Luke Walton protects his in-game coaching with a secrecy that even Bill Belichick or CIA agents would have to respect. That said, Walton being noncommittal to any specific rotations isn’t necessarily a product of his typical secrecy: The Los Angeles Lakers are just so deep and versatile that he legitimately can’t decide yet.
“There’s a lot of rotations that I have written down that I want to see in training camp,” Walton told reporters after a practice earlier this week. “Even with what they call the small-ball lineups, within that, there are three or four different small-ball lineups that I want to see.