What the Lakers can learn about roster construction from the Dallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks are on the verge of the Finals after making personnel changes over the summer and trade deadline. What lessons does that teach the Lakers?
Written by Rajpal Brar 31 May 2024, at 9:28 a.m. PDT 0 New / 0 Comments
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Even though it was a very tough series, the Los Angeles Lakers were eliminated from the playoffs after losing to the Denver Nuggets in five games. Nevertheless, neither for the Lakers nor for a club led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis is being competitive enough on its own.
You can look at those teams that are now winning deep into the playoffs and assess what those squads have that the Lakers don’t in order to close the gap and potentially challenge for the championship.
Among those teams is the Dallas Mavericks, who, after missing out on the play-in and playoffs entirely the previous season, are now in the NBA Finals.
In the video that follows, I examine the lessons the Lakers can learn from the way the Mavericks assembled their team throughout the summer and trade deadline in order to start this deep playoff run.
For the Lakers to be serious contenders, they must make improvements in a number of categories, including those covered in this article. While there is still much work to be done, the Lakers can at least see some direction toward their desired outcomes by using other teams as a North Star.
The Mavericks also shown how off-season and in-season decisions can elevate a team from a mere playoff candidate to a title contender in the course of just one season.
Rob Pelinka, vice president of basketball operations, and the team now have the task of finishing it.
With a doctorate in physical therapy from Northern Arizona University, Dr. Rajpal Brar, DPT, coaches youth basketball at the U12 level and owns 3CB Performance, an in-person and online sports medicine and performance business located in West Los Angeles and Valencia, California, where he combines his expertise in movement with fitness training.
He advises in a number of sports, including basketball, on movement mechanics and skill acquisition, combining his expertise in biomechanics, movement science, and learning science. In addition, Brar studies at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and contributes skill and medical analysis of the Lakers to Silver Screen and Roll as well as his own YouTube channel. He can be followed at @3cbPerformance on Twitter.
