After a historic night time for the Lakers and LeBron and Bronny James, huge man Anthony Davis shared his ideas about what he’s seen from Bronny up to now.
In fact, there are unrealistic expectations being positioned on the general quantity fifty fifth choose, as he’s the GOAT’s son.
In his second pre-season sport for the Lakers, Bronny logged zero factors, two rebounds and 4 turnovers in 14 minutes in LA’s loss to Phoenix.
However Davis has been fairly impressed with the 20-year-old up to now.
“He’s powerful,” Davis advised reporters. “Clearly, he’s defensive-minded. Some nice blocks, Sport 1. The physicality. He will get over on screens, good along with his palms so far as deflection and steals. However he’s additionally nonetheless studying. He’s nonetheless attempting to determine the whole lot out, so now we have to understand that. He’s nonetheless a rookie and it is a totally different model of basketball within the league. However I like what I’m seeing from him, on each ends of the ground, particularly defensively.”
Lakers head coach JJ Redick spoke in regards to the determination to play each LeBron and Bronny on the identical time.
“Simply needed to get them an opportunity to play collectively in preseason … throughout the movement of the sport,” Redick stated. “I’m thrilled that I get to be part of this. I actually am. It’s cool as a basketball fan.
He added, “I believed the stretch was okay… That was throughout a stretch the place I believe we had some points with our transition protection,” Redick defined. “Simply getting matched. I preferred what I noticed all through the primary half with all of the teams we tried. When it comes to the ‘Why’, simply needed to provide them an opportunity to play collectively in preseason. Throughout the movement of the sport, and the way we had achieved the substitution patterns in sport one, that was the precise time to do it.”
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