.Bart Young/NBAE via Getty ImagesWashington Wizards assistant coach Zach Guthrie has actually been actually hired as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers’ G Game associate, the South Bay Lakers, every ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are actually employing Zach Guthrie as the instructor of the franchise business’s G Organization partner in South Bay, sources say to ESPN. Guthrie has actually been an NBA assistant with Washington, Dallas and also Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Bay Lakers parted techniques along with past head coach Dane Johnson in August after one time and a 26-24 overall record.Guthrie was actually employed due to the Wizards in 2021 as an associate to head train Wes Unseld Jr.
He formerly partnered with the Utah Jazz as an aide to Quin Snyder coming from 2016 to 2020, observed by pair of seasons with the Dallas Mavericks and also Rick Carlisle.Guthrie additionally has knowledge as manager of advanced looking for the Orlando Magic and as assistant video clip coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs, depending on to the National Baseball Coaches Association.Former South Gulf head train Johnson left behind the company after 2024 No. 55 choice Bronny James, the boy of Lakers star LeBron James, strained early in summer organization play.Guthrie will certainly currently likely be billed with tackling the job of cultivating James, that is expected to spend most of his rookie period in the G League.Guthrie’s previous head training experience features leading the Wizards in the 2022 summertime league.In 2023 Guthrie supplied some idea right into his mentoring viewpoint on The Baseball Podcast along with Chris Oliver coming from Baseball Immersion, when he said he liked to take a “alternative strategy” to training.” I presume at this moment, our team as trainers have a tendency to be as well siloed,” Guthrie told Oliver last summer. “Our team desire to simply look at the small, the little capabilities and also the exercise and also this play as well as this factor.
I think it is actually everything about attaching it to the game as well as understanding the context.” Our company intend to have these shop, 1-on-1 sessions. Everything’s about [the player] and his growth and also his growth. Yet you need to recognize just how that transfers to the staff, to the 5-on-5 factor.
Our experts take so much of this away from situation and also our company acquire so lost within this individual capability when it concerns just how does it move to the staff and also exactly how can easily we receive as much staff development as possible … That’s what I imply by the holistic strategy.” Lakers followers will certainly right now view exactly how Guthrie chooses to administer that approach to James’ advancement when the South Bay Lakers tip off their 17th NBA G Game season on Nov. 9 at the NBA group’s method location.