Austin Reaves says he isn’t fearful in regards to the Lakers failing so as to add any main items throughout the offseason.
“I like the place we’re at,” Reaves informed reporters within the Philippines throughout a promotional tour this week. “And I believe that we have now what we have to go compete for a championship.”
Reaves pointed to the Lakers main the Denver Nuggets for a lot of their first-round playoff matchup as a supply of his optimism. Nonetheless, regardless of this shocking statistic, the Lakers misplaced the sequence in 5 video games, which Reaves described as one thing he “can’t even actually wrap your thoughts round.”
“Nevertheless it was simply a few sequences down the stretch that we didn’t execute,” he stated. “They executed but when we [did], we beat them in that sequence and we go on and have a possibility to play Minnesota. So I like the place we’re at.”
Throughout the identical media session, Reaves additionally gave his ideas on new Lakers coach JJ Redick.
“[Redick] is somebody that’s a fierce competitor,” he stated.
“He got here as much as us [at NBA Summer League in Vegas] and was like ‘I’ve been watching a whiteboard for 3 hours attempting to determine like, how we’re going to do that stuff.’ So you may simply inform the depth that he has, the time that he’s going to place in.”
READ MORE: Austin Reaves on His Profession Night time, Beating Odds to Make NBA
