Los Angeles Lakers: 4 lessons in preseason win over Golden State Warriors

Frank Vogel will have to get the backcourt situation straight before he gets back to the States.

Most will say that this is the first preseason game and chill out. Sure it’s the first game, but the season starts in 16 days of this writing. The backcourt is jam-packed at this point and if Frank Vogel is trying to keep his intentions hidden, mission accomplished.

Rajon Rondo:

Rajon Rondo and Anthony Davis play very well together. They need minutes because the chemistry traveled with them from New Orleans. Plus, if Rondo can knock down a couple of shots from distance as he did against the Warriors and play occasional defense, he’ll need minutes.

Avery Bradley:

Avery Bradley only played 13 minutes and scored the same amount of points as Lakers fans did watching him. Sure, his defense is the talk of training camp, but he has to at least give something on the offensive end. Zero points won’t cut it. Starters score.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope:

I think Lakers fans have seen this movie before. Two points that included a missed layup at point-blank range. Most LeBron James led teams make trades around the deadline for playoff runs. KCP was bad enough to make a bid to be out on the trade block.

He played this bad in the preseason last year and it carried over into the regular season. He doesn’t have the luxury of the Lakers waiting for him to get out of long shooting slumps. They don’t have the time and they have plenty of options.

David Stockton:

A special shout out to the NBA point guard icon and Hall of Famer, John Stockton. He watched his son David score his first points as a Laker. He finished with three points and one assist. He just got signed late last week.

Carmelo Anthony fans can start the conspiracy theories now.

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