.Bart Young/NBAE via Getty ImagesWashington Wizards aide instructor Zach Guthrie has actually been hired as head instructor of the Los Angeles Lakers' G League associate, the South Bay Lakers, every ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are actually tapping the services of Zach Guthrie as the train of the franchise's G Organization partner in South Gulf, sources tell ESPN. Guthrie has actually been actually an NBA associate along with Washington, Dallas and Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Gulf Lakers split means along with previous head trainer Dane Johnson in August after one season and also a 26-24 total record.Guthrie was actually hired by the Wizards in 2021 as an aide to head trainer Wes Unseld Jr. He formerly worked with the Utah Jazz as an assistant to Quin Snyder coming from 2016 to 2020, complied with by pair of seasons along with the Dallas Mavericks and also Rick Carlisle.Guthrie additionally possesses adventure as manager of sophisticated searching for the Orlando Magic and as assistant video planner for the San Antonio Spurs, according to the National Baseball Coaches Association.Former South Bay scalp trainer Johnson left behind the institution after 2024 No. 55 pick Bronny James, the son of Lakers star LeBron James, had a hard time early in summer league play.Guthrie will certainly right now likely be charged along with handling the task of developing James, that is anticipated to spend a lot of his rookie time in the G League.Guthrie's previous head coaching expertise consists of leading the Wizards in the 2022 summer months league.In 2023 Guthrie gave some understanding in to his coaching theory on The Baseball Podcast along with Chris Oliver from Basketball Immersion, when he mentioned he liked to take a "all natural approach" to coaching." I presume today, we as instructors tend to become also siloed," Guthrie told Oliver final summer months. "Our experts wish to just check out the micro, the little bit of capabilities as well as the practice and this play and also this trait. I presume it is actually everything about connecting it to the video game as well as knowing the context." We wish to have these specialty shop, 1-on-1 treatments. Every thing concerns [the player] as well as his progression as well as his growth. Yet you have to know how that transactions to the staff, to the 5-on-5 component. We take a great deal of this particular away from situation and also our experts get thus dropped within this individual skill-set when it concerns exactly how performs it transfer to the crew and exactly how can our experts receive as a lot crew growth as feasible ... That's what I suggest due to the all natural strategy." Lakers fans will definitely today view just how Guthrie chooses to use that approach to James' advancement when the South Gulf Lakers tip their 17th NBA G Game season on Nov. 9 at the NBA staff's method center.