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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

How Skilled Are the Lakers?

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

Sports, News, Sports News, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In part two of their evaluation of the Lakers roster, the guys rank each player on the team as shooters, ball handlers, passers, finishers around the rim, and their overall IQ compared to their positional counterparts around the NBA.

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0:00.0

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0:12.3

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0:15.1

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:18.5

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

0:21.1

Just the Lakers.

0:22.4

You're kidding.

0:23.7

That is really a compliment.

0:27.8

I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show

0:30.6

because once the game starts, you have a game face.

0:32.8

You don't smile much out there.

0:35.4

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome

0:40.2

to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And yesterday we did a new kind of pod

0:45.1

that we hadn't done before. We did a little exercise on evaluating the Lakers athleticism.

0:49.8

Had a lot of fun with that. And through the process of doing that, I had a couple of conclusions

0:53.9

that, you know couple of conclusions that,

0:54.5

you know, I see the team a little bit differently than I did before, but it also confirmed

0:58.2

a few things too. I'm going to do the same thing today, but with the Lakers from a skill perspective.

1:03.2

So put athleticism to the side, who can shoot, handle the ball, pass, and then IQ. And so we'll start there, Dee. Those are my four categories. Before we really get into it, do you have another category within skills that you would like to add to this or substitute for anything? So what are we looking at Pete? We're looking at ball handling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'll repeat those. So shooting, ball handling, which is dribbling, but also, you know, fakes and everything that comes with handling the ball, passing, which I suppose you could argue is part of handling the ball too, but is a different enough to warrant its own category. And then IQ, which to me is an all-encompassing. Do you know when to do what? Yeah, I think that that's about right.

1:45.1

That's a good thing to build off of. Okay. And so to repeat the framework from last time,

1:49.6

it's a scale from minus two to plus two for each player, where zero represents the average player,

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