their playing time no matter how high they were drafted.

It seems like the Lakers have had the opposite approach. They basically gave the keys to Lonzo from day 1 and decided they were going to live and die with him. I remember when Lonzo was out during the preseason Luke said something about they weren’t able to put all of the offense in because Lonzo wasn’t there and I thought “WTF?” I just feel throwing a 19 year-old rookie guard out there for 30+ minutes a night from day 1 can be extremely taxing physically and mentally and is a set for hitting the proverbial “rookie wall”.