After making their big swings this offseason, the Lakers made some low-risk, high-reward signings.<\/p>\n
Both came on the wing with one being Matisse Thybulle, a talented defensive player with injury questions and the other being Ziaire Williams.<\/p>\n
Trapped on the Brooklyn Nets for the last two seasons, Williams has shown signs of improvement, but also largely stagnated. This offseason, Brooklyn cut him free and the Lakers pounced, bringing in the former Sierra Canyon product on a minimum contract.<\/p>\n
In continuing our series, we reached out to Anthony Puccio, site manager for Nets Daily, to ask him about Williams, where he succeeds and struggles and how he might fit with the Lakers.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a high-energy player with defensive versatility. He\u2019s long and thrives covering wings, but he\u2019s laterally quick enough to stick with guards. His active hands force some turnovers, too.<\/p>\n
His 3-point shooting hasn\u2019t improved beyond a career-best 34% from three last season, and his physical frame isn\u2019t that of a frontcourt anchor. So he\u2019s in no-man\u2019s land for someone whose biggest asset is their size\/interchangeability.<\/p>\n
Combine that with limited playmaking ability, and he\u2019s a 3-and-D guy at best\u2026assuming the three ball is going down.<\/p>\n
From an outsider\u2019s perspective, how do you see him fitting with the Lakers?<\/p>\n
He should thrive in a system where he can float and do all the high-energy things nobody else wants to do. It was applauded in Brooklyn, but a curse because his weaknesses were exposed on a bad team. With Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and more weapons around him, he should be able to carve out a consistent role in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After making their big swings this offseason, the Lakers made some low-risk, high-reward signings. Both came on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,828,6,671],"class_list":["post-812161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-lakers-analysis","tag-nba","tag-nets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117097935925714397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}