(William Wilson Lewis III/Riverside Press-Enterprise, file) SCNG reporter Kyle Goon in Long Beach on Tuesday, August. 21, 2018. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) By KYLE GOON | kgoon@scng.com UPDATED: February 10, 2021 at 2:44 PM PST Editor’s note: This is the Wednesday, Feb. 10 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Most everybody picked up a quarantine hobby. Robert Horry has a few. He’s got his day job as a commentator for Spectrum SportsNet and ESPN, but at the end of the semester, something awaits Horry: his college degree. He played at Alabama for four years, but he had six credits to finish before earning his degree in human environmental sciences. Horry, 50, still has some career ambitions, and one of them potentially could be to coach at the college level. College coaches need degrees. So at the moment, he’s taking courses on finance and leadership. “You would think I know everything about being a leader from my sports career,” Horry chuckled warmly. “It’s a lot of technical terms.” What Big Shot Bob knows about winning could fill its own curriculum. The 50-year-old remains one of the winningest players of all time, the owner of seven championship rings across three franchises (last year, LeBron James and Danny Green became the third and fourth members of that very exclusive three franchise club). Lakers fans remember him best as a key piece of the three-peat era, and of course one of the best-known clutch shooters in NBA history 00:00 02:00 Read More This leads to his other new pursuit during the pandemic: Why shouldn’t this guy have his own podcast? The idea struck him during an episode of “Road Trippin’” with Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye and Allie Clifton – he could do this himself. So Horry now has started the “Big Shot Bob Podcast with Robert Horry,” which includes a guest list of some of Horry’s friends: Rick Fox, Vernon Maxwell, Steve Kerr, Ty Lue and, of course, Shaquille O’Neal. It should be noted that the tone of the podcast in its early episodes is, to put it mildly, “jocular.” In the debut episode with Shaq, there is a distressingly ribald tale of locker room hijinks – which is not always the tone that Horry says he’ll strike, but the podcast will definitely veer toward laughs rather than deeply serious conversation topics. One of his early episodes features a long discourse on LeBron’s exchange with “Courtside Karen.” “I know it’s a million podcasts out there; mine will be more of a personal touch with the people I know, my friends,” he said. “I’ll be talking to people to get inside stuff, tell stories. Sometimes you just need a lighter side.” But Horry is always available to talk ball – which is why I asked him to run down a list of Lakers’ role players with his analysis of how they’re doing in the season so far and what advice he would give them (as the Ultimate Role Player in NBA history). This time, he’s doing the teaching: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: “I’m proud of KCP, because he took a lot of flack. A lot of people were saying, ‘Oh, he’s just here because he has the same agent as LeBron.’ He was able to weather the storm and build that mindset to knock down threes. It’s funny because it’s different for guys like that. LeBron and A.D. can have three bad games and people will say, ‘They’ll come around.’ But when you’re a role player, you can’t have one bad game because then people will be talking about it. “When you don’t touch the ball as much, it’s hard to get a rhythm. And once somebody like KCP has success, everybody expects that to be a constant. One night he’s gonna have one of those nights where he hits a lot of shots, but not every night. You have to have very thick skin when you’re not the top dog. If people doubt you, you gotta ignore them. What you gotta worry about is if your teammates are looking at you side-eyed.” Kyle Kuzma: “I’m happy for him now. It’s like he’s settled into his role. I think Magic (Johnson) put a lot of pressure on him after they drafted him, and I think Kuz put all that pressure on himself and thought that he had to do it by his scoring, by making a whole lotta points. Sometimes you gotta let a guy settle in. Look at the way he’s rebounding – he’s a rebounding machine. He’s just out there playing basketball and looks more relaxed, like he doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody.” Alex Caruso: “He’s just a smart player, a hustle guy. For me in my career, it was all about those former relationships, and you see the way he plays with LeBron, A.D. and Trezz very well. If you want to be a successful basketball player; you’ve got to know the options. I think he can see the game very well and can see the outcomes of plays. We always talk about LeBron’s ability to see the game before it unfolds, and I think it’s the same for AC Fresh. He’s able to analyze and understand what needs to happen at all moments of the game.” Wesley Matthews: “People are gonna evaluate all guys on a team like this harshly. Sometimes it’s hard to get that rhythm. You’ll have a good game, then have a bad game. When a team defines your roles as, ‘Oh, you’re our 3-point shooter,’ you can see a guy like Wes puts so much pressure on yourself to shoot a three. They do it differently with (Talen Horton-Tucker), like, ‘Just go be you,’ and he’s able to do different things. … “For me; I always looked at (coming off the bench ) as more rest, and you can step back and analyze the game. Not a lot of players have a million moves; they stick to what they’re good at. I would watch a guy and his moves and think about what I could do when I got in the game. It was different for me, because I knew what my minutes would be and I could play better coming off the bench and bring the team what was needed. For Wesley, it’s interesting because the game has changed a little and more guys have off-the-dribble game and a really good spot-up game. He’s gonna have to make sure he stays ready. With injuries being so prominent in the league, you can’t worry about not getting minutes on a given night.” Montrezl Harrell: “The potential is no doubt there for him to do more. If you watch the Clippers play, Lou Will is missing Trezz big time right now because those two worked so well. Trezz set good picks, rolled to the basket, and it left the defense in shambles. The Lakers are finally learning to look for him on the block and on the roll. They didn’t have much training camp and when guys are used to doing something a certain way, you kind of forget about (other ways) or don’t realize it. But you can see Trezz is having fun. I’m enjoying the guy, even if his points are down.” Talen Horton-Tucker: “It’s just to be consistent for him. It’s gonna boil down to if the Lakers are comfortable putting him on guys defensively. That, for me, is the key. … They couldn’t care less on the offensive end because he’s not the primary target. But if he can keep his defensive intensity, he’ll keep his minutes. There’s no reason not to give him minutes. Watch him and Trezz. Him and Kuz, they look for Trezz, and they’re getting dunks and quick buckets. They’re good offensively. It’s all gonna boil down to the defensive end for Talen.” — Kyle Goon Editor’s note: Thanks for reading the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Home at last The 27-year-old team owner – I spoke to Dennis Schröder about the basketball team in Germany that he played for and now owns, and what his goals are to develop talent in his native country. Nearly Thunder-struck – The Lakers were pushed to OT by a short-handed Thunder group. A.D. misses game with Achilles issue – The Lakers say it’s nothing to worry about, but a report indicated it has been bothering Davis for a while. Staying ready – Wesley Matthews’ patience paid off in his big game against OKC. Pistoned to the limit – Another double-OT game against the Pistons caught the Lakers looking flat-footed. Slow and unsteady? – The Lakers have played with a slow pace that crawls in the fourth quarter. Not playing with Gas(ol) – The veteran center hasn’t been scoring much, which Frank Vogel said isn’t an issue at the moment. Defense-first – The rotation changes have emphasized how defensively versatile the Lakers can be. Winning a laugher against the Joker – The Lakers’ offense crashed like a tidal wave in the second half against an overwhelmed Denver. All-Star excitement flatlining – LeBron doesn’t much want to play in an All-Star Game this season. A Dudley tell-all – Jared Dudley wrote a book about the bubble, and the sauciest part lashed out at Paul George. Originally Published: February 10, 2021 at 1:32 PM PST Facebook X The Trust Project Logo RevContent Feed Around the Web Revcontent -00:00 Kelly Clarkson Debuts ‘Songs & Stories’ Series Offering Exclusive Glimpses into Jonas Brothers and More Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Unbox a Monthly Surprise of Fun for You and Your Pup! Unbox a Monthly Surprise of Fun for You and Your Pup! 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(William Wilson Lewis III/Riverside Press-Enterprise, file) SCNG reporter Kyle Goon in Long Beach on Tuesday, August. 21, 2018. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) By KYLE GOON | kgoon@scng.com UPDATED: February 10, 2021 at 2:44 PM PST Editor’s note: This is the Wednesday, Feb. 10 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Most everybody picked up a quarantine hobby. Robert Horry has a few. He’s got his day job as a commentator for Spectrum SportsNet and ESPN, but at the end of the semester, something awaits Horry: his college degree. He played at Alabama for four years, but he had six credits to finish before earning his degree in human environmental sciences. Horry, 50, still has some career ambitions, and one of them potentially could be to coach at the college level. College coaches need degrees. So at the moment, he’s taking courses on finance and leadership. “You would think I know everything about being a leader from my sports career,” Horry chuckled warmly. “It’s a lot of technical terms.” What Big Shot Bob knows about winning could fill its own curriculum. The 50-year-old remains one of the winningest players of all time, the owner of seven championship rings across three franchises (last year, LeBron James and Danny Green became the third and fourth members of that very exclusive three franchise club). Lakers fans remember him best as a key piece of the three-peat era, and of course one of the best-known clutch shooters in NBA history 00:00 02:00 Read More This leads to his other new pursuit during the pandemic: Why shouldn’t this guy have his own podcast? The idea struck him during an episode of “Road Trippin’” with Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye and Allie Clifton – he could do this himself. So Horry now has started the “Big Shot Bob Podcast with Robert Horry,” which includes a guest list of some of Horry’s friends: Rick Fox, Vernon Maxwell, Steve Kerr, Ty Lue and, of course, Shaquille O’Neal. It should be noted that the tone of the podcast in its early episodes is, to put it mildly, “jocular.” In the debut episode with Shaq, there is a distressingly ribald tale of locker room hijinks – which is not always the tone that Horry says he’ll strike, but the podcast will definitely veer toward laughs rather than deeply serious conversation topics. One of his early episodes features a long discourse on LeBron’s exchange with “Courtside Karen.” “I know it’s a million podcasts out there; mine will be more of a personal touch with the people I know, my friends,” he said. “I’ll be talking to people to get inside stuff, tell stories. Sometimes you just need a lighter side.” But Horry is always available to talk ball – which is why I asked him to run down a list of Lakers’ role players with his analysis of how they’re doing in the season so far and what advice he would give them (as the Ultimate Role Player in NBA history). This time, he’s doing the teaching: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: “I’m proud of KCP, because he took a lot of flack. A lot of people were saying, ‘Oh, he’s just here because he has the same agent as LeBron.’ He was able to weather the storm and build that mindset to knock down threes. It’s funny because it’s different for guys like that. LeBron and A.D. can have three bad games and people will say, ‘They’ll come around.’ But when you’re a role player, you can’t have one bad game because then people will be talking about it. “When you don’t touch the ball as much, it’s hard to get a rhythm. And once somebody like KCP has success, everybody expects that to be a constant. One night he’s gonna have one of those nights where he hits a lot of shots, but not every night. You have to have very thick skin when you’re not the top dog. If people doubt you, you gotta ignore them. What you gotta worry about is if your teammates are looking at you side-eyed.” Kyle Kuzma: “I’m happy for him now. It’s like he’s settled into his role. I think Magic (Johnson) put a lot of pressure on him after they drafted him, and I think Kuz put all that pressure on himself and thought that he had to do it by his scoring, by making a whole lotta points. Sometimes you gotta let a guy settle in. Look at the way he’s rebounding – he’s a rebounding machine. He’s just out there playing basketball and looks more relaxed, like he doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody.” Alex Caruso: “He’s just a smart player, a hustle guy. For me in my career, it was all about those former relationships, and you see the way he plays with LeBron, A.D. and Trezz very well. If you want to be a successful basketball player; you’ve got to know the options. I think he can see the game very well and can see the outcomes of plays. We always talk about LeBron’s ability to see the game before it unfolds, and I think it’s the same for AC Fresh. He’s able to analyze and understand what needs to happen at all moments of the game.” Wesley Matthews: “People are gonna evaluate all guys on a team like this harshly. Sometimes it’s hard to get that rhythm. You’ll have a good game, then have a bad game. When a team defines your roles as, ‘Oh, you’re our 3-point shooter,’ you can see a guy like Wes puts so much pressure on yourself to shoot a three. They do it differently with (Talen Horton-Tucker), like, ‘Just go be you,’ and he’s able to do different things. … “For me; I always looked at (coming off the bench ) as more rest, and you can step back and analyze the game. Not a lot of players have a million moves; they stick to what they’re good at. I would watch a guy and his moves and think about what I could do when I got in the game. It was different for me, because I knew what my minutes would be and I could play better coming off the bench and bring the team what was needed. For Wesley, it’s interesting because the game has changed a little and more guys have off-the-dribble game and a really good spot-up game. He’s gonna have to make sure he stays ready. With injuries being so prominent in the league, you can’t worry about not getting minutes on a given night.” Montrezl Harrell: “The potential is no doubt there for him to do more. If you watch the Clippers play, Lou Will is missing Trezz big time right now because those two worked so well. Trezz set good picks, rolled to the basket, and it left the defense in shambles. The Lakers are finally learning to look for him on the block and on the roll. They didn’t have much training camp and when guys are used to doing something a certain way, you kind of forget about (other ways) or don’t realize it. But you can see Trezz is having fun. I’m enjoying the guy, even if his points are down.” Talen Horton-Tucker: “It’s just to be consistent for him. It’s gonna boil down to if the Lakers are comfortable putting him on guys defensively. That, for me, is the key. … They couldn’t care less on the offensive end because he’s not the primary target. But if he can keep his defensive intensity, he’ll keep his minutes. There’s no reason not to give him minutes. Watch him and Trezz. Him and Kuz, they look for Trezz, and they’re getting dunks and quick buckets. They’re good offensively. It’s all gonna boil down to the defensive end for Talen.” — Kyle Goon Editor’s note: Thanks for reading the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Home at last The 27-year-old team owner – I spoke to Dennis Schröder about the basketball team in Germany that he played for and now owns, and what his goals are to develop talent in his native country. Nearly Thunder-struck – The Lakers were pushed to OT by a short-handed Thunder group. A.D. misses game with Achilles issue – The Lakers say it’s nothing to worry about, but a report indicated it has been bothering Davis for a while. Staying ready – Wesley Matthews’ patience paid off in his big game against OKC. Pistoned to the limit – Another double-OT game against the Pistons caught the Lakers looking flat-footed. Slow and unsteady? – The Lakers have played with a slow pace that crawls in the fourth quarter. Not playing with Gas(ol) – The veteran center hasn’t been scoring much, which Frank Vogel said isn’t an issue at the moment. Defense-first – The rotation changes have emphasized how defensively versatile the Lakers can be. Winning a laugher against the Joker – The Lakers’ offense crashed like a tidal wave in the second half against an overwhelmed Denver. All-Star excitement flatlining – LeBron doesn’t much want to play in an All-Star Game this season. A Dudley tell-all – Jared Dudley wrote a book about the bubble, and the sauciest part lashed out at Paul George. Originally Published: February 10, 2021 at 1:32 PM PST Facebook X The Trust Project Logo RevContent Feed Around the Web Revcontent -00:00 Kelly Clarkson Debuts ‘Songs & Stories’ Series Offering Exclusive Glimpses into Jonas Brothers and More Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Unbox a Monthly Surprise of Fun for You and Your Pup! Unbox a Monthly Surprise of Fun for You and Your Pup! Take on a Challenge: Make Pasta Al Limone at Home Take on a Challenge: Make Pasta Al Limone at Home Tired of Cleaning out Your Gutters? Get a Quote Today! Tired of Cleaning out Your Gutters? Get a Quote Today! The Surprising Link Between Your Pillowcase and Aging The Surprising Link Between Your Pillowcase and Aging Is My Space a Good Fit for Airbnb? Is My Space a Good Fit for Airbnb? How Much Money Should You Have Before Hiring a Financial Advisor? How Much Money Should You Have Before Hiring a Financial Advisor? Get Ready to Rethink Your Workplace Shoe Game Get Ready to Rethink Your Workplace Shoe Game Test Your Hearing From The Comfort of Your Home Test Your Hearing From The Comfort of Your Home Support Your Neighbors and Get Involved With Food Rescue Support Your Neighbors and Get Involved With Food Rescue Look for Any High School Yearbook, It’s Free! Look for Any High School Yearbook, It’s Free! Achieve Total Peace of Mind With Ring Devices Achieve Total Peace of Mind With Ring Devices What You Need to Know About Car Loans What You Need to Know About Car Loans 4 Easy Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe Online 4 Easy Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe Online 8 Reasons Your Car Insurance Rate Changes 8 Reasons Your Car Insurance Rate Changes How Long Does $1 Million Last After 60? How Long Does $1 Million Last After 60? Get Personalized Mortgage Advice Close to Home Get Personalized Mortgage Advice Close to Home Should You Buy an Electric Car? Should You Buy an Electric Car? 9 Kinds of Ancestors You Could Find on Your Family Tree 9 Kinds of Ancestors You Could Find on Your Family Tree The Smart Approach to Selling Your Home The Smart Approach to Selling Your Home The Close Relationship Between Stress and Sleep The Close Relationship Between Stress and Sleep Stop Paying Too Much for Your Prescriptions – Compare Prices Today Stop Paying Too Much for Your Prescriptions – Compare Prices Today We’ve Got Your Eyes Covered – Find Your Perfect Pair! We’ve Got Your Eyes Covered – Find Your Perfect Pair! The Smart Approach to Selling Your Home The Smart Approach to Selling Your Home Support Your Neighbors and Get Involved With Food Rescue Support Your Neighbors and Get Involved With Food Rescue What You Need to Know About Car Loans What You Need to Know About Car Loans Get Personalized Mortgage Advice Close to Home Get Personalized Mortgage Advice Close to Home 4 Easy Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe Online 4 Easy Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe Online Get Ready to Rethink Your Workplace Shoe Game Get Ready to Rethink Your Workplace Shoe Game Is My Space a Good Fit for Airbnb? Is My Space a Good Fit for Airbnb? Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Achieve Total Peace of Mind With Ring Devices Achieve Total Peace of Mind With Ring Devices Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Should You Buy an Electric Car? Should You Buy an Electric Car? 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Deadly home invasion in upscale Irvine residence used for illicit marijuana operation at center of murder trial Father of Cabazon baby goes with investigators on search for infant’s remains in Moreno Valley Status Update: JCPenney closing at Westminster Mall Costa Mesa boy killed at Pico Rivera gas station where mother worked; shooter on the loose Haros charged with murder of son, 7-month-old Emmanuel, in Riverside County Southern California’s oldest FM radio station is still its most popular MORE IN LAKERS Lakers stars Luka Doncic, left, and LeBron James hug and celebrate late in the second half of a game against the Dallas Mavericks in Dallas, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Lakers’ 2025-26 schedule features Pat Riley statue unveiling, 8-game trip The Lakers’ LeBron James reacts after being fouled by Oklahoma City’s Luguentz Dort during the fourth quarter of the Emirates NBA Cup on Nov. 29, 2024, at Crypto.com Arena. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) Lakers’ 2025 NBA Cup Group Play schedule released Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) dribbles against Lakers forward LeBron James (23) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eakin Howard) Report: Lakers to host Warriors in season opener, Rockets on Christmas Day Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka, left, and Luka Doncic hold up Doncic’s jersey at a press conference to announce his contract extension Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, at the UCLA Health Training Center in El Segundo. 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(William Wilson Lewis III/Riverside Press-Enterprise, file) SCNG reporter Kyle Goon in Long Beach on Tuesday, August. 21, 2018. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) By KYLE GOON | kgoon@scng.com UPDATED: February 10, 2021 at 2:44 PM PST Editor’s note: This is the Wednesday, Feb. 10 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Most everybody picked up a quarantine hobby. Robert Horry has a few. He’s got his day job as a commentator for Spectrum SportsNet and ESPN, but at the end of the semester, something awaits Horry: his college degree. He played at Alabama for four years, but he had six credits to finish before earning his degree in human environmental sciences. Horry, 50, still has some career ambitions, and one of them potentially could be to coach at the college level. College coaches need degrees. So at the moment, he’s taking courses on finance and leadership. “You would think I know everything about being a leader from my sports career,” Horry chuckled warmly. “It’s a lot of technical terms.” What Big Shot Bob knows about winning could fill its own curriculum. The 50-year-old remains one of the winningest players of all time, the owner of seven championship rings across three franchises (last year, LeBron James and Danny Green became the third and fourth members of that very exclusive three franchise club). Lakers fans remember him best as a key piece of the three-peat era, and of course one of the best-known clutch shooters in NBA history 00:00 02:00 Read More This leads to his other new pursuit during the pandemic: Why shouldn’t this guy have his own podcast? The idea struck him during an episode of “Road Trippin’” with Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye and Allie Clifton – he could do this himself. So Horry now has started the “Big Shot Bob Podcast with Robert Horry,” which includes a guest list of some of Horry’s friends: Rick Fox, Vernon Maxwell, Steve Kerr, Ty Lue and, of course, Shaquille O’Neal. It should be noted that the tone of the podcast in its early episodes is, to put it mildly, “jocular.” In the debut episode with Shaq, there is a distressingly ribald tale of locker room hijinks – which is not always the tone that Horry says he’ll strike, but the podcast will definitely veer toward laughs rather than deeply serious conversation topics. One of his early episodes features a long discourse on LeBron’s exchange with “Courtside Karen.” “I know it’s a million podcasts out there; mine will be more of a personal touch with the people I know, my friends,” he said. “I’ll be talking to people to get inside stuff, tell stories. Sometimes you just need a lighter side.” But Horry is always available to talk ball – which is why I asked him to run down a list of Lakers’ role players with his analysis of how they’re doing in the season so far and what advice he would give them (as the Ultimate Role Player in NBA history). This time, he’s doing the teaching: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: “I’m proud of KCP, because he took a lot of flack. A lot of people were saying, ‘Oh, he’s just here because he has the same agent as LeBron.’ He was able to weather the storm and build that mindset to knock down threes. It’s funny because it’s different for guys like that. LeBron and A.D. can have three bad games and people will say, ‘They’ll come around.’ But when you’re a role player, you can’t have one bad game because then people will be talking about it. “When you don’t touch the ball as much, it’s hard to get a rhythm. And once somebody like KCP has success, everybody expects that to be a constant. One night he’s gonna have one of those nights where he hits a lot of shots, but not every night. You have to have very thick skin when you’re not the top dog. If people doubt you, you gotta ignore them. What you gotta worry about is if your teammates are looking at you side-eyed.” Kyle Kuzma: “I’m happy for him now. It’s like he’s settled into his role. I think Magic (Johnson) put a lot of pressure on him after they drafted him, and I think Kuz put all that pressure on himself and thought that he had to do it by his scoring, by making a whole lotta points. Sometimes you gotta let a guy settle in. Look at the way he’s rebounding – he’s a rebounding machine. He’s just out there playing basketball and looks more relaxed, like he doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody.” Alex Caruso: “He’s just a smart player, a hustle guy. For me in my career, it was all about those former relationships, and you see the way he plays with LeBron, A.D. and Trezz very well. If you want to be a successful basketball player; you’ve got to know the options. I think he can see the game very well and can see the outcomes of plays. We always talk about LeBron’s ability to see the game before it unfolds, and I think it’s the same for AC Fresh. He’s able to analyze and understand what needs to happen at all moments of the game.” Wesley Matthews: “People are gonna evaluate all guys on a team like this harshly. Sometimes it’s hard to get that rhythm. You’ll have a good game, then have a bad game. When a team defines your roles as, ‘Oh, you’re our 3-point shooter,’ you can see a guy like Wes puts so much pressure on yourself to shoot a three. They do it differently with (Talen Horton-Tucker), like, ‘Just go be you,’ and he’s able to do different things. … “For me; I always looked at (coming off the bench ) as more rest, and you can step back and analyze the game. Not a lot of players have a million moves; they stick to what they’re good at. I would watch a guy and his moves and think about what I could do when I got in the game. It was different for me, because I knew what my minutes would be and I could play better coming off the bench and bring the team what was needed. For Wesley, it’s interesting because the game has changed a little and more guys have off-the-dribble game and a really good spot-up game. He’s gonna have to make sure he stays ready. With injuries being so prominent in the league, you can’t worry about not getting minutes on a given night.” Montrezl Harrell: “The potential is no doubt there for him to do more. If you watch the Clippers play, Lou Will is missing Trezz big time right now because those two worked so well. Trezz set good picks, rolled to the basket, and it left the defense in shambles. The Lakers are finally learning to look for him on the block and on the roll. They didn’t have much training camp and when guys are used to doing something a certain way, you kind of forget about (other ways) or don’t realize it. But you can see Trezz is having fun. I’m enjoying the guy, even if his points are down.” Talen Horton-Tucker: “It’s just to be consistent for him. It’s gonna boil down to if the Lakers are comfortable putting him on guys defensively. That, for me, is the key. … They couldn’t care less on the offensive end because he’s not the primary target. But if he can keep his defensive intensity, he’ll keep his minutes. There’s no reason not to give him minutes. Watch him and Trezz. Him and Kuz, they look for Trezz, and they’re getting dunks and quick buckets. They’re good offensively. It’s all gonna boil down to the defensive end for Talen.” — Kyle Goon Editor’s note: Thanks for reading the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. 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Winning a laugher against the Joker – The Lakers’ offense crashed like a tidal wave in the second half against an overwhelmed Denver. All-Star excitement flatlining – LeBron doesn’t much want to play in an All-Star Game this season. A Dudley tell-all – Jared Dudley wrote a book about the bubble, and the sauciest part lashed out at Paul George. Originally Published: February 10, 2021 at 1:32 PM PST Facebook X The Trust Project Logo RevContent Feed Around the Web Revcontent -00:00 Kelly Clarkson Debuts ‘Songs & Stories’ Series Offering Exclusive Glimpses into Jonas Brothers and More Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Unbox a Monthly Surprise of Fun for You and Your Pup! Unbox a Monthly Surprise of Fun for You and Your Pup! 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(William Wilson Lewis III/Riverside Press-Enterprise, file) SCNG reporter Kyle Goon in Long Beach on Tuesday, August. 21, 2018. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) By KYLE GOON | kgoon@scng.com UPDATED: February 10, 2021 at 2:44 PM PST Editor’s note: This is the Wednesday, Feb. 10 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Most everybody picked up a quarantine hobby. Robert Horry has a few. He’s got his day job as a commentator for Spectrum SportsNet and ESPN, but at the end of the semester, something awaits Horry: his college degree. He played at Alabama for four years, but he had six credits to finish before earning his degree in human environmental sciences. Horry, 50, still has some career ambitions, and one of them potentially could be to coach at the college level. College coaches need degrees. So at the moment, he’s taking courses on finance and leadership. “You would think I know everything about being a leader from my sports career,” Horry chuckled warmly. “It’s a lot of technical terms.” What Big Shot Bob knows about winning could fill its own curriculum. The 50-year-old remains one of the winningest players of all time, the owner of seven championship rings across three franchises (last year, LeBron James and Danny Green became the third and fourth members of that very exclusive three franchise club). Lakers fans remember him best as a key piece of the three-peat era, and of course one of the best-known clutch shooters in NBA history 00:00 02:00 Read More This leads to his other new pursuit during the pandemic: Why shouldn’t this guy have his own podcast? The idea struck him during an episode of “Road Trippin’” with Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye and Allie Clifton – he could do this himself. So Horry now has started the “Big Shot Bob Podcast with Robert Horry,” which includes a guest list of some of Horry’s friends: Rick Fox, Vernon Maxwell, Steve Kerr, Ty Lue and, of course, Shaquille O’Neal. It should be noted that the tone of the podcast in its early episodes is, to put it mildly, “jocular.” In the debut episode with Shaq, there is a distressingly ribald tale of locker room hijinks – which is not always the tone that Horry says he’ll strike, but the podcast will definitely veer toward laughs rather than deeply serious conversation topics. One of his early episodes features a long discourse on LeBron’s exchange with “Courtside Karen.” “I know it’s a million podcasts out there; mine will be more of a personal touch with the people I know, my friends,” he said. “I’ll be talking to people to get inside stuff, tell stories. Sometimes you just need a lighter side.” But Horry is always available to talk ball – which is why I asked him to run down a list of Lakers’ role players with his analysis of how they’re doing in the season so far and what advice he would give them (as the Ultimate Role Player in NBA history). This time, he’s doing the teaching: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: “I’m proud of KCP, because he took a lot of flack. A lot of people were saying, ‘Oh, he’s just here because he has the same agent as LeBron.’ He was able to weather the storm and build that mindset to knock down threes. It’s funny because it’s different for guys like that. LeBron and A.D. can have three bad games and people will say, ‘They’ll come around.’ But when you’re a role player, you can’t have one bad game because then people will be talking about it. “When you don’t touch the ball as much, it’s hard to get a rhythm. And once somebody like KCP has success, everybody expects that to be a constant. One night he’s gonna have one of those nights where he hits a lot of shots, but not every night. You have to have very thick skin when you’re not the top dog. If people doubt you, you gotta ignore them. What you gotta worry about is if your teammates are looking at you side-eyed.” Kyle Kuzma: “I’m happy for him now. It’s like he’s settled into his role. I think Magic (Johnson) put a lot of pressure on him after they drafted him, and I think Kuz put all that pressure on himself and thought that he had to do it by his scoring, by making a whole lotta points. Sometimes you gotta let a guy settle in. Look at the way he’s rebounding – he’s a rebounding machine. He’s just out there playing basketball and looks more relaxed, like he doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody.” Alex Caruso: “He’s just a smart player, a hustle guy. For me in my career, it was all about those former relationships, and you see the way he plays with LeBron, A.D. and Trezz very well. If you want to be a successful basketball player; you’ve got to know the options. I think he can see the game very well and can see the outcomes of plays. We always talk about LeBron’s ability to see the game before it unfolds, and I think it’s the same for AC Fresh. He’s able to analyze and understand what needs to happen at all moments of the game.” Wesley Matthews: “People are gonna evaluate all guys on a team like this harshly. Sometimes it’s hard to get that rhythm. You’ll have a good game, then have a bad game. When a team defines your roles as, ‘Oh, you’re our 3-point shooter,’ you can see a guy like Wes puts so much pressure on yourself to shoot a three. They do it differently with (Talen Horton-Tucker), like, ‘Just go be you,’ and he’s able to do different things. … “For me; I always looked at (coming off the bench ) as more rest, and you can step back and analyze the game. Not a lot of players have a million moves; they stick to what they’re good at. I would watch a guy and his moves and think about what I could do when I got in the game. It was different for me, because I knew what my minutes would be and I could play better coming off the bench and bring the team what was needed. For Wesley, it’s interesting because the game has changed a little and more guys have off-the-dribble game and a really good spot-up game. He’s gonna have to make sure he stays ready. With injuries being so prominent in the league, you can’t worry about not getting minutes on a given night.” Montrezl Harrell: “The potential is no doubt there for him to do more. If you watch the Clippers play, Lou Will is missing Trezz big time right now because those two worked so well. Trezz set good picks, rolled to the basket, and it left the defense in shambles. The Lakers are finally learning to look for him on the block and on the roll. They didn’t have much training camp and when guys are used to doing something a certain way, you kind of forget about (other ways) or don’t realize it. But you can see Trezz is having fun. I’m enjoying the guy, even if his points are down.” Talen Horton-Tucker: “It’s just to be consistent for him. It’s gonna boil down to if the Lakers are comfortable putting him on guys defensively. That, for me, is the key. … They couldn’t care less on the offensive end because he’s not the primary target. But if he can keep his defensive intensity, he’ll keep his minutes. There’s no reason not to give him minutes. Watch him and Trezz. Him and Kuz, they look for Trezz, and they’re getting dunks and quick buckets. They’re good offensively. It’s all gonna boil down to the defensive end for Talen.” — Kyle Goon Editor’s note: Thanks for reading the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Home at last The 27-year-old team owner – I spoke to Dennis Schröder about the basketball team in Germany that he played for and now owns, and what his goals are to develop talent in his native country. Nearly Thunder-struck – The Lakers were pushed to OT by a short-handed Thunder group. A.D. misses game with Achilles issue – The Lakers say it’s nothing to worry about, but a report indicated it has been bothering Davis for a while. Staying ready – Wesley Matthews’ patience paid off in his big game against OKC. Pistoned to the limit – Another double-OT game against the Pistons caught the Lakers looking flat-footed. Slow and unsteady? – The Lakers have played with a slow pace that crawls in the fourth quarter. Not playing with Gas(ol) – The veteran center hasn’t been scoring much, which Frank Vogel said isn’t an issue at the moment. Defense-first – The rotation changes have emphasized how defensively versatile the Lakers can be. Winning a laugher against the Joker – The Lakers’ offense crashed like a tidal wave in the second half against an overwhelmed Denver. All-Star excitement flatlining – LeBron doesn’t much want to play in an All-Star Game this season. A Dudley tell-all – Jared Dudley wrote a book about the bubble, and the sauciest part lashed out at Paul George. Originally Published: February 10, 2021 at 1:32 PM PST Facebook X The Trust Project Logo RevContent Feed Around the Web Revcontent -00:00 Kelly Clarkson Debuts ‘Songs & Stories’ Series Offering Exclusive Glimpses into Jonas Brothers and More Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Access Low-interest HELOC Funds for Your Home Renovation Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Find Local AC and Heating Repair Services Unbox a Monthly Surprise of Fun for You and Your Pup! Unbox a Monthly Surprise of Fun for You and Your Pup! 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For an NBA team to have a ‘two-peat’ or a ‘three-peat’ in the modern NBA era is a feat that cannot happen solely based on luck. There has to be something common in those iconic championship teams, that catapulted them to NBA greatness.
Who better than an NBA player who has been a part of three such NBA teams, to give his opinion on the ‘secret ingredient’ of an NBA championship-contender team? In a recent podcast episode, a former Lakers star with 7 NBA championship rings, talks about the key ingredient to the recipe of becoming a championship-winning team.
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The Recipe for Clinching Seven NBA Rings
In the recent episode of ?Big Shot Bob Podcast?, 7x NBA champion Robert Horry talks about the most common trait of the players who became NBA champions.
After a co-host asks the former NBA player, ?Who were the best guys, on the teams that you played on, who played that way? (Two-way threat).”?Robert Horry replies, ?Kobe, Clyde, Tim? Manu, Shaq to some degree.?
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He further explains, ?When you look at Shaq you don?t expect to move his feet on the perimeter. But when you get to that?woah?he gonna put you on your a**.?
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Robert Horry then explains, ?That?s why I?ve been on seven championships. Because I played with guys who could play on both ends on the floor.? Horry then emphasizes the importance of being on a team where no player is a liability on the defensive end (considering he?s good at offense).
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But to be fair, Robert Horry was on some iconic NBA teams during his NBA career.
Robert Horry?s NBA journey?
Standing at 6?10 and weighing 240 pounds, Robert Horry was a serious two-way threat on the court. Knocking down clutch jump shots and making impactful defensive plays, he was a key role player in every team that he was a part of.
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During his 17 years in the league, he played for several iconic teams. He played for the iconic 1990?s Houston Rockets team which had Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon. That Rockets team won two NBA championships with them in 1994 and 1995.
He was also part of the iconic ?three-peat? Los Angeles Lakers team which had a young Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O?Neal (2000,2001,2002). Finally, he also played alongside NBA greats like Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan in the iconic Spurs championship team of 2005 and 2007.
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