.Bart Young/NBAE through Getty ImagesWashington Wizards associate trainer Zach Guthrie has been chosen as head instructor of the Los Angeles Lakers’ G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are tapping the services of Zach Guthrie as the instructor of the franchise business’s G Organization partner in South Bay, resources say to ESPN. Guthrie has been an NBA assistant with Washington, Dallas and Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Bay Lakers split means along with past head coach Dane Johnson in August after one season and a 26-24 total record.Guthrie was tapped the services of due to the Wizards in 2021 as an aide to move trainer Wes Unseld Jr.
He previously partnered with the Utah Jazz music as an assistant to Quin Snyder coming from 2016 to 2020, complied with by pair of times with the Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle.Guthrie also possesses knowledge as manager of innovative looking for the Orlando Miracle and also as assistant video recording planner for the San Antonio Spurs, according to the National Basketball Coaches Association.Former South Bay scalp train Johnson left behind the association after 2024 No. 55 choice Bronny James, the son of Lakers star LeBron James, strained early in summertime organization play.Guthrie will right now likely be actually asked for along with handling the job of establishing James, who is actually expected to devote many of his rookie season in the G League.Guthrie’s previous head training adventure features leading the Wizards in the 2022 summertime league.In 2023 Guthrie delivered some insight right into his training philosophy on The Baseball Podcast with Chris Oliver coming from Basketball Immersion, when he stated he liked to take a “alternative approach” to training.” I believe right now, our team as trains tend to be too siloed,” Guthrie told Oliver last summer months. “We desire to merely look at the micro, the little bit of skills and also the practice as well as this play as well as this thing.
I think it’s everything about attaching it to the video game as well as understanding the situation.” Our company wish to have these store, 1-on-1 treatments. Every thing concerns [the gamer] and also his progression as well as his development. But you have to recognize just how that transmissions to the team, to the 5-on-5 factor.
We take a great deal of the out of circumstance as well as our company acquire thus dropped within this private skill when it concerns how performs it transmit to the team and also how can our experts obtain as a lot staff development as feasible … That’s what I indicate due to the alternative method.” Lakers followers will right now observe exactly how Guthrie makes a decision to use that technique to James’ growth when the South Bay Lakers advise their 17th NBA G Game period on Nov. 9 at the NBA team’s practice center.