LaMelo Ball’s season in the NBL has been a rocky one that has had highs and lows both personally for Ball and for the Illawarra Hawks as a whole. A rough start was made even worse with a season-ending injury to the team’s best player, Aaron Brooks, leaving Illawarra in a state of uncertainty.
Ball has taken the reigns and flourished in the weeks since Brooks’ absence, highlighted by his best game of the season in the most recent Illawarra contest against the Taipans.
With a healthy sample size gathered through the opening nine games of the season for the Hawks, here’s a look at three key stats from the season for both Illawarra and Ball.