After conducting workouts with Isaiah Todd, Matthew Hurt and four more players Friday, the Los Angeles Lakers are bringing in six more players for workouts Saturday.
The new batch of prospects include Ayo Dosunmu of Illinois, Jaden Springer of Tennessee, Miles McBride of West Virginia, Sandro Mamukelashvili of Seton Hall, Mac McClung of Texas Tech and Balsa Koprivica of Florida State.
Dosunmu is widely regarded as a mid-to-late first-round pick and could be available for the Lakers at No. 22. The 6’5″ guard averaged 20.1 points, 6.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists in his last season while shooting 48.8 percent overall on 15.4 attempts and 39 percent from deep on 2.9 attempts.
Springer had interviewed with the Lakers during the draft combine in late June, which could convey L.A.’s interest in him at No. 22, the general range where Springer is projected to go.
Springer, 6’4″, played one season at Tennessee and averaged 12.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.2 steals while shooting 46.7 percent on 9.1 attempts and 43.5 percent from deep on 1.8 attempts. Springer still has to polish up his offensive game, but he’s also one of the best defenders in this class.
McBride, 6’2″, is another possible candidate at No. 22 as he’s projected to go late in the first round or in the second. He played two seasons at WVU and most recently averaged 15.8 points, 4.9 assists and 3.9 rebounds on 43 percent shooting (12.5 attempts) and 41.4 percent 3-point shooting (3.8 attempts).
Mamukelashvili, 6’11” big, is projected to go somewhere in the second round. He played all four seasons at Seton Hall and most recently put up 17.5 points, 7.6 rebounds. 3.2 assists and 1.1 steals while shooting 43.4 percent overall on 14.3 attempts and 33.6 percent from deep on 4.6 attempts.
The season prior, Mamukelashvili converted on 43.4 percent of his perimeter attempts and attempted 2.7 a game. If he goes undrafted, the Lakers could pick him up and develop his game more as a floor-spacing big, though his interior shooting will need to improve.
McClung, 6’2″ guard, played two seasons at Georgetown before playing his third, and final, season at Texas Tech. He averaged 15.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists and shot 41.9 percent overall on 12.2 attempts and 34.3 percent from the perimeter on 4.7 attempts.
McClung isn’t a true point guard with his playmaking abilities, but he’s also too undersized to slot in as a shooting guard. He’s projected to go late in the second round or undrafted.
Rounding out the workouts is Koprivica. The 7’1″ big played two seasons at Florida State and most recently averaged 9.1 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.4 blocks on 59.9 percent field-goal shooting (6.1 attempts).
Koprivica is projected to go late in the second round or undrafted because there are multiple areas to his game that needs refinements: rebounding at his size, foul prone, not capable of defending guards on the perimeter and lacks the athleticism to compensate for it; developing big men is the hardest position to work on.
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