AD at the 5
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 23 June 2021
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In the same vein of discussion that continues the earlier episode on how bigs have fared in these playoffs, Pete & Mike discuss what is the ideal split for AD to play at the center position as opposed to the power forward position, whether the pendulum can swing too far in the NBA regarding the current preference for perimeter shooters over bigs in the paint, and the importance of surrounding AD with other bigs for vertical spacing.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | Do you follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show |
| 0:15.5 | because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.7 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money |
| 0:22.4 | anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to Laker Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire |
| 0:26.7 | Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined as always by Mike. Darius is out today. He is day today. And the first |
| 0:33.2 | two pods of the week, we talked about the importance of shooting was our first Lakers pod. And then we talked |
| 0:38.9 | about the limitations of Rudy Gobert and Ben Simmons in the playoffs. And in some ways, this pod is |
| 0:44.4 | kind of a continuation of a similar theme in that we're going to talk about Anthony Davis at the |
| 0:49.5 | five. Mike, last year during our championship run, during the regular season, AD's minutes, according to basketball reference anyway, 60% of his minutes during the regular season were at the four, and 40% at the five. |
| 1:04.3 | This season, it was a 90-10 split in favor of his minutes at the four. |
| 1:09.4 | Now, we talked a lot about the importance of spacing, |
| 1:14.1 | the importance of defensive versatility from your bigs. Anthony Davis is the pinnacle of that |
| 1:19.8 | type of player, but we went away from that this season. And I'm curious your thoughts on why |
| 1:25.4 | that happened. And if you think that we need to get more back toward that. Yeah, Pete, first of all, I think Darius is out just for today with scuff shoes, which is a number three on the displeasure scale. He's working on it. He will be back. I think I'm going to list him as probable for the next pod once he gets those cleaned up. |
| 1:45.0 | And, you know, it's not to the level of like microwave fish or anything. |
| 1:47.6 | So we should be good on that. |
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