 3. I thought that's something I should really work on.

I want to improve my shooting, my free throw shooting, keeping my turnovers down.

If your shot is broke, you at least want to shoot it comfortably. You want to be comfortable shooting a broke shot. You don't want to be uncomfortable shooting a broke shot.