Lakers News: Anthony Davis Knew Exactly What To Develop In Team Minicamp Last Weekend

Los Angeles Lakers star center Anthony Davis knows he needs to improve his outside shooting.

That's the big takeaway we got about the 6'10" big man out of Kentucky, courtesy of starting shooting guard Austin Reaves. The third-year wing sat down for a revealing conversation with ESPN's Zach Lowe on his The Lowe Post podcast.

“We went down to San Diego [for a preseason mini-camp]," Reaves said. "We got down Thursday, had a dinner Thursday night. Then Friday, Saturday were workouts, practice. Not really practice but just getting in the gym, doing a lot of 5-on-0 stuff, running over, basically, foundation stuff. Doing a little bit of playing here and there but not much. Coaches are there but it’s basically player-ran. It was great. It was 100% attendance. Everybody was there. Everybody was active and everybody looked good."

"We did a lot of shooting competition stuff," Reaves revealed. "AD is shooting the ball really well right now. It’s something I’ve tried to get him to do more is shoot it because if he does that at a very decent level, which he can because in the bubble year he shot it really well, literally you can’t guard him. But just the whole weekend it was good. We had dinners and stuff and an opportunity for everyone to learn one another and get closer.”

Earlier this summer, the eight-time All-Star inked a three-year, $186 million contract extension that will keep him in Los Angeles through 2028.

Davis has yet to replicate his solid jump shooting during the Lakers' run to the 2020 NBA title while on the coronavirus-induced Orlando "bubble" campus. He posted superlative splits of .571/.383/.832. He shot competently from deep, albeit on much fewer attempts, during the team's run to the Western Conference Finals this past spring (33.3% on 0.9 triple tries, a fary cry from 38.3% on 2.9). Davis has never been a particularly consistent outside shooter during his LA tenure aside from that lone 2019-20 season, and even then he made a middling 33% of his 3.5 attempts. Last year, he made just 25.7% of 1.3 long range tries per game during the regular season.

If the shooting is real, it'd be an amazing offensive weapon to reintegrate into his arsenal.

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