Domino Effect
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 28 December 2023
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Summary
The Lakers recent lineup change remains a work in progress, with questions remaining on how to navigate not only the new personnel groupings but the strategic shifts within them. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the updated starting five, the team's new switching defense, how to account for Austin Reaves within these schemes, why the Celtics and Thunder were test cases for playing top offenses with this style, and much more. And then later the guys discuss how the offense is impacted by the change and strategies that they can use to account for the spacing challenges of the new group.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | 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 bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And I'd like to linger on the recent lineup change and kind of the domino effect that it has. We've talked a bit about the starters, and I think we will continue to. But one of the |
| 0:39.1 | things that when there is a lineup change, D, there is a, you know, that effect on the bench as well. |
| 0:44.9 | And so if you guys would indulge me, I wrote down this list of things that I believe that I wanted |
| 0:51.3 | to, wanted to say, and consider this kind of a menu of topics |
| 0:55.5 | that we can choose from and take this in |
| 0:58.0 | whichever direction you want to go D. So here goes. |
| 1:00.5 | All right, we need to have a plan. If we're going to switch, we need to have a |
| 1:03.6 | plan for when Austin is targeted. That's something that teams are going to do on a |
| 1:07.0 | regular basis. And one of the things about switching that with whatever team, there's |
| 1:11.2 | always going to be a weakest link on the floor, whoever that may be. And teams are going to target that guy. And there needs to be a cohesive plan as to like, what do we do when Austin gets targeted? He's a super important part of the team. And we'll need to have a plan for when he's being attacked on defense. Once again, we don't have a too big look to go to. |
| 1:29.0 | I believe that it's Hayes and AD. Switching can facilitate passivity, but it also helps conserve |
| 1:35.1 | physical energy. And so the switch to a switching type of look, I think benefits LeBron on some |
| 1:40.5 | level. And then finally, DeLo, Austin, and Vando all help each other in a certain way that without |
| 1:47.3 | each other's skill sets, there can be some complications. So those are, that's a melange of a bunch of |
| 1:52.6 | different things, of topics. But do any of those stick out to you as a topic that you'd like to |
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