“It’s just what type of balance are we going to have? And that’s still to be determined,” Vogel said. “I think the first year, it was a near 50-50 balance of him playing alongside another big at the four, and then him sliding to the five. Last year was more him playing the four with Marc and Drummond and Trez getting a lot of those minutes in there. I think we’re going to return to the first year’s balance. But he’ll play some four and some five.”
-Coach Frank Vogel
Keep trying to keep your dead dialog alive, Jamie.
AD is going to start and end games at the five.
You heard it here first. Time to start believing.
lol, I ain’t the coach LT. Frank said that, not me.
24 mpg seems reasonable out of the gate. Gives 24 minutes to Dwight and hopefully DAJ is window-dressing this season, no offense to him or anything, just never moved my needle as a fan of the game.
Come the playoffs, 34-36 mpg seems reasonable.
So, unless Frank chooses not to start AD for some reason, I do expect him to start halves and finish the game at the 5. Other than that I imagine we’ll go bigger not smaller. Unless those line ups crater but I don’t see how, Russ has always had a lob man, LeBron loves a lob man, and we got ourselves three lob men.
I suspect AD will get the bulk of his minutes at the 5. At this point I don’t even think the coaching staff knows yet how those minutes will be distributed. How they rotate the big 3 will determine a lot of the minutes. AD is actually bigger then a majority of NBA starting centers. But there will be a few match ups where it will be advantageous for AD to play the 4. Giannis and the Bucks come to mind. Giannis simply over powered everyone in the playoffs. He won’t over power AD and LeBron, so tag teaming them on him makes sense. Embid and the Joker are the other 2 match ups that come to mind, although AD has held his own against the Joker.
I agree, Michael. I just don’t see Vogel playing DeAndre instead of a guard or wing who could have impact like Nunn, Bazemore, Monk, THT or Anthony. Lakers can’t play more than 11 players in any scheme. Don’t see Jordan, Rondo, or Reaves playing before the other eleven players.