How much help can the Lakers new player Laravia bring to the team?

After the opening of the NBA 2025 free market, the storm immediately started. All teams that want to compete for good results were active and aggressive. The highly anticipated Los Angeles Lakers were full of thunder and rain. As of July 2, they only signed Jack Laravia in the free market, and also lost the defensive strongman Finney Smith. How much help can Laravia bring to the Lakers? Today's Star Test will bring you the data analysis of Laravia.

La Lavia is the No. 19 pick in the 2022 draft. The draft currently seems to have a very good success rate. In addition to the three center legends of Benchero, Chet Homgren and Jabbarry Smith Jr., Jaylen Williams has established the status of an All-Star star. First-round picks such as Keegan Murray, Jaden Ivey, Mathering, Sheden Sharp, Dyson Daniels, Braun, Kessler, Jaylen Durham, and other first-round picks have also established their main position. The second-round picks also have practical combat powers such as Nembhard, Christie, and Jaylen Williams, but La Lavia is not among them.

In the 2022 joint training, Laravia's physical test scores were: naked feet were 2 meters tall, standing touch height 2 meters 64, weight 103 kg, and arm span was 2 meters 07.

Transformation agility test 10 seconds 58 (ranked 3rd Nembuhad in the same class, 2nd resuming run 2 seconds 89 (ranked 3rd Dyson Daniels in the same class), and 3-quarter sprint 3 seconds 37 (ranked 41st in the same class).

stand-alone bounce 70 cm (the first bounce of the class EJ Liddle 90 cm), the maximum bounce of running 86 cm (the first Kennedy Chandler 1.05 meters).

dribble shots with 21 of 30 shots, 14 of 25 shots with fixed-point shots, 17 of 25 three-pointers (second in the same class, only lower than Kendall Brown), 15 of 24 three-pointers with corners, and 7 of 10 free throws.

Laravia is pure white and also plays in the front line. He has many similarities with this year's draft No. 1 pick Flag. In order to give everyone a clearer understanding of Laravia's physical test data, I will compare his physical test data with the new Tiancai's pride Flag.

Flag's bare feet are 2 meters tall, 2 meters tall, 70 meters tall, 100 kg, and 2 meters 13 meters tall.

Turning agility test for 10 seconds 64, turn back and run for 2 seconds 92, and three-quarter sprint for 3 seconds 23.

Stand and bounce 73 cm, run for maximum bounce 90 cm.

dribble shots with 21 of 30 shots, 16 of 25 shots with fixed-point shots, 15 of 25 three-pointers, 15 of 26 corner three-pointers, and 8 of 10 free throws.

From the comparison, we can see that as a white forward, Laravia has good body size, good agility, and has projection ability, but her explosive power and bounce ability are average.

Because it has only been three years since the draft, his draft report is still very valuable. The draft template set by the NBA draft website is Luke Halan Godi, the 52nd pick in the second round in 2010, and only played in the NBA for two seasons.

Comprehensive rating of 90 points, the draft report is as follows (slightly deleted):

Advantages:

A hard-working and versatile forward line, showing strong determination and resilience. Freshman to sophomore are stable in the Medium League (Indiana State University). After transferring to Wake Forest University, he became a star player in the ACC League. He has solid jump shot ability and can complete dunks during fast breaks and counter-running. He plays with selfless style and team first. In his catch and shoot skills, he has stable mid-range shooting performance, 37% career three-point shooting percentage, and 1.5 shots per game. Although he is not a top outside shooter at present, he has the potential to become a top shooter. He has excellent passing vision and passing ability as a forward, with 3.7 assists per game and 2.7 turnovers per game. Time, the rebounding performance was stable (6.6 per game). Although it was not outstanding, it had a strong sense of steals and prediction ability, and averaged 1.7 steals per game.

Disadvantages:

Insufficient speed makes it difficult for him to fully utilize his scoring skills in NBA-level games. He is unlikely to break through NBA-level defenders through dribbling. His footwork is too slow. This is a huge obstacle for him to create offensive opportunities on the defensive end and independently. He is in line with the current trend of basketball "no fixed position" in basketball, but as a slow forward, he lacks sufficient speed on the outside, and lacks top athletic ability and height wingspan at low posts, which makes him in trouble on the offensive end. His career free throw shooting percentage is 74%, his shooting feel is good but not outstanding enough, and scoring will become a big challenge for him. Moreover, as a player with lower athletic ability, if he becomes a team's shortcoming on the defensive end, it will be difficult to get playing time.

Through the draft report, a clear portrait can be obtained. He is an all-rounder, solid basic skills, selfless and full of fighting spirit. He has the potential to become an auxiliary plug-in player, but he is trapped in the inherent negative BUFF such as slow speed and poor bounce. He needs to face severe tests on both offense and defense. Then we will use his game data last season to see if he has withstood the NBA-level game test.

He played a total of 66 games with the Grizzlies and the Kings in the 2024-25 season, averaging 20.4 minutes per game. This data sample is already very valuable for reference.

The whole season has 56% of the time to play No. 4, 41% of the time to play No. 4, 3% of the time to play No. 4, 3%, 63% of the time to play No. 3, 37% of the scores outside the three-point line, 75% of the scores from assists, and 25% of the scores. Through the model, it can be seen that he is a scoring point with both scoring ability in both internal and external lines. Projection and ending at the basket are his two main scoring methods. Then let's take a look at his skills and efficiency..

First of all, in terms of three-pointers from outside the outside of the three-point line, he hit 50 goals in 114 shots throughout the season, with a shooting percentage of 44%, which is a very outstanding level. This number of shots ranked 8th in the Lakers last season (Reeves received 288 three-point shots, Kneckett 281, Hachimura Shizuo 240, Vincent 231, James 205, Finney Smith 199, Christie 144), and ranked first in the shooting percentage. Of course, Laravia has fewer shots. If he can continue to maintain this shooting percentage with more than 200 shots, it will become an important tactical weapon for the Lakers' outside.

Then there is the ability to independently shoot. His tactical status in the team is very low, so the data sample size is small. He hits 10 goals with 28 three-pointers and hits 10 goals with 35.7% at a barely qualified level, and 5 goals with 16 mid-range shots with 31% shooting. As the draft report said, his athletic ability and talent skills are not able to create scoring ability independently in the NBA. In terms of free throws, he hits 78 goals with 115 free throws with a shooting percentage of 67.8%. This is a bit unfavorable. For such white players, free throws are the most valuable scoring opportunity.

Then look at the scoring ratio, the inside scores account for the big head. Within a range of 10 feet less than the basket, the shooting percentage is 53.4%. Among them, the layups in the frame were 105 times, and the shooting percentage is 58 goals. This efficiency is considered to be average.

I use the data of Haemura Hachimura at the same position. Haemura Hachimura hit 158 ​​goals in a total of 10 feet smaller than the basket, with a shooting percentage of 63.5%. Among them, at least one dribble, the layup was 93 goals and 52.8% of the shooting percentage. Through the comparison, we can see that the hard scoring ability after receiving the ball under the basket is nearly 10 percentage points higher than Laravia. Of course, once the ball is used to attack again, the efficiency of the two is almost the same.

Based on Laravia's offensive performance, his independent scoring ability is unlikely to improve, but he has the potential to become the league's top outside scoring point, and his finishing ability at the basket can also reach the league average. He is a player who can enter the rotation lineup on the offensive end.

But in the Los Angeles Lakers, the role player's defense is much more important than the offense, and then let's look at Laravia's defensive level.

Last season, his opponent averaged 8.7 shots in front of him, hitting 4.2 goals, and his shooting percentage reached 49%. His opponent's shooting percentage increased by 3 percentage points on average under his defense. As a substitute, he has a short appearance time and few defensive tasks. He is basically a substitute for the opponent. The defensive efficiency is very ugly.

defensive back players have 1,420 rounds in 258 minutes, accounting for 49% of the total defensive time, and the defender hits 50% under his defense.

Defensive forward players have 1234 rounds in 239 minutes, accounting for 45% of the total defensive time, and forward players have a shooting percentage of 46% under their defense.

The defensive center has 156 rounds in 28 minutes, accounting for 6% of the total defensive time, and the center player hits 56% under his defense.

It can be seen that Laravia's defense defender is extremely poor, and it may be that his speed cannot keep up with the small player. On the contrary, the defender can barely deal with it.

In addition, he has the ability to pass, but it is not useful in the current Los Angeles Lakers' lineup configuration. The team has three organizers, James, Doncic and Reeves, and the organizational ability is already a bit too much.

Finally, Laravia has the compatibility of three or four, and her offensive ability reaches the level of an NBA player, but her defensive ability is too weak. With his current level and the Lakers' lineup configuration, it is difficult to enter the main rotation lineup, so this time he signed him to supplement the lineup thickness, but I still hope that he can maximize his ability and do his best to help the Lakers improve.