LOS ANGELES — As Spencer Dinwiddie was coming off his highest-scoring game since becoming a Laker last month in Friday’s 101-94 home win over the Philadelphia 76ers, he clarified comments he made last week.
“When I made the comments about roles and things like that, I know it kind of went viral, but I’m happy,” Dinwiddie said while sitting next to his locker at Crypto.com Arena. “I understood coming here I was coming to a set-in-stone team. So I wasn’t making that comment from the standpoint of like being upset or anything like that.”
The comment Dinwiddie was referring to was when discussing how his role with the Lakers is different than the ones he’s played in the past with previous teams.
He compared his current role to the one Reggie Bullock had on the 2021-22 Dallas Mavericks, a team Dinwiddie finished the season with, that made that season’s Western Conference finals.
“Sometimes he’d go 0-for-3, sometimes he’s 3-for-3 from three or whatever,” Dinwiddie said of Bullock. “One of the things he talked about was just giving that effort. When you talk about plus/minus, impacting and he helped us a lot. He did the sacrificial things on that team that allowed Luka [Doncic] and myself and Jalen [Brunson] to have fun and basically just ISO everybody every play.
“Obviously, you do need the generational LeBron [James], Luka-level talent. But after that, you are going to need, whether it’s 4-through-15 or 3-through-15 to be like just locked in, focused, dedicated to the goal. Dot connectors. Sacrificial in mindset and nature. And it doesn’t mean ‘not aggressive.’ It just means like, ‘Hey, you may have to swing-swing and give up one of your looks.’ You may only shoot four times. But if you can continue to try to take charges, try to be in the right position, all of this stuff, you guys can go far. It is technically foreign for me from what I’ve done in my career. Sometimes like I’m in a Reggie Bullock role getting graded…
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