“It’s just 3 after 3 after 3, bucket after bucket after bucket from three different players”.
Making these cuts can’t be easy for Walton to make, but they have to be done.
“You play defense and then you can do anything else”, Young said of Walton’s message to him. Hurting Robinson is that the Lakers already have two capable power forwards in Larry Nance Jr. and Julius Randle. Looney is the first Warriors player we ve seen in quite a while who can extend possessions through offensive rebounding. National Basketball Association teams can only carry a total of 15 players in the regular season, and LA has two more preseason games to figure out which two players will not be part of the team.
Ingram didn’t have a ton of notable plays on the ball in the closing minutes, and so far his playmaking ability hasn’t translated into a ton of assists (1.3 per game) or a high assist rate (7.7 percent).
“From time to time it seems like he just floats around out there with the normal units that are playing, and doesn’t get a ton of touches or shots”, Walton said. Griffin was at his worst on pull-up jumpers (31.8 effective field goal percentage) and had a lower eFG% on wide-open shots (46.4 percent) than he did when a defender was within two (53.6 percent) or four (56.1 percent) feet.
Kevin Durant impacted the game on both ends of the floor.
But when training camp started, Young, 31, was still on the roster.
The Lakers must trim the roster down to 15 before the regular season, and Eric Pincus of Basketball Insiders said the battle for the final spot will come down to Yi Jianlian and Thomas Robinson.
Finally, was that JaVale McGee we saw playing above the rim and scoring 12 points in 13 minutes of action with the B team? “Guys enjoyed coming in and competing every day”.
“We want the ball to move, we want guys to work, but we want to have fun”, Kerr said. “When you get older, things don’t bother you as much”. There is that added pressure, but we’re aware of that. It’s a controversial decision to make, but he did what was best for him and his career.
Either way, whether they keep Brown or Robinson they will be one of the two players on the inactive list or on D’ League assignment for most of the season along with Ivica Zubac since each team can only carry thirteen players on the active available to play list for each game out of the fifteen-man roster. Now it is a matter of digging deep into the Lakers’ depth to surprise the Warriors. The Warriors may have looked totally dominating in terms of rotation but the tight score might not be indicative of what could transpire at the endgame.