Lakers coach JJ Redick questioned his team’s professionalism and commitment to winning after Thursday’s 23-point loss to Houston, writes Dave McMenamin of ESPN. The Rockets took control of the game early, building a 14-point lead in the first quarter and sustaining a double-digit advantage throughout the second half.
“We don’t care enough right now,” Redick said. “And that’s the part that bothers you a lot. We don’t care enough to do the things that are necessary. We don’t care enough to be a professional.”
Redick made similar comments after watching his team lose by 24 points to Phoenix on Tuesday. The Lakers have lost dropped three straight games and six of their last 10 and are now just three games away from falling into play-in tournament territory. Redick cited “effort and execution” as the difference on Thursday as Houston dominated the boards by a 48-25 margin and pulled down 17 offensive rebounds.
“Saturday’s practice — I told the guys — it’s going to be uncomfortable,” Redick said. “The meeting is going to be uncomfortable. I’m not doing another 53 games like this.”
Luka Doncic was able to return after leaving Saturday’s game with a lower left leg contusion, but he didn’t provide much of a spark. McMenamin notes that he turned the ball over three times in the first 2:11 and finished with six giveaways for the night. Rui Hachimura also returned after missing two games with a groin strain, but Austin Reaves experienced calf soreness and didn’t play after halftime. He’s set to undergo an MRI today.
“I don’t know what has to change, but definitely something needs to change,” Doncic said. “Think we (were) blown out the last three games. It definitely looks, like, terrible. We got to figure out, that’s the thing we have (to do). … We just got to talk about it. Everybody got to talk about it. I know JJ said it’s going to be uncomfortable (for everybody). As they should be. … Everybody has got to give better effort, starting with me.”
LeBron James also had a rough night as L.A. was outscored by 33 points in the 32:26 he was on the court. According to McMenamin, it was James’ worst plus-minus rating since joining the Lakers and the third-worst of his career.
Jarred Vanderbilt, who came off the bench to contribute 11 points and five rebounds, also recognizes that changes need to happen before Sunday’s game against Sacramento.
“Ultimately, certain stuff just needs to be said and certain stuff needs to be done and we got to be able to communicate with each other and be receptive of it, whether it’s criticism or, we got to have them hard conversations,” Vanderbilt said. “JJ [was] alluding to that, that you got to have these conversations. We don’t want this to keep lingering. And right now it’s three in a row, but we don’t want it to keep going the wrong direction.”
For sure the conversation is going to be about defense. This team is not going to win a championship by playing as sloppy as they have, thinking they will make it up on offense (in large part due to costly turnovers). Ask the Thunder what it means to play from tip off to the final buzzer to know what that truly takes.
But aside from Smart, literally none of these guys on this roster are defense-minded. Poor roster construction.
LBJ is the greatest defender of all time G
I generally find myself on the side of defending LBJ from what I feel is usually unfair criticism placed on him from Kobe or MJ fans and, honestly Kobe has had selfish moments too. But when LBJ doesn’t go back on defense because he’s arguing a missed call, whether legit or not, is not the behavior you want to see from your leader. Luka has done it too but as the OG and the connective tissue to JJ, he has to show a better attitude than that and I hope that JJ has the balls, cache and job security to hold him accountable in front of the team, behind closed doors. I can accept him bring selective with his energy on defense but watching him leave his team 4 on 5 while he didn’t even cross the half way mark because he was still arguing upset me.
Luka did that all the time for yrs on Mavs. I guess he’ll let Bron do it now. …….
Lakers problem is simple. Defense
Lakers are 19–10 = .655. If they do same thing for next 53 games. Play .655 ball. They will end up
54–28 ……… Last yr Rockets were 2nd seed in West with a 52–30 record.
They had a real weak schedule the first 30 games. There is 0 chance they do that well with the tough schedule coming up.
Well, you are not going to win every single game, period…
The Lakers are barely going to win anymore games for the rest of this season though lol
Lakers are not a top 4 team in the west. JJ hjad a real easy schedule to strta the season now they go against tough teams.
Their schedule hasn’t been that easy, 15 out of 29 games vs losing teams. According to the ESPN calculation, they’re tied for the 6th hardest schedule so far and according to tankathon, have the 16th hardest remaining.
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@ arc….JJ is just asking Silver for a better whistle, more free throws please. Hey Bron have you met Amen Thompson, he doesn’t care who you use to be. Bron will have the night off next time playing Houston. You gonna need some serious front court depth to compete with Houston. Sengun, Adams, Capella, Smith jr, Eason and even throw in Thompson defensive versatility and Houston are no joke. Scrappers and fighters the lot of em. Lakers will need alot of help getting to the playoffs and winning a series.
last night game Lebron missed a lay up and went to the ref pretending he was hit in the head. Not even close. I said on here a few days ago saying the Lakers are worse with LeBron and told by one of his fans their record with him on the court. 2 more loses in a row since that time. Lebron is gone at the end of the year and JJ needs to stop letting LeBron coach the team.
Arc…I missed that, must of been a toilet break. But not surprised at all. King of flopping and snake charming officials. Dude near assaulted a ref not long back. Anybody else puts hands on an official would be in serious trouble. Not the first time either. This era of rich paul lead media puppets been making up false narratives and have a different set of rules for this guy. I won’t miss LeBron at all. It’s luka time bye Bron.
The Lakers chose this fate a long time ago, sorry to say. This is what happens when the only vision you have is pack whatever stars you can get your little star-grubby hands on on a team, hire a podcaster as your rookie coach, and just say “go”. They’re a cartoon, they’re not a serious professional sports franchise, they’re a soap opera, a joke, they’re drama fodder. This is how they make money in LA. They’re a stain on basketball, but the league will keep propping them up because they get eyeballs. This is their business model.
I’m from socal btw, and come from a Lakers family if anyone wants to question my motivation for saying this. These are genuine observations about how this franchise has operated for decades.
It’s a bit unfair to refer to Redick as a “podcaster”, considering his playing career.
It’s clear that the team has a terrible defense, and likely no realistic way to trade to improve it. As far as the league propping them up, that’s a fact.
It’s unfair to JJ, sure, and I apologize to him as an individual, but I referred to him as that for a reason, and the reason is simply because that’s a big part of why the Lakers chose him. Drama, personality, media stimulation. When the Lakers fear they can’t win a title, they double down on media and drama buzz and big personalities. JJ had never been a coach before, but in their eyes, he fit the mold of Hollywood coach who’s familiar with talking to mass audiences, has respect from his peers, and blah blah blah. I’m not saying it’s JJ’s fault per se, I’m only saying it’s all part of their business model, and it’s not about basketball, it’s about people tuning in and staying engaged, negative or positive, engagement is engagement. It’s gross and it’s why in good conscience I could never stay a Lakers fan for too long, they will always go back to that model and it’s offensive to me as a fan of the sport to attempt to celebrate it and not be disgusted. I have too much shame to be a Lakers fan
Ummm, ok then.
@Sorry
JJ was never a major media face and not ar an exciting personality. If they wanted to make a splash of a coach signing im sure there were better candidates that they could line up for that purpose.
Well I’d be curious to hear of this supposed alternative they had.
Get off your high horse. Too much shame lol. OMG, I think an entertainment entity is concerned with entertainment. Seems like they’ve been able to do that AND win basketball games at a higher rate than just about any franchise in league history.
Your Angels would do well to take a pointer or two. Screwed off both Ohtani and Trouts career.
Uh huh, yeah, I’ve heard it my whole life, the story never changes. Interesting how you never denied what I said was true about their business model, you just made an excuse for it. So yeah, sure, YOU like your sports that way, I do not. So I bailed, because it’s lame and I’ll never be moved on that because those are my tastes. I hate Hollywood/LA media culture, it’s shallow elitist soapy trash, and I’m glad I don’t live there anymore.
And yeah, to hell with Arte, he’s trash too, and I root for his downfall every single day. When his fascist reign of terror is over, I’ll drink to his demise.
I didn’t have to deny it because it’s not like you’re coming from a place of internal knowledge. A fan’s opinion. Or “ex” fan complaining about an entertainment business courting entertainment. Which I wonder when were you ever a fan as you claim since the Lakers have been entertainment forward since the 80s. Hence showtime. Franchise has been “doubling down on media and personalities” since they pioneered cheerleaders in the NBA, were the first to lower lights around center court, and the entire modern NBA was built on two personalities- magic and bird.
But you said it, you just hate Hollywood and LA. And they’re glad you don’t live there anymore too. You sound like a ray of sunshine
I started being a basketball/Lakers fan in the mid 90’s, around 94-95, when I was a kid. I’m sure you can imagine how that was a unique time in Lakers history to become cognizant of and attached to them, and being a kid, I didn’t understand their history and what they were about. My parents loved them though, and I tried, but they didn’t reflect what I liked or valued in any way, and I became aware of that over time.
And yeah, this is all my analysis based on my observations of their behavior, same as any fan. And there are different ways to enjoy the entertainment of sports than the way the Lakers do it. Arte Moreno did a poor imitation of it, and now I’m waiting until that rotten POS is gone and a respectable culture can be cultivated again.
No, I don’t “just” hate the culture, I hate the culture and I hate how the Lakers construct their teams almost exclusively in that fashion. They force a bunch of ill-fitted players on a team together, with no chemistry or cohesion or vision, and just strong arm your way to victory. It’s graceless shallow privileged drama fodder and I don’t like it. They’ve been handed gifts from other teams unfairly for decades, it’s boring, it’s lame, and it’s unimpressive and not entertaining to me.
And now you can go on and tell me how you don’t care, but still continue to respond despite not caring.
Pretty damn good record for a guy with no coaching experience…
I’m curious who you think should’ve filled their HC vacancy and if you truly believe the Lakers would have benefited from that choice over Reddick.
The sky isn’t falling. Lakers are the 6th best team (record wise) and 6 games back of the Thunder. Do they have issues sure but with 2 superstars it can be fixed.
I don’t agree – they’re 26th in Def Rtg and have a Net Rtg of-0.5. How will they fix that?
Easy. Effort.
Many guys think they can turn it on and turn it off and it seems like that’s the case here.
IMO if it was easy, they’d have already done it more. They’re giving up 5 more ppg on average than GSW, and we’re about as mid as it gets.
It’s easy in concept but hard to do. These guys go 110% all the time but you after year it gets more difficult. You take plays off, games off, specially during the season. Then you think you can turn it on in the playoffs. Doesn’t quite work that way
Hey Gary, go check Brook Lopez’s stats in a win last night…where is Buddy’s line like that this year?
I been saying this all year, the Lakers are overperforming early and the Warriors are underperforming early. Water will find its level. Lakers are barely a play-in team, Warriors are easy top 6.
Lakers roster construction is TERRIBLE. Luka, Reaves and Bron are all kind of similar shades of the same guy. They need proper bigs and wings and a trad PG who isn’t Marcus Smart. Trade Bron and Reeves and accent Luka with the right guys and they might rebound, but they aren’t it this season.
Lol @ “Warriors are easy top 6”.
They’re in 8th place, 10 games behind OKC and 4 behind the Lakers, and have only won 3 games in a row twice so far.
Speaking of TERRIBLE roster construction, how many players over 6’9″ do the Warriors have vs players under 6’6″?
How many over 6’9″ guys did GSW use in the 2022 Finals?
GSW will be top 6 in April when it matters, yes we can all see their record right now, but if you watched those losses, GSW had massive leads in all those games, bad teams don’t do that, teams with an idiot head coach do. Sorry you don’t understand how time works. Water finds its own level and you are acting like it doesn’t.
When one of those under 6’6″ guys is Steph Curry, your argument falls apart.
Here’s my spicy top 5 in the west end of season prediction:
1. Spurs
2. Thunder
3. Nuggets
4. Warriors
5. Wolves
“Sorry you don’t understand how time works.”
Funny, since 2022 was 4 long seasons ago.
As far as your prediction, I think your top 3 will finish top 3 in some order depending on injuries, but putting us above the Rockets is extremely unlikely unless KD goes down, and considering our 6-11 road record is the worst out of the west’s top 10 teams, my guess is we have another out of the top 6 season in progress.
But I don’t think GSW will continue to be bad on the road, and their current record is directly influenced by playing too many games in too short a time to start the season.
We’re 5 games in the loss column behind the Rockets and they beat us at home and rested with a 57-41 2nd half as we shot 37%/10%/75% vs their defense. If they stay at their current level of health, I doubt we’ll pass them. And we’re 4 games in the loss column behind the Twolves, who we lost to at home after 4 days off with Gobert scoring a season high 24 on 86% dunking and Reid 18, giving up 39 pts in the 4th Q.
So that’s 2 teams with big lineups we couldn’t beat at home – why would we end up beating them on the road, which has to happen to pass them and end up top 6?
You are strictly talking about the past while criticizing my take on their future, so none of your points carry weight here. Like, you are literally bringing up November games, as if they matter. GSW were a dramatically different team last season between Nov-Dec and Jan-May. I am saying that will happen again. GSW has no huge flaws so far aside from the coach using bad rotations that don’t work for too long for no reason, when he has Kuminga, the team leader in rebounds a game, sitting right there. No one is destroying the Warriors, the Warriors are beating themselves via using the worst possible rotations. If Kerr is fired they will barely lose another game.
“If Kerr is fired they will barely lose another game.” <— this is as perverse a take as can be imagined. If Kerr isn't fired, and he won't be prior to the season's end at the earliest, your insupportable comment will have it's own sense of possibly being valid. What does "barely lose another game" mean? 43-8? 40-11? Put a win-loss number on your fantastical blathering. It's all academic of course. It's inanity from someone whose reasoning equates to standing on the prow and peeing into the wind.
Yeah man, way to overanalyze an anonymous post. Take it down a notch, take a nap bruh
It’s so funny watching this kid squirm when fed facts and asked to reciprocate. You either don’t care enough, care too much, don’t know anything, know so much that you’re actually speaking about something different entirely, a fascist, a communist, a self proclaimed man (actually one of my favorite Davey-isms), or a lost puppy demanding to be led. All just depends on what mother is making breakfast.
Seems today was oatmeal day.
Lol, “no huge flaws” except old age, too many guards, and only one 7 footer who’s no longer a 3 pt threat.
There’s no chance that Kerr gets fired, so we’re stuck with his awful rotations for at least another 1.7 years.
Why are you taking such small sample sizes so seriously? (thats a 10/10 alliteration btw) Post is having a shooting slump right now, he will break out of it, he has shot the 3 from a high % since college.
MDJ has to stop signing so many undersized guards to begin with, give Steve less options to go small. Like I said in the other thread, they should get rid of all these excess guards, put Spencer on the main roster and only have Steph, Spencer (as Steph’s designated backup PG), Moody, Richard and Melton as the guards, split up the 96 minutes per game from the 2 guard positions between those 5 guys, and if someone gets hurt then pull from the 2way spot. Also develop Will Richard as a PG too, for another look. Those 5 guards are all GSW needs to win. Having all these guys who aren’t stretch bigs but have to play there is not working. Podz doesn’t fit the system, he still might be a decent player in this league, but move him along. Buddy is washed and GP2 and Seth and old and broken and only serve to hinder the development of the young guys. GSW needs a good wing to take the next step. Kuminga is supposed to be that guy. Gui needs more playing time too.
Remove Warriors and you are good. Warriors aren’t even a top 10 team in the west.
They should end up in the 7-10 range.
The history of Luka, LBJ, and Ayton tells anyone that their overall player performance is offense, Luka is a scorer he is not a rebounder, defensive stopper that is who he is plain and simple, LBJ is a slightly better defensive player than Luka, not a all-around player anymore at 42, and Ayton has a past that says he will take the game off if he is not included in the offensive end, He did it with Phoenix and Portland and now he does it with the Lakers. If you want to go farther Reaves is not even close to playing defense enough to slow down his opponent. Those four players start for the Lakers, the Laker roster is not a Championship caliber team, JJ Reddick is not a championship coach. Until the Laker management makes the appraisal of this roster make the changes, Luka and James cannot co-exist on the same team, Luka does not want to play defense, and James is just a mal content because he is not the go to player anymore, he is showing his age now. Ayton is a loss cause as a star NBA center, just not coming to play every night, takes to many nights off. It comes down to Lakers want the star-studded roster no matter or not if they come to play every night or can play a lick of defense.
You have so many things so wrong it’s crazy:
1. Luka is not a rebounder. lol, he is leading the team in rebounds with 9 per game. He is top 15 in rebounding in the league and he is the only non-center in the top 20.
2. Luka is averaging 1.6 steals and 3.6 deflections a game. Both are elite.
3. Luka’s defensive rating is 112, while the team’s is 117.
4. Luka’s opponents (when he is the closest defender) are shooting 6.1% lower than their average from 3.
5. Luka is second on the team taking charges and averaging 0.6 blocks a game, again as a guard.
Johnnybgood,
I’ve been looking for you my boy. What happened to championship contenders? See this is what happens when people who actually played basketball try to give some knowledge.
Luka is Luka and a all NBA MVP candidate this year. I’m not overreacting to him like everybody else on this form.
Now LeBron and AR are not special and we tried telling you. You’re a internet fan. Look at stats and trying to make stats appear like they tell the whole complete story. They don’t. LeBron plays zero defense And his offense is not good enough anymore to make up for it or scoring like Luka. Ar doesn’t work as a 3rd option with Luka or LeBron. He will get you 22 and give it up. So you got Luka, LeBron and AR giving up points. Just Because your man doesn’t score doesn’t mean you didn’t give the points up. Literally watched the game yesterday and watched LeBron get blown by Rui steps up to cover and Rui man’s course that’s done on rui that’s on LeBron. At this point in his career is longevity stats and as I said many times when you guys get the $50 million back and if you were able to trade AR and surround Luka with the proper teammates as in defenders rebounders lop threats and shooters with one other player who can score with the ball in his hand then and maybe then the Lakers can compete.
Now come back with all your stats. I said that is until the real story you guys are not better than Denver. You know better than San Antonio OKC Houston. As I said go back and look in my post and to be honest if Dallas was healthy with Kyrie you lose to them too. I said this for four or five posts and you came back with your longevity stats and your Luca gets this many rebounds and so and so scores. This many points then won’t translate to Wins. You guys were barely beating the Utah Jazz
First, the Lakers are still championship contenders. They definitely need to get some things squared away for sure though:
1. Luka, AR and Bron have only played 7 games together this year. That’s 25% of all the games.
2. I stated very clearly when I said that they are contenders, based on health (like every other team). Lakers have had the most different starting lineups in the West), and they are still in fourth place.
3. The Lakers do need at least one, if not 2 rotation players in the trade season, especially, point of attack. Not big names, but serviceable depth.
4. Bron came back and trying to get in shape and in that time, both Luka and AR have been out most of the games.
5. The Lakers need health and they definitely need to figure out stuff, but they are definitely contenders.
Funny, you didn’t say anything when they were in second place. Now they lose 3 in a row including to the Clippers when both Luka, AR, Ayton AND Rui didn’t play and you talking s**t. For the Suns game they started 2 way players cause Luka and Rui were out and AR played with minute restrictions.
As I stated before, if the Lakers have decent health they are legit contenders. Why don’t you remember me at the end of the season, not after a three game losing streak when most of their starters were out or coming back from injuries.
First, the Lakers are still championship contenders. They definitely need to get some things squared away for sure though:
1. Luka, AR and Bron have only played 7 games together this year. That’s 25% of all the games.
2. I stated very clearly when I said that they are contenders, based on health (like every other team). Lakers have had the most different starting lineups in the West), and they are still in fourth place.
3. The Lakers do need at least one, if not 2 rotation players in the trade season, especially, point of attack. Not big names, but serviceable depth.
4. Bron came back and trying to get in shape and in that time, both Luka and AR have been out most of the games.
5. The Lakers need health and they definitely need to figure out stuff, but they are definitely contenders.
Funny, you didn’t say anything when they were in second place. Now they lose 3 in a row including to the Clippers when both Luka, AR, Ayton AND Rui didn’t play and you talking. For the Suns game they started 2 way players cause Luka and Rui were out and AR played with minute restrictions.
As I stated before, if the Lakers have decent health they are legit contenders. Why don’t you remember me at the end of the season, not after a three game losing streak when most of their starters were out or coming back from injuries.
The young people refer to this sort of thing as “hopium”.
How will they improve their awful defense?
Few ways:
1. There is a lot of room in improving their offense. Their 3 point shooting, except for Ruo, has been atrocious. Luka, LaRavia, Bron, AR, Smart have been shooting way below their normal so far. They will eventually go to the mean.
2. As I mentioned before the Lakers offense has been well below their potential. Luka, AR and Bron have only play 7 games together (25% of possible games). There is a lot of room for increasing offensive efficiency.
3. Defensively, they need to move Rui to come off the bench, and start Smart. That starting unit needs a n on point defender. Rui will also get a lot more touches not playing alongside those scorers. Lakers are losing almost every first 5 minutes of the games they are losing and they did themselves in a hole. More defense with that starting unit will make a huge difference. Especially, considering Rio is not even getting many touches when their big 3 and Ayton are out there anyway.
4. They need to pick up one, ideally 2 3 and D defenders. They don’t have to be top of the list guys, but rotation players.
5. And they need better schemes, both on offense and defense. On offense the ball is not moving. It’s all iso ball and one pass. Defending them is very predictable.
5. The Lakers have shown they can play great offense in spurts, especially last 5 minutes. So, the potential is there.
I brought up offense so much cause there is a lot of room for improvement on offense. First, it’s about scoring more than the other team, but also less turnovers means the other team gets to run on you less.
Wow your really doubling down. Draft Kings must love you. Bro the Lakers are not contenders. I said this when they were 2nd place. If your 2nd best player is 41 making 50 million you are not contenders. You keep saying if they do this or that. Make your mind up are they contenders or not? You can say if they fix these 1234567,2156 problems we’ll be good.
Last you do exactly what I said this summer go back and look.
Start of the year we’re contenders.
By January “were one piece away. ( This is we’re you are in the cycle) If we get this and that and this and that.
Trade deadline you will get one or two pieces.we are contenders.
First or 2nd round exit- you and all Laker fans will blame anyone other than LeBron or anyone not associated with him (JJ redick). It will be Ayton, Luka or whoever you get at the deadline.
First, AR is their second best player. Two, Bron get second team NBA last year, is there that much difference between 40 and 41? Three two different player raters had LeBron im tore cause both Tatum and Haliburton are out this year. Do, even Bron at top twenty or thirty he is still an effective player in the league as the third best player.
Their offense isn’t the main problem, which made your focus on it humorous. With LeBron, Luka, and Reaves starting, “too much isoball” is guaranteed – they aren’t going to change much.
And Smart isn’t healthy enough to start every game, as has been shown already.
As far as available 3 and D rotation players, who can they actually get and what do they give up?
The rebounding disparity is huge, so far the Lakers are 26th in rpg while their opponents combined rpg are 2nd. (Ouch)!
So it’s going to end up being about effort on defense. Good luck!
Lakers have a negative point differential – fake contender
Not a sign of a good coach if he responds to losing by talking about not being here.
Yes, the effort is obviously missing on defense, but I have to call out the coaching too:
1. Even on offense the Lakers are very predictable, and not taking advantage of their great passers. They have one of the lowest passing per game in the league even though they have elite passers in Luka, Bron and Austin. Smart and LaRavia (not while penetrating though) are good secondary passers too.
2. Everyone is playing iso-ball with one pass. It’s not just Luka. It’s also Austin, Bron, Smart, and LaRavia. It’s one guy penetrating and either he shoots or one pass. The ball doesn’t move around the court getting the defense off balance.
3. Rui should be coming off the bench and Smart should be starting. That starting unit needs an on-ball defender, and defensive intensity. Almost every game the Lakers are starting flat.
All those things are due to roster construction, not on the coach. He doesn’t have the pieces.
We literally try to tell you about the coaching and that JJ redick is a plumber of a coach and a plumber of a player since he wants to disrespect true Legends. He is LeBrons had pick coach with no experience. No adjustments and no winnings sets.
Yeah you sat post after post after post saying JJ redick is a great coach and they’re going to be containers when they were beating the bottom tier teams and it was the first month of the NBA season when players are just getting in a grove.
Lebron fires all his coaches and brings in coaches that he can do whatever he wants. The one coach he actually had and David Blat and others were fired and never able to actually do anything. He got Tyron Lou and then got help with a bunch of suspensions in the NBA finals. Otherwise, Tyron Lew would have not have a NBA championship either and is showing how bad of a coach he is with the clippers.
I literally never said any of that, I have hated this Lakers roster since day 1. They were always a play-in team who had a hot start due to a soft schedule.
I don’t disagree about Lebron’s influence though.
Four games ago Luka had a bad shooting night. I remember thinking are his teammates going to call him out for it. Ever since then Luka has been passive in the first quarter, passing a lot more, and they have been losing.
I have no idea if the teammates or coaches called him out or not, but I definitely remember thinking that. And I have definitely noticed a much more passive Luka.
How does 50 sound?
Reddick gets fired this season.
JJ: You have to show it in an actual games not after the game or during interviews. And you have to tell Lebron and Luka to get back on D. You have to tell Lebron to hustle for rebounds. You have to tell Lebron to help his team mates on D.
Lastly, put Vanderbilt instead of Hachimura if Reaves, Luka and Lebron were on the same floor together!
If you cannot do it, just resign as a coach already! 😆
The blueprints kind of out on how to disrupt them (defend them out 40 ft)
Its on Jj now to counter. Ayton on the elbow with actions and curls surrounding would be wide open currently
Tough place to coach but he better develop the stomach for it as it wont let up. There’s really no answers on defense but lets get some REAL answers on Ayton moving forward and put a little more on his plate to see how he handles it offensively
His D effort tends to mirror his offensive involvement like a lotta players too so you’d maybe get an uptick there as well
Still think think this is a bridge year, we need answers begore the summer not more questions
What kind of A GARBAGE article is this? The perpetually, eternally and nauseating, over-hyped losers that HR keeps being over-focused upon. Sorry, crybaby Redick…. You signed up for this season: start-to-finish. Poor BooBoo…reality starting to hit??? Gawd, there are 9-10 teams that will finish better here