Walton: the 2017 Lakers will run the GS Warriors style offense, not the triangle

joeblow · Star Player Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 3090

Although Luke Walton has been raised under both styles, he says that we will mimic Kerr's style in Golden State, and not Phil Jackson's triangle offense:

KeepItRealOrElse · Retired Number Joined: 11 Oct 2012 Posts: 32767

(It doesn't at all mean we're guna shoot close to as many 3s as them)

It's all about the motion, pace, and spacing. All players benefit from that

KBH · Franchise Player Joined: 13 Sep 2008 Posts: 12171

Like KIROE said, the most important thing will be ball movement and spacing. Of course, having knock down shooters helps spacing, but there's no way we'll rely on the three as heavily as G-State. That said, I would be surprised if a guy like Julius Randle isn't already putting time in the gym rebuilding his shooting form and getting shots up.

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I'm interested to see who we sign and acquire to fit the system Luke wants to run.

10scott10 · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 2:02 pm Post subject:

Its probably gonna look more like the Hawks than the Warriors. Both are very much about ball movement and player movement, but the Hakws do it without guys like Curry and Klay.

KobeRe-Loaded · Franchise Player Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 14944

Wouldn't be surprised to see 2-3 players from the Warriors on the Lakers next season.
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slavavov · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 3:54 pm Post subject:

With Russell, Randle and Clarkson we need to play fast break basketball and push the pace even after made baskets. It shouldn't be hard for us to sign a couple of role players who are good 3-pt shooters so that we have better finishers in transition.
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70sdude · Star Player Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 4567

John Wooden's thoughts come to mind, and that guy knew how to design and teach playing styles so as make the strongest team possible from the players at hand:

"Each roster and season is its own nut to crack. In some years I have the concentration of talent in guards or forwards, and comparatively few big men who shoot well. Other times the main talent is a big man, and the play of the guards becomes supportive mainly of him. Sometimes, I have no standout players at all, and at those times I usually also an imbalanced roster, without balancing strengths and weaknesses. I have found it necessary to suppress any inclination to apply a single blueprint from a successful prior team to the next squad, without that is, a lot of testing. I have to test each player and player combination to observe who does what well with whom. Planning in the preseason is necessary and fine, but for me it's a matter of having to put things together rather quickly from our first day of practice. There will be surprises."

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fiendishoc · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:55 pm Post subject:

While GS's ridiculous offensive efficiency is tied to the quality of their shooters, you don't necessarily need that level of shooting to reap the benefits of their offense. Most of the top offensive teams have learned from the Spurs and old 7 seconds or less Suns to run similar stuff without the same shooters.

Secondly, the Lakers have better shooters than people think. It's just that the old Byron system had them taking more contested threes than anyone else for two straight years. Look at what happened to the shooting percentages of the D'antoni holdovers.

That said, a good three and D SF would fit in nicely.

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Purp 32 · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:59 pm Post subject:

Beautiful

dood23 · Franchise Player Joined: 16 Jun 2010 Posts: 12084

I'm sure we'll also put more emphasis on running the break, because for some reason, a team of DLo, JC, and Randle barely did it this season.
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