.Bart Young/NBAE through Getty ImagesWashington Wizards aide trainer Zach Guthrie has been actually worked with as head train of the Los Angeles Lakers’ G League affiliate, the South Gulf Lakers, every ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are actually working with Zach Guthrie as the instructor of the franchise business’s G Game partner in South Bay, resources tell ESPN. Guthrie has actually been an NBA assistant with Washington, Dallas and also Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Bay Lakers parted methods along with past scalp train Dane Johnson in August after one time and a 26-24 general record.Guthrie was employed by the Wizards in 2021 as an assistant to move instructor Wes Unseld Jr.
He previously teamed up with the Utah Jazz as an assistant to Quin Snyder from 2016 to 2020, adhered to through pair of times along with the Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle.Guthrie also possesses knowledge as supervisor of sophisticated looking for the Orlando Magic and as assistant online video coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs, according to the National Basketball Coaches Association.Former South Bay scalp instructor Johnson left the institution after 2024 No. 55 pick Bronny James, the child of Lakers star LeBron James, had a hard time early in summer months game play.Guthrie will certainly currently likely be billed with handling the job of creating James, who is actually anticipated to spend the majority of his newbie season in the G League.Guthrie’s previous head mentoring experience consists of leading the Wizards in the 2022 summer season league.In 2023 Guthrie supplied some insight in to his coaching theory on The Basketball Podcast with Chris Oliver from Basketball Engagement, when he said he suched as to take a “comprehensive approach” to mentoring.” I presume now, our experts as coaches tend to become too siloed,” Guthrie said to Oliver final summer season. “Our team wish to merely consider the mini, the little skill-sets and also the drill and this play and also this thing.
I presume it’s all about attaching it to the activity and also recognizing the circumstance.” Our company want to possess these specialty shop, 1-on-1 sessions. Every little thing’s about [the gamer] as well as his advancement and also his development. Yet you have to comprehend exactly how that transmissions to the team, to the 5-on-5 component.
Our company take so much of this away from circumstance and also our team obtain so dropped within this specific skill when it’s about how does it transfer to the team as well as how can easily our company get as much group growth as achievable … That’s what I imply by the all natural method.” Lakers fans will certainly now view how Guthrie chooses to apply that approach to James’ growth when the South Bay Lakers tip off their 17th NBA G Game period on Nov. 9 at the NBA staff’s method establishment.