Watch the first few feet
Charlotte has had a recent three-point surge tied to LaMelo Ball and Kon Knueppel. Good. Bank the applause and move on to the more useful question.
Against Brooklyn, watch the air around them. Not the shot result. Not the celebration. Watch whether defenders stay attached early enough to change the shape of the floor before Charlotte even gets to its second idea. That is the picture. If Ball and Knueppel are treated like priority spacers from the opening possessions, the offense starts wider. Driving lanes open sooner. Help has to think twice before wandering.
What Brooklyn's reaction would mean
If Brooklyn guards the surge as real, then Charlotte's hot shooting starts becoming spacing pressure instead of just a pleasing streak. The defense has already made a decision for you in that case: these two can no longer be handled casually. But if Brooklyn gives them ordinary air, or treats the recent burst like a novelty instead of a problem, then the shooting remains impressive and still strategically unproven.
That is why this is a clean watch item rather than a broad breakthrough speech. The next Charlotte clue is simple and visual: do the defenders behave as if the shooting changed the map, or do they still see the same room as before?