[Game] Kings @ Lakers, 11/26/21 7:30pm Pacific 10:30pm Eastern
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He's also starting because Harrison Barnes at the 3 next to Bagley/Holmes is a proven loser. If they were smart they'd figure that having a 3 guard unit is actually better on both ends. Buddy and Davis are so much more dangerous with Fox or Haliburton out there. This is where the mixed roster kind of fouls things up. It makes injuries easier to deal with but not all the pieces necessarily work in a complete form.
I mean, maybe it's time to try and run it back and see if the new Bagley jumper is enough spacing from last year's starting 5. If Bagley wants to keep playing strong D like this and not being a sieve like he was last season, it makes that LU far more effective and easier to digest.
Or hell, maybe you get real creative and Len is the "opener" to get him on the floor with Fox and Holmes still plays 28-30 minutes off the bench and gets to destroy bench bigs. Gets him away from fully having to go vs the beefy Centers that Len is more well-suited to bang with down low. Sync up Fox/Len and Hali/Holmes where they can be most effective with each other. Holmes got his money and he obviously can see how effective Buddy has been off the bench with not much of a role decrease at all.
Or hell, maybe you get real creative and Len is the "opener" to get him on the floor with Fox and Holmes still plays 28-30 minutes off the bench and gets to destroy bench bigs. Gets him away from fully having to go vs the beefy Centers that Len is more well-suited to bang with down low. Sync up Fox/Len and Hali/Holmes where they can be most effective with each other. Holmes got his money and he obviously can see how effective Buddy has been off the bench with not much of a role decrease at all.
It was positive on net rating but Walton ran the lineups so certain numbers are kind of fudged because there were only two real units he rolled with. Then there's the Haliburton part. Buddy was a huge part of making it work since he's the only true shooter. Haliburton and Fox basically play as a combo G unit.
It wasn't one thing that happened 20 years ago. I've hated the Lakers pretty much my whole basketball watching life. It was just one of those things growing up in NorCal we generally did not like SoCal teams and then the kids/people that did tended to be really annoying about it and they also tended to like good teams from different cities in other sports, so you know they may be frontrunners too.
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