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3 Biggest Things to Look Forward to This Season
The Lakers' training camp has concluded, as the team is making the trip up the coast to the new Chase Center to face the Golden State Warriors this Saturday at 5:00pm pacific time, 8:00pm eastern time.
As we are inching closer and closer to the season, I wanted to cover the biggest things to look forward to this upcoming season, mainly focusing on how our biggest frustrations last season have, on paper, been attended to.
3: Before the start of last season, Luke Walton's job security was already in question. And after LeBron's injury on Christmas Day and the increased losses following, Luke's job security only got more unstable. And that wasn't all, arguably the worst part was Luke Walton's horrible on-court coaching. When a player would get hot, he'd pull them, he'd call timeouts when the Lakers have momentum and not call timeouts when the Lakers desperately needed one. This made it incredibly frustrating to watch. A lot of this was due to Walton's lack of Head Coach experience. He's not a bad head coach, he just doesn't fit with the Lakers' timeline.
This offseason, the Lakers got rid of Luke Walton and his coaching staff, stripping it down to the bone. The Lakers' front office hired a defensive specialist in Frank Vogel and a very experienced staff around him. We should see a substantial improvement in that department, which should make for some more enjoyable basketball.
2: Last year, the Lakers ranked 29th in three point shooting. While it was more of a roster construction issue than anything else, it was still painful to watch. In a league where the three point shot is vital to a teams’ success, not having that was detrimental to our success. Defense was another one of the Lakers’ downfalls last season after the injury of Lonzo Ball in mid-January.
These two things were one of the most frustrating things of last season. The Lakers have filled in these two holes. Virtually everyone the Lakers signed this offseason can shoot the three ball and play defense or at least by in to the system. This season should be a drastic improvement in both of those categories, making it a very exciting aspect of this upcoming season.
1: Last year, the Lakers were in the middle of 'win-now' mode and 'build for the future' mode, and the young guys' timeline didn't match up with LeBron's at all, which made it difficult to put reach the roster's full potential. Looking back on it, it was frustrating being in the middle.
This year, man oh man, 'win-now' mode is a full-go and the Lakers are legitimate contenders for the first time since 2011. They have the best duo in the league, in LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and a roster that looks like it fits around them perfectly.
Lakers fans, we are almost there! As I'm writing this, we have just under two days until Lakers basketball returns and I couldn't be more excited.
As we are inching closer and closer to the season, I wanted to cover the biggest things to look forward to this upcoming season, mainly focusing on how our biggest frustrations last season have, on paper, been attended to.
3: Before the start of last season, Luke Walton's job security was already in question. And after LeBron's injury on Christmas Day and the increased losses following, Luke's job security only got more unstable. And that wasn't all, arguably the worst part was Luke Walton's horrible on-court coaching. When a player would get hot, he'd pull them, he'd call timeouts when the Lakers have momentum and not call timeouts when the Lakers desperately needed one. This made it incredibly frustrating to watch. A lot of this was due to Walton's lack of Head Coach experience. He's not a bad head coach, he just doesn't fit with the Lakers' timeline.
This offseason, the Lakers got rid of Luke Walton and his coaching staff, stripping it down to the bone. The Lakers' front office hired a defensive specialist in Frank Vogel and a very experienced staff around him. We should see a substantial improvement in that department, which should make for some more enjoyable basketball.
2: Last year, the Lakers ranked 29th in three point shooting. While it was more of a roster construction issue than anything else, it was still painful to watch. In a league where the three point shot is vital to a teams’ success, not having that was detrimental to our success. Defense was another one of the Lakers’ downfalls last season after the injury of Lonzo Ball in mid-January.
These two things were one of the most frustrating things of last season. The Lakers have filled in these two holes. Virtually everyone the Lakers signed this offseason can shoot the three ball and play defense or at least by in to the system. This season should be a drastic improvement in both of those categories, making it a very exciting aspect of this upcoming season.
1: Last year, the Lakers were in the middle of 'win-now' mode and 'build for the future' mode, and the young guys' timeline didn't match up with LeBron's at all, which made it difficult to put reach the roster's full potential. Looking back on it, it was frustrating being in the middle.
This year, man oh man, 'win-now' mode is a full-go and the Lakers are legitimate contenders for the first time since 2011. They have the best duo in the league, in LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and a roster that looks like it fits around them perfectly.
Lakers fans, we are almost there! As I'm writing this, we have just under two days until Lakers basketball returns and I couldn't be more excited.
