The Dallas Mavericks retooled their roster over the summer and trade deadline and are on the brink of the FInals. What can the Lakers learn from that?
The Los Angeles Lakers are obviously out of the playoffs after getting bounced in five games by the Denver Nuggets, albeit in yet another competitive series. However, being competitive alone is not enough, whether that’s for the Lakers or for a team led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
In order to make up that gap and become a potential championship contender, you can look at those teams currently making deep runs and analyze what those rosters have that the Lakers don’t.
One of those teams is the Dallas Mavericks, who find themselves in the NBA Finals after not making the play-in or playoffs at all last season.
In the following video, I looked at how the Mavericks built their roster over the summer and at the trade deadline to spark this deep playoff run and what lessons the Lakers could take from that.
Multiple areas, including those mentioned in this piece, need improvement for the Lakers to be true contenders. There’s certainly a lot of work to be done, but using other teams as a North Star can at least give some sense of the pathway to the goals that the Lakers want to achieve.
The Mavericks also showed that, in just a year, offseason and in-season moves can turn a team from simply a playoff contender to a title contender.
It’s now on the team and vice president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka to get it done.
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