.Bart Young/NBAE through Getty ImagesWashington Wizards aide instructor Zach Guthrie has been hired as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers' G League 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 Bay, sources inform ESPN. Guthrie has actually been actually an NBA associate along with Washington, Dallas and also Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Gulf Lakers split means along with past scalp trainer Dane Johnson in August after one time and also a 26-24 total record.Guthrie was actually worked with due to the Wizards in 2021 as an assistant to head trainer Wes Unseld Jr. He recently dealt with the Utah Jazz as an aide to Quin Snyder from 2016 to 2020, complied with through 2 seasons along with the Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle.Guthrie additionally has experience as manager of sophisticated hunting for the Orlando Miracle and as assistant video coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs, according to the National Basketball Coaches Association.Former South Bay scalp trainer Johnson left the organization after 2024 No. 55 choice Bronny James, the boy of Lakers star LeBron James, strained early in summer months game play.Guthrie will definitely now likely be billed with handling the task of creating James, that is counted on to spend the majority of his rookie period in the G League.Guthrie's previous scalp coaching knowledge features leading the Wizards in the 2022 summer season league.In 2023 Guthrie gave some knowledge in to his mentoring approach on The Basketball Podcast along with Chris Oliver coming from Basketball Engrossment, when he said he ased if to take a "comprehensive technique" to training." I assume right now, our experts as trainers have a tendency to be too siloed," Guthrie told Oliver final summer. "Our company want to only consider the small, the little bit of skill-sets and also the practice and also this play as well as this trait. I presume it is actually all about linking it to the game and also recognizing the situation." Our company want to have these store, 1-on-1 sessions. Every little thing's about [the gamer] as well as his advancement and his development. Yet you need to comprehend just how that transactions to the staff, to the 5-on-5 aspect. Our experts take a great deal of the away from circumstance and also our experts get thus shed within this specific skill when it's about exactly how performs it move to the staff and also just how can our team acquire as much group development as feasible ... That's what I suggest due to the comprehensive approach." Lakers followers will now find just how Guthrie determines to apply that technique to James' advancement when the South Gulf Lakers tip off their 17th NBA G Game season on Nov. 9 at the NBA staff's method amenities.