Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Bronny James Thrives While Dalton Knecht Struggles in Vegas Summer League

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, everyone, welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Tuesday. Brian Komeneski, Andy Kaminetsky, Summer League continues. Bronny James continues to look good. Dalton Connect continues to look awful. The Lakers have a problem on their hands. That's next. You are Locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast.

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Starting point is 00:01:43 Andy, he looks like he doesn't belong in Summer League, but for the wrong reasons, not because he's too good. Yeah, the 24 years old piece of it, to be honest, does not bother me at least yet, just because Dalton's path to the NBA was JC to a lower-end D-1 maybe-ish school. to Tennessee. So the fact that he kept improving at every level, for me, gives less credence to the idea of him being 24 in a finished product. Other people harp on it.

Starting point is 00:02:18 I'm not looking to debate it. I'm just saying, for me, it's not that big of a deal. That being said, though, the first year to second year advancement is something that you want to see for any player, much less someone that even acknowledging that they didn't play as much down the stretch of the regular season, which is not shocking for a rookie on a team that's a three-seat. You know, I mean, Reed Shepard for the Houston Rockets, who was the two-seat last season. He barely played last season at all, too.

Starting point is 00:02:51 So it's not shocking that that would happen. But Dalton Connect got enough regular season minutes that the court time should reflect a jump, not just in his second season, but at minimum in his second summer league. And it has not been there at all on even a remotely consistent basis. He's had one Monday night just so people, that people miss the game, Monday night, three of 15 from the floor, one of eight from three point range, did have seven rebounds, but turned the ball over a couple times. He was a minus 13 in a game the Lakers would eventually lose.

Starting point is 00:03:33 lose by nine. Yeah. He has, other than one game, and I don't remember if it was the third in the California classic or the first in Vegas, whichever one it was, he had one game where he played in the classic, I believe. He really heated up in the second half. Right. He played very well, I think, in that game.

Starting point is 00:03:53 Since then, it's been largely all over the place and frankly trending more subpar than even up and down or uneven. He just has not looked comfortable. He has not looked like he has found any type of rhythm. And even if you start thinking about certain considerations for a guy like Dalton who, you know, can thrive with better playmakers on the floor, like better guys to help set him up, things like that. And all those things do matter to some degree.

Starting point is 00:04:29 Dalton is also, he's athletic enough. with enough ball handling skills that he should be able to create for himself more again in the summer league than we've seen so far. And there's a part of me that's hoping that he is still feeling uncomfortable or unsure about his place with the team. And, you know, after the rescinded Mark Williams deal and maybe he just is having a difficult time really connecting, pun unintended, with. what he's supposed to be doing on the court because he's not sure he's going to be there,

Starting point is 00:05:07 you know, for the beginning of the season, the entire season, whatever. Because otherwise, he just looks like a guy who has regressed, which is a problem for the Lakers, whether they want to try to move Dalton or whether they need Dalton to play a role for this coming season. Well, he does seem to be solving the issue of not, you know, making, not knowing where you're going to be at the beginning. of the year because this off season has, I can only imagine, significantly impacted his value around the league.

Starting point is 00:05:44 I mean, you know, okay, there are reasons perhaps to downplay his relative age as a second year player. I mean, again, I remind people, Jake Laravia, the Lakers signed this offseason, going into his fourth season, I believe, is younger than. Dalton connect, you know, just kind of put things in perspective. You might, Andy, find reasons to say, you know what, he can still improve. And obviously, he can. He played in, you know, he played enough good games last year with the, you know, with the Lakers to say, you know, to say that, like, you can't just say he's terrible and he's a bust and this is not like he's played too many good

Starting point is 00:06:25 games. But I guarantee you around the league, other teams are taking his age in consideration. when they look at his potential arc. And when you look at trade value, the, you know, so I have wondered for a couple weeks now if, you know, since the Summer League really got going, if part of the reason the Lakers haven't made or seem to be in on a lot of these potential deals or things around the league is because they've only got three,

Starting point is 00:06:59 what are perceived as three fairly valuable chips. They've got that 20, is it 31 that they can trade? That first round pick, which they really want to hold on to, and I understand. They have Austin Reeves, who they really want to hold on to and I understand. The third thing is Dalton Connect. And at the least, Connect is not enhancing that trade value. And I suspect in any situation, teams are asking for that first rounder and maybe kind of going, ah, all right, well, no, we don't want Dalton if that's what you're offering.

Starting point is 00:07:33 Yeah, the hope would be that Dalton represents the first round pick, you know, that he essentially is the guy that you would look to draft in the first round, except he's established and he's not considered a crapshoot in the way that first round picks often can be. You know, I mean, it's unpredictable, and the hope would be that Dalton represents predictability. at the very least, like what you said before, I think he has shown enough that at minimum, he looks like an NBA player. Like, you know, I've seen some people in the chat right now during the show bringing up Jalen Hood-Shafino. It's like, slow down, like slow down. He is not at JHS level yet in terms of these types of struggles. I mean, like, that is, JHS has had difficulties

Starting point is 00:08:24 getting on the floor on a consistent basis like. JHS, I don't know if has. had had more than two or three NBA games that are as good as an average game from Dalton last year. Right. So let's keep this in perspective. But that being said, again, on a lot of different levels, the Lakers need Dalton to keep progressing. And what we've seen in the summer league at the very least could represent a regression. And that's a problem. Like it would be a problem if, if he was just flatlining. Like that in and of itself could be problematic for the Lakers. But the idea of taking a step backwards, that really becomes a thing.

Starting point is 00:09:09 If you look around and just start clicking around box scores, and one, some of these will be single games and this and that and whatever. But if you just start clicking around, you can see the trend that we're talking about of like what you want from second year guys, you know, maybe even a third year player, whatever it might be. You know, Kobe, man, it's not just star guys, you know, that have, you know, really high pedigree. You know, Kobe Buffkin, who's barely played the NBA at a huge game Monday afternoon for the Hawks. Like, guys like that, you just expect to be better than the, you know, the players that are around them.

Starting point is 00:09:52 You know, Mattas Buzales, you know, at a really good rookie year for, you know, Chicago last year showed up, I'm not sure how many summer league games he's played, but he put up 28 and 5, 20 and 5 on Monday. Like just, they just sort of drop in and do stuff like that. And that's how it goes.

Starting point is 00:10:13 And Connect hasn't. And I think it's got to be somewhat distressing. For the Lakers, the flip side of that, though, Andy, as we move from negativity to positivity is, last year's 50th, 5th, pick. I forget the guy's name. I think he's got a famous father. He's starting to look like a much more legitimate NBA prospect. We'll get to Brony James next. Lockdown Lakers is brought to you by

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Starting point is 00:12:04 But generally speaking, at the very least, from game to game, he looks far more comfortable than he did last year at this time, far more confident than he did last year stronger, better equipped to take the ball into the paint,

Starting point is 00:12:20 whether to draw fouls or finish the basket. Still a lot of work that needs to be done with Brony if he's going to be a regular rotation player, I think, in the NBA. But you know, the path is, particularly with the shooting. He's got to become a more dependable shooter. Like

Starting point is 00:12:36 he was, Andy, on Monday. Three of five from a three point range, six of ten overall from the field. Two of two from the free throw line. 17 points, five rebounds, five assists for Brani. He was, in my

Starting point is 00:12:52 opinion, the best player on the floor for the Lakers. And you could tell because in the first half, when his minutes were much shorter, every time he left the floor, the Lakers, could not function as a group. Yeah, I mean, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but it's feeling like we are trending in this direction right now.

Starting point is 00:13:12 Perhaps Brony James will be the star teammate that the Lakers are looking to team up Luca Donchitz with. Maybe this is why they're sort of shoving LeBron out the doors to make room in the rotation for Brony. I can see. And we talked before about continuing more of the discussion that we had about LeBron. on from Monday's show. We may get into a little bit more in today's show,

Starting point is 00:13:37 otherwise maybe Wednesday or later in the week. But given the events of tonight in the summer league, we thought we wanted to get immediately to Brani in that. But this was Brani's, I think, in what has been, I think, a pretty solid and I think steadily improving summer league for Brony, I think this was his best overall game by far. And also, too, and this jumped out at me, because I had recently posted in the YouTube community section,

Starting point is 00:14:06 which we sometimes put questions out there for our audience to comment on, get some of your feedback. But I posted this, I want to say over the weekend. So it was before this game that we're referencing now. But I said, question for the locked on Lakers fan. Bronny James's Summer League, in my opinion, has been good overall, not brilliant, to be clear, but good. He appears to be steadily improving from last year's summer league team.

Starting point is 00:14:30 from through his mostly G-League rookie season to now. With that in mind, how close do you think he is to back-end rotation minutes? And what would you need to see from him to solidify a ninth or tenth-man role? And for me, I said, it's a defined offensive role in utility. It's still very unclear to me what he's supposed to be doing, much less providing on that end. I can see the defensive potential and instincts and NBA athleticism, but without a specific offensive fit, Brony would need to develop elite defensive skills to get by as a specialist at his size. And tonight was the first game we saw, I think in the summer league, you know,

Starting point is 00:15:11 I'm not talking about G-League stuff, but I'm talking about in the summer league and really against what is supposed to be more NBA competition, where Bronny's felt like he's actually had a role. Like in this game, he was often on ball, creating for himself, creating for others, Is that his NBA role moving forward? I don't know. But in part because I've never gotten any sense of clarity on their end what they want Brony to be doing. This was the first game where if nothing else, it felt like he was clearly given instructions,

Starting point is 00:15:47 go do this on offense. Yeah. And he looked good in it. He looked comfortable in it, but also more than anything else, he looked specific in it. Maybe. I think this is, he looked to me, not that I watched every G league game, but I mean, he looked to me in this game like he sort of was in the G league, you know, like how he was used there. You know, he is on the ball some. He's effective off the ball. But, you know, I don't mind. Some of I wonder if it's just him, you know, in terms of like how aggressive are you on a given night and stuff like that. But, you know, so I'm not too, I'm not too. blame in any direction, by the way. I'm just saying it's been very vague to me what they've wanted for him or what they're even picturing from him on offense. And like I said, it has to be something. Tonight it felt like something. And it was great to see.

Starting point is 00:16:43 Sure. I look at it as like, you know, he is not going to be a primary ball handler in the NBA, Not without significant improvement in his, in his handle. His decision making is good. But, you know, the handle and, you know, sort of the quickness on the balls is not, at least to my eye. But what he can do is, you know, he is sort of a, to me, still a two trapped in the body of a under, even an undersized point guard in the modern NBA. It's somebody who's under six feet, under six two without his shoes on.

Starting point is 00:17:26 So I just, I look at it and like, is he going to be a rotation guy this year? I think it's still pretty fringy. I think it's probably unlikely. But if you told me that they might need 15 games out of Brani this year, like, I'd be like, all right, I think you, you know, I'm not talking 15 games where he plays 35 minutes a night, but 15 games because Gabe Vincent's hurt or somebody else is like, and you're going to need 10 to 15 out of them on any given night, I think you can get by.

Starting point is 00:18:05 I think he is for two reasons. First, I think the skill set defensively is becoming a little bit more defined. I think his confidence in terms of just making the right pass, making the ball, the feeling that he belongs out on that floor, that he is not as good as like, you know, everybody else in the NBA, but he can legitimately look around at sort of his peers,

Starting point is 00:18:30 guys who were drafted in the same class as him, guys certainly who are drafted in the same round as him, and say, you know what, I am doing as well or better than a lot of you. I have shown people that I am not just sticking around and playing because my dad is LeBron James. And I think that confidence starts to bleed into what he's doing, to the point there, he could fill a roll, stay in his lane,

Starting point is 00:18:59 and do what needs to be done for 10 or 15 minutes a night, over 10 or 15 games without doing a lot of damage to the team. And for a 55th pick a year ago, who's still only 20, that's pretty good. Yeah. Again, we need to see more of it, and we need to see more of it, against more legit NBA competition,

Starting point is 00:19:24 but you can only ask of brawny to succeed in the opportunities, you know, in the settings that are available for him right now. And this is the setting, and he's done really well. But coming up though, I want to explain also a little bit all about why I even posed this question to the YouTube community section in the first place. Like why, beyond the fact that just I found Bronny's summer League to be interesting and optimistic and stuff like that. There's another reason that I put it out there.

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Starting point is 00:22:03 Right. But I'm saying they owe them the money. And I think it is still overwhelmingly likely that the Lakers will wave, shake. There's a possibility, as you mentioned, that you maybe hold onto them because you want that $3.5 million to be able to put into a trade. That was part of the reason the Lakers gave it to him to begin with this contract structure. but given the Nets gave it to him

Starting point is 00:22:29 the Lakers didn't give it to him I'm sorry that's part of the reason the Lakers wanted him and didn't get rid of him at a different time didn't wave him and all these other things they held onto him because this

Starting point is 00:22:43 non-guarantee was valuable this off-season given how sort of slow things have started to become I don't know if they'll necessarily hang on to that it is possible I would expect shake Milton, though, to be waived at some point over the next week. They could then use that roster spot to sign anyone they want who is willing to take the amount of money that they have, which is a little under $4 million.

Starting point is 00:23:13 Well, speaking of Jake Milton and roster spots and I guess his theoretical place outside the rotation, the reason that I pose this question beyond, like I said, just kind of gauging our viewers' thoughts on Brani. And, like, I put it out there. Like, I don't want to hear, you know, screw him and his nepo baby and get rid of him and his dad. Like, I'm not looking for that. Like, if you don't think Bronnie's an NBA player, that's fine. Just explain to me why. Like, I was genuinely curious to see what people thought.

Starting point is 00:23:49 And for the most part, our comments section was filled with a lot of thoughtful, observations, which I appreciate. But the reason I put it out there is also because it matters. Like for the Lakers' back end of the rotation, that was an issue last season. And as much as I think JJ Reddick went a little too hard with his lack of trust, you know, beyond the starting five. And I think he needed to, you know, release a little bit more control and just, you know, trust some of these guys, even if they were imperfect options, the fact remains that once you get past about six, seven, maybe eight with this team,

Starting point is 00:24:33 you start getting into a lot of question marks. So anybody who's currently part of the back end of the rotation, their question marks at six, seven, and eight. Sure. But yeah, I get what you're saying. Like anybody who could potentially represent 10-ish minutes on the court, like a ninth, 10th man roll, 10 to 12 minutes, that if nothing else, you can put that player

Starting point is 00:24:59 out there and things don't fall to bleep. That's something the Lakers need right now. And for all the backstory and the examination and the drama about how Brony ended up on this roster and we've gone through it all, I'm sure we will have discussions about it again moving forward and like whether he should be here, whether the Lakers would have drafted him, had his last name not been James and his first name, not been LeBron Jr. Like all of those different things aside, he's on the roster now. And point of fact, if he had been a different 55th pick on the roster in this exact same

Starting point is 00:25:40 context, second year, we would be asking about whether or not he could actually get on the floor. In the same way, we talked about Max Christie in his second year, can he get on the floor? or anybody else. If you're on the roster, it's a relevant question. So that's one of the things that I think is interesting about brawny looking increasingly more comfortable when he's out there. I don't want to raise expectations for brawny that are unfair for him.

Starting point is 00:26:10 But at the same time, like if he actually can do this, it really does matter for the Lakers. And if he can't, which by the way, wouldn't be. you know, a knock against Brani because he isn't necessarily supposed to be ready. But if he can't, then it's another guy on the roster who can't fill the role and somebody else needs to. Well, I look at it this way. Like the, how do the Lakers? The Lakers are, I think, I mean, they're obviously a notch below, you know, your top, you know, we'll call it Oklahoma City, obviously. Houston now pretty close in there.

Starting point is 00:26:52 I think the Denver has certainly gotten better this offseason. I think the Clippers have gotten better this offseason. So the Lakers haven't done a great job keeping up with the Joneses, but they're not that, I mean, they won 50 games last year. They are not that far from being at the very least a very good, very credible team that can, you know, the very least compete against any team in any given playoff series. So, you know, that doesn't take a lot of steps. If you, you know, how do they reach their ceiling? DeAndre Aiton, okay, that's got to look like DeAndre,

Starting point is 00:27:27 like the best version of DeAndre Aten. The version that went to the finals with Phoenix in 2021. And that's possible. I think that's, that's absolutely, um, a, a realistic thing to, to hope for. Um, LeBron stays healthy and doesn't, have a fall off. Luca comes back more like two seasons ago in terms of his overall health and his performance and stuff like that shakes off what happened last year in an all-around challenging situation. So you go through that, you know, AR maybe takes another step going forward. Keep going through the thing. You start getting into they need someone in the group of Jordan Goodwin,

Starting point is 00:28:17 Bronny James, Dalton Connect to really pop. They need one of those guys to become something a little bit bigger than what anybody's expecting. They need a surprise somewhere around the roster because they don't have the depth

Starting point is 00:28:37 to match up with most of the teams that they're playing with in the Western Conference. They're very top-heavy. Starting lineup looks really good. Like I mentioned this, I think. As long as they don't have to defend anybody. But, you know, it's, it is a decent, it's a pretty good starting lineup. And you look at the players in terms of pure talent, if not necessarily the parts all being

Starting point is 00:29:02 evenly balanced and matched. Yes. Talent-wise, good starting five. And but that depth chart, once you start getting past that, gets a little frightening. And, you know, you need Jake LaRavia to approximate or maybe even exceed what the Lakers got from Doreen Finney Smith. Again, it's not an impossibility. I remember a couple seasons ago, we were kind of going through this exercise. And the problem is that it's not any one of these things. It's unrealistic.

Starting point is 00:29:35 It's needing six of eight question marks to turn out positive. It's, you know, seven of ten or however long the list you make. But they got to find unexpected contributors somewhere. And Brony is 100% on that list of potential people that could make that happen. Well, here's the thing. If Brony can, like I mentioned before, I think the offensive utility, the role, the job description in a lot of ways, needs to be ironed out more for brawny. But assuming that it is ironed out and he can fulfill it to whatever degree.

Starting point is 00:30:21 And we've seen like the defensive potential for there. And I think that is there the defensive instincts. You start getting into some of the other things that Brony provides, namely like athleticism, some speed. He's a strong guy. Like these are things that we talked about being missing from the Lakers last year. And again, I'm not trying to put unfair expectations on Brony. And if I had to bet on it, I would bet on him not being ready for it just because I don't have any reason to expect that he would be ready for it.

Starting point is 00:30:56 But were he ready, it would actually be a pretty big coup for the Lakers because it also could, you know, start making other guys on the team potentially more movable because you've got somebody that. that can replace whoever you are trading to some degree while you look to fill out, fill, bring in somebody else. Like, I mean, it's, it is, you know, we, we kind of went from the downer to the good news and we're kind of continuing to talk about that with Bronny. The reality is it is far more important for the Lakers

Starting point is 00:31:37 that connect be a meaning, contributor to the rotation this year. Oh, yeah. Then it is Brony. And like, you know, we're talking about Brony, like maybe he can sneak in, give you some minutes. What if he could be a ninth or tenth guy on a regular basis? If Dalton's on this roster, he needs to be like a legit eighth man at minimum.

Starting point is 00:31:58 Right. He needs to be able to play 15, 20, 25 minutes a night without, you know, maybe he doesn't play that much because other players are playing well. But they need to be able to put him on the floor for 15 to 20 minutes a night. It is way more important and way more important to the Lakers that Connect be able to do that. And I am far more worried about Connect than I am that I am Brony because of that. Because Connect is supposed to be someone who you put into, like you have Connect written into the rotation at this point. And if he can't be, he better be.

Starting point is 00:32:40 Right. If there's some reason like this level of play carries over into the regular season. And I would like to point out to people, it is, you said this in the first segment, you will want to be able to see Connect to be able to create shots against summer league competition. You want to be able. But the reality of it is, it is going to look much different for him when the regular season starts, even against better competition because playing with steward as your point guard who i i don't remember his first name dj okay very good and he's been very good by the way he's got a great he's had a great summer league and i hope he earns himself a job somewhere he's not lucca and he's not lebron

Starting point is 00:33:27 and he's not austin reeves and like the combinations of those guys that are out there are going to create shots for dalton and looks for him that he is not getting in the summer league But that said, there just doesn't look like there has been an ounce of growth from last year to this year, particularly on the defensive side of the ball. And it's very distressing. If you can't play defense, it's going to be really hard to keep them on the floor. And I am, you know, we talked about Andrew Wiggins the other day. Like, would you include Connect in a trade for Wiggins? I was like, in a heartbeat.

Starting point is 00:34:05 If I could get value, like, I wouldn't give. away. I'm not doing that. But if I can get something that I needed and had real value, I would trade Dalton in a heartbeat. Real quick before we go, just be in, like I said, we will likely revisit some of the LeBron conversation. You've been warned over the course of the way. Well, I mean, I would argue it's relevant if people don't like it. Whatever. It's like July. It's like mid-July, folks. Well, it's mid-July. He's LeBron Fitt James. Like, this is the news. I don't think we're stretching this. But anyway, just so people know what's going on.

Starting point is 00:34:40 Several Lakers showed up for these Summer League games, including LeBron James. He was part of a team photo. LeBron, Jake Laravia, Vando, Austin Reeves, Jackson Hayes, DeAndre Aden, plus LeBron's daughter, which, frankly, that's just really cute. I'm just standing a little further away from his teammates. Don't do this. Don't do this.

Starting point is 00:35:04 There is space. There's space between him and Jake LaRavie. the other guys are all tightly who he's probably just met but sure also too Jake Laravia as you can see in his glasses he looks like McLevin if he had grown up to get

Starting point is 00:35:19 drafted by the Lakers yeah he's really got a McLevin look going on right now so also LeBron shared a brief brohug with Rob Belinka along the sidelines to my eye everything looked fine

Starting point is 00:35:36 and for what it's worth if we do talk about this. I have a suspicion that if LeBron has issues with high-ranking folks within the Lakers, Rob Polinkum may not actually be on the list, but we can, or high on that list, get into that during the week. Take that, Kurt Rambus. All right, we'll talk about this. Yes, that's exactly who I'm talking about. We're talking more about this over the course of the week. Lockdown Lakers on YouTube is ready and go hanging out with over 35,000 subscribers to the channel. We will see every. everyone tomorrow.

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Bronny James Thrives While Dalton Knecht Struggles in Vegas Summer League

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