.Bart Young/NBAE by means of Getty ImagesWashington Wizards associate coach Zach Guthrie has actually been hired as head instructor of the Los Angeles Lakers' G Game affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are working with Zach Guthrie as the coach of the franchise business's G Organization partner in South Gulf, sources inform ESPN. Guthrie has actually been an NBA aide along with Washington, Dallas and Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Gulf Lakers parted ways along with former scalp train Dane Johnson in August after one season and a 26-24 overall record.Guthrie was actually hired due to the Wizards in 2021 as an assistant to head coach Wes Unseld Jr. He earlier teamed up with the Utah Jazz music as an aide to Quin Snyder from 2016 to 2020, adhered to by pair of times along with the Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle.Guthrie likewise possesses adventure as manager of enhanced searching for the Orlando Miracle and as assistant video clip coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs, depending on to the National Baseball Coaches Association.Former South Gulf head train Johnson left behind the institution after 2024 No. 55 pick Bronny James, the boy of Lakers star LeBron James, battled early in summertime organization play.Guthrie are going to right now likely be billed along with tackling the duty of building James, that is actually expected to invest most of his rookie season in the G League.Guthrie's previous scalp training knowledge consists of leading the Wizards in the 2022 summer season league.In 2023 Guthrie gave some idea in to his mentoring ideology on The Baseball Podcast along with Chris Oliver from Basketball Engagement, when he claimed he just liked to take a "alternative technique" to coaching." I assume at the moment, we as coaches tend to be too siloed," Guthrie told Oliver final summer. "We desire to simply check out the small, the little skills as well as the exercise as well as this play and this trait. I think it is actually everything about attaching it to the game and understanding the circumstance." We would like to have these specialty shop, 1-on-1 sessions. Every little thing concerns [the player] as well as his development and his growth. Yet you have to understand just how that transmissions to the crew, to the 5-on-5 element. Our company take so much of the away from situation and also our experts get therefore lost in this particular personal capability when it concerns just how performs it transfer to the group and just how may we receive as a lot crew growth as feasible ... That's what I indicate due to the holistic method." Lakers fans will today find how Guthrie determines to administer that approach to James' advancement when the South Bay Lakers tip off their 17th NBA G League period on Nov. 9 at the NBA staff's practice center.