[Wojnarowski] Pelinka became sold on Redick’s ability to connect with players and his basketball IQ and believes surrounding him with an elite coaching staff will help to shorten the learning curve into his first coaching job, sources said.
by MarvelsGrantMan136
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Bro saw an episode and was sold
So Lebron said, “hire JJ”
Lakers fans will be calling for his head in one year.
Please don’t suck
4 year paycheck for 1 year of work congrats JJ!
Has he explained why he left AD off All-Defensive yet?
so JJ doing everything but coach lol
Looking forward to revisiting this thread in 18 mos when the job is open again.
Maybe I’ll get into cricket or jaialai
He had a podcast and the other candidates didn’t.
9/11
This has to be the weirdest HC hire of all time, no?
so after JJ got fired will Pelinka and Jeanie go with him?
gosh why are they keep hiring coaches without experience…
but then again Ham has 10+ years of assistant coach and he is ass too
I just don’t see this going well but believe it or not I’ve been wrong before
His podcast with lebron was basically a public interview
BREAKING: JJ REDDICK HAS BEEN DISMISSED AS LAKERS HEAD COACH!!
He came into the interview and spammed the word ai
Jeanie Buss: “Well, did it work for those people?”
Pelinka: “No, it never does. I mean, these people delude themselves into thinking it’ll work for them… But it *might* work for us.”
Lakers logic:
Darvin Ham was a first time HC who only had assistant coaching experience, we need a change.
*Hires candidate with 0 *coaching* experience.
Coaching staff:
Byron Scott
Luke Walton
Frank Vogel
Dervin Ham
By “connecting with players”, is he referring to the 10 year olds on his kids team?
I like JJ overall but he does come across as arrogant. I could see him losing the locker room at some point.
They should hire Steve Nash … no hate, in addition to Steve’s understanding of the game, he can advise him to avoid some of the mistakes he made in Brooklyn.
Lots of cope in this statement. Who knows, maybe Redick turns into a basketball genius.
JJ will either be the next Steve Kerr or Steve Nash.
The real headline: Pelinka became sold on Redick’s ability to be the scapegoat after a couple of seasons of mediocrity and believes that surrounding him with a roster full of under-sized guards will help him pull the wool over Jeannie Buss’ eyes for several more years.
Makes no sense, but classic Lakers.
oh boy, it sounds like steve nash all over again. Who had probably the most elite coaching staffs assembled lol.