“Are you locked in about your game or locked out of the team Talen Horton-Tucker?”: NBA Twitter goes wild with their reactions to the young Lakers star’s cryptic tweet

Arun Sharma | 07/03/2022
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Talen Horton-Tucker has been poor this season – with such a free rein available to him he hasn’t made much use of it.

When Kyle Kuzma was traded away, it looked like Talen Horton-Tucker was lined up to take over the offense gap Kuzma left. It was a no-brainer since his pre-season exploits and regular season cameos were promising. But when push came to shove, the young man decided to crumble. Expectations are always huge in LA, and a few can take the spotlight.

All the young players who played for the Lakers have now left and are shining elsewhere. The spotlights can be too bright in LA, and it seems like Horton-Tucker is the latest casualty.

Or it could be that he just isn’t good enough and fooled everyone with that freak summer outing. Either way, Rob Pelinka made a mistake keeping him, and now he’s stuck on the roster with absolutely no trade value.

Why would he have one too, with garbage performances night in and night out? Even Kuzma blew hot and cold – but never like this. People likened Tucker to the next Jayson Tatum – they may have been talking about JT Jr. because THT has been stealing a living in LA.

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In his last three games, THT has scored a combined 4 points. That’s four more than Trevor Ariza and Kendrick Nunn, who seem to have come to the sunny side of California for a vacation and a couple of million dollars. Fans, sportscasters, and the general public alike are tired of watching a once-great organization employ bums.

In the recent surprise win against the Golden State Warriors, Horton-Tucker and LeBron James combined for a massive 58 points. Guess who scored 56 of them? Not the one who shares the same name with comedian Chris Tucker that is for sure.

Some fans think that just improving one facet of his game would make him a better player – if that is everything, then they would be right. Tucker air balls almost every other game – what is the hurry? He’s decent driving to the rim, but that is about it. He’s just a b.tec Ben Simmons, who shoots poorly and can’t defend.

Even when he scores 20 a game, the impact he has on the game is so little. His +- is atrocious (Everybody on the Lakers has shocking stats) and never leading the team by example. He’s one of the few young people in the team capable of running hard, but all the onus still falls on LeBron James.

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Arun Sharma

Arun Sharma is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. A double degree holder and a digital marketer by trade, Arun has always been a sports buff. He fell in love with the sport of basketball at a young age and has been a Lakers fan since 2006. What started as a Kobe Bryant obsession slowly turned into a lifelong connection with the purple and gold. Arun has been an ardent subscriber to the Mamba mentality and has shed tears for a celebrity death only once in his life. He believes January 26, 2020, was the turning point in the passage of time because Kobe was the glue holding things together. From just a Lakers bandwagoner to a basketball fanatic, Arun has spent 16 long years growing up along with the league. He thinks Stephen Curry has ruined basketball forever, and the mid-range game is a sight to behold. Sharma also has many opinions about football (not the American kind), F1, MotoGP, tennis, and cricket.

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