Middle Ground
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 22 April 2022
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Summary
Can the Lakers rely on Anthony Davis to be a good jump shooter? If not, how does that change the types of players they should put around him and LeBron James next season? When thinking about team building in the aftermath of this season with Russell Westbrook, Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the decisions facing the Lakers, the value of shooting and skilled shot creators, and why defense still matters in the role players next to Bron and AD.
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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 |
| 0:22.4 | anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the |
| 0:26.5 | Blue R podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today's conversation is a bit of a |
| 0:31.7 | continuation of yesterday. It's had a really fun pod where we ended really getting into the |
| 0:37.0 | importance of Anthony Davis's jump shot. |
| 0:40.1 | And right now, more and more, we're in roster construction mode. |
| 0:44.0 | And so what we're trying to do is have these conversations where things start to emerge as we have the conversation. |
| 0:50.8 | Maybe conclusions get more crystallized as a result. |
| 0:53.9 | Mike, you and I on a pod the other day were like, you know, a stretch five that was kind of big and can bang with guys, that'd be a really nice type of player to put next to AD. And I think we arrived at that through the conversation that we had. So I want to continue that idea of 80's jumper. And where I think we concluded, please correct me if I misrepresent your guys' position here, |
| 1:15.7 | I think we concluded that LeBron's jumper, I think you can take to the bank to a certain extent. |
| 1:22.0 | He's just like any shooter, there's going to be variants there. |
| 1:25.0 | But LeBron is, I think you can bake that into the equation that |
| 1:29.2 | LeBron is going to provide a certain degree of jump shooting. Whereas with Anthony Davis, |
| 1:34.3 | it's more of a luxury. That's where when his jumper is working, the Lakers can be pretty |
| 1:40.2 | unstoppable in a quality build. But you shouldn't have starting lineups in particular |
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