Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - With Luka Dončić, Reaves, LeBron Healthy, Pressure On JJ Redick? Plus, Lon Rosen Hired!

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Starting point is 00:01:02 For The Athletic. and Andy, this is a fun time of year. We are finally reached the end of the All-Star Break. Games are starting again, and the Lakers for all the hand-wringing, for all the disappointment. Some people might feel over their point differential, for their status even as a team

Starting point is 00:01:23 that is not believed to be an inner circle, I believe, as you put it, title contender on yesterday's show. They are still 33 and 21 heading into the break and are playing at least from a position of a team with, you know, aspirations to do something. It would appear the Lakers are going to have the entire roster available. JJ Redick said during Thursday's practice that everybody participated in full and that he expects Luca Donchich is going to be available, that Austin Reeves is off his minutes restriction,

Starting point is 00:01:57 DeAndre Aiton seemingly no longer dealing with the knee. Lucas said during his practice availability that he will probably play. He noted that he's got to talk with the medical guys, but he did not seem particularly concerned. And given all of the lead-up with the games that Luca missed, the time Lucas had off post-All-Star game, and also that he played in the All-Star game, I am going with the assumption that they're going to have all hands on deck

Starting point is 00:02:28 for the first time this season, game 55, we will see the first starting lineup this season that JJ Reddick will be selecting purely because those are the five guys he wants to put on the floor as opposed to who's not available, who's on a minute's restriction. That is bonkers that it will be February 20th of an NBA season. and it'll be the first time JJ says, let me follow my heart. And yet, even though it's February 20th

Starting point is 00:03:06 and he no longer plays for the team, Gabe Vincent will somehow be in that starting five. Maybe not. Maybe it'll be Torian Prince. I am excited about this because, not just because of the star factor here, like, you know, you finally get these. I realize the 100,

Starting point is 00:03:27 52 minutes that they have played to this point together have not looked great. And historically, the problem with the combo has really been the LeBron and Luca minutes for reasons that make a fair amount of sense in terms of defense and what that does. There's redundancy on both sides of the ball. Sure. It is possible that with a shift in the starting lineup where you have presumably DeAndre Aiton still starting, and Marcus Smart in the starting lineup instead of Rui Hachamura, and that is where we expect this to go, it is possible that some of those issues would be mitigated in ways that they aren't

Starting point is 00:04:13 when Rui starts in that spot next to LeBron. So we'll see what that looks like. So I don't know exactly if the numbers that we've seen 2,000, this point will apply in the same way. But what I'm excited to see is not just the impact of having those three guys on the floor and at least the opportunity for the Lakers to be their best selves. But Andy, just the opportunity to get everybody slotted in a way that they ought to be and everybody available to try whatever lineup combinations that JJ wants so you can have a two-shooter lineup with, you know, Kinnard and Rui playing with the reserves. You can have one of those guys on

Starting point is 00:05:01 with the, you know, Luca and LeBron. And I know, Andy, you're interested in finding out exactly not just how he splits up or how, you know, the three of those guys play together, but what it looks like when he puts two of them on the floor at a time. Well, you have just more of an opportunity to do that when, A, all three are available, but B, Austin is no longer on immense restriction. He's no longer coming off the bench. Austin and Luca, their minutes together have been really good, both in terms of the eye test, but also the advanced numbers, things like that. Luca and, I mean, excuse me, LeBron and Austin have not been as good this season,

Starting point is 00:05:39 but there's enough of a track record in the past with those two playing well together and the numbers backing it up, I test all of that, that I feel like if they get enough runway over the next 28 games, the two of them together can be prolific. The real problem has been LeBron and Luca. And when you have more bodies, more floor combinations, like, for example, we've seen the LeBron's solo minutes, like LeBron working primarily with a bunch of bench guys, like Jackson Hayes and Vando,

Starting point is 00:06:12 and I think Jake LaRavie will be a part of that. Maybe Rui in there, maybe Luke Canard or whatever. But very high tempo, high energy, a lot of defense surrounding LeBron, LeBron being able to completely orchestrate everything, get a lot of guys who can run in really good positions. Those looks have been pretty successful. You get more opportunities to do that with more bodies that you can cycle through everything, more options for JJ when those guys aren't out on the floor. Like, JJ will finally just get the opportunity to land on the combinations that he wants and actually get them more reps in synergy.

Starting point is 00:06:53 because he's not having to constantly swap things in and out. Yep. A quick reminder, you can have your cake and eat two birthday cake flavors back with five hour energy. No fork needed vanilla e-cakey flavor, caffeinated kick and no sugar. It's party time. Order now at five hour energy.com or on Amazon. Yeah, it's like they need to, there's not a lot of time to get this right.

Starting point is 00:07:20 I think everybody understands that. But, you know, they're, they cannot possibly reach whatever the ceiling looks like without getting some of these reps. And I also think there's a mental lift. And we'll talk about things, you know, JJ talked about the defense today are a Thursday afternoon at practice and, you know, the effectiveness of the zone. And you expect them to continue using that and some of these other things. but I just feel like too there's a mental lift that comes with having those three guys available and I look maybe everybody's looking at all the analytics and this and that whatever but I'm pretty sure that inside that locker room they're not looking at it at the 152 minutes

Starting point is 00:08:10 and then minus 7.8 or whatever it is net rating or uh and all of that they're looking at it is we've got Luca Donchich, who is on some days the best player on the planet. We've got Austin Reeves, who is playing like an All-Star, and we've got, I think, the greatest player to ever play the game in LeBron James. And they're all healthy and they're all going to play. That is a mental lift for this team going into the second half of the season when, you know, again, it's like they don't profile as a team that is in line to go deep in the playoffs. I don't want to get all plucky little Lakers here,

Starting point is 00:08:48 but nobody is particularly taking them seriously in that context. And yet they have a chance still to be, I think, as high as a three-seat. That is totally reasonable. They're not going to get the two. They're not going to get to San Antonio. But if they play well, they could certainly be a top four team going into the playoffs. And that puts you in position to win a round or two. So, you know, they're hoping that Kevin Durant's Twitter habits and burner phones and burner accounts may lead to some further erosion.

Starting point is 00:09:28 The rockets have not been looking good over the last few weeks. That is the team that they're chasing. And hopefully what it was clearly, Kevin Durant saying this stuff with a burner. account leads to some dissension in the locker room and some problems that the Lakers can capitalize on with Houston because just getting the opening round of the playoffs to begin in L.A. would in and of itself help a team that still does not have a runway that they would ideally want heading into the playoffs, but also too, just for the, we'll talk about some of what JJ said about defense and the momentum that they're looking to build, that's all going to just

Starting point is 00:10:16 be better served with everybody available and just the full complement of options and just the mental release for all these guys of just knowing, okay, we finally have a roster and we're not spending so much energy trying to paper over this guy missing or this guy. missing or the thing that we can't do because this guy isn't here, obviously the fact that they're beginning this way on Friday does not mean that it's going to stay that way for the final 28 games. But this is at least a good. It's Saturday, but look, man, it's this is the beginning that you're hoping for. All right. After the break, we'll talk a little bit about what JJ said about the defense reasons

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Starting point is 00:13:46 Our friend Yovan Buhat tweeted out, among the playoff contenders, which teams have missed the most games and stuff like that. And the Lakers missed, I think he said, something like 140 games out of their rotation. But, you know, some teams, Minnesota has been pretty healthy. Other teams like Denver, right up there with them. Ironically, Oklahoma City has actually missed more games

Starting point is 00:14:10 in anyone this year and they're still where they are. It's a little bit, you know. It's a bit misleading. Like someone like Nikola Topic who... No, this is just among rotation players. Just among the rotation guys? What Yovon was counting here. Because they've had long stretches without Hartnstein. They've had

Starting point is 00:14:26 long stretches without Jalen Williams and now SGA has missed a bunch of time. You know, the difference between the Lakers and some of these other teams is that, you know, Denver for example, has some degree of continuity, even that they can lean on,

Starting point is 00:14:42 even when guys like Gordon and, you know, Watson and those guys are out, because they've all played together. And so when they, when they come back, they, you know, they're leaning on stuff that's familiar.

Starting point is 00:14:54 They have a program. It's more familiar. The Rockets, you know, obviously you're integrating Kevin Durant, but aside from that, made a run last year in terms of like a regular season run. There's some continuity there. My point with all this isn't to say the Lakers

Starting point is 00:15:09 are in better shape than some of these other teams, only that some of their disadvantage might be a little bit more mitigated by some of the misfortune of other teams, then I think sometimes we remember it. It's very easy to get very focused on your own group, and I think forget sometimes that things happen to other teams as well. So, again, the Lakers come at this place from a spot of disadvantage, But at the very least going into the second half of the season,

Starting point is 00:15:41 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City still missing to some players. You know, Golden State's not going to have Steph. It looks like that actually could be kind of a bigger problem. It will affect the Warriors on the 28th when the Lakers play them. It's, I believe, Saturday the 28th. Friday or Saturday the 28th, either way, Steph is not going to be available. You know, those March games.

Starting point is 00:16:07 against Denver. We still haven't seen any updates about Watson or Aaron Gordon. So just like, you know, little things like that around the league. If the Lakers can get healthy and use these games, come as a tough schedule, tough stretch of, you know, game after game after game after game. But if they can keep everybody on the court, they can maybe make up a little bit of ground in some of these places just in terms of that preparation that goes into making, you know, you feel like you are prepped and ready for the playoffs record notwithstanding. If you want to comment that, I was going to keep you up to some of the defense. You were at practice on Thursday. No, I wasn't. I'm sorry. But you heard what JJ said. I did hear what JJ said.

Starting point is 00:16:56 Yes, I was doing radio on 710 ESPN. Yeah, sorry about that. But he talked at length about defense, about, you. know their use of zone and things like that and it's just interesting to hear a coach talk about success with stuff like that and kind of leaning into their playing it playing it effectively players talking about the confidence they have in in leaning on the zone sometimes because generally speaking like that's been kind of a taboo thing for for NBA teams really since they were allowed to start using zones a bunch of years ago.

Starting point is 00:17:39 But this is kind of where the Lakers are, and they're recognizing what they're good at. Well, I think part of the reason it was considered taboo was because it was considered a sign of weakness. Correct. And teams often don't like to go to that because it is acknowledging weakness, but the flip side of it is,

Starting point is 00:17:56 if acknowledging that weakness takes you to a place of better strength, assuming you can get past the ego part of it, then you're actually, in a better place than you had been before when you were trying to avoid zone. Like JJ actually had a great quote in talking about the effects of the zone defense where he said last year our man, man defense was zone. This year our zone is man, basically talking about the most effective or aggressive

Starting point is 00:18:25 or disruptive ways that they have found to play. Luca mentioned how using the zone defense, it feels like things are slowing down for them. as they're looking to defend. JJ talked about how playing in zone over this past few weeks, they've had the number one defense in a half court when they've started possessions in a zone. The transition defense has gotten better when they've sprinted back to get into a zone.

Starting point is 00:18:55 He's talked about the effects that they've, the effectiveness they've had where of the 24 seconds, they'll play maybe 15 or 16 in zone, then they switch to man. But it's just a, it's a lot. allowed them to kind of have their cake and eat it to, where they can close these possessions as tight as possible with man, but allowing themselves not to potentially either lose track of guys or just be more ineffective over the course of entire defensive possessions.

Starting point is 00:19:26 And at the end of the day, again, you know, like Bomani Jones used to tweet out all the time, Zona's for cowards. You know, what's more, and I understand the same. sentiment and you know it's a it's a it's an awesome quote from Bhamani sure but the flip side is using man defense because you don't want to admit you need a zone that's actually more cowardly so it's good it's good to see them leaning into some things that are unconventional and the more the more they see at work the more enthusiastic they're going to become and I think also the more confidence it's going to give them when they go to other looks that maybe don't play into their

Starting point is 00:20:09 strengths as much. It's a little like the, you know, the little Jerry Seinfeld episode. You know, it's it's 3 a.m. I'm at a cockfight. What are we clinging to? You know, Elaine talking to the group there. Like there's when your man defense is that bad, like what pride are you clinging to? It's like you need you need to get stopped. I've never, I mean, I've never seen a team switch with less outward pride than the Lakers do with their defensive switching. I mean, it's so passive, they might as well be dead.

Starting point is 00:20:44 Right. It's just like, you know, they play, they often, at their worst, the Lakers play defensively like a team that is frightened. They switch like a team that is frightened. When you watch teams that switch aggressively and effectively,

Starting point is 00:20:58 they are up on those, they get up into your faith. They are right there when the switch happens. they're pushing teams higher up on the floor, and they're making it hard for teams to get the matchups that they want because the switchiness is not leaving the other teams with easily exploitable matchups. Even if you end up with the guy that you want on the player that you want, it's a little further away from the basket or with a little bit more ball pressure

Starting point is 00:21:28 or whatever it might be. The Lakers and Redick has talked about this. like they they look too often like they're they're scared of that first step they're scared of the blow by but they're also um you know scared to you know they they can't guard the the perimeter and they can't get up on people it's like it's the worst of all possible worlds and this has allowed them an opportunity to do things that they kind of are good at and some of the things with coaching is you have to move to the strengths that your players have even if It's not exactly what you want to do, even if the other kids at the playground are going to make fun of you.

Starting point is 00:22:07 And you watch a lot of these broadcasts and stuff on the different carriers now. And the Lakers do kind of get mocked for the amount of zone that they play. But if you're not giving up 160 points a game, that's a good starting place. I mean, if it makes them feel any better, they were getting mocked while they were playing conventional defense. So what difference does it make? That is true. So we'll see. And, you know, with a better offense and a little bit more confidence.

Starting point is 00:22:32 confidence in their defense, they can hopefully get good enough that with consistency that they can win some games down the stretch. Lon Rosen is going to take the role held by Tim Harris for about 35 years with the Lakers. We talked earlier in the week about Harris's departure. What does Rosen's arrival mean? We'll tell you next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by five-hour energy drink. Welcome to the five-hour energy flavor draft. We are looking at every aspect of the draft to let you know which tasty flavor. flavors are the best and might just be sleepers, the board's set. Flavors are ready and only one's

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Starting point is 00:25:35 he was part of the inner circle with Jeannie Bus. He announced earlier in the week. It was reported at least that the Laker, that Harris would be leaving at the end of the year. Lakers didn't waste any time naming a replacement, and it's a name that is familiar to Lakers and Dodgers fans alike. Lon Rosen, who, crazy, I mean, you want to talk about somebody who's been in the world of L.A. sports, like, forever.

Starting point is 00:26:00 He actually began his career in this industry with the L. Lakers as an intern while still in college during the showtime era before eventually becoming a front office exec with the Lakers. Then he became famously Magic Johnson's agent. And then he began working with the Dodgers and he's had a high profile role with them. And I had actually heard earlier in the week that Lon Rosen was very much in pole position for this job. not feel comfortable relaying that information.

Starting point is 00:26:38 But even if I had not heard that, this would not have been even sort of surprising. He is in a lot of ways the very predictable, logical, obvious candidate statement from Jeannie Bus. For many years, I have seen the impact Lon has had on our industry over that time. I have learned that Lana's not just a great person, but also has a deep understanding of both sports and entertainment. has a true feel for where the business is headed. Finding someone who could fill Tim's shoes overseeing the business side of our organization would never be easy.

Starting point is 00:27:13 The answer we soon realized was someone Mark and I both knew well and someone who already understood the values, culture and commitment to excellence of both the Dodgers and the Lakers. Lon Rosen said, I'm beyond grateful to Jeannie and Mark for trusting me with this incredible opportunity. As everyone knows, the economics of the sports business are constantly changing. They will continue to. but at root, my job is a simple one, figuring out how to do right by our employees and our partners while ensuring that the Lakers continue to provide an unparalleled experience for our fans in Los Angeles and around the world. I look forward to working alongside Jeannie Rob and the entire whole front office in the whole front office to make that happen.

Starting point is 00:27:55 Lon Rosen is both very, very qualified for this job and someone that is not even sort of surprising to end up in that scene. No, not at all. And I think, you know, on the one hand, it is it is certainly reasonable to worry. It's like, oh, my God, are they doing this thing again where they just, you know, pick a guy who knows what it means, Andy, to be. a Laker and all these of it and and yes in my it's it's a legitimate question legitimate concern I don't really look at this though as the Lakers recycling names and expertise and stuff from the past trying to you know bring back the the the the the glow of the showtime era and you know back when you know the titles were the only all that stuff

Starting point is 00:28:55 This to me is a Dodgers hire. This is the beginning to me of taking the blueprint of the Dodgers and how they are run and how they do things at Chavez Ravine and beginning to apply that in El Segundo because, you know, people may forget. Lon Rosen was among the first people that was hired. when Mark Walter took over the Dodger. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean like this is, this is, he's doing the same thing there here that he did there. And it's the same guy. That he has a great deal of expertise in the NBA is to me the part that's important even more so than the Lakers. Like he has that background. But I see this as a Dodgers template thing rather than a, you know, capture, a recap. capturing the magic with former alumni kind of thing.

Starting point is 00:29:58 I mean, I think I don't want to say that it's a recapture the old glory move because I don't think that's fair to Lon Rosen. And Lon has, Lon has not been formally involved with the Lakers for so long that I think that in and of itself would be too reductive a way of framing it. And he does have the exact experience of doing very successfully with the Dodgers what he would be asked to do with the Lakers. He has that relationship with Mark Walter.

Starting point is 00:30:29 It makes sense that this would be Mark Walter's first big hire, someone that he is that familiar with. That being said, the thought of guy that had familiarity and somebody with connections to the Lakers, that did cross my mind. It will only bother me, or and it's too early to say this right now because Lon Rosen is just one guy and again, it cannot be stressed enough.

Starting point is 00:31:02 As a standalone hire in a vacuum, he makes beyond the perfect sense. I just want to see outside voices brought in like true out. Sure. I want to see that happen. But this is the different kind of one. The other thing is it's just important to remember. This is, and Jeannie is very comfortable with Lon, as far as I can tell. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:31:27 But this is not Jeannie bringing in somebody. This is Mark Walter bringing in somebody into his inner circle that he trusts. Yes, absolutely. I just think it's a fundamental difference. No, it's a, well, it's a fundamental difference except it also happens to be somebody with that connection to the Lakers. And that it happens to be somebody Mark Walter is also very comfortable with and somebody that is qualified doesn't change the fact that it's somebody who has a perspective in the NBA, if nothing else, that is very informed by the Lakers, which, to make it clear, is not me saying, I don't think Lon Rosen is a good hire. I do think he is a good hire.

Starting point is 00:32:15 It just reinforces my desire to see at some point more outside voices brought in. Fair enough. But again, you can't expect that I'm not going to ding Lon Rosen as a hire simply because Lon Rosen is not an outsider when there are so many other spots to fill beyond Lon Rosen and he makes perfect sense. His hire is just a reminder to me of what I want to see. that doesn't make him a bad higher at all. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:32:47 I, so yeah, I just, I, I, I, I see the, the Lakers ties. Honestly, more coincidental than, than anything. But we'll see how this starts. I mean, it does seem like for some of these roles as the architecture starts to get built out, Mark Walter has a pretty good idea of who he wants to fill some of these positions. where I think we will see the kind of the rubber meet the road in terms of what fans are really interested in, is when these hires start to bleed into the basketball operations of things, and who is in control of that process.

Starting point is 00:33:33 So we'll see what it looks like. But the reshaping of the roster of the front office roster under Mark Walter begins, and it's something to keep a close eye on going forward. It's exciting. It's definitely exciting for the Lakers moving forward. We will, of course, be coming back to you after the Clipper game tonight. Clippers did do the Lakers' favor, beat the Nuggets on Thursday night. And were they, everybody had to work real hard to do it.

Starting point is 00:34:00 I was going to say they did the Clippers a favor by playing on Thursday night. Playing and playing hard and having to play a tight game. New Clipper, Benedict Mather. 38 points for the Clippers off the bench. So that's something to watch on Friday's game, how the new Clippers roster looks. And then second night of a back-to-back. So we'll see how it goes for the Lakers.

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