Incoming head coach JJ Redick is setting a unique tone for the Lakers this summer time and is altering the best way the workforce works out.
LA’s exercises this summer time have been extra focussed on ‘reside basketball’ the place the gamers are literally going to head-to-head, as an alternative of the main focus being on indivudual work – prefer it was underneath Darvin Ham, the Los Angeles Occasions’ Dan Woike experiences.
“These exercises are the primary within the formalized relationship between J.J. Redick, his workers and the gamers, and the primary impression would possibly supply some hints as to how the brand new coach will function,” Woike mentioned.
“Exercises have featured extra reside basketball — one on one and three on three — than previous summers when the main focus was extra on particular person, noncompetitive work.
“This could possibly be one step of the participant growth 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 in all probability had been overdue.”
Woike additionally went on to say how final 12 months’s rookies, Jalen Hood-Schifino and Maxwell Lewis, “had been nonfactors” of their first 12 months within the league.
Nevertheless, reported that the pair have each “earned optimistic 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 function 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 professional data as an NBA commentator and podcaster positively depend for one thing.
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