Though the Los Angeles Lakers nonetheless have the fourth-best document within the Western Convention, issues are usually not going easily in the intervening time. They’ve misplaced three video games in a row, six of their previous 10 and had their effort referred to as out by head coach JJ Redick on Christmas Day following a tricky loss to the Houston Rockets.
That resulted in a crew assembly on Saturday that Redick admitted could be “uncomfortable.”
Lakers on the lookout for ‘recalibration and reconnection’
Whereas Redick was upset with the crew’s effort on Christmas and their latest stretch of video games, he stated Saturday’s assembly was not about finger-pointing however moderately recalibrating and reconnecting with the crew.
When requested if it was uncomfortable, he stated the reality can typically be uncomfortable.
“The reality is uncomfortable,” Redick stated, “and so it’s important to put every little thing on the market, that is all it’s.”
Fairly than finger-pointing, Redick stated it was a day of “recalibration and reconnection” for his crew that also sits No. 4 within the Western Convention standings.
“We had a terrific assembly as a workers this morning,” Redick stated. “Got here in tremendous early and we met with the gamers, and it was very optimistic and it was additionally listening. It was additionally for our workers, myself, to take heed to the gamers and what they want.”
Whereas this may appear somewhat excessive for a crew that’s in a very good place within the standings in December, these kind of conversations and questions are essential and comprehensible.
The Lakers have excessive expectations. Any crew that has LeBron James and Luka Doncic on it’ll count on wins and count on to be contending for a championship. Particularly when it is among the NBA’s most distinguished franchises in one in every of its greatest markets. Any time that crew begins to fall wanting these expectations, some tough conversations must be had to ensure issues don’t begin to snowball and slip away.
Redick may really feel like his crew is beginning to inch towards that and must have direct conversations with them.
That may go in a few completely different instructions.
On one hand, it may function a wake-up name and result in the kind of spark they should get again on observe. Or it may annoy veteran gamers and future Corridor of Famers to have a second-year coach name them out as this and issues may development in a really completely different course. Time will inform.
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