Protecting the Rim
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 19 November 2021
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Summary
As the Lakers continue to start Anthony Davis at Center and, in general, shift towards lineups that only play a single traditional big man at a time, their defensive approach will need to continue to be refined and adapt to these new lineup types. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the evolving nature of the Lakers defense, using the success of the zone defense the team played against the Bucks as a jumping off point. Later, the guys try to determine what defensive approach can be best in the short and long term and how much it might need to change night to night and lineup to lineup considering the team's personnel.
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| 0:12.4 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:15.8 | You follow the box cards of the games every day? |
| 0:18.4 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:19.6 | You're kidding. |
| 0:21.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:25.1 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:30.1 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:32.8 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:35.3 | Correct. |
| 0:35.8 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:36.8 | 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 some defense. With the Lakers' recent switch to Anthony Davis at the five, that causes a whole chain reaction on both sides of the ball where you just kind of have to do things differently and this morning de you and i were |
| 0:55.0 | messaging each other kind of talking about the nature of this and one of the arguments i made |
| 0:59.2 | which i brought up in the last pod is that many of our lineups i i think i wouldn't go so far as to |
| 1:03.7 | say that all of them especially when lebron is around but this is a smaller team than last year |
| 1:09.0 | that's less physical, especially amongst the players |
| 1:11.3 | that can, amongst our best players, right? And so the nature of Frank Vogel's defense is to |
| 1:18.2 | always chase over the top of screens and funnel toward the bigs down low. As I said yesterday, |
| 1:23.7 | right? We're not going to let you get anything from behind the three point line. I think of the |
| 1:26.9 | Houston series in the bubble where they were shooting 50, 60s against everyone else, and we had them in the low to mid-30s for most of that series. Not going to give you that three-point shot, and we're going to chase you into these bigs with these great wingspans that can leap up in the air, and you're going to have to make a shot over them. If you pull up from 15, that's fine. |
| 1:45.8 | You're going to have to deal with shot over them. If you pull up from |
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