How Nunn Fits In
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
Yes, the Lakers now profess to have a big-3 of superstar talents, but newcomer Kendrick Nunn just might be the team's x-factor this season. Pete, Darius, and Mike dissect Nunn's game, looking at his strengths and weaknesses, how they believe he'll fit in on the team on both sides of the ball, and whether he could end up being a surprise starter if the Lakers pivot away from playing big to begin games as they have the last two seasons.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:30.0 | And today we're going to talk about Kendrick Nunn. |
| 0:32.7 | I've spent the last week, two weeks or so, getting kind of a generalized understanding of each |
| 0:39.5 | player that we've brought in watching tape. And so I just want to read off a little bit of my |
| 0:44.7 | little chicken scratch scouting report for you guys that I want you to take in whatever direction |
| 0:50.4 | that you like within the context of the Lakers team. So none, the most impressive |
| 0:55.7 | part of his game is he's a really versatile score. He's a three level type of guy. He's |
| 1:01.9 | a really clever finisher around the rim, left-handed player, but makes like 75 of his shot, |
| 1:07.5 | 75% of his shots around the rim. And he's got all of these, these finishes where it's like right-handed off of his right |
| 1:15.1 | leg, contorting away from the defense, has a great variety of ways that he can finish |
| 1:21.2 | around the rim for any type of player, left-handed or right-handed. |
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