.Bart Young/NBAE by means of Getty ImagesWashington Wizards aide trainer Zach Guthrie has actually been actually worked with as head trainer of the Los Angeles Lakers' G Game associate, the South Bay Lakers, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are tapping the services of Zach Guthrie as the coach of the franchise business's G League affiliate in South Gulf, sources inform ESPN. Guthrie has been actually an NBA associate along with Washington, Dallas and Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Gulf Lakers split methods along with former scalp instructor Dane Johnson in August after one period and also a 26-24 total record.Guthrie was hired due to the Wizards in 2021 as an assistant to head coach Wes Unseld Jr. He recently worked with the Utah Jazz as an associate to Quin Snyder coming from 2016 to 2020, adhered to by two times with the Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle.Guthrie additionally possesses expertise as supervisor of sophisticated searching for the Orlando Magic and also as assistant video organizer for the San Antonio Spurs, depending on to the National Basketball Coaches Association.Former South Gulf head trainer Johnson left behind the organization after 2024 No. 55 pick Bronny James, the boy of Lakers star LeBron James, had a hard time early in summer game play.Guthrie will currently likely be billed along with tackling the activity of cultivating James, that is actually anticipated to spend the majority of his novice season in the G League.Guthrie's previous scalp mentoring expertise features leading the Wizards in the 2022 summer league.In 2023 Guthrie delivered some insight right into his training viewpoint on The Basketball Podcast with Chris Oliver coming from Baseball Engrossment, when he mentioned he ased if to take a "comprehensive strategy" to coaching." I assume at this moment, our experts as instructors have a tendency to become too siloed," Guthrie informed Oliver final summer. "We intend to merely check out the small, the little skills and the practice and also this play and also this factor. I assume it is actually all about linking it to the activity as well as knowing the circumstance." Our experts desire to have these boutique, 1-on-1 sessions. Every little thing concerns [the gamer] as well as his development and his development. Yet you have to know exactly how that transfers to the crew, to the 5-on-5 component. Our team take a lot of this particular away from situation and our experts get therefore lost within this specific ability when it's about just how does it transfer to the crew as well as just how may our company get as much group growth as achievable ... That's what I indicate by the comprehensive method." Lakers enthusiasts will definitely right now see just how Guthrie decides to administer that method to James' growth when the South Bay Lakers tip their 17th NBA G League season on Nov. 9 at the NBA team's practice establishment.