The summer market of Los Angeles Lakersoriented first of all towards the objective of strengthening a roster that had done very well in the second half of last season, had also seemed fulfill a specific request. It is in fact nothing new nor even a mystery Anthony Daviswith LeBron James pin of the project started in 2019 son the yellow-purple shore of LA, don’t like to play by center. The arrivals of Jaxson Hayes before and Christian Wood then, they immediately appeared as attempts to please Davis, providing him with department mates capable of taking on, at least formally, the role he so disliked. Contrary to the expectations of fans and professionals, however, in the first two preseason friendlies against Warriors e Nets coach Darwin Ham he deployed it right from the center in the starting quintet. Not only that, on the sidelines of the training following the victory over Brooklynthe coach of the Lakers he launched into a rather clear request towards Davis. “If he gets the chance, I want him to take it six triples per game” he has declared Ham“I know he won’t, but he might surprise me: three triples in each half, I wouldn’t ask him if I didn’t know what it was perfectly capable of doing so“.
Become a threat again
To tell the truth, during the first two friendlies, Davis seems to have accepted the challenge thrown to him by his coach. Despite the limited presence on the pitch, just under 28 minutes overall between the match with Golden State and the one with Brooklynl’ex Pelicans he got it six triplesscoring with an encouraging 50% from behind the three-point line. In the hopes of the player and the Lakers everyone is about the first result of the Work carried out in the summer in the company of Chris Jentassistant to Hamand focused on effectiveness in long distance shot. “I only want return to be one threat at all three levels” he declared Davis during the team’s Media Day, “but I’m not sure about how it will work until I try in the match, because it’s one thing to score in training and another to do it with the pressure of your opponents on you.” Davisjust back from one season 2022-23 in which it is only taken 1,3 triple per game realizing with the 25,7%, a new perspective therefore opens up. He believes it and they believe it Lakersalso because in the career of Davis the only season in which he tried more than 3 triples per game (3,5) was that 2019-20which ended with 17th title in the history of the franchise.
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