On Tuesday evening at Petros restaurant in Century City, the Lakers 710 ESPN radio broadcast team of John Ireland and Mychal Thompson sat down for an evening with Lakers executives Jeanie Buss and Rob Pelinka alongside coach Luke Walton.
Among the first topics discussed in an hour of conversation was the latest acquisition made by the front office, veteran big man Andrew Bogut.
"There was an analytic that the front office ran that said our team last year had one of the lowest percentages in stopping other teams at the rim," Pelinka explained. "Teams would get by us on the perimeter and finish at the rim.