Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - How Much Credit Should Rob Pelinka Get For LA's Strong 6-2 Start?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, everyone, welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Wednesday, Brian Komeneski, Andy Kemenetsky, the Lakers are six and two. Just how much credit does GM Rob Polinka deserve? We'll discuss next. You are Locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked on Podcasts Network, your team every day. Thanks to everybody for making Locked on Lakers first listen to every day, Monday through

Starting point is 00:00:32 Friday, no matter how or where you get your podcast. This one's always free. He never behind a paywall. Locked on Lakers on YouTube is where over 37,000 subscribers are all hanging out, talking to each other, talking to us, and Andy, just trying to diagnose how the Lakers got to be six and two, despite playing no games with LeBron James and only half their games with Luca Donchich. And missing Gabe Vincent and Jackson Hayes been out of the lineup.

Starting point is 00:00:56 I mean, like, we're short some dudes around here, Andy. And yet the Lakers have opened quite strong. How much credit does Rob Polinka deserve four? that start. We'll get to that question in a moment. We'll talk about tonight's game against the San Antonio Spurs. How much credit does J.J. Reddick deserve for that matter. We can add him in there too. How much does Linda Rambus deserve? Everyone, both ran by. We'll get a- Their credit is also a package deal. We'll get you ready for the Spurs game and stuff to look for. We'll tell you who's going to play in it, which is obviously.

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Starting point is 00:02:20 groin thing the other guys who have not been playing will continue not playing i like many people often get luka and jackson hayes confused um easy mistake to make so those are the that'll be the cast for the game against san antonio hopefully Austin can play, but the Lakers obviously need to make sure that he is healthy with a groin problem. You do not want to turn a two game or a three game thing into a 10

Starting point is 00:02:45 or a 12 game thing that a guy is struggling with for a couple months. So keep an eye on that. But let's start with this question, Andy, because the Lakers are six and two. On Tuesday's show, we talked about Nick Smith Jr., and we talked about D'Andre Aiton, and we talked

Starting point is 00:03:03 about Brony, and we talked about Jake LaRavio, who has gotten a lot of minutes over the course of these first eight games. Those are guys who are on the team who are not stars, who were put together on this roster, was put together by Rob Polenka, being coached up by JJ Reddick. When you look at the infrastructure, like the brain trust of this team, eight games into the season, what are you thinking? It's really interesting in thinking about where we are now and when the offseason began. And one of the things that I noted was how Rob Polinka said that he thought the offseason

Starting point is 00:03:42 that we just experienced was going to be very active and that the Lakers were going to be in the middle of it all. And I said at the time, that felt to me like Rob very much actively putting himself out there and potentially on the hook if things did not turn out to fan satisfaction because A, you're risking over-promising and under-delivering, but B, you're risking doing that while not exactly steeped with a ton of assets that teams are on the league are tripping over themselves to get.

Starting point is 00:04:18 And also, you're not dealing with much in the way of cap space. So Rob was making very bold declarations without necessarily having that many avenues for, as Rob likes to talk about, And then things seem to be getting off to an ominous start when DFS ended up going to Houston. And that felt rather crankily, I might add. Right, rather crankly. And there had been reports about the negotiations between the Lakers and team DFS breaking down, being kind of acrimonious.

Starting point is 00:04:55 Houston then gives DFS what initially looked like a four-year deal turned out to be. kind of a fake four-year deal. But nonetheless, it made the Lakers look like they were unwilling to commit to anything past a year or two, which began the whole 2027 plan and hysteria, yada, yada, yada, yada. But it began looking like, okay, Rob may have already painted himself into a corner like two days into the off season. Then we end up hearing about Jake LaRavia, who we both thought was a nice signing, but he's not like that. We both liked it, but he's also not somebody that I think a lot of fans were necessarily familiar with. Then the D'Andre Aitin thing happens.

Starting point is 00:05:37 And that is Rob Polinka, a likelihood leveraging the relationship with Luca Dantuch's agent, Bill Duffy, getting a heads up. Hey, before you go trade assets that you don't have a lot of for someone like Nick Claxton in Brooklyn, my guy is about to end up getting bought out. Certainly impossible. I would be stunned if it happened any other way. because frankly, it rolled out too neatly to me to have happened any other way. And then, you know, the Jake LaRavia thing is also, I think, in a lot of ways, leveraging the relationship with Aaron Riley, the agent that he shares with Austin Reeves. Rob Polinka ends up, I think, paying good attention to the buyout market after Aiton,

Starting point is 00:06:21 gets wind of what's going on with Marcus Smart. And without necessarily bringing in a lot of big, names at their peak. Aiton and Smart are both pretty known quantities, you know, known commodities, but they're seen at kind of a low point in their career and La Ravia without spending anything more than a full mid-level on Aiton and La Ravia combined and Marcus Smart, the biannual. They managed to address a lot of needs on the roster while retaining all the assets that they have however valuable you think that they are. And what we are seeing over these eight games is for a guy that you and I, I think, have very rightly criticized for not being detail or in it

Starting point is 00:07:10 enough. It feels like Rob Polinka actually paid attention to the details in the guys that he brought in. I agree with a lot of that. I think I look at the buyout market in a couple different ways. I there is I don't think Polinka going when he was talking to talk as you were getting at before about we're going to be active we're going to be this like I don't think he had

Starting point is 00:07:41 in his mind that that many prominent players were going to be bought out. Oh no. I don't think so either. And so I think that was talk to get the Lakers from a PR standpoint from point A to point B And as Rob often does, figure out a new thing to say when we get to point B if things don't work out.

Starting point is 00:08:06 And so, you know, the center market, for example, they were priced out of basically everything, like everything. You know, guys we were talking about before. Like, you know, what about Brooke Lopez as a, even as a fuzzy backup? Like, do you really want Brooke Lopez to be your starter? I don't know if that works. Like he was too expensive. And, you know, Luke Cornett too expensive. Like there were a lot of guys that, you know,

Starting point is 00:08:33 the Lakers might have been interested in on a mid level or something like that. They were priced out of that space. They got really lucky that Aiton was available. They got really lucky that Marcus Smart was available. That said, they got both of those guys. And so, you know, you talk about like it being too neat. Like there was no other. I guess.

Starting point is 00:08:57 I mean, in my opinion, just real quick, real quick because I think it matters. I don't think Brooke Lopez is a good fit for what they want. I don't either. Right. But to me, the point that I'm making is I guess there can be a fine line between priced out versus not the guy you'd want anyway. But either way, the point is, even if they liked him, they couldn't have afforded him anyway. There were every name.

Starting point is 00:09:20 It doesn't matter if they don't like him, though. But every name center that was out there that was. that was even tangentially attached to the Lakers, whether you were willing to settle for, we need a body, like we don't have players. We need somebody who can fill that spot. We can't, we don't have the luxury of looking for the guy that's best suited to what we do.

Starting point is 00:09:40 They didn't have that. Like none of those guys were available. So regardless of the reason, I agree with you. I don't know how much interest there actually was in Lopez. He was a guy who was connected to the Lakers. Every center was connected. Right.

Starting point is 00:09:52 Every, no, every. layer is connected to the centers. You know, Aiton, the only natural destination for DeAndre Aiton, there are a couple out there, but like the most,

Starting point is 00:10:07 by far, the most natural, the best opportunity, regardless of who the guy's agent was, was the Lakers. I mean, there's just, it's impossible, I think, to argue otherwise.

Starting point is 00:10:21 So in that sense, I don't know how much, much, you know, GMing Rob was doing or, you know, using his connections, using his relationships and all that kind of stuff. But this is the flip side of this is something I want to discuss after the break because how I'm not sure how much some of this stuff matters. We'll do, we'll ask that question next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by Fanduel. The NBA is back and there is no better place to get on in the action than Fanduel, the official sports betting. partner of the NBA. And even if you miss the start of a game or want to write a hot hand,

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Starting point is 00:12:57 I think Rob got lucky to some degree that the buyout market turned out to be more more robust in ways that I think people weren't anticipating going into the offseason. I think more with smart probably than DeAndre Aiton because he doesn't have the direct agent pipeline. The Aitin thing, a buyout of that size typically takes a while to work out again. I would be stunned if Rob was not in the loop for that. that for a while. I maybe he was that was percolating that they might be able, you know,

Starting point is 00:13:29 that it might happen or whatever. But it wasn't like widely reported at the end of the season before free agency started and all this stuff that. Oh, the DeAndre Aden can get bought out by the Blazers. Like that was not. Well, that doesn't mean that Rob wasn't aware that it. Oh,

Starting point is 00:13:41 I'm sure. Or that he's that more importantly, Bill Duffy's client would. But it also doesn't mean that. But it. But my point is it also I don't know. And so I can I, I'm not totally inclined to give him credit for. having like this scoop sort of advanced information that this was coming. And that's why they sat back and did nothing, whether with trades or with the free agent

Starting point is 00:14:04 market, again, they did nothing in my opinion because there was nothing they could do. They couldn't make a trade. There weren't free agent centers that they could go out and sign. And so that's why they did nothing. That said, when DeAndre Ait became available, Lakers made the pitch, Luca went out and made the call. like they did everything they needed to do to get the guy. When DeMarc, oh, DeMarcus Smart, when Marcus Smart became available, they got him.

Starting point is 00:14:32 And so you're lucky in the sense that these unexpected players were available for money that you never would have been able to get them at. And so that's luck to me. But it's also good that they got them. La Ravia was a really good signing. It's not luck. That's them identifying the player that they want and going to get that guy. I think that's really smart. They made a conscious decision when they let DFS go when they said, you know, when they said, you know, Doran Finney Smith, you know, wasn't going to be on the team anymore.

Starting point is 00:15:10 Like they use that money quickly in part to go get Jake Laravia. Like they knew they wanted him. And like that one I'm giving them a lot of credit for. And the fit with Laravia in terms of the skill set. of a guy who can be a secondary ball mover in the front court is really important, is identifying ways to use him, like, where he could be used effectively, defensively in ways that are kind of connective and allow different lineups to be played. I give them a lot of credit for identifying La Ravia as the type of talent at 23, too,

Starting point is 00:15:44 that they could really use. I mean, look, I can only speak for me. In the way I'm thinking about this in terms of how much credit does Rob get, I'm not talking so much about the GMing work in terms of the labor and sweat, like we've talked about before. The Anthony Davis trade was among, I mean, you'll read some of the reporting or like the book by the LeBron book that just came out about the LeBron era and Yaron Weitzman, who just put out this book about how in some respects, the Asian. trade may have been complicated simply because Rob Polinka was very new on the job and there was a lot. He did not know and some details that were initially glossed over and he had to scramble the fix.

Starting point is 00:16:35 But the actual trade for Anthony Davis was in and of itself not complicated. Certainly the identifying of the talent. It goes on Rob. You say we want Anthony Davis. He wants to come here and you add stuff until the answer. Sure. But the point being, it goes on Rob's. ledger.

Starting point is 00:16:53 Sure. When I say that this has been good work by Rob Polinka, whether you think that he got lucky on a seven on a scale of one to ten, a three, a ten, I honestly don't care. I'm judging just the people that were brought in for the amount of resources or lack thereof that he actually had. And then what really matters most to me, the ability to fill specific needs in particular in ways that I don't think Rob has always frankly paid enough. attention to and like the

Starting point is 00:17:24 identifying of a Jake La Ravia, the understanding the specific ways that Marcus Smart can help this team not just on both sides of the ball, but in terms of locker room presence. Sure, I thought I don't think that required a lot of digging. I mean, that's pretty

Starting point is 00:17:44 self-evident. Again, I'm not asking Rob to reinvent the wheel. I'm talking about water. This is the other half of that. The When I asked, like, does it matter? Yeah, I mean, James Bell's also pointing out, Austin Reeves recruited the bleep out of Jake LaRavia. This may have been, this may have been Austin's brain child and not even Rob

Starting point is 00:18:05 I think it was probably, I mean, these things often tend to be kind of a group effort. Like, here's who we want. You know, the guy, help us out. You know, like we want to go get this guy where he's on our radar. We'd like to sign him. Can you help us, you know, like you mentioned the common agents and the players and stuff like that. Where I think it matters is whether or not, like, it's, you can give Rob a good grade for this year while reserving judgment as to whether or not he's, you know, grown into, you know,

Starting point is 00:18:37 quote unquote, like an elite GM or something. I did not even. But that's, but that's my point is like, you can say he did a really good job this year, but not necessarily use that as evidence to say, oh, like, we got a front office that cooks. Like, I mean, I'm not, I'm not reformer, but I'm not willing to go to the ladder. I'm not suggesting that he get another extension. You know, the inks just dry on the new one. Give him like another five on top of the five. Right.

Starting point is 00:19:05 All I said was I think he did really good work. Right. I'm not putting words in your mouth. I'm not saying that you did. I'm just saying that for me, this is how I look at this question of how much credit does he deserve. He deserves a lot of credit for this roster. I think J.J. Reddick has done a fantastic.

Starting point is 00:19:20 job identifying ways to use players a little bit more in more calculated ways. They seem to be, especially defensively, finding the right ways to deploy their players, having a real center to make it so they're not ultra switchy all the time. They can do that when they want to rather than always feeling like they have to. that makes a big difference, I think. But, you know, there's some more clever stuff that seems like it's going on offensively, but it does help. Like you swap out somebody like Laravia for DFS.

Starting point is 00:20:00 Jake is a, he's not the defender, I guess, that, you know, by at least by reputation that DFS is, but he's a far more versatile offensive player. Yeah. So you can do more with him. And the defense is not suffer. I mean, in all honesty, I mean, DFS wouldn't be playing right now because he's recovered. from off-season ankle surgery, but we were starting to see some limit, as much as DFS was effective with the defense last year and played a big role in that surge that had that unfortunately,

Starting point is 00:20:29 I think ran out of juice for a variety of reasons during the playoffs. We were starting to see signs of a physical decline, the foot speed issue, things like that. Moving forward, I think, if nothing else, there is more upside possibilities for. for La Ravia defensively with this team, then there would have been with DFS. They do a lot of similar things. And even if you think DFS is still the better on-ball defender, probably is.

Starting point is 00:20:59 I don't know. It probably is, but I don't know if the gap is necessarily huge. At this stage of DFS's career, certainly post-ankel surgery. Right. And the other thing to remember, too, is DFS, you'd be signing him, you know, getting relatively deep into his 30s. Jake LaRavie is younger than Dalton connect. Right.

Starting point is 00:21:19 And so, you know, you have a chance to get significantly younger with a guy on a two-year contract with no options. And then you have his early bird rights. Like, that identification of talent was good work. Like that is unequivocal. I, you know, you heard, people heard the hedges with, okay, Aiton, you know, we'll see how much credit, not credit, whatever. It's great signing.

Starting point is 00:21:46 It's also, I think, kind of like, I'm not putting any of that in front of La Ravia. I think it was just a straight up, excellent, excellent signing. Let's get your ready for San Antonio. Plus, I think there is some stuff that came out of these first eight games. It's going to serve the Lakers well, especially since they've won games without their stars. We'll talk about it next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by Gusto. Let's be real.

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Starting point is 00:23:54 like the fullest versions of these teams. The Spurs did get their first bit of, I guess, injury, bad news that they didn't start the preseason win. I was going to say, but Aaron Fox hasn't played yet. Right. But they won their first five games without Fox, and they knew he wasn't going to be ready coming into the start of the season.

Starting point is 00:24:18 But Dylan Harper is now going to be out for a little while. He had played really well for, especially, you know, a rookie and all that kind of stuff was giving them a lot more than they expected. But Wembe's been spectacular. Castle's been spectacular. Devin Vassell's played very like this roster is sort of making the leap, it seems. And again, they're going to get the Aaron Fox back relatively soon. In the meantime, though, we definitely know Luca's going to play.

Starting point is 00:24:49 We definitely know Wembe's going to play. Depending on Austin's health, Luca may have. a certain amount of responsibility on his back. We know Wembe already is going to have a certain amount of responsibility on his back. So you've got two of the biggest stars in the league. I realize they're not literally going mono-e-mono, but you get to see a showcase of just supreme talent having to, to some degree, carry their team through some adversity and absences. One of the big things that jumped out at me, though, thinking about this matchup is just, how are the the Lakers is going to score because they've been third in the league, at least as we speak right

Starting point is 00:25:30 now, third in the league for points in the paint. Not surprisingly with Wembe as the back line, Spurs give up the second fewest points in the paint in the league. They've got the second best restricted area defense, third best paint, non-restricted area defense. So like if the paint is closed off for the Lakers, where do they go from there? Do they go to the mid-race? Do they go to the mid-range. They have been the number one team in the league for field-go percentage, both five through nine feet, then 10-to-14 feet. They've been number one paint points non-restricted, but like even 15 through 19 feet, they're top 10. They are considered, if you look at the overall mid-range, the best mid-range shooting team in the league. However, the spurs guard the mid-range

Starting point is 00:26:20 in some of those spots I named 5 through 9, 10 to 14 reasonably well. Overall for the mid-range, they're 17th, but they also have the best opposing field goal percentage when you take volume into account.

Starting point is 00:26:36 No defense holds more mid-range attempts to a lower percentage than the spurs. Like there are other teams in the general vicinity of the ratio of high volume to low percentage, but nobody's the best. I am guessing, a lot of teams are taking middies against the spurs because again the whole wemby

Starting point is 00:26:56 well no but i also think like the percentages like can be like i was we were talking about this earlier in the day like i didn't have a chance to look up the numbers but like the farther away you are from the basket you know and wemby you know in theory um you know the the arc of your shot and this but if you were in mid range and Wemby is closing. Like you have to basically throw the ball into the rafters straight up and have it come straight down to have your shot land anywhere near the basket. So I mean, I think like those types of shots get really tricky.

Starting point is 00:27:39 And it's not. Oh, for sure. I just meant I think a lot of them get taken against the spurs just because people stay away from the pain. Well, they stay away from the basket. But I also wonder if those shots, I'm not disputing. the numbers, I'm saying, even if you take a lot of mid-range shots as the Lakers do with guys like Rui, DeAndre Aitin is a strong mid-range player, as we've seen. Like, I don't know how much

Starting point is 00:28:01 easier those shows. Like, I wonder if the Spurs and Wembe become sort of, well, uniquely difficult to do anything against, but particularly like stuff like that, just like, how do you, what's the angle you have to take, you can't take that shot. But so, but it's not, I mean, what makes them defensively quite good is, you know, it's obviously starts with Wembe, but, you know, you have athletes all over the place. And, you know, Kelton Johnson is a really active defender. And Castle can really move. And, you know, Vassell can move. And they just got a lot of dudes who are, are athletic and cover a lot of ground. And that's tough. And, you know, you got a guy averaging 4.7 blocks a game. That is what they call a defensive anchor. Yeah. In the meantime,

Starting point is 00:28:55 too, if they can manage to somehow get Wembe into any kind of foul trouble, Luke Cornett is out for this game. So the backline behind Wemign Yama might be a bit thin and maybe could be vulnerable. It's just smack Bionbo has really been playing. Right. And I remember, granted, this. This was early in Wendy's time as a pro, which was relatively speaking, when-year-old. Well, two years ago, and I was going to say Wemby at his suckiest, when he was merely like an alien as opposed to a what-the-bleep alien that he is now, there were a couple times where AD got Wembe into foul trouble.

Starting point is 00:29:39 And they had some success with that. AD and Aiton are very different offensive players. So I don't know if the- Yeah, I am, I don't love that. This is not a great matchup for Aiton because he, you know, unless he goes against certain tendencies, he is not a guy who, you know, puts the ball in for, and can, you know, physically go into somebody like Wembe.

Starting point is 00:30:03 He's not doing that. Like, you know, we talked about his game on, on Monday night. Like, did he have a free throw in that game? I think he had one, two, maybe. Two, but he did two. Yeah. So it's like he's, he isn't somebody who's going to

Starting point is 00:30:20 drive and draw that contact in ways you know, Wembe can can stay off of, of Ait and almost anywhere on the floor. You would need D'Andre to kind of get down in the post and see what you. Or try to, you know, try to get those files in a different way. You know, Luca coming into the paint. You know, L'Avia coming into the paint. AR, obviously, if he plays.

Starting point is 00:30:48 Guys like that trying to draw it. So it's not just like that center versus center matchup. I think the Lakers are more likely, just based on like you say, who the center is, Aiton and Davis are different guys, very different guys, more likely to be able to draw files on Wemby with wings and guards than they are with their center. Mr. T.D. in the chat brings up something that was also on my list of notable factors with this game. when he struggled versus the sons maybe they can learn something from them i did not see the game

Starting point is 00:31:18 so i can't speak to what the lakers can or can't learn from wemby's struggle against the sons he had just nine points in that loss it was also though the first time wemby's been held to single digits since october 30th of 2024 and i think like the fourth time uh that he's been held to single digits in a regular season game in his career, I have a feeling he's going to come out kind of pissed off, which is not great for the Lakers. No, but it was a legitimately off game for Wembe.

Starting point is 00:31:54 You know, nine rebounds for a normal person isn't, you know, isn't terrible, but for Wemby, it's well below his average. So, you know,

Starting point is 00:32:04 kudos to the sons to, for stopping the juggernaut. Phoenix, three and five, man. Not today, Satan says, just do what Phoenix in adding details about what Phoenix did. Just do what Phoenix did to Wemby. Aiton, primary and small guy coming to double. Wemby having a hard time when he puts the ball down.

Starting point is 00:32:24 Yeah. That's a reasonable, it's a reasonable strategy there. So, all right. We'll see what happens. We'll obviously be joining you after the game. Plenty to keep talking about over the course of this week. And things still looking up in a big way for the Lakers, Lockton Lakers on YouTube.

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