Monk & Ellington
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
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Summary
In Wayne Ellington and Malik Monk, the Lakers signed two players who shot over 40% from behind the arc last season, but did so in very different ways. Pete, Mike, and Darius look at how the specifics of both players' shooting profiles can help the Lakers and how each one might excel within the types of offensive sets the team runs. Later, the guys look at each players' defensive utility and wonder if Frank Vogel will be able to mask their limitations enough for either to be a consistent rotation player.
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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. |
| 0:07.4 | 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 Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today we're going to talk about the new shooters that the Lakers added to the squad, specifically Malik Munk and Wayne Ellington. I'd like to start with Ellington. He's somebody |
| 0:38.8 | that, again, a common theme on this roster. This is his second tour of duty with the Lakers. |
| 0:44.9 | And he, one of the things I like about this combo of Ellington and Monk is they go about their |
| 0:51.6 | shooting in a different way. Ellington is a total technician. |
| 0:55.7 | He knows how to lean on a guy and run off of a screen, |
| 0:59.6 | and he's got this great pump fake that sends guys flying. |
| 1:03.2 | He's a wonderful pull-up shooter. |
| 1:04.6 | But in terms of the skills that you can get better at in terms of shooting, |
| 1:09.9 | Wayne Ellington has really added to his game since his last tour of duty with the Lakers where he knows all the tricks of the trade. Now, he's got a ton of holes in his game, but Darius, when it comes to pure shooters in the NBA, whether it's off of a screen, off of a pull-up jump shot, Wayne Ellington's right up there amongst the better shooters in the game. |
| 1:30.3 | What do you see that we're getting in him? |
| 1:32.3 | Look, man, go back and watch the game. |
| 1:35.3 | It might have been in Detroit where the Lakers played the Pistons this past season. |
| 1:39.6 | It was Detroit, yeah. |
| 1:41.4 | Wayne Allenton kicked the Lakers ass. |
| 1:43.9 | Him and Blake Griffin played two-man game. |
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