Welcome Cam Reddish (2yr, Vet Min)

governator · Franchise Player Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 23766

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Ceiling, battle minutes with maxwell Lewis, for now

Lakesh0wtime · Star Player Joined: 28 Mar 2016 Posts: 4779

ocho · Retired Number Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 52443

Reddish signing official. He’ll wear #5.
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yinoma2001 · Retired Number Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Posts: 119430

Not expecting much, but really rooting for the kid. Obviously lottery talent but hasn't put it together.
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CamReddish · Star Player Joined: 23 Jun 2015 Posts: 7531

6th man this season or maybe starting SF
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wolfpaclaker · Retired Number Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 58095

One things for sure, there is no reason the Lakers should look less long and athletic than the other team this season. Since we won the title, starting with the Marc Gasol/Dennis in (Dwight/McGee/Green out) moves, we sort of went away from being longer and athletic around AD/Bron.

The last 6 months Pelinka has finally gotten back to focusing on length and skill around AD/Bron. Even though we don't have a power/physical Center, we do have a lot length and athleticism around old AD/Bron. That is exactly what we needed.

I am not high (or low) on Reddish. But I really like that this team has so many options with length/athleticism. Just go back a year and we're talking our options are JTA, Brown, Beverly, Westbrook around AD/Bron. We've improved so much.

I mean I know it's silly as Reddish hasn't done much to deserve this, but a lineup I'd suggest is DLO at the 1, Reddish at the 2, Rui at the 3, Bron at the 4 and AD at the 5. Reddish has to make his 3s, but that shows you what I'm thinking. I'm not so much on the Austin/DLO combo wagon. More of a lets split them and have one run the 2nd unit and the other partner up with a bigger guard/wing type. Not sure this is what Ham will do, but that's what I would be looking at.

gng930 · Franchise Player Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 11355

Reddish will have his opportunities. He will be competing with Christie for the backup SG role. He even has the athleticism to be a POA defender and displace Vando in the rotation, especially if Vando's offensive game doesn't really improve. In that regard, Cam doesn't even have to be a good 3-point shooter, just more useful on offense (which he already is) but be comparable to Vando in terms of motor and efficacy on defense. Minutes will also open up when Lebron misses games, even when AD does and Ham opts to go small-ball with one of the forwards playing center. And if it works out and DLO isn't cutting it in the playoffs, then he can be a more dependable 3rd guard. Showing out in the playoffs is how he'll ultimately get his bag.

Not saying I think this will all happen but for our sake I hope it does. At the very least, I don't think he'll be able to say he didn't get a requisite shot.
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2019 · Franchise Player Joined: 03 Dec 2014 Posts: 10536

If Reddish can find a meaningful role at the 2-4, along with Max proving he is ready for mins, Cam makes Prince very expendable. Prince & D'lo + pick and/or JHS is nice package. Not great but can fetch something good.

If not, maybe he just finds mins here and there the way Troy did this past season - more likely if others are injured.

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manlisten · Star Player Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 2853

That 2021 team started the year 21-6. They also looked like they were capable of advancing past Phoenix in the playoffs. After the shortest offseason ever, it was a long shot to repeat that year but the roster construction was fine if not perfect. This current team is "bigger" than last year's but all the new additions are worse at rebounding than the guys who are gone so I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make.
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MJST · Franchise Player Joined: 06 Jul 2014 Posts: 24158

That 2021 team also would have beaten that Phoenix team if AD didn't get hurt. We were on our way to another Finals.. But health is going to matter above all else. A lesson the Clippers have learned every single season since putting their Kawhi/George team together.
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deal · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 6:08 pm Post subject:

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DancingBarry · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:06 pm Post subject:

Feel like the Cam debates have had some very strong swings in both directions. Before we got him, there was a lot of trade talk (not good use of assets in my mind) and overrating of Cam. When we got him, it really felt like that swung the other way where there was strong opposition and almost underrating his skills, which was hard for me to image happening.

It’s interesting that we have a coach who used to coach with him in Atlanta and apparently they think that will help. But I’m guessing he’ll end up taking over that Troy Brown role for the team (but with a bit more scoring punch). But I also don’t think we will need as much with Christie and Prince in the mix.

We were forced last year to run Brown a lot at SF, which made us a smaller team. With Prince, we’ll be able to run more length at SG with a guy like Reddish. He’s got the exact same standing reach and slightly bigger wingspan than Brown. But we were better off in certain matchups when we could get that length at the SG. (Christie’s wingspan and reach aren’t quite as big as Brown and Reddish.)

Cam’s D is probably a little underrated. But I think where it nets out is Christie gets backup SG minutes because of his better two-way game. I don’t think Cam can compete with Christie’s shooting. We’ve got Rui, Bron and Prince all probably playing some SF. Cam and Prince probably have similar scoring production, but Prince is the better floor spacer. We’re really going to need that three shooting.

Cam will have better quality three shooting than he’s had, but unless something big happens over the summer with the Laker coaches and him, I really have a hard time seeing him finding consistent minutes. Ham did love his three guard lineups, though…so who knows? I think we’ll experiment with him, but it will net out where he’s on the fringe of the rotation. Even more so if we play some two-big man lineups like Pelinka was hinting we want to do.

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