Aside from that embarrassing performance in Boston, Brandon Ingram has been performing pretty darn okay since the All-Star break. Is he finally figuring out the NBA game? Is this the corner that we’ve been waiting for him to turn for all these months? Is his hair preventing him from elevating on his dunks? How many hypothetical questions can I ask in a row before people realize that I never have any answers?
The Lakers are tanking even harder now, having completely excised Mozgov and Deng from their rotation. This doesn’t affect Ingram much, though, because he’s already been playing as many minutes he can handle almost from day one. It does affect him in the sense that there is not even any pretense of trying to win games, so he can literally do whatever he wants on the court and it doesn’t matter. Fun!