As Ball in the Family’s mid-season break continues to feature interviews with various members of the family. This week, the interview included Lonzo Ball and Darren “DMo” Moore answering questions both from the producers and from viewers and fans.
The most interesting question Ball answered came from a fan who asked who can give him the most competition out of LaVar, LiAngelo, LaMelo and DMo, to which Ball responded:
I’ll probably go with Gelo because he’s the biggest. Melo’s still too little and my dad is just….You saw how he played in Hawaii. Let’s not go there.
Physically, Gelo matches up best with Lonzo. In a game of one-on-one, Gelo could battle and physically beat up Lonzo. While the skill gap between them is far greater than that between Lonzo and Melo – and Melo may actually already be as tall as Lonzo – in a game of one-on-one, Lonzo won’t be able to exploit that skill gap as much as he would in a bigger setting.
LaVar, meanwhile, is a different beast. And not in a good way. The ellipses in the above quote represent a montage of clips from the Ball family’s trip to Hawaii during a previous season that also featured the family playing basketball together and LaVar failing. Repeatedly. And terribly.
There’s plenty of other glorious evidence that LaVar is terrible at basketball, a hilarious fact considering the talented players he produced. But none of them are better than Lonzo and none of them, in the end, can handle much of a candle to Lonzo currently.
