As a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James had traditionally held a minicamp prior to the official start of the team’s training camp in order to get everyone ready and on the same page.
This season has been no exception. According to guard Austin Reaves while on the “Lowe Post” podcast with ESPN’s Zach Lowe, James took teammates down to San Diego, where there was “100 percent attendance” and everyone looked good.
Buy Lakers TicketsIn particular, he said that Anthony Davis did well in terms of his outside shooting (h/t Lakers Daily).
“Obviously Bron puts it on,” said Reaves of the minicamp. “We went down to San Diego. … It was great. It was 100 percent attendance. Everybody was there. Everybody was active, and everybody looked good. We did a lot of shooting competition stuff. A.D. is shooting the ball really well right now. It’s something that I’ve tried to get him to do more, is shoot it. ‘Cause if he does that at a very decent level, which he can ’cause in the bubble year he shot it really well, literally you can’t guard him.”
Davis has struggled with his outside shooting ever since the 2019-20 season when he was accurate from 3-point range over the second half of the schedule and especially during the playoffs. That was the year the Lakers last won the NBA championship.
Last season he shot 25.7 percent from 3-point range, and the season before that he was at only 18.6 percent from that distance.
With big men Jaxson Hayes and Christian Wood now on the roster, it appears more imperative than ever that Davis shoot well enough from the perimeter to maintain good floor balance and keep defenses honest.
