Incoming head coach JJ Redick is setting a unique tone for the Lakers this summer time and is altering the way in which the group works out.
LA’s exercises this summer time have been extra focussed on ‘dwell basketball’ the place the gamers are literally going to head-to-head, as an alternative of the main target being on indivudual work – prefer it was beneath Darvin Ham, the Los Angeles Instances’ Dan Woike reviews.
“These exercises are the primary within the formalized relationship between J.J. Redick, his employees and the gamers, and the primary impression may provide some hints as to how the brand new coach will function,” Woike mentioned.
“Exercises have featured extra dwell basketball — one on one and three on three — than previous summers when the main target was extra on particular person, noncompetitive work.
“This may very well be one step of the participant improvement adjustments that Redick vowed to make when he took the job this summer time, a change the group has tied to the altering wage cap guidelines. However, actually, the adjustments most likely had been overdue.”
Woike additionally went on to say how final yr’s rookies, Jalen Hood-Schifino and Maxwell Lewis, “had been nonfactors” of their first yr within the league.
Nevertheless, reported that the pair have each “earned constructive critiques throughout this stage of the offseason.”
NBA followers and media alike are ready with bated breath to see how the first-time coach fares in his maiden teaching position within the NBA.
The one different teaching expertise Redick has had beforehand is the a volunteer 4th Grade Head Coach on the Brooklyn Basketball Academy (if that counts).
However, his 15-year expertise as a participant for the Magic, Bucks, Clippers, 76ers, Pelicans and Mavericks and his skilled data as an NBA commentator and podcaster undoubtedly rely for one thing.
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