I gotta say, I commend Lonnie Walker for going out on a limb and telling us the real story of why he had that crazy haircut of his. The one that looked like a clump of tree stumps with one of them falling over. It took real courage to pour out his inner demons for the whole internet to see.
I also gotta say, it is way harder to figure out where Lonnie Walker is on the court when a.) his hair is short and b.) his name isn’t on his jersey. Basically, I’m looking for the guy who is a bit on the shorter side, but is going at full speed 100% of the time and is regularly floating to the heavens for sick finishes at the rim.
My visual search for Lonnie Walker is also limited to players who are wearing a Spurs jersey. That reduces the amount of players who I have to pay attention to by 50%. It’s math, people.
When it comes to high-flying bucketage combined with some deft midrangeitude, this video does not disappoint. Lonnie Walker shows us again and again why he is probably the single most exciting young player on the stodgy old Spurs who still have to give minutes to non-exciting, non-young players like Rudy Gay and Marco Belinelli (LaMarcus Aldridge is in that club too but he’s sitting out the resumed season of bubbleball). Do the Spurs actually have any hope of making the playoffs? Nah. They’ll play their eight games and go home. But with Lonnie Walker on the court, all memory of the Spurs’ mediocre season and all the mediocre role-players that contributed to it just melts away.