Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton has been letting LeBron James run the show when the superstar plays as a point guard because, according to NBA scouts, he was ignoring him anyway.

James is a natural small forward, but over the span of his 15-year career, he has spent a lot of time playing at the point, so much so, being on the ball has left him frustrated on occasion.

He often asked the Cleveland Cavaliers to get players around him who could handle the ball in order to allow him to play off it and operate in the post more. But they were right in thinking that they were much better off when he was the one pulling the strings.

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LeBron thinks he doesn't want to play at the point and gives a speech about playing more in the post ahead of nearly every season. However, it doesn't take him long to settle into the role, which has become as natural as his frontcourt capabilities.

Rajon Rondo's broken hand saw to it that he played as a guard some more this season. And, to no one's surprise, the Lakers have been better for it. Lonzo Ball, who had been sharing point guard duties with Rondo, has sustained an ankle injury himself and is questionable for Thursday's game against the Indiana Pacers. So we know how that's going to work out.

ESPN's Brian Windhorst has analyzed LeBron's performances at the one this season and, in his column, he notes that the player doesn't even look to the bench to receive plays from Walton and, even when he does, he ignores them and runs his own sets.

"The scouts also have noticed that when James is running the point, he rarely looks toward the bench to receive playcalls from coach Luke Walton," Windhorst wrote. "Even when he has seen them, the scouts say, he ignores them and runs the play he prefers. Walton has adjusted, and now when James is running the show, Walton will typically just let him call the game. This probably shouldn’t be considered a slight — it’s just James being James."

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What This Means

Walton seems fine with letting LeBron do his thing when he's playing as a point forward because he's just that good.

All of LeBron's former coaches have had to learn to take a step back and figure out how to use the player's basketball nous to the team's advantage and it usually works out just fine. Walton has realized quite early that he will have to get with the program or get ignored; and it's no disrespect, it's just LeBron seeing the floor from his vantage point and knowing what's best.

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