The 3 most volatile players on the Los Angeles Lakers roster
By Jason Reed
1. Wayne Ellington
The ceiling for Wayne Ellington is being a sharpshooter that the Lakers can rely on that gets hot from three and proves to be a reliable scoring presence for the Lakers. The floor is someone who is not hitting his three-point shots and cannot even fall back on being a good defender to get rotation minutes.
It is tough to predict exactly what Ellington we are going to get during the 2021-22 season. He was fantastic last season, shooting 42.2% from beyond the arc at a high-volume mark. However, the year before was not quite as efficient as he shot just 35% from beyond the arc in a smaller sample size.
Throughout his career his shooting numbers have never really followed a consistent path. The most likely outcome, just based on his career numbers, seems to be that he will shoot around 37% from beyond the arc.
That is not terrible but that certainly is not what an elite sharpshooter shoots from three. However, we cannot even bank on him reaching that mark as he has shot 35% twice in the last six seasons.
How well he shoots the ball will define his value to the Los Angeles Lakers and with his shooting being so up and down, Wayne Ellington is volatile.