The Importance of Shooting
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 21 June 2021
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Summary
We all know that shooting is a key ingredient to playing winning basketball in the modern NBA. However, how critical was the Lakers fall-off in 3-point accuracy to their 1st round playoff exit and did the playoffs reveal certain truths about the quality of shooters the Lakers have? How much should the team prioritize shooting, particularly in relation to how much the team values strong defensive players, when building out their roster this offseason? Would a shooting big man or a point guard with better 3-point range and accuracy help this team more? Pete, Mike, and Darius debate these questions and more when looking back at the Lakers season and forward into next season.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | Do 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 part show |
| 0:15.5 | because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.7 | 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 to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined, as always, by Darius and Mike. And last week, we got into a couple of player reviews. We're going, reflecting back on this last Laker season. We got into Dennis Schrooter, his season and his playoffs and his fit alongside LeBron and AD. |
| 0:42.0 | And kind of setting up, we'll have more conversations about him and Drummond. |
| 0:46.3 | We had a pot on him as well in terms of their future. |
| 0:48.8 | But we're still looking back. |
| 0:51.7 | And some of these are going to be on individual players, but others are going to be on broader concepts. |
| 0:56.9 | And this is going to be one of those pods. |
| 0:58.9 | Our outside shooting, atrocious this season by and large, and then abandoned us in the playoffs. |
| 1:04.8 | And we just shot absolutely terribly on even open and wide open shots. |
| 1:09.2 | We weren't able to get that. |
| 1:11.0 | And then a few days ago, I was watching game five of the Utah Clippers series, Darius. |
| 1:16.2 | And there were like four dudes on fire at the same time is Bogdanovich and Clarkson, our old guy, JC, on Utah. |
| 1:23.9 | And then Reggie Jackson and Marcus Morris and Paul George. |
| 1:27.4 | And this is all happening in the same game. |
| 1:29.0 | Now, this is not usual. |
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