Ebanks Shines in Another Lakers Loss

In addition to building team chemistry, learning new playbooks and ironing out basic fundamentals and executions, the pre-season is also about having the opportunity to showcase the results of all the hardwork a player put on over the summer to improve his game.While Devin Ebanks has never been short on putting work on becoming a better a player, his 20-point outing on 7-of-10 shooting, including 4-of-5 from distance, is proof enough that he deserves to be a regular in Mike Brown's rotation this season. Comparing Ebanks to the rest of the bench in exhibition games so far, he's the only one who seems more confident and more focused than anybody else.Brown has talked about the possibility of sliding Ebanks to the shooting guard position before. Seeing that Devin is averaging 7.3 points at 66.7% shooting in pre-season, that might not be a bad proposition. The Lakers (0-5) flew in to Sin City having lost their first 4 exhibition games. Of course, a lot of that had to do with...