Incoming head coach JJ Redick is setting a special tone for the Lakers this summer season and is altering the best way the workforce works out.
LA’s exercises this summer season have been extra focussed on ‘reside basketball’ the place the gamers are literally going to head-to-head, as a substitute of the main target 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 may 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 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 season, a change the group has tied to the altering wage cap guidelines. However, actually, the adjustments in all probability have been overdue.”
Woike additionally went on to say how final yr’s rookies, Jalen Hood-Schifino and Maxwell Lewis, “have been nonfactors” of their first yr within the league.
Nonetheless, reported that the pair have each “earned optimistic opinions 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 professional data as an NBA commentator and podcaster positively rely for one thing.
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