Rob Pelinka’s Focus on Lakers’ Group Adjustments Over Others in NBA Summer Moves

2023-06-28 09:17:00

NBA – Rob Pelinka prefers to focus on his group, which will experience adjustments during the summer, rather than watching what others are doing.

Bradley Beal at the Suns, Chris Paul at the Warriors, Marcus Smart at the Grizzlies… Two weeks following the Nuggets title, it’s already a big upheaval in the West. And it’s probably not over with files to follow in Portland (Damian Lillard?), Dallas (Kyrie Irving?) or New Orleans (Zion Williamson?). On the Lakers side, it is much calmer for the time being.

The superstars are in place and the policy seems to be to retain key role players (Austin Reaves, Jarred Vanderbilt). Priority to stability therefore, to draw inspiration from the team that “swept” them in the conference final, the Nuggets.

« This is a proven group, and we saw what we were able to do defensively to finish the season, and I think defense and rebounds win titles. We want to build on that. If there are ways to improve the squad, of course we will. We’ll probably focus less on ‘Hey, what’s Team A or Team B doing?’ than on ‘How can we improve the team?’ », fixe Rob Pelinka.

Adjustments planned for the Lakers

Concentrate on yourself, therefore, and not look at what is being done elsewhere, which is probably the best way to avoid transfers in “panic” mode. ” The teams will be aggressive. There’s a lot of competition in the league right now, and everyone feels the opportunity to go for the title. But we gon’ do our best to stay in the pack or ahead of the pack

“, continues the GM of the Californian franchise.

The latter is aware that adjustments will be necessary in all cases, especially on the back lines of the team. Because D’Angelo Russell, Dennis Schroder, Lonnie Walker IV and Austin Reaves will all land on the market as “free agents”. The “Purple & Gold” will also have to position themselves on the Malik Beasley file, for example, under the scope of a “team option” of up to 16 million dollars.

« We want to do what we can to keep this core group of guys together and improve at the margins to not only get back to where we were last year but also hopefully take the next step and reach the NBA Finals. “, thus ends the leader a few days before the opening of the “free agency”.

Tirs
Rebonds

Joueurs
MJ
Min
Tirs
3pts
LF
Off
Def
Tot
Pd
Bp
Int
Ct
Fte
Pts

Lebron James
55
35.5
50.0
32.1
76.8
1.2
7.1
8.3
6.8
3.2
0.9
0.6
1.6
28.9

Anthony Davis
56
34.0
56.3
25.7
78.4
3.5
9.1
12.5
2.6
2.2
1.1
2.0
2.6
25.9

D’angelo Russell
17
30.9
48.4
41.4
73.5
0.4
2.5
2.9
6.1
2.3
0.6
0.5
1.4
17.4

Russell Westbrook
52
28.7
41.7
29.6
65.5
1.1
5.0
6.2
7.5
3.5
1.0
0.4
2.3
15.9

Austin Reaves
64
28.8
52.9
39.8
86.4
0.5
2.5
3.0
3.4
1.5
0.5
0.3
1.7
13.0

Dennis Schroder
66
30.1
41.5
32.9
85.7
0.3
2.2
2.5
4.5
1.7
0.8
0.2
2.2
12.6

Thomas Bryant
41
21.4
65.4
44.0
74.1
1.6
5.2
6.8
0.7
0.7
0.3
0.6
1.9
12.1

Lonnie Walker
56
23.2
44.8
36.5
85.8
0.3
1.7
1.9
1.1
0.8
0.5
0.3
1.3
11.7

Malik Beasley
26
23.9
39.2
35.3
61.9
0.3
3.0
3.3
1.2
1.2
0.8
0.0
1.2
11.1

Rui Hachimura
33
22.4
48.5
29.6
72.1
1.0
3.7
4.7
0.7
0.5
0.2
0.4
1.0
9.6

Jarred Vanderbilt
26
24.0
52.9
30.3
78.4
1.9
4.8
6.7
1.6
1.1
1.2
0.2
2.2
7.2

Troy Brown, Jr.
76
24.5
43.0
38.1
87.2
0.8
3.2
4.1
1.3
0.6
0.8
0.2
1.6
7.1

Kendrick Nunn
39
13.5
40.6
32.5
81.0
0.1
1.3
1.4
0.9
0.8
0.3
0.1
0.9
6.7

Patrick Beverley
45
26.9
40.2
34.8
78.0
0.5
2.6
3.1
2.6
0.9
0.9
0.6
2.8
6.4

Wenyen Gabriel
68
15.1
59.6
27.8
61.9
1.7
2.5
4.2
0.5
0.7
0.4
0.5
2.1
5.5

Matt Ryan
12
10.8
30.6
37.1
80.0
0.2
1.0
1.2
0.3
0.3
0.2
0.0
1.2
3.9

Mohamed Bamba
9
9.8
40.7
31.3
54.5
1.2
3.3
4.6
0.4
0.9
0.1
0.6
2.1
3.7

Max Christie
41
12.5
41.5
41.9
87.5
0.2
1.7
1.8
0.5
0.3
0.2
0.2
0.8
3.1

Juan Toscano-anderson
30
12.2
50.0
20.0
73.3
0.5
1.6
2.0
0.8
0.6
0.3
0.2
1.5
2.7

Damian Jones
22
8.0
54.1
0.0
75.0
0.8
1.7
2.5
0.2
0.4
0.1
0.5
0.8
2.5

Scotty Pippen, Jr.
6
5.3
33.3
33.3
55.6
0.3
0.3
0.7
0.3
0.3
0.3
0.2
0.5
2.3

Cole Swider
7
5.8
33.3
37.5
0.0
0.1
0.9
1.0
0.6
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.4
1.3

Davon Reed
8
3.4
75.0
50.0
25.0
0.1
0.4
0.5
0.5
0.0
0.3
0.0
0.4
1.0

Sterling Brown
4
6.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.8
1.3
2.0
0.5
0.0
0.8
0.0
1.0
0.0
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