.Bart Young/NBAE via Getty ImagesWashington Wizards assistant trainer Zach Guthrie has been employed as head instructor of the Los Angeles Lakers' G Organization associate, the South Bay Lakers, every ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are actually employing Zach Guthrie as the coach of the franchise business's G Organization partner in South Gulf, resources tell ESPN. Guthrie has actually been actually an NBA assistant with Washington, Dallas and also Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Gulf Lakers split ways with past scalp trainer Dane Johnson in August after one season as well as a 26-24 general record.Guthrie was worked with by the Wizards in 2021 as an assistant to move trainer Wes Unseld Jr. He previously teamed up with the Utah Jazz as an assistant to Quin Snyder coming from 2016 to 2020, complied with by 2 times with the Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle.Guthrie additionally has experience as manager of enhanced hunting for the Orlando Magic and as assistant video coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs, according to the National Basketball Coaches Association.Former South Bay head trainer Johnson left behind the association after 2024 No. 55 selection Bronny James, the kid of Lakers star LeBron James, had a hard time early in summertime game play.Guthrie will definitely currently likely be actually billed with taking on the task of establishing James, who is actually expected to spend most of his newbie season in the G League.Guthrie's previous scalp coaching knowledge features leading the Wizards in the 2022 summer months league.In 2023 Guthrie offered some knowledge in to his coaching theory on The Basketball Podcast with Chris Oliver from Baseball Immersion, when he said he just liked to take a "all natural strategy" to training." I believe now, we as coaches tend to become as well siloed," Guthrie informed Oliver final summer season. "Our company desire to simply take a look at the mini, the little capabilities and the drill as well as this play as well as this factor. I think it's all about attaching it to the video game as well as knowing the circumstance." We wish to have these boutique, 1-on-1 sessions. Everything concerns [the player] and also his growth and his development. However you have to recognize how that transmissions to the staff, to the 5-on-5 factor. Our experts take so much of this out of context and also our experts receive thus shed in this particular individual skill-set when it has to do with how does it move to the staff and just how may our team get as much team development as possible ... That's what I suggest due to the holistic strategy." Lakers fans will certainly now find how Guthrie makes a decision to administer that technique to James' progression when the South Gulf Lakers advise their 17th NBA G Game period on Nov. 9 at the NBA staff's method facility.