Lonzo Ball has heard all the comparisons between himself and Jason Kidd. So too, it seems, has Kidd. Thus far, the Milwaukee Bucks head coach likes what he sees.

“Lonzo Ball, I guess, has gotten a lot of comparisons [to me],” Kidd told the On Par Podcast (skip to the 24-minute mark). “Watching him in Vegas [at Summer League], he understands the floor, he understands the situation, he finds the open guy. Only time will tell. He might be better than I am.”

If Kidd could change anything about the Los Angeles Lakers’ rookie, he’d take a sledgehammer to the 19-year-old’s unorthodox jump shot.

“I think you got to try to fix it because there’s going to be times when the defense is going to sit on it,” Kidd explained. “Being a young player in this league, you don’t understand, ‘How can I make the game easier for you?’ Because you rely on your talent.

“But as veterans, those words are key because if you can make the game easier for me, I can play longer and I can be more efficient. So for Ball, I think you got to look at him being able to work on the jump shot because of being able to only go one way without it being defended well.”

Kidd’s wisdom here comes from experience. He shot 33.3 percent from three during his two seasons in college at Cal and was an inconsistent marksman early on in his pro career. He was tagged with the nickname “Ason Kidd” because he had no J.

Over the course of his 19 NBA seasons, Kidd molded himself into a credible outside threat and retired among the top-five all-time in three-point makes (he now ranks eighth).

If Ball can knock down long-range looks as well as Kidd once did, he’ll be all the better equipped to control the flow of the game and set up his teammates with his preternatural passing ability.

Just don’t expect Lonzo to take J-Kidd’s advice right away. Any change in the kid’s mechanics will likely have to wait until his first full offseason in 2018.