LeBron James lost weight for this upcoming season for the Lakers. #LeBron #Lakers #NBA
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Now Rob Pelinka says the weight loss is to allow him to play power forward. At first, that doesn't intuitively make sense because if you're playing a bigger position, you might want to increase weight, but there's a lot of benefits specific to LeBron to lose weight
LeBron through the years has went through several weight transformations. From the kid from Akron at 240 pounds to the guy who brought a trash Cavs team to the finals to a near 280 pound physical beast in Miami.
Looking at the Lakers starting lineup, they are playing small ball, they are recreating the Miami Heat pace and space basketball from 2012 with Wade and Bron handling the ball and Chris Bosh moving to the center in which both Bosh and LeBron could switch out to guard perimeter players. And LeBron that year was scary defensively. Anthony Davis is willing to play the center, something that he has not wanted to do for a long time. LeBron slimming down means that he can be faster defensively and he's still bigger than almost every guard. This is dramatically different from the Lakers squad two years ago that won using 2 true big men. LeBron looked visibly slow last year offensively and defensively.
The last time LeBron cut weight was in the 2019 right after an injury riddled 2018-2019 season where the Lakers didn't make the playoffs and LeBron was doing this (kick defense). And right before AD joined the Lakers. And that season, LeBron was in the MVP race before the pandemic averaging a career high in assists.
The last cut before that was in 2014 right before his teamup with Kyrie and Kevin Love. Hmmm. Seems like a similar pattern. Cut weight when teaming with superstars. And we all know that Kyrie and Kevin Love are injured in the finals, but those finals, LeBron averaged 35 points, he was able to keep it going for 6 games where he was double and triple teamed. His fitness level has always been amazing but this was out of this world.
So what does this mean for LeBron this year? That he knows he has to stay healthy and that they can't expend all their energy trying to make the playoffs. This is an older team that can't afford to have older players taking on more minutes in the regular season. 48 minutes among 3 forwards is less of a burden than 48 minutes among 2 forwards used to playing 10 minutes.
Russ is going to make any team faster. He changed the Rockets from 19th in fast break offense to 5th. The Wizards last year were first in pace.
And LeBron who has become so great at half-court offenses so the Lakers last year were 16th in pace. Russ can dynamically change an offense. This won't mean that the Lakers become the fastest, but there should be a faster pace and a potentially different look. And again, as an older team, there's not that many super quick players, so LeBron can do it himself with Russ.
Actually, LeBron is trying to fit this new roster that has been built. It's a change that I give LeBron props for. But what do you think? Will the Lakers win the chip this year?
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Now Rob Pelinka says the weight loss is to allow him to play power forward. At first, that doesn't intuitively make sense because if you're playing a bigger position, you might want to increase weight, but there's a lot of benefits specific to LeBron to lose weight
LeBron through the years has went through several weight transformations. From the kid from Akron at 240 pounds to the guy who brought a trash Cavs team to the finals to a near 280 pound physical beast in Miami.
Looking at the Lakers starting lineup, they are playing small ball, they are recreating the Miami Heat pace and space basketball from 2012 with Wade and Bron handling the ball and Chris Bosh moving to the center in which both Bosh and LeBron could switch out to guard perimeter players. And LeBron that year was scary defensively. Anthony Davis is willing to play the center, something that he has not wanted to do for a long time. LeBron slimming down means that he can be faster defensively and he's still bigger than almost every guard. This is dramatically different from the Lakers squad two years ago that won using 2 true big men. LeBron looked visibly slow last year offensively and defensively.
The last time LeBron cut weight was in the 2019 right after an injury riddled 2018-2019 season where the Lakers didn't make the playoffs and LeBron was doing this (kick defense). And right before AD joined the Lakers. And that season, LeBron was in the MVP race before the pandemic averaging a career high in assists.
The last cut before that was in 2014 right before his teamup with Kyrie and Kevin Love. Hmmm. Seems like a similar pattern. Cut weight when teaming with superstars. And we all know that Kyrie and Kevin Love are injured in the finals, but those finals, LeBron averaged 35 points, he was able to keep it going for 6 games where he was double and triple teamed. His fitness level has always been amazing but this was out of this world.
So what does this mean for LeBron this year? That he knows he has to stay healthy and that they can't expend all their energy trying to make the playoffs. This is an older team that can't afford to have older players taking on more minutes in the regular season. 48 minutes among 3 forwards is less of a burden than 48 minutes among 2 forwards used to playing 10 minutes.
Russ is going to make any team faster. He changed the Rockets from 19th in fast break offense to 5th. The Wizards last year were first in pace.
And LeBron who has become so great at half-court offenses so the Lakers last year were 16th in pace. Russ can dynamically change an offense. This won't mean that the Lakers become the fastest, but there should be a faster pace and a potentially different look. And again, as an older team, there's not that many super quick players, so LeBron can do it himself with Russ.
Actually, LeBron is trying to fit this new roster that has been built. It's a change that I give LeBron props for. But what do you think? Will the Lakers win the chip this year?
