JJ Redick He knows his personal intensity will always make him his own harshest critic if he’s not careful, so he promised to give himself some grace in his self-evaluation as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Coming off his first preseason game, Redick is already testing his tolerance for his own mistakes after the Lakers failed to make adequate defensive changes Friday night against Minnesota.
“We just didn’t execute that at all,” Redick said Saturday after practice in the Coachella Valley. “Maybe we ran it less than 10% of the time. Something we’ve explored, and it was very clear in the pregame meeting that that’s what we were doing, so you certainly wonder, ‘Am I not making this clear?’ Is this something I’m doing?'”
A little more than three months into his first coaching job at any level, Redick is still drawing on a wealth of information, responsibilities and nuances, from game designs to the intricacies of personnel management.
But while his mind spins every day thinking about how to implement the basketball vision he’s been building in his mind, the former NBA guard NBA The 40-year-old is also determined to enjoy the journey of his first season with LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
Redick is installing detailed schemes on offense and defense and gathering a mountain of analytical data.
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