.Bart Young/NBAE via Getty ImagesWashington Wizards associate instructor Zach Guthrie has been employed as head trainer of the Los Angeles Lakers' G Organization associate, the South Bay Lakers, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are actually tapping the services of Zach Guthrie as the trainer of the franchise business's G League associate in South Gulf, resources tell ESPN. Guthrie has actually been actually an NBA associate with Washington, Dallas as well as Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Bay Lakers parted techniques with past scalp coach Dane Johnson in August after one season and also a 26-24 total record.Guthrie was actually worked with by the Wizards in 2021 as an aide to move instructor Wes Unseld Jr. He formerly worked with the Utah Jazz as an aide to Quin Snyder coming from 2016 to 2020, complied with by two periods along with the Dallas Mavericks as well as Rick Carlisle.Guthrie additionally has expertise as supervisor of state-of-the-art scouting for the Orlando Magic and also as assistant video recording coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs, according to the National Basketball Coaches Association.Former South Bay scalp coach Johnson left behind the organization after 2024 No. 55 selection Bronny James, the kid of Lakers star LeBron James, struggled early in summer months game play.Guthrie will now likely be charged with handling the activity of cultivating James, who is counted on to devote most of his novice season in the G League.Guthrie's previous scalp training experience consists of leading the Wizards in the 2022 summer season league.In 2023 Guthrie gave some insight in to his mentoring approach on The Baseball Podcast with Chris Oliver from Basketball Immersion, when he claimed he suched as to take a "alternative technique" to mentoring." I presume today, we as trainers tend to become as well siloed," Guthrie informed Oliver last summer months. "Our team want to simply take a look at the small, the little bit of skills as well as the drill and also this play as well as this trait. I believe it's all about attaching it to the game as well as understanding the circumstance." Our team want to have these boutique, 1-on-1 sessions. Whatever concerns [the gamer] as well as his growth and also his growth. But you need to know how that transmissions to the crew, to the 5-on-5 factor. Our company take so much of this particular out of circumstance and our experts acquire therefore dropped within this private skill-set when it has to do with exactly how does it transfer to the staff and just how can easily our experts obtain as a lot team development as possible ... That's what I imply due to the alternative strategy." Lakers fans are going to now find how Guthrie makes a decision to use that technique to James' progression when the South Bay Lakers tip their 17th NBA G League period on Nov. 9 at the NBA staff's strategy amenities.