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Future UCLA Basketball player LaMelo Ball and the Big Ballers take heat after big AAU loss

By Mike Regalado

Feb 12, 2017; Los Angeles, CA, USA; LaMelo Ball, younger brother of UCLA Bruins guard Lonzo Ball (not pictured) attends the game against the Oregon State Beavers at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA won 78-60. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 12, 2017; Los Angeles, CA, USA; LaMelo Ball, younger brother of UCLA Bruins guard Lonzo Ball (not pictured) attends the game against the Oregon State Beavers at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA won 78-60. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports /
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Future point guard for the UCLA Basketball team, LaMelo Ball and his AAU team the Big Ballers (which is coached by LaVar Ball), are taking a lot of heat after getting destroyed by 52 points against the Compton Magic.

The Balls have been deflated, so to speak. The Ball family, whose patriarch is LaVar Ball, is getting blasted on social media after their signature AAU team the Big Ballers, led by future UCLA Basketball player LaMelo Ball, lost in embarrassing fashion to the Compton Magic, 109-57.

That is correct, the LaVar Ball-coached Big Ballers lost by 52-points and there were not a lot of highlights on their end of the court. Actually, the opposite occurred which is getting a lot of attention.

Aside from the embarrassing team performance, the point guard for the Ballers, future Bruin LaMelo, is taking a lot of heat for his horrendous shooting performance. Video shows Ball taking a lot of forced, errant shots that resulted in airballs, bad bounces off the rim and a ball getting stuck in between the rim and the glass. It was not his game, to say the least.

Because of it, he has been seriously getting roasted, especially on social media.

Ouch. With his father as the coach, the Big Ballers seem to run a style of basketball that is centered around LaMelo and his shooting. When it is on, they are on fire. When LaMelo is not hot, well, the team looks completely out of sorts.

His father/coach LaVar Ball is also taking some heat for his teams’s performance, especially after his tirade to his team in which he claims, “when you play basketball, you play for entertainment.” Clearly, LaVar has never heard of the word “winning”.

Next: Any team that draft Lonzo Ball, drafts LaVar Ball.

It is one game and hopefully LaMelo and the Big Ballers can learn from this experience. LaMelo has a few years to get his game in order to play at the elite level needed to lead the UCLA Basketball team. If he does not, then there could be a lot less time on the court if he starts jacking up shots like he did today against the rest of the Pac-12.