Kuzma said.

Puddicombe, who spent 10 years training to become a monk in Burma and Tibet, has worked with the British Olympic team, professional athletes and pro teams. Puddicombe worked with the New York Knicks the past two seasons when Jackson ran the franchise as team president.

"My dad taught me and my brother since we were a young age to always question authority," Luke Walton says of his father, Hall of Famer Bill Walton. Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images

While Jackson failed to build a winner in New York and seemed out of touch with players such as Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis, Walton still uses some time-tested Jackson techniques to keep his team engaged and his message fresh.

Jackson used to love incorporating movie themes and scenes into game tape tobreak up the monotony of film sessions. During the Lakers' training camp this fall, Walton borrowed that method, using a scene from Denzel Washington's "Man on Fire" to drill his team into running more. Washington is training Dakota Fanning to start swim races faster by honing in on the sound of the starting pistol, using two wooden blocks to simulate the gun sound.

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Preaching to the team to run off makes and misses, Walton had the team watch the clip of Washington training Fanning and then had Lakers assistant coach Jesse Mermuys smash two wooden blocks against each other, just like Washington, to signal the players to run