.Bart Young/NBAE through Getty ImagesWashington Wizards aide coach Zach Guthrie has actually been employed as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers' G Organization affiliate, the South Gulf Lakers, every ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnThe Los Angeles Lakers are actually employing Zach Guthrie as the train of the franchise's G League partner in South Bay, sources inform ESPN. Guthrie has actually been actually an NBA aide with Washington, Dallas and also Utah. pic.twitter.com/khy0jt0jYgThe South Bay Lakers split means along with former scalp train Dane Johnson in August after one season and also a 26-24 general record.Guthrie was employed by the Wizards in 2021 as an associate to head coach Wes Unseld Jr. He earlier worked with the Utah Jazz as an assistant to Quin Snyder coming from 2016 to 2020, followed through two times with the Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle.Guthrie additionally possesses knowledge as manager of state-of-the-art searching for the Orlando Magic and also as assistant video clip organizer for the San Antonio Spurs, according to the National Baseball Coaches Association.Former South Gulf head instructor Johnson left the organization after 2024 No. 55 selection Bronny James, the kid of Lakers star LeBron James, struggled early in summer months league play.Guthrie will currently likely be asked for with tackling the duty of creating James, who is actually counted on to invest many of his rookie time in the G League.Guthrie's previous scalp training knowledge features leading the Wizards in the 2022 summer months league.In 2023 Guthrie gave some idea right into his coaching approach on The Basketball Podcast along with Chris Oliver coming from Baseball Immersion, when he mentioned he ased if to take a "comprehensive method" to coaching." I presume at the moment, our team as coaches have a tendency to become as well siloed," Guthrie said to Oliver last summer months. "Our experts wish to just look at the small, the little capabilities and the practice and this play and this trait. I think it's everything about attaching it to the game as well as knowing the circumstance." Our company wish to have these specialty shop, 1-on-1 treatments. Everything concerns [the player] as well as his progression and also his growth. Yet you must comprehend just how that transmissions to the group, to the 5-on-5 component. Our experts take a great deal of the away from situation and also our company get thus lost in this particular private capability when it concerns exactly how performs it transfer to the crew and how can easily we get as a lot staff growth as feasible ... That's what I indicate due to the all natural technique." Lakers followers will certainly today find how Guthrie makes a decision to apply that approach to James' progression when the South Bay Lakers tip their 17th NBA G Organization time on Nov. 9 at the NBA team's method location.