Rui Hachimura has been with the Los Angeles Lakers for 2 seasons and has averaged 12.3 factors and 4.4 rebounds.
There have been video games when he’s been red-hot and others when he hasn’t been very productive.
Talking on “The Pat Bev Podcast”, through NBACentral, Patrick Beverley stated that Hachimura wants to vary his strategy so as to do extra for the Lakers.
He stated the 26-year-old ahead must view himself because the group’s second-best possibility.
He ought to achieve extra confidence and consider in his photographs, even after they’re not falling.
This may assist the Lakers, similar to it’s helped them earlier than.
Pat Bev says Rui Hachimura ought to strategy video games with the mindset that he’s the second possibility on the Lakers
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Beverley famous that Kyle Kuzma had an identical strategy when he performed with the Lakers in the course of the 2019-20 season.
Some folks made enjoyable of him when he was inconsistent however he by no means stopped believing in himself.
That ultimately led to him taking pictures higher, serving to out extra, and being a significant a part of the group’s championship run.
The Lakers have two of the very best gamers within the recreation with LeBron James and Anthony Davis and their expertise is unquestioned.
The issue with the group is the shortage of depth past these two.
They don’t have gamers they’ll usually depend on and inconsistency plagues them usually.
If Hachimura is ready to discover extra confidence, every part will fall into place and the Lakers can have their trusted second possibility.
Hachimura averaged 13.6 factors and 4.3 rebounds final season and began in 39 of his 68 video games.
There’s a good likelihood he can be a starter when the brand new season begins and that can give him an enormous alternative to point out what he can do for the group.
