The Los Angeles Lakers have a brand new coach.
Some have excessive hopes for JJ Redick as a tactician, and he’s proven loads of individuals across the league that he has what it takes to be a profitable coach.
Nonetheless, there are requirements for every little thing, and Lakers followers and Lakers-driven media all the time have championship aspirations for the group, even after they’re not real looking.
Additionally, his shut relationship with LeBron James is also an element to contemplate when speaking about this rent.
Nonetheless, Brian Windhorst believes all that might be secondary.
Speaking on ESPN’s Get Up, the famend insider claimed that Redick’s largest problem will likely be to get this group in line defensively.
“If you’re going to take [The Lakers] from seventh place to sixth or fourth, you gotta do that on the defensive end and that starts with JJ Redick.”
—@WindhorstESPN on JJ Redick and the Lakers pic.twitter.com/IpeFfJWsan
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) June 24, 2024
He identified the truth that the Lakers had the fourth-best protection to shut out the season two years in the past after they made it to the Western Convention Finals, however they plummeted all the best way to seventeenth final season.
Windhorst argued that as a lot because it wasn’t attractive or thrilling to speak about defensive rotations or including defensive-oriented gamers to the roster, Redick must set the tone on that finish of the ground from day one.
Redick selected a significant problem for his first teaching expertise.
Not solely do the Lakers not have a championship-caliber roster, however additionally they have a star with a historical past of energy struggles together with his coaches, and an proprietor that hasn’t been affected person with coaches since Phil Jackson left.
That’s not precisely easy methods to arrange any coach for achievement.
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