Joel Embiid has shared his candid ideas about JJ Redick taking over the Lakers head teaching function and has given a warning.
Redick has been handed the reins in LA, regardless of having no prior NBA teaching expertise and Embiid thinks it may finish badly for the previous Sixer.
“If I used to be him, I don’t know if that’s an ideal scenario,” Embiid informed The New York Instances. “Possibly he thinks that’s an ideal scenario. However should you’re coming in, particularly with a job just like the Lakers, it’s form of a make-or-break scenario, as a result of should you succeed, nice, you’re going to be teaching for years. However should you don’t succeed, these coaches are normally sure to be fired inside a yr or two. I like him, I’m completely satisfied for him, however that’s a tricky job.”
Over the previous 13 years, no Lakers coach has survived longer than three seasons.
Present Kings head coach and former Warriors assistant, Mike Brown, was fired from the Lakers prime job 5 video games into his second season with the group in 2012.
He needs he by no means took the job within the first place.
“If I may do it once more,” Brown stated on All of the Smoke podcast final yr, “I most likely wouldn’t.”
Nonetheless, Redick simply must be higher than Darvin Ham’s 90-74 document with the Lakers.
The previous sharpshooter has massive ambitions for the group and is below no illusions about what he’s getting himself into.
“…I simply wish to say, sitting on this seat, I do know what the expectations are for the Lakers,” Redick stated throughout his introductory press convention in June. “The Lakers followers are among the most passionate on the earth, and the expectation is a championship. So it’s my job, Rob’s [Pelinka] job, all of us, to ship a championship-caliber group. That’s what I signed up for.”
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