I believe that Lonzo Ball will go down as one of the great passers that the game has ever seen. He possesses the vision and ability to distribute with either hand that is reminiscent of Magic Johnson, John Stockton, LeBron James, Larry Bird, Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, and the list of comparable passers doesn’t extend […]
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Laker Film Room: Lakers Defense Tortures Wizards For 53 Minutes
The Los Angeles Lakers have always been the best soap opera in sports, but the Lonzo Ball experience is something to behold, even by their gaudy standards. What should have been a routine, mid-week matchup against a quality Eastern Conference opponent turned into a war of words between LaVar Ball and Marcin Gortat, with John […]
Post Game Data Report: Lakers vs Wizards
The Lakers drew even on the season with a 102-99 overtime win at home against the Wizards on Wednesday. Their defense kept them in the game and some big plays late sealed the victory. The Lakers Offense It was a rough day at the office for the Lakers offense, but somehow they survived it. If […]
Lakers Preseason: 5 Data Takeaways Through 3 Games
The Lakers Preseason Offense Is Getting out in Transition at a Historic Rate Through the first three games of preseason, LA has 26.5% of its possessions coming from transition. 13.9% was the NBA average the last three regular seasons. As I spoke about before, we can typically expect that percentage to drop 1.28% once we […]
Lakers Signings: Bogut Offensive Data Dive
The waves coming in and out at the beach. A sunset. Steph Curry shooting jump shots. These are all pretty things. Andrew Bogut’s offensive Synergy profile? Not so much. Bogut played 26 games last season for the Dallas Mavericks. He didn’t have big minutes or play a ton of games, but he had 944 touches […]
Lakers Preseason Game 1 Playbook
If you follow my work, you know I’m not a fan of the Lakers scheme from last season. The chess game within the game of utilizing actions to generate good shots can play a big role for basketball teams, and solid team scheme is something seen with all of the top NBA teams. This year […]
Lakers NBA 2K18 Playbook Changes to Dominate Your Competition
When most people first get a new NBA 2K game, they probably go right into playing a couple “Play Now” games, or maybe look at the rosters. They might play online or immediately fire up MyCareer mode. I’m not most people. I played two “Play Now” games purely to check out the rosters on each […]
Podcast: Talking Lakers Draft, Brandon Ingram with Danny Leroux of Real GM
Friend of the site and Real GM writer/Dunc’d on Podcast co-host Danny Leroux had me on his Real GM Radio podcast to talk Lakers heading into the draft. We talked a lot about Lonzo Ball, but also got into Brandon Ingram, what the goals should be for this off-season, and how it all ties into […]
Listen: Breakdown on Brandon Ingram, Lakers’ Summer Plans
One of my favorite NBA podcasts out there is Nate Duncan’s “Dunc’d On”. Nate has good knowledge on the CBA, the draft, is good with X’s and O’s, and does a good job of conveying it all to the listener. I was happy, then, to hear that he had covered Brandon Ingram and the Lakers […]
Jordan Clarkson Wants to Stay with the Lakers, Working on his 3-Point Shot
Jordan Clarkson is a gym rat. Earlier this season, he actually showed up to the Lakers’ practice facility to get a workout in only to discover there was a D-Fenders game going on. Dude just lives in the gym. We got another glimpse of that this week when he took some time after an off-season […]