Incoming head coach JJ Redick is setting a special tone for the Lakers this summer season and is altering the best way the group 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 focus being on indivudual work – prefer it was below Darvin Ham, the Los Angeles Instances’ 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 would possibly supply some hints as to how the brand new coach will function,” Woike stated.
“Exercises have featured extra reside basketball — one on one and three on three — than previous summers when the main focus was extra on particular person, noncompetitive work.
“This might be one step of the participant growth modifications 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, truthfully, the modifications 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.
Nevertheless, reported that the pair have each “earned optimistic critiques 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 skilled data as an NBA commentator and podcaster undoubtedly depend for one thing.
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