Charles Barkley: LeBron Playing PG Won't Work, Taking Turns With AD Not His 'Brand of Basketball'

While it honestly doesn't seem like it's been gone that long, the NBA is back. The Lakers-Clippers portion of the first evening's fare was just about as high stakes as a regular season gets. Both teams have new stars they're trying to gel with and the franchises hate each other by virtue of sharing a building.

Discussing the game on Inside the NBA, Charles Barkley wasn't overly impressed with the Lakers' strategy on offense:

"He can't play the point. That's not gonna work," Barkley said. "It can't work all the time. I don't like him playing the point. It makes your offense stagnant, in my opinion. Tonight, if you look at it, it was just him and AD basically taking turns. I don't like that brand of basketball."

Arguably a bigger longterm issue than LeBron and Anthony Davis figuring out how to gel will be the Lakers' bench. The Clippers' reserves outscored the Lakers' 60-19 last night. Yikes.